Drying in a cardboard box ok?
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sounds good pal!I've been using doubled paper bags to slow dry my freshly trimmed buds for the last couple grows.
Takes about 10 - 14 days to get them dry enough to put in cans for burping for a month.
I keep the bags down in my basement where conditions are 55F and 70% RH. Early days I slide the buds out into a 16" plant tray to gently loosen up the clumps and let them air out to prevent mold.
Keeping the buds evenly moist as they dry is key so the biological processes can continue to get a smooth smoke. Once any part has got dry it no longer can be cured even if it's re-hydrated. Hanging branches until the main stem cracks is the way to get mids instead of top shelf buds.
If you can hang them and control heat and humidity to take 10 days or more to get them ready to jar and burp you will have some smooth smoking buds that your buddies will beg for more.
Most peeps just want to get fresh buds in the pipe and don't even think about quality other than how fucked up it gets them.
I don't hang with peeps like that.
how big are the bags you use? and how much goes in each bag and do you leave the bag folded but open?
grapenut2457
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Good question. I want to know as well.
OldMedUser
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Been away for a bit but still above the sod. 
I got some long paper bags from the liquor store and put around 100g of fresh trimmed buds in them. I double up the bags to slow drying a bit more but for the sugar trim I just use a single bag as I don't need a good cure on that. That stuff will be bone dry in a week or so. RH is fairly high yet so 10 days maybe. Those paper lunch bags from the grocery store would work just fine too.
I'm just cropping now and my CBD bud is just getting a quick snip to remove any leaf without sugar on it them sealed in 2L plastic tobacco cans and frozen until needed. All the trimmed off leaf is drying in a paper bag then will get a quick sifting to scavenge a few grams of kief. I may do a QWISO wash on the sifted pot to get the last of the goodie but can worry about that later. I have over 80g of kief already and need to make some good honey oil so I can mix it up and make over 4oz of black hash. Might even isomerize some oil made from the kief and see how that turns out. Some of it's a few years old.
Lots to do. 10 more plants to trim yet. 9 1/3 I guess.
I got some long paper bags from the liquor store and put around 100g of fresh trimmed buds in them. I double up the bags to slow drying a bit more but for the sugar trim I just use a single bag as I don't need a good cure on that. That stuff will be bone dry in a week or so. RH is fairly high yet so 10 days maybe. Those paper lunch bags from the grocery store would work just fine too.
I'm just cropping now and my CBD bud is just getting a quick snip to remove any leaf without sugar on it them sealed in 2L plastic tobacco cans and frozen until needed. All the trimmed off leaf is drying in a paper bag then will get a quick sifting to scavenge a few grams of kief. I may do a QWISO wash on the sifted pot to get the last of the goodie but can worry about that later. I have over 80g of kief already and need to make some good honey oil so I can mix it up and make over 4oz of black hash. Might even isomerize some oil made from the kief and see how that turns out. Some of it's a few years old.
Lots to do. 10 more plants to trim yet. 9 1/3 I guess.
SuperNutz
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Ask @UncleBuck, he lives in the homeless capital. Cali has half the US population of homeless. He lives in a Fridgedaire box under a pier.
Ozmap
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Buy yourself a cheap vacuum cleaner that uses paper bags.
Hook up your vacuum cleaner to your speed controller.
Stuff your ounce or so in there and turn it on really low, occasionally?
RandolphLundgren
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drying in a grow tent is your best bet for personal grow. just hang your branches in the dark in 65F with 55RH and let them go 7-14 days. buds will feel crispy to the squeeze with some moisture inside. then jar buds leave a couple centimetres like 3 of jar for air.
I've used a cardboard box before. just keep it closed and hang the buds inside in a makeshift closet and cut 2 holes on the bottom and a tiny one on top. put a fan facing the bottom holes circulating air. not directly on bud just enough to have a wave of air constantly flowing underneath your drying bud..
I find if you wet trim you get the chlorophyll smell early but if you just hang em and dry trim after you get that GAS smell.
