False, your giving bad advice. There are 2 types of drying environments (if the genetics are there in the seed/clone) that will seperate you from rookie, beginner, intermediate, moderate and sometimes even Master level growers to a cannabis cup winner terpene and flavornoid profile. In order to achieve
Terpenes and Flavors that allow you to compete and potentially win in cannabis cup competitions u must present your flowers from a level 4 or 5 dry & cure environment. There are only two types of drying environments that will allow you to bring out 97% of the terpene and flavornoid profiles. That's 55-60°F and 60-65% RH but 75% of the cannabis cup winners were presented with a dry environment of 65°F @55% RH for 48 hours then drop it to 55°F @63-65% RH for the remaining 13 days. A dry of 15 days are cannabis cup winners. You have to get those AC temps cold to slow it down to dry of 15 days. What we find is that around day 13 the moisture on the outside of the bud becomes dry before the inside which is normal but maybe like 1-2% dryer than what we like to see. In order to fix that, we changed - not the AC temps - but the RH from 60% to 63-65% and it fixed the problem. We wanted the outside of the bud to slow down by .066% per day. To you guys it doesn't matter but for us cannabis cup winners it matters very much.
Tip: You want your dry to last exactly 15 days on the dot, not a day later or a day faster. At the 13th day, our bud moisure % has to measure 17%, day 14 16% and day 15 15%. This is only achieved at 55°F and 63-65% RH.
Biosystems Engineer, Agricultural M.S
Sr. Engineer Medical Technology
Master Grower
Cannabis Cup Winner 2019, 2021