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So, on my first harvest I ended up with the hay smell about 24 hours into the drying. Looking back I realized the fan I had in there was too much air movement, which caused it to dry too quickly, it was ready for grove bags 5 days in. I lost most of the terps but the smoke is still enjoyable and quite frankly doesn't taste bad for a first time grower. Now, my current drying tent is a 2x4 with a humidifier connected to an inkbird humidity controller. My house stays about 35% rh on a normal basis. My question to the community is how precise do the conditions need to be for the correct way to dry and not rapidly drying? I also did wet trim, which I believe contributed to the rapid drying as well. Can fluctuating rh between 55-63 with an average of 59 fuck up the drying? Current the controller is set to kick on when the rh drops below 58 and shuts off at 60. My inline fan kicks on at 61 rh. The problem is the probe on the controller doesn't quite line up with the probe on the tent. Both are hanging in the exact same spot but the rh controller is just a bit behind the hub probe. I did calibrate the two as close as possible but there is a 2 %+/- difference between the two. So, what seems to be happening is the controller kicks on the humidifier, it gets up to 61 on the tent hub which kicks the inline fan on but the controller hub is slow to catch up so the humidifier keeps running until it gets to 60 on the inkbird controller but reaches 63 on the tent hub so the fan runs and it usually brings the rh down to anywhere between 55-58 triggering the humidifier to kick on and this cycles continues. Any suggestions on the best way to incorporate the inkbird controller and the tent hub/inline fan, I'm all ears. Below is a pick of the last 24 hrs of the tents numbers. The goal obviously is protecting those terps and not loosing them because this plant smells so much better than the first one and anything I can do to savor those terps I'm all about. Thanks fam!