NO HAY SMELL THEN FOLLOW THIS
dry 7-14 days in 55-70F with a RH of 50-60%
dry trim
jar about half ounce to an ounce in jars burp everyday 3 times for 7 days
after a week check your buds and then smoke them and store them
I've used a cardboard box before. just keep it closed and hang the buds inside in a makeshift closet and cut 2 holes on the bottom and a tiny one on top. put a fan facing the bottom holes circulating air. not directly on bud just enough to have a wave of air constantly flowing underneath your drying bud..
I find if you wet trim you get the chlorophyll smell early but if you just hang em and dry trim after you get that GAS smell.
NO HAY SMELL THEN FOLLOW THIS
dry 7-14 days in 55-70F with a RH of 50-60%
dry trim
jar about half ounce to an ounce in jars burp everyday 3 times for 7 days
after a week check your buds and then smoke them and store them
GrowGal
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Before you go judging, I need a quick shift method as I live in a 1 bedroom apartment with a balcony. It'll stink up the whole place. If you have good advice I'd like to hear it. If not, don't waste people's time.
mr. childs
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heavy duty moving square box from home depot, or wardrobe box
2Hearts
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There is no real way round it, weed stinks, buy an extra fan and filter and try to scrub the room your hanging to dry in.
I dont waste time and give serious answers for the serious grower, all the other ways and bollocks are written a million times in millions of threads so how about you dont waste our time and learn to read, my answers are the ones you dont get from all that crap so ask your self why your asking in the first place - just go buy that cardboard box and quit bugging.
I dont waste time and give serious answers for the serious grower, all the other ways and bollocks are written a million times in millions of threads so how about you dont waste our time and learn to read, my answers are the ones you dont get from all that crap so ask your self why your asking in the first place - just go buy that cardboard box and quit bugging.
GrowGal
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The only person that's bugged is you. I was clinging on to the possibility of this working, and if anyone had suggestions.
I'm thinking to put in some of those moisture absorbing silica gel packets. Will update.
Lockedin
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Can you put the boxes in your room, keep the door shut, and carbon filter the whole room?
If your filter is small, it may take some time to clear the initial smell, but it should catch up and - bonus - help with air purity in your room.
My friend does this - he runs a 6" fan and filter mounted on the top of his tent.
When it's drying time, he removes the duct and purifies the whole room.
It stinks all the way to the exterior of the house for a few hours, then fades to nothing.
IIRC he uses a dedicated fan / filter and dries in a bathroom these days (multi bathroom house).
AngryAdviceShamer
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Such negativity and hostility. This is a place for peaceful stoners to confer with one another learn new knowledge etc. There is no need for arsy horrible replies like that. We were all noobs at one point. Ring your mum n ask her for a cuddle you obviously need one.
MICHI-CAN
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Regardless of the better than thou opinions. Having limited space and resources with multiple F-2 or individual strains most grows I end up with different finish times. And only one tent in the winter to grow I have used large wardrobe boxes multiple times. I tape one end closed. Then insert stainless rods from the hobby shop. I then use the black spring paper clips to hang the branches minus the large leaves. I keep the room at 68 F and use a mini dehumidifier set to 50%. I keep it totally dark except to allow air in once a day for 10 - 14 days. Once I can snap branches with a crisp snap I close trim and reset the dehumidifier to 45% humidity. I then hang for another 14 days airing daily. Then remove buds from stems, finish trim and store in jars. Burp twice a day for two weeks. About an hour in 60-70% humidity. Then once weekly for a couple weeks. Then when I get around to it. Excellent cure. Buds are dry but mold-able like clay. No chlorophyll taste. Just do it in the dark and hang the buds in 70 F or less. Jamming them in a bag crushes buds and is asking for trouble in my moist environment. Best of luck. And it doesn't take money to do it right. Just common sense and a little effort.
GrowGal
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GrowGal
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Very good advice. I was even thinking of sticking the rod through the industrial paper bag.
mr. childs
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like the lawn & leaf bags from homedepot