So I harvested 1 plant on Sunday after drying in my tent for 10 days. I had both plants hanging upside down with my exhaust on 80% power. The humidity in the tent was 55% and the temperature was 54° f. I didn’t really defoliate these plants as much as I probably should have before hanging. I did this on purpose so I could have a slow dry to preserve terpenes. I could tell the buds were still damp when I removed them from the branches. But my only time to do it was the weekend. I put a hygrometer in each of my stainless vault containers. The humidity was over 80% a few hours later. So I split the buds up into 2 separate brown paper bags to help evaporate some humidity. I know I screwed this up. I left one plant in the tent still hanging upside down for now. The last few days I’ve opened the bags twice daily and gently shook them to separate them and check them. The humidity is still around 80%. I don’t want to quickly dry these and lose the terps. But I definitely don’t want mold. I was thinking about trying out my drying rack and putting these back into my tent for now. Any help is appreciated.
Respectable temps and humidity for drying, and air exchange sounds about right.
As long as everything stays stabilized, your method of drying sounds like you’re doing fine. Only recommendation is to remove excess fan leaves before hanging, it helps control humidity, and it’s less to trim later.
Thanks. Do you recommend that I put these wet buds back into the tent on the drying rack? Or should I leave them in the paper bags?
If these were just chopped within a few days, usually they stay in my drying tent for a couple of weeks before I consider putting them in bags. Excessive moisture can’t leave inside a bag, however when it’s closer to the sweet spot, the bags slow the process down just right.
Good to know. I will put these back in the tent for now. Thanks for the quick response
Always a tag away my friend. Happy growing!
Just a quick heads up, buds don’t have a humidity they have a moisture content.
To dry we take the moisture content from 100% down to say 10%.
Air is measured in humidity bud in moisture percentage.
Maybe terps are destroyed by normal dry times but I’ve never found that, should still have some decent bud without having to extend the times, always use to work anyway why bud was so good years ago when we just hung dried for two weeks.
Hope this helps you understand the correct scales, it’s non sensical if I say humans are 80% humidity even 100.
Good luck drying
Paper bags work fine. I come out of dry tent at 75 or so at times. Bag them a day or so and jar/burp. No issues.
Agreed.
Removing fan leaves is easier when wet, before hanging.
@OrganicMechanic Did you wash before hanging?
I always do.
I’ve done a bud wash once when I had spider mites. I can honestly say that it didn’t affect the bud quality. But it got rid of the spider mites.
I’ve had that a couple times. I call it never-ending drying. I’ve been very successful with using brown paper grocery bags throwing them in there closing them up. In 24 hours open it for 15 minutes close it back up and repeat until the dry. For me worked every time
Then I’ll put them in jars with the high grometer. After a couple of days of burping three times a day and it reaches 58 to 63% I transferred them into groove bags for long-term storage and curing
A freshly watered saturated plant cut down for harvest will take forever to dry
I will always suggest a wedryer.
When I bought mine they go on sale for $100 I don’t know what happens now with the sales now
I know for a fact without it my drying wouldn’t be as great. When I first started growing for at least 4 to 6 months I was researching and reading reviews on what people are using, from grow dry lights to soils I was going crazy for a while. true. Wrote up a whole list of things and I am very happy that the weed dryer is as good as they advertise. I worked at a marijuana growing full facility so I talked to the growers a lot. Most of them have even heard of this item. this is why I try to promote it, it’s a hidden gem on drying your weed very well before you put them in jars. Or bags
This is my three cents wedryer all day makes my weed happy 
me too 
I have 1 but the small size. Love it but i harvest too much at a time so have been hanging lately. Need to get the big 1. They work great.
After drying for a week I clip everything of the stems and put it in plastic totes and let them finish drying evenly. I use a moisture meter to check Im looking for 11-12%. Then it all goes in grove bags.
Are you using anything other than the snap method for checking dryness?
A wood or hay moisture meter really helps know when to jar, or grovebag them.
I use a hay moisture meter… Same but the probes are longer and attached via wire to the meter. So I don’t have to mush the buds when check bud interior for moisture level… 10-12% on the meter should be about 58-62%rh on a hygrometer in a jaf or baggy for curing.
Good luck!
I have a wood moisture meter that I haven’t tried yet. I cut the buds down this time because it was drying for 10 days in good conditions. I didn’t realize leaving all the leaf matter on during drying would affect the moisture this much. Rookie mistake. My last few grows were 66, 67% humidity after 7 days. So I just assumed this would be similar.
@OrganicMechanic Nice… I’ve tried just hanging natural dry… Takes a while… I had issues… I now prefer to wet trim them the hang to dry… Much more control… But a shorter dry time…which can be bad and good. Sometimes too quick doesn’t break down the chlorophyll as well… Needs longer cure after.
Yup.
Easier to get cleaner removal from wet, IMO/IME.
That said, different years have produced different drying conditions, not all the same, I learned for here in the PNW.