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It's a pain ain't it. If you have a basement dry down there. Especially away from baseboards or furnace. Your temps and rh should be more stable and easier to control.
I dont think id use a humidifier,like WS said humidity will go way up when you have more plant material in there.My conditions are as dry or dryer than yours and the only thing i use is a small fan off in the corner on low blowing straight up from the floor to ceiling for air movement,i have a dehuey in the room but it only comes on if the room is packed or in the very beggining.
That's what I LOVE about using my basement. Keep the RH at an appropriate level and the coldness gives you a great cure. Mine gets easily as low as 45*F.I do have a basement...I was thinking about drying down there. Only problem is its cooooooold. What's the minimum I should let the temps drop while drying?
You might try the bagging technique. you hang branches on a clothes hanger for a few days until the outside of the plant feels crispy. Pull a large garbage bag up over them and tie the top off to seal it. Make sure the bag is big enough to allow plenty of room as not to squeeze them tight together. After a day or so the plant will get moist feel back to it. Take the bag off and start the proceedure over again. The drying to moisture times will get shorter as you do this over a few days. This should help slow down your drying time to get a smoother dry.
After,I use a dry trimmer now but ive done it alot of different ways.Right on. Do you trim before or after you hang to dry?
I live in the northeast where we are blessed with super humid summers and skin-cracking dry winters. I'll be harvesting my first crop in about two weeks and I'm more than a little concerned about my drying conditions. I have a small closet (about 2x6) to dry in and the RH is at 31%.
I recently chopped two small branches for a test run. I trimmed the branches and hung them on a clothes hanger in the closet. Needless to say, at 31% RH they dried out pretty quickly...but MUCH more quickly than I thought, at about 30 hours they were crisp to the touch. I've got them in jars now and they have the dreaded "dry hay smell" that I read comes from drying too quickly. Really big bummer, because on the plant they have an amazing fruity, berry, sweet fuel nose.
So...what's a fella to do? I could buy a humidifier with an RH control, but I'm a little worried that my closet is going to be too small and throw the humidifier sensors all out of whack. Any ideas, or has anyone successfully dried in similiar conditions? Should I maybe wait to trim until after the drying process? I heard that is a pain, but if it means a slower (read better) dry, than I'm ok with it. Any and all advice is welcome as always.
I have the same problem as you do. I have never had a problem in any of my grows with needing a dehumidifier, but i do use a humidifier. I also live in the east, southeast Canada, and i have always needed the help of a humidifier as my rh will sometines be as low as 25-30 %. I have had issues in veg because of my low rh, before i added my humidifier. If you can manage to get by without issues during your veg period you will still want the humidifier when it comes to drying in the end. You don't want your plant's drying in 3 or 4 days, i always found the quality and sometimes the smell suffer when you dry too fast. I bought a really nice used humidifier for a little under $200 and it was well worth it. When i dry my plant's i set my rh to about 60 or a tad higher, high enough that the plants won't dry to smokable standards, and let them stay there for a few days and i slowly lower the humidity. I like to have my plant's hanging for atleast 10 to maybe 14 days. I find setting at about 55 % rh finishes them off and brings them to the perfect texture where i can jar them after about 2 weeks, then i usually leave them in the jars with the tops off for a couple days if needed, if they aren't quite ready for the tops to be on in jars, then i burp them for as long as they need it. Using this method i have got my drying and curing down to almost perfection so that when i do finally seal them up they have the perfect texture where they are dry enough to not ever worry about molding in the jar, but still nice and tacky and not so dry that you can crumble them with your fingers. With your situation i would definitely suggest getting the humidifier, it was one of the best investments i made for my grow. There is nothing worse then puttiing all that effort into your grow then have it dry up in 4 days and smell a bit like hay or be dried a bit too much and crumble to dust when you pinch a bud. I guess setting at 60 or may e 62 rh for the first 3 or 4 days then lowering to 55 for the remainder would be a safe place to start when you do your first attempt at drying with the humidifier, you will figure out what suit's you best after a couple times. Good luck
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