DRYING BUDS IN WINE COOLER

finishing up my first run of XXX - 10th planet - big d energ . I got a wine cooler when i set it to 57 it stays around 60/60 does anyone else here have exp with this? I was going to use pizza boxes and was wondering often do i burp the boxes ? or should i just leave it inside ?

any help would be much appreciated
 

cacamal

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I would just hang like normal then after trim I'd put them in their final container. Are the pizza boxes so you do not have to hang dry?
 
I would just hang like normal then after trim I'd put them in their final container. Are the pizza boxes so you do not have to hang dry?
from what info i was able to gather from reddit and here , it seems like putting in pizza boxes is better then just hang drying them but im not really 100% sure tbh :( i dont have the option of makingmy tent 60f for normal drying
 

cacamal

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I guess I can see the boxes keeping dust off but also do not allow mild air flow. I also was thinking wine cellar but you have like a 6 bottle mini-fridge unit? Hope you report back after you give it a shot. Best of luck
 
I guess I can see the boxes keeping dust off but also do not allow mild air flow. I also was thinking wine cellar but you have like a 6 bottle mini-fridge unit? Hope you report back after you give it a shot. Best of luck
I think it might also help bring humidity down , I bought a 50 bottle wine cooler on facebook marketplace for 40 bucks lol . Ill def bookmark this page and keep you guys updated should be chopping in the next 2 weeks.
 

Hobbes

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TDN take a look at the Cool Cure by Cannatrol - basically a wine cooler that controls temperature, humidity, dew point. I just bought one and Im set to use it in the next couple of weeks when my crop ripens.

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Cool! Look forward to the updates
hey growmie getting back to you about the wine cooler dry , it worked out GREAT . The humidity jump ups the first week to around 70% but after talking to 2 other ppl with experience in this they both told me this would happen and not to worry and the humidity will drop after this first week which it did . If i set my wine cooler to 56 it stays around 60/60 pretty accurately. My wine cooler is old af I bought it on offerup for 50 bucks so this was def worth it . NO hay smell and the terps are still loud asf , one plant I wet trimmed and the one I got drying now I did not and im experimenting now to see if it makes a difference with my dry method.
 

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Hook Daddy

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most of those posts are people asking like me lol except that one dude who built a dehumidifier into his wine cooler. would love to hear from someone who actually has done it already
I have a wine cooler with a dehumidifier and Inkbird controller. It works fantastically, but it must be a thermoelectric wine cooler not a compressor based one, otherwise it’s just like drying in a regular fridge, which is why the pizza boxes would be used to keep them from drying too quickly. If you convert a thermoelectric cooler there is no need for pizza boxes, I can leave buds in there for several months if wanted, then move to grove bags when I need to run a new batch. There are a couple of us on here that have converted wine fridges.
 

Togs

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I have a wine cooler with a dehumidifier and Inkbird controller. It works fantastically, but it must be a thermoelectric wine cooler not a compressor based one, otherwise it’s just like drying in a regular fridge, which is why the pizza boxes would be used to keep them from drying too quickly. If you convert a thermoelectric cooler there is no need for pizza boxes, I can leave buds in there for several months if wanted, then move to grove bags when I need to run a new batch. There are a couple of us on here that have converted wine fridges.
Anywhere to see plans / build of one of these?
 

Hook Daddy

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Anywhere to see plans / build of one of these?
Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

 

Togs

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Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

Thanks! Think we’re going to give this a try.
 

Hollatchaboy

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Sure, I have a thread here on RIU with how I built mine.

Which koolatron did you use?
 
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