Place For Drying My Girls

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Our Son suggested drying in a Tent which would work.

Thing is we was thinking of drying in my small Tent and growing my Autos outside of a Tent which would defeat the purpose of them being in a Tent to keep the smell down .

Right now we are drying in a room that isn’t dark. Actually it is a room we are building on.

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Wherever you put them it needs to be dark and 60 - 70 degrees and a 55 - 60% rh. A little air circulation but not blowing directly on them helps. 60/60 temp/rh is ideal but hard to achieve by the average home grower with the resources at our disposal.

I use a closet. Works great.
 
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Definitely want it dark or you're going to lose flavor and possibly some potency.
 
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How much are you talking about. Big cardboard box with heavy string can work for small amounts
 
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eh, dark doesn't really matter imo. so long it's not some insane level of lighting. the temps and RH are what matters most.

shit i dry in my garage. can maintain it at 60F and 60% RH fairly easily and my buds turn out better than what people are buying at the dispensaries -- not my opinion, that's feedback from people that smoke what I produce. I don't even smoke personally, shit gives me anxiety anymore.

EDIT: clarification. "insane level of lighting" is equal to growing levels of light. A bar light on the sealing, or even a sealing light, is inconsequential. it's not going to affect a damn thing. look at how commercial growers dry. racks on racks on racks in a well lit room for people to work in. is their shit still terpy? hell yeah. is it still potent? yes it is.
 
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eh, dark doesn't really matter imo. so long it's not some insane level of lighting. the temps and RH are what matters most.

shit i dry in my garage. can maintain it at 60F and 60% RH fairly easily and my buds turn out better than what people are buying at the dispensaries -- not my opinion, that's feedback from people that smoke what I produce. I don't even smoke personally, shit gives me anxiety anymore.

EDIT: clarification. "insane level of lighting" is equal to growing levels of light. A bar light on the sealing, or even a sealing light, is inconsequential. it's not going to affect a damn thing. look at how commercial growers dry. racks on racks on racks in a well lit room for people to work in. is their shit still terpy? hell yeah. is it still potent? yes it is.
I’m setting a grow tent up for drying and have a 6 inch in-line fan exhausting from ducting on the ceiling of the tent, and passive intake below. Will the exhaust running like 24/7 cause the bud to dry out too quickly cuz it’s always sucking air through the vents? I figure it will probably run often if not 24/7 cuz I’m always battle high humidity here in VA. I appreciate the advice! About the harvest in a couple days and don’t wanna mess up the drying part!
 
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Our Son suggested drying in a Tent which would work.

Thing is we was thinking of drying in my small Tent and growing my Autos outside of a Tent which would defeat the purpose of them being in a Tent to keep the smell down .

Right now we are drying in a room that isn’t dark. Actually it is a room we are building on.

oLd1
Seed to stoned has a good video on setting up a drying area, I put together something similar to his budget build. Will let you know how it works…
 
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I’m setting a grow tent up for drying and have a 6 inch in-line fan exhausting from ducting on the ceiling of the tent, and passive intake below. Will the exhaust running like 24/7 cause the bud to dry out too quickly cuz it’s always sucking air through the vents? I figure it will probably run often if not 24/7 cuz I’m always battle high humidity here in VA. I appreciate the advice! About the harvest in a couple days and don’t wanna mess up the drying part!
I did a 6inch intake from my carbon filter in front of an air purifier. Into the drying box (2x2x30" grow tent on its side)
There was a 6 inch non oscillating fan on its side by the intake. On low which is weak because the fan sucks. It was just there to keep it moving a bit.
When humidity hit 72, the 6inch inline in my big tent turned on. It pulls at half power through a 4 inch vent coming out of the dry box. Until the dry box was down to 50. I did this for 7 days. Everything dried nice.

But...

I have a hay smell on my lsd. The blue widow list almost an ounce to some kind of tiny mold looking stuff.

It was a good system. Just need to adjust all the parameters.

So yeah. It could dry it too quickly
 
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