Drying: A Repeatable Process

Best general approach to hang-drying an intact plant for consistent, well-executed drying? No MIDS!

  • eyeball it

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • monitor room RH & temp via sensors on AC/humidifier/dehumidifier for X days

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • monitor room RH & temp vias sensors separate from those on AC/humidifier/dehumidifier for X days

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • monitor bud's internal RH, temp, and MOISTURE via probe you stick in plant...wait for desired levels

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other: please explain via comment (if possible)

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Total voters
    6
Apostatize

Apostatize

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Please vote on the best general approach to hang-drying an intact plant.

If you suggest an alternative, feel free to comment with your ideas/details.
 
I hang dry my plants intact. It's easy really, I just try to keep the room as close to 55% rh as I can, with some air circulation. I try to avoid drying during the main part of summer, even if you keep up the RH things still dry too fast from the heat. Just do your best to slow down the drying process, and most importantly, jar test your buds so you don't miss the window to get them in jars at the correct RH. Better to jar them a bit too moist and deal with lots of burping than get them in too dry and miss out on the cure. I find dry trimming to be MUCH faster and easier than wet trimming, as a side benefit.
 
Rurumo said:
I hang dry my plants intact. It's easy really, I just try to keep the room as close to 55% rh as I can, with some air circulation. I try to avoid drying during the main part of summer, even if you keep up the RH things still dry.... Better to jar them a bit too moist and deal with lots of burping than get them in too dry and miss out on the cure. I find dry trimming to be MUCH faster and easier than wet trimming, as a side benefit.
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Thanks. Glad you mentioned this. Maybe it's because I'm in a hot, humid climate but I find that I need to hang most plants 12 days for lots of hairs to show, and almost 13 full days if it's an oily strain I expect to be frosty.

So, leaving just enough moisture for curing, but not so much it limits frost ... seems to be where I'm headed. That's why I want to probe plants directly for internal moisture and RH ... but it may be something I've convinced myself (and no one else) I need to do for consistent perfection.

"Curing" won't "fix" my drying mistakes. But recently, I had bud that was in better condition (smell, taste, potency, hairs, crystals) going into the jar than anything I'd previously cured (well, almost).
 
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Chungayuwoki said:
Drain to waste hydro can only be mids at best. If you want to do it right, you need healthy plants.

Sorry but you've been lied to. Everyone in hydro is simply chasing mids and thrilled if they get halfway there. No grease in hydro.
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@bk78, this presents an opportunity for a well-timed, high-flying Turd Burglar.
 
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lol, why is that funny? i don't understand. curing doesn't fix an imperfect dry. maybe it's simple and you have "the touch" but I need data, dude.
 
Apostatize said:
yes, but ... like i was commenting earlier ... timing jarring seems to determine outcome (i.e., product quality). If I just say 12 days without knowing when frost will be most present, I haven't seen curing "fix" that. the bud is good but doesn't have all of the aesthetic qualities the strain/pheno can have if dried long enough. That's just my experience. Perhaps you're so familiar with your current strains, you pretty much have timing down and are beyond the phase of data collection? Is it something else? There's a difference in outcome.
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I just opened a jar I jarred last December , still sticky

I hang dry my weed until it’s super dry, if you let your weed actually ripen to it’s fullest and swell right up like it’s supposed to the weed can be left hanging for 2 months and still be sticky inside.

First piece of the puzzle is learn when to harvest, 90% of people still haven’t even grasped that part of growing.

Baby steps
 
Chungayuwoki said:
Drain to waste hydro can only be mids at best. If you want to do it right, you need healthy plants.

Sorry but you've been lied to. Everyone in hydro is simply chasing mids and thrilled if they get halfway there. No grease in hydro.
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Good morning clown, can you touch base on your other threads yet?
 
bk78 said:
Dry your weed, jar said weed, store said weed, smoke said weed


simple yet effective
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That doesn't work! You have to get a hygrometer for every jar. You need to burp them daily for weeks. You have to wait weeks to smoke your weed.

You can't just dry it and smoke it. :mrgreen:
 
xtsho said:
You can't just dry it and smoke it. :mrgreen:
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@xtsho, I guess because I am still making "baby steps," I'm just happy to have grown, harvested, and dried bud that actually has abundant hairs AND frost ... plus smell, taste, potency. I'm not arguing against curing or burping or hygrometers (and doubt bk78 is either), I think I'm just happy with where quality's at after so many rounds of curing that never expressed the frostiness or any other qualities to the extent shown after a "proper" dry. It's crazy how much an extra ~18-20 hrs of drying has improved bud quality. Recording data, getting times dialed-in. But bk78's point about timing harvest presents something to consider as grow skills improve. Seasons may slightly affect dry/cure times ... I'll be measuring that a few different ways, too.

I guess, if you make it your goal to be able to explain it to someone else (written protocol, effective part-time assistant) ... that's how well I want to know how to do everything.
 
Chungayuwoki said:
Drain to waste hydro can only be mids at best. If you want to do it right, you need healthy plants.

Sorry but you've been lied to. Everyone in hydro is simply chasing mids and thrilled if they get halfway there. No grease in hydro.
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you are a funny motherfucker...who taught you to grow? finnshaggy?
 
you get to know how they feel when they're ready to jar, the outside feels too dry, but the inside still feels marshmallowy...different strains have different requirements and different drying times, depending on the mass and density of the buds, so its hard to make a general rule for every strain
 
Roger A. Shrubber said:
you get to know how they feel when they're ready to jar, the outside feels too dry, but the inside still feels marshmallowy...different strains have different requirements and different drying times, depending on the mass and density of the buds, so its hard to make a general rule for every strain
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Thanks. Spending the winter standardizing plant size and branch # for each strain that I've narrowed to one phenotype. Should position me to dial-in each strain's dry time ... then, adding/replacing about 1 strain/yr.
 
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