Dry room dehumidifier advice or recommendations

[Originaldankster]

Looking for some advice. The issue I'm having is that I live in a very humid area therefore I'm finding it difficult to keep my humidity down during the drying process. I have a standard dehumidifier but it really doesn't like to work very well in the cooler temperatures. I'm trying to get 55 to 60° with 55 to 60% RH but like I said the standard dehumidifiers don't like to work in cooler temperatures as well as the dehumidifier creating heat which makes things even more difficult. Any advice is greatly appreciated

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

It might help to know how many plants you dry at a time.

I only do one plant at a time, so I dry in a small tent that's dedicated to drying. That, I think, makes it somewhat easier to control the drying environment. The tent has circulation fans and an exhaust fan. I don't use a dehumidifier because the room humidity is usually about 50%. I set the room temperature to 60º F. That has worked well enough. It takes about 10 days to dry a plant, more or less. We move the buds from the tent to Grove bags for final drying and curing. They stay in the bags for 4 to 6 weeks. We keep them in the dark for the whole time.

I think it's important not to dry too fast. I also think good air circulation is important.

 

[RealFarmer]

Where are you drying? Dehumidifier should work fine at 60 degrees. An exhaust fan may be needed. How big is your drying area?

 

[Originaldankster]

I dry in my grow room which is roughly 12 ft by 15 ft. I have plenty of exhaust if needed. I've been a wet trimmer for the last 13 years so just converted over to hanging full plants last year. If I remember right I had my temperature at 55° last dry cycle and had occasional spikes of humidity to 70 to 75 RH. Maybe I just need to kick the exhaust up. I do have AC in that room as well.

 

[Originaldankster]

It might help to know how many plants you dry at a time.

I only do one plant at a time, so I dry in a small tent that's dedicated to drying. That, I think, makes it somewhat easier to control the drying environment. The tent has circulation fans and an exhaust fan. I don't use a dehumidifier because the room humidity is usually about 50%. I set the room temperature to 60º F. That has worked well enough. It takes about 10 days to dry a plant, more or less. We move the buds from the tent to Grove bags for final drying and curing. They stay in the bags for 4 to 6 weeks. We keep them in the dark for the whole time.

I think it's important not to dry too fast. I also think good air circulation is important.

Yeah I know the number of plants that I grow may be an issue. I have nine plants this go around that will be finished in roughly 2 weeks and I dry in my grow room also which is roughly 12 ft by 15 ft. I've been a wet trimmer for the last 12 or 13 years just now switched over to hanging whole plants last year. Just had some spikes last dry cycle around 70% RH was just gets me paranoid about mold and bud rot. Everything turned out Great just really trying to find a way to keep my RH down between 50 and 60 and these dehumidifiers don't like to work very well at all at that temperature.

 

[Newty]

Can you put up a temporary wall to make the drying area smaller, be easier to control temp and humidity in a smaller space.

I use a Keystone 50 pint dehumidifier, drying a harvest right now at temps between 58-62 and 58%-65% humidity