Help setting up a drying space

Looking for something that works best for now and have had suggestions that helped me up to now. So I have a plan and want feed back incase I could get more info and setup accordingly.

I added screen shots of the jist of what I know.

I noticed my basement is the perfect envoirment but what should the RH be outside of the drying tent?

Basement ambient temps and rh is 55-65F and 55-70RH. I have a nug curing and hygro meter says 60F and 60RH but it can creep up a little more. Does it go all the way to 70-75RH ever? I do not know. Would you dehuey the space a little if it did? I do not think it creeps much more than 63RH most the time.

Thinking of setting up a 2x2 with carbon filter as it is mandatory no smell from my projects which is fine. Any feed back let me know, looking for the best cheapest option for now.

Maybe for smaller harvests I can use my 2x2x2 but have a 2x2x5 that will probably be used for harvests of 5-10 oz or more.

Overall, that seems to be alright. If you have the option, I'd run a dehumidifier and try to keep it below 65%. Ideally, getting it to stay at 60 would be the best option, but I think 65 would work at least for the first half of the dry. Maybe drop it down a little bit a few days in.

TCH said:

Overall, that seems to be alright. If you have the option, I'd run a dehumidifier and try to keep it below 65%. Ideally, getting it to stay at 60 would be the best option, but I think 65 would work at least for the first half of the dry. Maybe drop it down a little bit a few days in.

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Ok sweet, I don’t think it passes 65% most of the time, I think the top floor just gets more humid for whatever reason especially with windows and doors open. I am going to start monitoring hygro meter highs and lows daily to take note of how it is down there.

I have two plants about an oz each to harvest soon but then a few months from now I will have a legit batch of weed to cure and want to have it figured out by then.

I do think the basement stays above 45rh which is good. Probably due to being much cooler down there.

Oh snap, the chlorophyll smell went away already 4 days later and the terpenes stayed. Exciting! I havent harvested anything in so long and all together. Getting dry though this year for fall/winter like it should normally. About to press this nug and sample a fat dab. Cannot wait, I am sure it will be a beautiful blonde color.

I got some neceotic leaf issues that are threatening my latest yield but only weeks away from harvesting an oz from two plants or so.

Heres a funny looking mini dry station. For tester nugs prior to harvest. Edit: It was starting to flatten the nug laying on istelf, hence the hanging nug cup. Shoot, one more edit: It is 68F probably because it is time for heat v.s AC as fall comes in. So maybe basement becomes a so/so space to dry during fall/winter.

I always guessed that the thermostat is upstairs and senses it warmer and so keeps ac blowing, making down stairs cooler and especially over night when it isn’t fighting the outdoor heat. I have yet to monitor it over long period of time but from top of head it is cooler/humid in summer and warmer/dryer in winter.

Oh snap! The stems snap! And it should spike immediately the RH in bag but five mins in it is 57RH… What this mean? It is done? Sugar leafs snap, the grassy smell is gone and it smells great, is it done drying? Can I press it right now?

My day is about to be made or ruined (if the rosin dont yield anything) haha. I am guessing I can press it if it is 64% or lower RH. I pressed 54% store bought weed last time and made the best rosin ever and it nucliated. So I am warming up Za press! I just thought Id check with the pros incase somethings are to be considered.

Yea, rh is only dropping so 4 days was plenty of dry time. 55RH in bag. I think I answered myself and am going to give it a shot.

So Most of the rosin was around edges of weed so not yield hardly anything but I dabbed it which it was great but not a large enough sample. Heck for .4 that isnt too bad but I think I pressed too hard. 1 ton. I watched the rosin come out and was geeked but quickly couldnt see anything, was too thin.

So I smoked the pressed weed and was impressed. The rosin was a great color, see through with some blonde. It didnt hiss in the banger so I guess I just need to do same thing. You would go longer hang drying if you smell grass right? Or do you jar it as soon as RH is 65% or press it? Or bag it to check daily so you can cure some of the grass smell if you still had it?

Im buzzin off home grown haha feels great to say. Last yield was total loss to mold. It wasnt harsh.

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Another option is the Cool Cure by Cannatrol.

It looks like a wine fridge but controls Dew Point as well as temperature. I picked up two and I love them, the perfect Dry Cure.

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2x2x3’ tent both sides have port open for air. Humidifier on near by. 63F and 54rh with rh probably rising as time goes on with humidifier on, trying to reach 60f. Probably will dry in 3 days. Check for stems snapping and put nugs in bag with meter to test rh until it is 64rh and press rosin after trimming.

pc fan for exaust on a dial for now just to get the job done. Need a real fan/filter, it smells!

Any ideas what to do with trim? Was thinking use cold elements to shake off trichomes through a screen and have kief.

The plants smelled moldy but maybe thats how it smells after chop, the grass smell starts emitting. I saw no mold signs whatsoever till now so. I tried it on a nug and the dank smells came back without the grassy smell.

