[StudentGreen]

hello again my wonderful friends, i am in a difficult situation with the property I am growing in.
I basically need to give the property back to the landlord on the 10th of July and currently I am in the last week of flower.
So the 23rd of June will be my 56th day of flowering which is the final day where I want to chop and hang them to dry.
Then I want a 14 day dry to reserve the terps which will take the date to the 7th of July.
That leaves me with 2 days to trim and clean up the property to hand it back over without the landlord knowing what I’ve been upto.
So my issue is I need the buds to be dry on that 14th day to make sure everything goes to plan.
Will the 60/60 all the way from start of dry to end of dry ensure that it will take exactly 14 days?

By the way, as mentioned previously on this thread I am actually away on Holliday during this dry period. I go away on the 26th June and come back on the 7th July so I will be back just in time too if it’s a 14 day dry.

 

[Bdubs]

There is no exact way to get 14 days dry. It’s desirable for most to allow a longer dry period. But, it is depending on a lot of factors.
Rack dry
Hang dry
Full plant hang dry
Full shoot hang dry
Wet trim
Dry trim

All those different ways of drying will play a part is how long it takes.

Also, it depends on the plant itself.
Did you let her dry up until harvest or keep her good and moist before harvest. Because if you allow her to dry in the soil she will have already begun a drying period even before harvest. Cell walls will be depleted if any excess water. And on the flip side, if you keep her moist all the way up to harvest, she will be loaded.

The amount of breeze in the dry area plays a part.
So there is no real answer to your question. Just like harvesting is determined by the trichomes/plant, drying is done when the bud humidity is at optimal.
If you allow your bud to dry too long in an attempt to hit a magic number of days, you will mess up your cure and your cured bud will stay in the 58-62 humidity range in the cure jars. You’ll be scared to crack the lid and release humidity, or you’ll start throwing prune trimmings of vegging cannabis into the jar to keep the moisture up.
With your target of 14 days, I wouldn’t even worry about not drying it enough. You’ll be focusing on not over drying.

Squeeze the buds as they dry. Take a bunch of buds and clip them off their stalk and trim them as well. Put them in a pile on a rack and put a probe into the center of the pile. That will give you a pretty good idea of the humidity levels of the buds. But don’t go solely off that, but once it hits 58, you definitely should be squeezing and checking for dryness.

I personally rather crack cure jars for a few weeks from a little less dry during drying over fighting low cure jar humidity. It’s hard to control if you have to add crap to the jar to keep it up. But that’s another thing, don’t put anything but fresh pruned trim from a growing plant into the jars. Anything else is asking for trouble in the cure jars.

If you want my opinion for your situation?
Early harvest and start the dry while you are present. Your buds could dry in 4-5 days. You just don’t know. If you leave them for 14 days, I can almost guarantee you you will come home to dried up, harsh, no flavor, no aroma buds. Mold is not out of the question if you run 60 degrees and the humidity happens to creep up. Cold and wet is mold. It takes a completely controlled environment to stretch 14 days and one that is proven already to squeeze that many days of drying in. Knowing that and have had every single dry period be different times before primed for jarring, I wouldn’t risk it on the entire harvest to be sub optimal weed that the entire neighborhood can hear the coughs of your stash.

 

[Bdubs]

“you will mess up your cure and your cured bud will stay in the 58-62 humidity range in the cure jars.”
You will not be able to stay in curing humidity range.

 

[Bdubs]

But then again if you put in cure jars and then leave for 14 days and don’t crack them, you run mold risk inside the cure jars. You are kind of pinned to a wall unless you start now and do a long crack on those jars before you leave for that vacation.

 

[Natep]

Just hang it in your tent for the entire 14 days. Stay ass close to 60 degrees and 60%rh as you can. At the 14 days get the buds off the stem and into grove bags. Should be good to go

 

[StudentGreen]

There is no exact way to get 14 days dry. It’s desirable for most to allow a longer dry period. But, it is depending on a lot of factors.
Rack dry
Hang dry
Full plant hang dry
Full shoot hang dry
Wet trim
Dry trim

All those different ways of drying will play a part is how long it takes.

Also, it depends on the plant itself.
Did you let her dry up until harvest or keep her good and moist before harvest. Because if you allow her to dry in the soil she will have already begun a drying period even before harvest. Cell walls will be depleted if any excess water. And on the flip side, if you keep her moist all the way up to harvest, she will be loaded.

The amount of breeze in the dry area plays a part.
So there is no real answer to your question. Just like harvesting is determined by the trichomes/plant, drying is done when the bud humidity is at optimal.
If you allow your bud to dry too long in an attempt to hit a magic number of days, you will mess up your cure and your cured bud will stay in the 58-62 humidity range in the cure jars. You’ll be scared to crack the lid and release humidity, or you’ll start throwing prune trimmings of vegging cannabis into the jar to keep the moisture up.
With your target of 14 days, I wouldn’t even worry about not drying it enough. You’ll be focusing on not over drying.

Squeeze the buds as they dry. Take a bunch of buds and clip them off their stalk and trim them as well. Put them in a pile on a rack and put a probe into the center of the pile. That will give you a pretty good idea of the humidity levels of the buds. But don’t go solely off that, but once it hits 58, you definitely should be squeezing and checking for dryness.

I personally rather crack cure jars for a few weeks from a little less dry during drying over fighting low cure jar humidity. It’s hard to control if you have to add crap to the jar to keep it up. But that’s another thing, don’t put anything but fresh pruned trim from a growing plant into the jars. Anything else is asking for trouble in the cure jars.

If you want my opinion for your situation?
Early harvest and start the dry while you are present. Your buds could dry in 4-5 days. You just don’t know. If you leave them for 14 days, I can almost guarantee you you will come home to dried up, harsh, no flavor, no aroma buds. Mold is not out of the question if you run 60 degrees and the humidity happens to creep up. Cold and wet is mold. It takes a completely controlled environment to stretch 14 days and one that is proven already to squeeze that many days of drying in. Knowing that and have had every single dry period be different times before primed for jarring, I wouldn’t risk it on the entire harvest to be sub optimal weed that the entire neighborhood can hear the coughs of your stash.

Thanks for the information.
I should have stated that my grow room is fully sealed and I use co2 injection for this grow and I will be drying in this grow room.
I run air conditioning and dehumidification to control temps and humidity so I should be able to get my environment to wherever I need it.

In my grow I’m using around 8000w in hps lights and my temps are around 20 degrees c with 45 percent humidity in the last week of flower which makes me think that I’ll be easily able to control my dry room when I turn off the lights.

I’m thinking of hanging the plants full without taking anything off them including the stem leaves, keeping the room at 60/60 and hoping they’ll be just dry when I get back.

 

[Bdubs]

That should do the trick man. Well, it will give you a way better chance of getting that time frame out of them. Whole plant would be the pick if you head out for a while.

 

[logic]

For anyone finding this thread later: the room settings discussed here are the core of our full drying and curing guide. It covers how to stretch a dry toward 14 days (60 to 70°F and 55 to 60% humidity, hanging whole plants or branches), the stem snap and overnight jar tests for knowing when to jar, and a burping schedule once the buds are in jars.