i need serious help on drying +rep

cadeneli

cadeneli

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I hang all my buds by the branches and wait til I can snap a stem. Then I jar. Id personally rather over dry than not dry enough. Not drying enough can lead to mold and mildew. Once that happens you might as well throw it in the trash.
 
cadeneli

cadeneli

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jfa916 said:
no its plastic
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Doesn't sound like something I would do. Doesn't sohnd much different than curing. The idea of drying is to remove the moisture and allow the buds to exhaust things like chlorophyll etc. Then curing is to take the remaining small amount of moisture left in the center of the bud and evenly spread it through the entire bud. That's why burping is important during the first week or so. It takes practice but after a few time you'll get it right.
 
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jfa916

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i know why you dry and cure the box would be open alot and would have the fan next to it all night
why wouldnt you do it
its my only choice because the rest of my house is filled with the drying buds that are hanging
 
cadeneli

cadeneli

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If you can fit your buds in a pencil box I'm sure you could find room to hang em somewhere. Do what you gotta do my friend. Just giving you the best advise I know to give.
 
jemstone

jemstone

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if your buds are hanging why u looking for a box to put a few in? Doesn't make any sense too me. if you got plants hanging all around just put them on the counter or something. If the are moldy throw them out.
 
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jfa916

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i only use my closets to dry and i use hanges and put main branches and my closets are already have bud hanged so i wana put the boxes on the bottom of the closets thats why im asking if it would work
 
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intelplatoon

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how bout we start fresh.........

forget the pencil boxes and get yourself a screen, like the one that goes in front of your window. in fact go to a window at your house, and pull the one off the front of that(if you have them). put something on the ground like two shoeboxes (or the pencil boxes if u really wanna use them). then lay the screen down on top of those like a table. then all you have to do is cut the buds off the stem and lay them out flat on the screen. they may dry a little faster than the hanging weed due to the fact that you cut the buds off the stem, so pay attention to that. maybe pick up the screen once a day and gently shake the buds around so they dont dry on one side of the bud only.
just my common sense.
 
HerbalBeast

HerbalBeast

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dude didn't you say your friend dries for you and now you have 1 or 2 OZ to dry? ... you can dry 2 oz in a small drawer in a few brown paper bags. Anyway.. post some picks of the pencil box :) smoke up, peace
 
bunnyface

bunnyface

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jfa916 said:
ok so i just started drying not growing because my friend would dry it for me now im dryin it
an o i dried i started in box not hanging and taught it was to dry so i put lettuce 4 to long and then put in jar it got mold was it cause lettuce

secound o i put in pencil box witbh lettuce it got mold to

can i put an o ima chop in pencil boxes due to space issues then put in jars?
and another o can i hang and put in jar
i cant hang it all plz help il rep
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Hey, I cant really understand this, but from what I read, why are you adding letteuce to it? lettecue has miosture in it, like the ganja, so there is now where for that moisture to go, it is just staying in the lettuce and ganja...
if you want to put somthing in with it try a paper or skin (rollin paper)underneath the ganja, that will draw the moisture into it and out of the ganja. Just replace the paper when it saturated. As you have alot to dry dont use newspaper cause it has ink in it.
I use plain drawing paper and it has dry the buds I've taken very quickly, paper in the bottom of a glass sealable jar.

Hope that helps, Take it easy
 
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thejopsa

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Did you hear that lettuce technique from a Meth Tweeker. Lettuce is super wet and takes ages to dry and even then it gets all gross and mouldy and takes ages to dry out so without a doubt leave it out of anywhere your going to dry. Drying is straight and simple if you follow a few basic guide lines, theres no magical things you can do to make the thc go to the buds, boiling the roots, hanging it upside down(stoner logic), etc... Just dry it out. What i do is cut each individual bud off the vegetative limb, i trim all of the fan leaves, only the big one surrounding the bud not the leaves that grow from inside the bud, the reason is that moisture leaves the cola via the leaves if you completely cut off all of the leaves it will take longer for the bud to dry out and further more while the uds rying out the smaller leaves protect the bud. i hang them up individually, i find this dries them out quicker and they maintain their shape opposed to just being lazy and leaving all your bud in a tray, aside from drying in a weird shape alot of the bud ends up falling off due to human error, like constantly picking up the box and buds to check if theyre dry, if you hang them up all you need to do is squeeze baby, dry it out until about 20% of the moisture is left inside of the cola(just judge it, experience and logic come into play here). Drying is only half of the process, curing is the second. If youv put effort into growing a plant you might as well go the whole mile and finish the process. When your satisfied that the bud is dry enough, buy yourself some GLASS jars(glass is air tight and to perform a good cure you need air tight containers). Place the colas in the jars and close them, check in the first stages that the bud doesnt get moist again, if it does take it out and continue drying, by now they should be dry enough to place on a tray with out disturbing anything, keep the process up untill dry enough to put back in the jars(be careful, this is a stage where most growers en up drying out there produce to much and thus locking in the chloroform taste they almost can melt fillings). If your wondering what this curing process is in aid of and if your going to ask the question "cant i just skip it out?", the answer is you can but the effect and taste of your produce wont be the best it can be. Curing helps break down certain compounds in the colas, to cut a very long story pretty short putting the bud in a airtight container helps the bud decompose in a way that all the "raw" compounds of the plant "mature" into smokeable produce. If you dont cure it you would probably not feel the full effect of the high offered and the taste would be very different. Open the containers once a day, fan out the air inside of the jars, gasses from the plant are emited and have to be exhausted once a day. After a week and a half test a bud out and if your satisfied with they effect that it gives and with its taste then your in the money, again this whole growing thing is all about experience, in growing, drying, curing and smoking(why i say smoking is that you could be growing a very strong strain and dont like how hard it hits after a full cycle of grow, provided that the plant has produced enough bud, you can harvest a limb every second day and dry them out, by harvesting one plant in this fashion and recording the results you can tell exactly when to harvest that strain for the desired effect, if you let it ripen to the end of its life the high is usually a heavy stoned while harvesting a little bit ahead of time the high tends to be more of an uplifting high. its got to do with the ripening period.) Realize the finer points of your grow, a stitch in time saves 9 in this game.
 
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jfa916

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thanks i know how to grow dry and cure
and i want to know if i could put the remaining bud in plastic pencil boxes or shoe boxes then cure in jars
 
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