So I grew both plants with out a filter no problem. But overnight I woke up and the whole house stunk. Just these two itty plants haha. Guessing an oz each. So I slapped on the filter and rid the smell before roomates woke up to complain.

The humitifier cannot run full blast for more than 4 hrs so I turned it down and it must of got stuck and quit so the rh dropped to 48rh but tent stayed at 51rh. I turned up the huey and it burped and started working so I am guessing it wasnt blowing out mist all night or barely any.

I cannot afford a cure machine nor have time to build one for now, still dialing in my grow and need supplies for that first. I think this tent is too small and can only do like half a pound. I think I will use my 2x2x5 with those fabric cubby shelves that hang and find one to fit in the 2x2x5.

Then just do that for half a year and finally upgrade. Until then maybe at most get a automatic plug for huey. Maybe get a bigger dehuey. It is dry downstairs as heat turns on for fall/winter. I have a bathroom I may try to use that will hold RH way better.

This yield isnt enough unless I use a smaller tent or space to build rh up to 75 and let it go down slowly so I am guessing it will just dry much faster, like 3 -4 days and already be like 55rh in the bag test. Any suggestions let me know. They say dont jar early, do they mean if bud is too moist still or that even if bud is dry, that grassy smell will remain?

Oof, the moldy smell went away, good. Also exciting. Looks like I am really gonna make it this time!! Kinda glad my last run molded to learn what I did, lightly packing the space and air flow to combat mold. The rh stayed the same the whole time. Was never an issue.

Also since I got to harvest a half pound of mold I got to get a good look and smell at what mold looks like and smells like. So I got scared at harvest because that asperigus smell came out but maybe that is the grass smell mixed with the terpenes giving it a musky smell.

Needless to say it does not smell or look like mold whatsoever anymore after 2 days. I even kept the dead sugar leaves and smoked them and it was pleasant, I heard they call those sweet leafs and maybe that is why, no grassy element to be found in it. I say grassy because I cannot spell choloraphyl.

The dead sugar leaves under the loupe looked clean of mold so I had to smoke it, tired of throwing away good resin from necrosis my last three plants.

dude i dry at 35% rh and 21°C. its not ideal but i have to dry in my grow room and i never had bad results. whole plants dry in 6 days, partial harvests in 3. i jar them at this point. in the jars hits 70% most of the time i open dry it out more for a couple of days give or take 3hrs on 3hrs off. then burp it 2-4 times a day for 5-10mins for a week or two and voila.

the problem with fast drying ime is that outside will dry out too fast trapping moisture inside this will give the impression that its ready to jar but like with moist pastry if you cover it too soon that inside moisture will turn you weed into mush. you need to let that moisture redistribute to the outer surfaces and then burp it to avoid mold issues.

hope thats helpful in some manner as i didnt read the whole thread bc i gotta take my dog out for pee

Stupid huey. Its a vicks which I thought was a decent one but it keeps getting stuck and blowing no mist until I turn it up then it burps and starts working again. Anyone have this happen? How to stop it? Keeps stalling on me overnight.

What do these dots look like, not leaf septoria does it? Can that show up during drying?

Here are some upclose pics. Safe to consume? Is it septoria ?

Today 4pm will be 4 days drying. I figured out to just unplug dehuey and refill, put back and plug in so it can stay at the same setting and continue. Something about turning the dial messes it up.

The stems have flex still. The nug I sampled dried by now with stems snapping clean and 57rh in bag or 54. So yea, a cola takes its time drying I see.

Assuming by no responses as well on another thread that it is not septoria. But will separate those leaves and keep asking or just throw it away or just consume it. Thinking it is not, not common indoors and the way it is minimally appearing. The appearance itself too.

The temps 62-66F and rh 51-58%.

Tomorrow at 5pm would be 7 days since hung to dry. Was able to keep at around 62F/60Rh for a couple days. Dry day today, back down to 52RH.

The super shark to the left smells done but the stems fold instead of snap but some areas on main stem of a hanging branch did snap a little. Buds hard to the touch and leaves a little crunchy.

The GG4 auto by auto seeds to the right has a tiny bit of grass smell but is notably getting less daily. Buds hard to the touch and leaves crunchy. The same thing with stems folding and some crunching.

So is 7 days enough, if stems snap? What if it has grass smell still? Do all stems have to snap? Would you do a RH bag test to gauge if it is finished?

I was going to keep going till the stems snap and grass smell gone with flower smell standing out but maybe I can get to work tomorrow. What do yall think?

According to the pinned how to on this section I should be rh testing it after trimming right now. Shoot I read that so many times I thought I had it memorized but I think I am just on time to follow it. If it hits below 65rh in bag, that means it is ready for rosin pressing?

I was told just when it should hit jars to long term cure, you press it. But also read you may need to even out the moisture in a jar for a few days if it is dry outside but moist inside which will mess it up, but I am pressing it so I am not sure. Gonna get to work now I guess.

I guess the question remains, how do I rid the grass smell, by curing? Letting it sit out to dry longer?