Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY

ScentbyJasmine said:

Hey so why did you remove the connector

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Because it is smaller than the sensor so I could drill a smaller hole, no other reason. Once the hole is drilled and the sensor cable is run you connect it again.

Holy shit this thing is awesome. I put some small test nugs in early this week and have been stepping down the humidity 1% per day as a quick test (I'll do .5% with my actual harvest).

I'm only at 69% (started at 76%) but I vaped a nug ln and was very impressed with how greasy the surface was and well preserved the trichomes were. Still some plantiness but that makes sense since it was a quick dry. I can definitely see the potential here, can't wait until harvest next week!!

gibbsfkaleroy said:

Holy shit this thing is awesome. I put some small test nugs in early this week and have been stepping down the humidity 1% per day as a quick test (I'll do .5% with my actual harvest).

I'm only at 69% (started at 76%) but I vaped a nug ln and was very impressed with how greasy the surface was and well preserved the trichomes were. Still some plantiness but that makes sense since it was a quick dry. I can definitely see the potential here, can't wait until harvest next week!

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Harvest complete, and I think I'm officially a full convert to this method!

Over the last weekend, me and my buddies trimmed both my plants and loaded them into the cooler. I'm super happy with the way they came out, and feeling very good about the cooler method in general.

I started trimming on thursday and finished up last night. The cooler was set to 55° / 78% for the weekend as we worked to finish everything, so the first buds we completed sat at 78% for ~4 days or so. Not sure if that will cause any issues, the buds seem fine so assuming its probably ok but lmk if there's anything I should watch out for.

Last night before going to bed I dropped the rh to 77.5%. I'm in no rush and want to maximize flavor so I'm planning on doing the .5% drops as suggested here unless someone tells me otherwise.

One thing I realized is that my inkbird humidity sensor is the version that doesn't have WiFi. I work from home at a desk that is right next to the cooler, so I've been keeping an eye on the controller and haven't seen many major spikes (RH ranges from 70 at the lowest to 80 at the highest, but mostly hovers between 76 and 78.) Based on what I've read here I think that's normal but if I should look into that further please lmk.