Hello,
I had serious problems with mites about 5 weeks before harvest. I was enable to slow them down and nearly kill them, but they came back and about 3 days before harvest I had really a lot of them everywhere, but I know I already won the battle.
I switched the lights off 2 days before harvest, so water and all nutrients are sucked up. Then I began to harvest, and had a real good air circulation and about 70 degree temperature. Everything was placed over a newspaper and I didn't build any piles.
After first day all the paper was wet so I replaced it, because so much moisture was coming out. After 3 days of drying I put all on a closet on shelves, again over newspaper and didn't make any piles. I left the doors open and had about 17000 cubic feet per hour of air being sucked out from the top of the room. Now 7 days later, I checked everything and found on parts, also deep inside, some white web. I remember finding white web also inside when I was harvesting and trimming, so I know that was web, but now i'm not so sure. Temperature in the closet was at least 60 degrees, but there wasn't any air breezing directly. However doors being open and the ventilation being that extreme inside the whole room should make the moisture spread out pretty effectively. If any moisture vaporizes, it spreads because of entropy. So air can flow free but nothing was actually breezing directly inside those closest.
Do any experts have any guesses, is this just the leftovers of the mites web or is it white mold? Can mold occur even the air could flow freely? And so much of air was sucked out, not just directly. I really cannot tell the difference of this mold or web thing. The smell was not bad in anyways, to me it was pretty much the same at the first day of harvest: a little "grassy"/fresh as it was wet but now it was only a very little moist, not wet at all. Still it had a little bit of that fresh, "plant-like" smell. There was no that kind of grassy smell like usually on leaves and definitely no earthy smell. To me it smelled good, but I'm a little worried.
I've read people saying that any kind of grassy smell is bad and the pictures i've been looking look pretty much same to me with the white mold, but I would say it is web. But I also have understood that you wont get mold easily during drying if you do it on open space with about room temperature. Now I had also air being sucked out from the same room.
So the facts are:
- there was mites
- there was web also inside, at the time of harves
- there is just fresh good smell, not earthy and not any kind of very grassy, but same kind of "grassy" as with it is directly after harvest
- there were a very little moist, but not wet at all (test patch told me 27% of weight still left, I've ended up sometimes with 15-18% so they might not be completely dry, however I've read people have it as high as 25-30% weight left and being ready to storage.
- it is the 7th day of drying
- 2 days without lights prior to harvest do increase humidity
- they were inside closet, but not piled, on shelves with thin layers, doors open
- ventilation was good but no breezing directly to shelves
- temperature was for the last 4-5 days about 60 degrees or a little bit more. about 70 for the first 3 days
I had serious problems with mites about 5 weeks before harvest. I was enable to slow them down and nearly kill them, but they came back and about 3 days before harvest I had really a lot of them everywhere, but I know I already won the battle.
I switched the lights off 2 days before harvest, so water and all nutrients are sucked up. Then I began to harvest, and had a real good air circulation and about 70 degree temperature. Everything was placed over a newspaper and I didn't build any piles.
After first day all the paper was wet so I replaced it, because so much moisture was coming out. After 3 days of drying I put all on a closet on shelves, again over newspaper and didn't make any piles. I left the doors open and had about 17000 cubic feet per hour of air being sucked out from the top of the room. Now 7 days later, I checked everything and found on parts, also deep inside, some white web. I remember finding white web also inside when I was harvesting and trimming, so I know that was web, but now i'm not so sure. Temperature in the closet was at least 60 degrees, but there wasn't any air breezing directly. However doors being open and the ventilation being that extreme inside the whole room should make the moisture spread out pretty effectively. If any moisture vaporizes, it spreads because of entropy. So air can flow free but nothing was actually breezing directly inside those closest.
Do any experts have any guesses, is this just the leftovers of the mites web or is it white mold? Can mold occur even the air could flow freely? And so much of air was sucked out, not just directly. I really cannot tell the difference of this mold or web thing. The smell was not bad in anyways, to me it was pretty much the same at the first day of harvest: a little "grassy"/fresh as it was wet but now it was only a very little moist, not wet at all. Still it had a little bit of that fresh, "plant-like" smell. There was no that kind of grassy smell like usually on leaves and definitely no earthy smell. To me it smelled good, but I'm a little worried.
I've read people saying that any kind of grassy smell is bad and the pictures i've been looking look pretty much same to me with the white mold, but I would say it is web. But I also have understood that you wont get mold easily during drying if you do it on open space with about room temperature. Now I had also air being sucked out from the same room.
So the facts are:
- there was mites
- there was web also inside, at the time of harves
- there is just fresh good smell, not earthy and not any kind of very grassy, but same kind of "grassy" as with it is directly after harvest
- there were a very little moist, but not wet at all (test patch told me 27% of weight still left, I've ended up sometimes with 15-18% so they might not be completely dry, however I've read people have it as high as 25-30% weight left and being ready to storage.
- it is the 7th day of drying
- 2 days without lights prior to harvest do increase humidity
- they were inside closet, but not piled, on shelves with thin layers, doors open
- ventilation was good but no breezing directly to shelves
- temperature was for the last 4-5 days about 60 degrees or a little bit more. about 70 for the first 3 days
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