Drying while away

Due to some reason I got to be away for around 7 to 10 days and I have an auto just about to finish.. cloudy trichomes and around 10 days of flushing.

I'm going to have to chop her before leaving and will be drying in the same 2x2 grow tent with the fan at low (and maybe the carbon filter half covered).

Which of the following is a better option?
1. Wet-trim, separate the buds and hang them on a drying rack
2. Just cut by main stem, trim big leaves and hang the whole plant upside down

Due to various constraints, I must do it solo.. cannot get any friends to come over and furthermore the smell cannot leak.

Would Boveda 62 packs help?

1 make sure it’s actually ready to chop. Pics would help.

2 I vote for option 2

autod1 said:

Due to some reason I got to be away for around 7 to 10 days and I have an auto just about to finish.. cloudy trichomes and around 10 days of flushing.

I'm going to have to chop her before leaving and will be drying in the same 2x2 grow tent with the fan at low (and maybe the carbon filter half covered).

Which of the following is a better option?
1. Wet-trim, separate the buds and hang them on a drying rack
2. Just cut by main stem, trim big leaves and hang the whole plant upside down

Due to various constraints, I must do it solo.. cannot get any friends to come over and furthermore the smell cannot leak.

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Post pics of the plant to be chopped. It's more than likely not ready.

You could possibly give it one more good feed and leave it until you get back. No big deal if it starts drying out before you get back, you probably just gained some much needed finish time.

twentyeight.threefive said:

Post pics of the plant to be chopped. It's more than likely not ready.

You could possibly give it one more good feed and leave it until you get back. No big deal if it starts drying out before you get back, you probably just gained some much needed finish time.

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Will post more pics later.
About your idea to give it one more feed until I am back, would spider mites be an issue?
She has had spider mites in the past and I have barely managed to control them

autod1 said:

Will post more pics later.
About your idea to give it one more feed until I am back, would spider mites be an issue?
She has had spider mites in the past and I have barely managed to control them

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That's a tough picture to judge it by, but it's got more than a week left until ready. Pests are always an issue.

Whether you chop or leave it in the pot after a final watering, I don't think it'd make a difference with spider mites. Meaning if you chop it's not going to make spider mites go away and neither would feeding one more time and leaving it.

twentyeight.threefive said:

That's a tough picture to judge it by, but it's got more than a week left until ready. Pests are always an issue.

Whether you chop or leave it in the pot after a final watering, I don't think it'd make a difference with spider mites. Meaning if you chop it's not going to make spider mites go away and neither would feeding one more time and leaving it.

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I have read that spider mites leave when the chopped plant is left to dry, and also read that under-watered/drying plants are loved by spider mites, so there is probably more sense in chopping and hanging her upside down.. isn't it?

But yes, that is a third option to consider.

autod1 said:

I have read that spider mites leave when the plant is left to dry, and also read that underwatered/drying plants are loved by spider mites, so there is probably more sense in chopping and hanging her upside down.. isn't it?

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I have no experience in spider mites so I couldn't say either way. GL.

autod1 said:

I have read that spider mites leave when the chopped plant is left to dry, and also read that under-watered/drying plants are loved by spider mites, so there is probably more sense in chopping and hanging her upside down.. isn't it?

But yes, that is a third option to consider.

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If that were the case we would all just chop and wait for them to scurry
Actually they burrow into the bed leaving lovely gobs of webbing

That plant needs more time at least a couple weeks IMO

I wouldn't cut any single leaf off of it. Point your smallest fan straight at the floor. Exhaust on low or even off. Should be fine for 10 days.

That doesn’t look finished - more pics .

Wet trim to single buds, put on drying rack in 2x2 but throw all the branches in with them. The moisture leaving the branches should help keep that 2x2 from going bone dry before you get back. Idk the velocity of this fan but id want to control amount of air exiting throughout the day. You dont want it emptied every second...need to slow the whole thing down.

Budzbuddha said:

That doesn’t look finished - more pics .

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Attaching some more

Not much amber yet

Harvest, pluck all big fan leaves off, hang branches on clothes hangers and hang from inside tent pitch black, set ventilation fans to low and trim when you get back. WET trimming is how you ruin dank.

I've got a wayy bigger grow now and still cure using my grow tents. Pitch black, you can carbon scrub the stank of the air being pulled out and with inline fans like AC Infinity you can set a trigger to where it only kicks on when the tent is 55% humidity or higher.