Drying room problems. +reps

A cool water vapor humidifier, 40-60 dollars on Amazon, it can raise the humidity of a 20x20 room from 25% to 60% in a few hours.

id just kill the heater ...low temps are really good 4 curing can bring out colors

Ok I think I can help. I use and old box food dehydrator I disabled the heating element and took the door off the front. all it is, is a fan about the sise of a pc fan. you want to keep it dark light will degrade thc. you don't want heat. a cool breeze is fine. and i think 50 60% humidity is real high it will most likely mold before it dries. I dry for about three days flipping the buds each day. then put it in good jars leave the lid on for a day take the lid off for a day. I do this for at least two weeks. after three days of drying in the box it will still have moisture in the stems. when you jar it up the moisture will redistribute through out the buds. then take the lid off to let the moisture out. This process is just as important as growing it. if its not cured rite then your wasting your time. a proper cure will have smooth smoke and rip the shit out of you. what Ive found is the longer its jarred the better the smell and smoke. good luck

Originally Posted by ismokealotofpot

Ok I think I can help. I use and old box food dehydrator I disabled the heating element and took the door off the front. all it is, is a fan about the sise of a pc fan. you want to keep it dark light will degrade thc. you don't want heat. a cool breeze is fine. and i think 50 60% humidity is real high it will most likely mold before it dries. I dry for about three days flipping the buds each day. then put it in good jars leave the lid on for a day take the lid off for a day. I do this for at least two weeks. after three days of drying in the box it will still have moisture in the stems. when you jar it up the moisture will redistribute through out the buds. then take the lid off to let the moisture out. This process is just as important as growing it. if its not cured rite then your wasting your time. a proper cure will have smooth smoke and rip the shit out of you. what Ive found is the longer its jarred the better the smell and smoke. good luck

would a sealed cardboard box with a pc fan or two running an exhaust do the same thing as that?

Originally Posted by plantz

i dont like paper bags they dry it faster than hang drying.. maybe i will hang dry for 2-3 days then jar them then put back out for a day then jar etc. to keep from drying to fast. ill just have to watch for mold

depends... my grow room is 80 degrees so if I put em in bags lower to the ground (lower temp) rather than hang they dry slower. dealing with a nasty smelling hang dried plant now

What Bobon said!

Hang the entire plant untrimmed, all the extra leaf matter should slow the drying process a day or two atleast. But be prepared, it's going to take longer to get a nice trim.

...I sweat my buds. I put them in a plastic bag (air tight) for a few hours to bring out the moister from the middle, then I hang them back up....I repeat this cycle until they are dry but sticky....then I put them in mason jars to cure and smoke.