Humidity during drying.

Temp should be 70 and humidity around 60-65. In that range your looking at 5-8 days of drying. With humidity above 80 your looking at 8-14 days. But when you cure you want 55-65 humidity in your jars. In most cases if you are at 80 now your not going to get to 65. And mold will set when Jared. You need a fan blowing in the closet but not on the buds.

I just checked my indoor dry room its around 77' but the humidity is at 33% I have to add a humidifier to raise it and put it on a timer. If I don't my buds will be dry in 3 days and I won't get the proper results.

Drying environment is wide.

Temps from 68-84 Humidity from 40-70%.

DO NOT put bud outside.

Just make sure you have a fan blowing lightly against the wall or at the ceiling in the room you are using to dry.

I DO NOT follow the rule of the stems must break when bent before I begin cure in glass mason jars, I begin cure when they almost break from bending. If you open the mason jars every 6-8 hours even bud that isn't fully dry will be fine. Do this fro 3-4 days then open less often for less time.

If you jar too quickly the aroma of the bud will suffer

80%rh is not gonna work. it doesn't matter where you hang them. it has to come down.

Originally Posted by dannyboy602

80%rh is not gonna work. it doesn't matter where you hang them. it has to come down.

Well that's what the humidity says it is in our area. I'm sure it's not that at our house. I don't know. After three days they're significantly smaller, lost all the green pigment, and feel a little spongy feeling to the touch. I think it's drying pretty good so far. It's looking great I'll take it off the main stalk in a day, or two to try and get them to dry out a bit faster. Hopefully I'll have a hygrometer in a day, or two.

Go to wal-mart and buy an acu-rite temp/hydrometer. When I bought it, it was about 8-9 bucks. RH and temp are very important at this stage. Would suck to have grown for that long only to get mold in your buds right before you smoke them. You can't smoke any buds with mold in it.

That being said the humidity in your area is probably based off the outside RH. If you any any type of air movement(a/c, fans, etc) it should be lower. Just make sure you have a fan near the buds, but not blowing direction on em.

Originally Posted by Psuedo

Would it be better to have it in a warm closet while drying with the humidity in the area being around 80%, or would it be better to go outside (at night) with the humidity as stated at 80%.

The humidity wont be as high in the closet, except when the buds lose that water right?
I open the door every few hours and fan the air out with the door.

I cut the stalk at the base and all my buds are still on the entire plant how long should it take to dry?

I don't think mold should be a big issue right at least not for the drying part? Last year my bud molded due to not drying long enough, and jarring to early. It took at least 2 weeks for that to even come about though.

Yes in theory but also depends how much you are hanging in that given space. I usually divide the plant in portions off main branches. Easier to dry and monitor your harvest in portions rather that having a shrub on the line. If you meet the requirements of cure about 65-75 degrees and humidity levels of 45-55 %, it should only take several days also depends how much volume you are trying to dry in your closet.