Smell during drying

Toppers

Toppers

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So I went to all this work to make a carbon filter for my grow tent, but now that I think about it, I have no way to control the smell during drying.

How bad is it, and what do you guys do about this?
 
jdmlove

jdmlove

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Toppers said:
So I went to all this work to make a carbon filter for my grow tent, but now that I think about it, I have no way to control the smell during drying.

How bad is it, and what do you guys do about this?
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if you made a carbon filter for you grow tent and it worked just rig something up in your grow tent to hang your bud while drying and use the same carbon filter to control the smell if it worked during flowering it should work while you dry your buds.
hope this helps

correct me if im wrong somebody
 
Kingb420

Kingb420

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i put my buds in a cool place, the smell comes STRONG from having the lights on, watering etc, just find a dark cool place to put them
 
taffo143

taffo143

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if u got good budz they will smell wherever u put them, if ur filter worked during flowering it will work to dry them, just dry in ur grow room in the dark with a fan blowing slowly at a temp ov 18'c if thats possible for u!!! hope that helps
 
Brick Top

Brick Top

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jdmlove said:
if you made a carbon filter for you grow tent and it worked just rig something up in your grow tent to hang your bud while drying and use the same carbon filter to control the smell if it worked during flowering it should work while you dry your buds.
hope this helps

correct me if im wrong somebody
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It appears that he has something else vegging in his tent so the tent is out but since temperature and humidity ranges and air flow are very important to proper drying I do not know if they would be more easily controlled or harder to control in a tent. I have never really thought about it before but at first thought I believe there would be more negatives to it than positives, at least unless someone went to the effort to make sure their setup was spot on.

You want to keep the humidity between 45% and 55% and in an enclosed area where the drying plants would be putting off moisture into the air adding to what would already be there it may be difficult to stay within that range. At humidity levels lower than 45%, the marijuana will dry too fast and the taste will suffer. At humidity levels higher than 55%, the marijuana will take a long time to dry, and it will be prone to mold.

Also in an enclosed area that would not get good airflow you may have trouble maintaining the proper temperature range. Conditions should remain constantly somewhere between 65-75 degrees F. At temperatures lower than 65 degrees drying time will be lengthened. At temperatures higher than 75 degrees, the heat will cause the outer portion of the bud to dry quicker than the inner part, and the taste will suffer.

The area where the drying is done should be dark. Light and high temperatures (higher than about 80 degrees) will cause THC to break down into less desirable chemicals, this will lower the potency of the finished product.

Maybe it might be easier to maintain the proper conditions in a tent if it were available for use for drying, I just do not know. I just tend to think that would not be the case though.
 
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peach

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MediMaryUser said:
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no light and heat degrade the good stuff
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good warning, but it should also be possible to create some shaded cool space by foiling up an area near an air intake. maybe you could make a mini drying enclosure with a cardboard box the incoming air has to blow through? you could even put it outside the tent, so long as the air goes through it, the tent and then the filter.


if you have some ducting spare, you could run some of that from an intake into the side of a cardboard box somewhere outside the tent. if it was sucking room air in, it should be around the right temperature. you'd probably want the buds out of the direct airstream so the humidity around them didn't drop drastically low, depending on how humid the air in your house is obviously.
 
Toppers

Toppers

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Brick Top hit it on the head why I do not want to use the grow tent to dry in (neither should you guys?) Light, heat, can't control RH% with that powerful fan, don't have the space in there, yadda yadda. I didn't wait 3 months to blow it on curing.

And peach just solved my problem I think, thankyou. I'm going to use a large carboard box to dry them in, and use some dryer duct to pipe it near the intake flaps of my tent so I have 1) airflow and 2) odor control. I think that's it... I can adjust my RH% with humidifier as needed. thanks +rep
 
jdmlove

jdmlove

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Brick Top said:
It appears that he has something else vegging in his tent so the tent is out but since temperature and humidity ranges and air flow are very important to proper drying I do not know if they would be more easily controlled or harder to control in a tent. I have never really thought about it before but at first thought I believe there would be more negatives to it than positives, at least unless someone went to the effort to make sure their setup was spot on.

You want to keep the humidity between 45% and 55% and in an enclosed area where the drying plants would be putting off moisture into the air adding to what would already be there it may be difficult to stay within that range. At humidity levels lower than 45%, the marijuana will dry too fast and the taste will suffer. At humidity levels higher than 55%, the marijuana will take a long time to dry, and it will be prone to mold.

Also in an enclosed area that would not get good airflow you may have trouble maintaining the proper temperature range. Conditions should remain constantly somewhere between 65-75 degrees F. At temperatures lower than 65 degrees drying time will be lengthened. At temperatures higher than 75 degrees, the heat will cause the outer portion of the bud to dry quicker than the inner part, and the taste will suffer.

The area where the drying is done should be dark. Light and high temperatures (higher than about 80 degrees) will cause THC to break down into less desirable chemicals, this will lower the potency of the finished product.

Maybe it might be easier to maintain the proper conditions in a tent if it were available for use for drying, I just do not know. I just tend to think that would not be the case though.
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oh ok i didnt know that yea if theres lights in there nevermind the whole thing i said lol
 
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