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[desertfarmer77]

I'm having trouble slowing my dry. I live in the southwest desert. I've tried a few things, I now wave 4 huge boxes of hanging Budd. Any suggestions

 

[desertfarmer77]

 

[defective]

When I feel mine is drying too fast I jar it up sooner and just check it daily, leave the lid off for a bit each day if need be.

 

[KG1]

First have you just tried just hanging them for two weeks to see the outcome?

Hard to force dry indoors even in hot climates. Normally they achieve a natural dry as well.

For reference if you buy some lettuce leaf and leave it on the side for five days does it still retain some moisture or is it crumbling to dust, if you were in an environment that force dried too fast other plant material would show this straight away, be hard to have any vegetables not sealed technically as all that force dry are gonna dry in under five days.

Slow just means natural, your not forcing the water out at a speed the plant cells shatter and break which is above most of the indoor climates if the world.

Here is the danger of a fan pointing at a bud, that will force dry most things in a couple days and ruin the process.

 

[desertfarmer77]

 

[desertfarmer77]

I have tried just hanging them after 3 to 5 days they are dry and any longer they would turn to dust. I've increased my dry time up to 10 days for this last batch, it's just starting to cure but it still smells very hay like ,"homegrown " when you open the jar lid but when you start to break it up it smells very nice. I now have a big wardrobe box and have it sealed except for 2 breather holes

 

[KG1]

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This isn't dry yet though can tell in the picture pretty sure.

As a reference two weeks for the smell and taste to kick in, before that it's still changing via enzymatic processes.

In summer here it dries to a drier product, I mean you can crumble it with fingers but it holds together otherwise.

Don't fear a drier end product to begin with it will still be good, five days to dry but a little longer for stems to snap I'm guessing.

 

[Galgrows]

When I feel mine is drying too fast I jar it up sooner and just check it daily, leave the lid off for a bit each day if need be.

I do the same thing.

 

[Galgrows]

I have tried just hanging them after 3 to 5 days they are dry and any longer they would turn to dust. I've increased my dry time up to 10 days for this last batch, it's just starting to cure but it still smells very hay like ,"homegrown " when you open the jar lid but when you start to break it up it smells very nice. I now have a big wardrobe box and have it sealed except for 2 breather holes

After a couple days in the jars and opening them then closing mine start to smell like weed again. Grass smell goes away after several days.

 

[KG1]

If you break it down you want the bud to dry to between 10-14% moisture content before you dry.

You can tell this level by smoking some in a joint and if it smokes and burns well regardless of taste it can be jarred.

Before this tour messing with mold and moisture and you can't really start the enzymatic taste processes until it hit this moisture content.

All else is personal preference but dry till it's actually dry before you even put any in a jar.

Dried but loses about three quarter of it's weight drying from wet. The remaining 25 is about 10% plant matter and 15% moisture appropriately

 

[THCosmic]

Are you keeping them enclosed in that box? In an enclosed space the wet buds will naturally increase the humidity.

10 day hang dry is pretty standard. If you are achieving that in the desert you should be very proud.

 

[defective]

I find that keeping the branches intact also slows it down a little vs chopping off like that…for future reference…there’s a lot of moisture in those stems.

 

[desertfarmer77]

Thanks guys
I started my harvest in weakly small batches from the tops of my outdoor grow
I now have harvested everything and I'm going to do a dry trim so there is a lot more plant matter, so maby this will help.

Is there a way to test your herb for an actual thc,cbd,or terppens like lab resalts

 

[Ninjadogma]

I figure I'll share this to show you how I'm slowing the drying down in a similar setup as yours. I dropped a plastic bag inside the box with a little USB fan in there. If you zoom in just above the fan you can see my current hygrometer reading of 62%. I hung
this plant yesterday. I left a little gap in the opening of the bag to let outside air pass through. It's quite interesting really. The current humidity is around 28% today. The air escaping the bag is a good 10 degrees colder because of the evaporative cooling effect as the weed dries. Presumably I'm going to need to close up the bag more throughout the week as the moisture escapes. If you try this, make sure you drop a small fan in there. You want that air circulating around a little so it dries consistently and make sure mold doesnt try and set in.

I'm of the mindset that you want a full week of slow drying to allow the trichomes to fully ripen and once they lose a certain amount of moisture they're now the equivalent of raisins and wont (can't) ripen anymore. The hay smell coming with a premature dry goes away with jar burping but you can't recoup lost potency.

I've also jarred early and burped the remaining moisture out... that works too. Haven't ever noticed a negative result doing that either.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Thanks guys
I started my harvest in weakly small batches from the tops of my outdoor grow
I now have harvested everything and I'm going to do a dry trim so there is a lot more plant matter, so maby this will help.

Is there a way to test your herb for an actual thc,cbd,or terppens like lab resalts

I've seen kits available on Amazon but I don't know how reliable they are.

 

[KG1]

You shouldn't lose much potency technically, can knock the trichs of day one and smoke them to check. Were more talking drying plant matter so it doesn't taste bad.