Chopping tomorrow and I have a question regarding the dry

Britiron

Britiron

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Chopping my Double Grape tomorrow and my dry area is running 59-62% RH and 70-72 F. With those conditions should I hang branches rather than the whole plant? What would it be recommend to wet or dry trim? This is my first grow and I don’t want to screw it up. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. We are in the midst of a heat wave and I am running a dehumidifier so really unable to lower temps or humidity.
 
bk78 said:
Your conditions are going to change once you have plant material in there. Do you have exhaust or dehumidifier in there?
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The dehumidifier is doing the entire basement. Those numbers are in a 8x10 room with a plant I chopped yesterday.
There is a fan moving air in the room as well.
As stated I’m concerned about messing up the dry and that’s why I’m reaching out to the voice of experience.
 
Keep a fan around them while drying, not pointing at them though. Trim fan leaves and hang plants whole. Start checking sugar leaves after like 5 days or so for them to start getting crispy. Once the stems and leaves are mostly dry is when I trim, then I will put in jars. I check/ open the jars at least 2x a day if not more, if they feel too gooey I will dump it all into paper bags for a couple hours and back into jars.

Once you start doing it, its not as scary I promise lol. I was scared to death I was going to fuck up all my smoke the first couple grows, its really not as deep as it seems sometimes. IMO your temps and humidity are fine, I know plenty will disagree but I don't think I've ever had temps lower than like 75 and rh is never where it "should be" while drying. Only had mold in a few SUPER dense colas once. I'd rather have it too low than too high, can always smoke over dried weed, cant smoke moldy buds though
 
Kerowacked said:
Get a scale, cut a big bud and weigh it every day til it stops losing weight, then the plant is dry for jarring.
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That's a reasonable idea but will only tell you when that small sample cut has stopped losing moisture.

It's not representative of the moisture content of the larger drying branches or whole plant (they'll be much higher in moisture than the sample cut)
 
Billy the Mountain said:
That's a reasonable idea but will only tell you when that small sample cut has stopped losing moisture.

It's not representative of the moisture content of the larger drying branches or whole plant (they'll be much higher in moisture than the sample cut)
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That little cut is my test for whats ahead. Like the op, my temps are up near 80°, i can control humidity and use hepa for airflow but its going to be hard to slow the dry. I’ll use a bigger bud or two when i chop.3F78A46C-4674-474E-9D45-4C7CFA9BA8CB.jpegCAF09B1C-371C-485C-9B74-2CC341006813.jpeg
 
Britiron said:
Chopping my Double Grape tomorrow and my dry area is running 59-62% RH and 70-72 F. With those conditions should I hang branches rather than the whole plant? What would it be recommend to wet or dry trim? This is my first grow and I don’t want to screw it up. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. We are in the midst of a heat wave and I am running a dehumidifier so really unable to lower temps or humidity.
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My opinion, those are perfectly fine drying conditions. 60°/60% RH is "the standard" but in reality, most of us can't hit those numbers. Below 80° and above 40% but also below 65% and you're golden IMO.

Hanging the plant whole slows the process down a bit.
 
Kerowacked said:
Get a scale, cut a big bud and weigh it every day til it stops losing weight, then the plant is dry for jarring.
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I bought a moisture meter and some Grove Bags for curing. According to Grove Bags, you check the moisture at the stem near the bud. When you have 10-12% moisture they say it’s time to bag. I just might use your weigh the bud system as a additional check. I just was unsure about whether to whole or branch hang and trim.
 
PopAndSonGrows said:
My opinion, those are perfectly fine drying conditions. 60°/60% RH is "the standard" but in reality, most of us can't hit those numbers. Below 80° and above 40% but also below 65% and you're golden IMO.

Hanging the plant whole slows the process down a bit.
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Thanks, I was so hoping I was might be ok. Like you say 60/60 is ideal and I know I ca get there but as a first timer not knowing!
 
Those plants are weeks away from being done. Anyway...to each his own!

I always hang the whole plant. I've learned to ignore that "when the stems snap" advice. That's way too dry, in my experience.

From now on, I'm going to start jarring things up long before the stems snap, trimming when the buds are still fairly moist and then being careful about burping the jars more -and even taking all the buds out of the jar for a few minutes and rearranging their orientation in the jar on a regular basis to avoid mold. It's going to take longer and be more of a hassle to do, but here's why:

This last run, I let the 10-12 week plants go 15 weeks (wanted to see what the results would be -looking for lots of milk and amber). The plants basically died before chop and lost a lot of smell. I hung them to dry but they were already dry. I should have just gone straight to trimming and jarring. The extra hang time, caused the buds to dry out too much and when they finally hit the jars, there just wasn't enough moisture in them to cure properly. I usually see 70-80% humidity when I first start jarring up the buds and then slowly taking them down to ~60-65% after that. But this last run, the buds hit the jars and it took a couple days before the humidity even came up to 55%. Like I say, they just didn't cure. I added a Boveda after the fact, but it was just too late. All that work and time only to end up with mild-flavored, mediocre-effect buds. They DO look good, though! :) It was an experiment. I learned. I'll probably just press the rest of the buds into flower rosin on my press.

Good luck!
 
Britiron said:
I bought a moisture meter and some Grove Bags for curing. According to Grove Bags, you check the moisture at the stem near the bud. When you have 10-12% moisture they say it’s time to bag. I just might use your weigh the bud system as a additional check. I just was unsure about whether to whole or branch hang and trim.
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Yeah, i heard of them
www.thcfarmer.com

4 oz grove bag molded after 2 weeks

i been curing my stuff in grove bags . i chopped and let this stuff dry inside my tent for 6 days then i let it sit in a brown paper bag for 2 days until the humidifier in the bag said rh was 52 then on 7/11 i put my stuff in grove bags 1 of my bags with 4 oz in it is now molded i just looked in...
www.thcfarmer.com www.thcfarmer.com
 
Kerowacked said:
Yeah, i heard of them
www.thcfarmer.com

4 oz grove bag molded after 2 weeks

i been curing my stuff in grove bags . i chopped and let this stuff dry inside my tent for 6 days then i let it sit in a brown paper bag for 2 days until the humidifier in the bag said rh was 52 then on 7/11 i put my stuff in grove bags 1 of my bags with 4 oz in it is now molded i just looked in...
www.thcfarmer.com www.thcfarmer.com
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I read that post a day or two ago. I’m hopeful that by following the manufacturer’s recommended procedure that I won’t have any issues.
 
Kerowacked said:
Yeah, i heard of them
www.thcfarmer.com

4 oz grove bag molded after 2 weeks

i been curing my stuff in grove bags . i chopped and let this stuff dry inside my tent for 6 days then i let it sit in a brown paper bag for 2 days until the humidifier in the bag said rh was 52 then on 7/11 i put my stuff in grove bags 1 of my bags with 4 oz in it is now molded i just looked in...
www.thcfarmer.com www.thcfarmer.com
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You put wet weed in a sealed bag, or any container that’s sealed you get mold

pretty straight forward I think?
 
bk78 said:
I have weed that’s a year old in grove bags, dry it proper and you’ll be fine.
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That is the reason I purchased a moisture meter, I’ll be looking for that 10%-12% moisture that equates to 60%RH according to Grove Bags.
 
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