So today is day 6 of my “wet trimmed” buds hanging in my tent and the temperature and humidity has remained a pretty constant 60/60 with the exhaust fan set on one. Everything looks wonderful but none of the branches snap yet, they just bend. Any one know about how much longer? I don’t want it to get TO dried out, ya know? I have a moisture meter but have been told that’s not a reliable way of checking them, to trust the “snap when bent” test. Thanks for any advice.
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Use your moisture meter. Get deep into the bud. You want it about 15 %. Ive had alot of stems that didnt snap that was dry. I would def lower you humidity to about 50. Temp around 65 70. I do 55% at 70 for 4 days then 50% at 65 for the remainder
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I usually trim all the buds off the branches, after a few days hanging, and put them in a box for a couple of days to kind of sweat the rest of the excess moisture.
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If your branches all snap will probably be too dry. Maybe if the smallest branches are cracking isn’t too bad, but i typically jar mine when smaller stems will lose pliability but not completely break when bent. If that makes sense? If you’re running 60/60 this could easily take 10-12 days or maybe even a little longer. If you see as described above go ahead and check a few with moisture meter and see.
If nothing else, you can jar buds for an hour or 2 and go back and check them.
Placing them in air tight container will pull moisture from inner parts of bud. If they seem too wet lay them out on a tray placed in a little more dry environment for an hour or two and put them back in jar. In my experience being a little too wet is fairly easy to deal with as long as your environment is clean. But if they get too dry quality is pretty much taking a hit immediately.
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I second that. Takes out all the guess work.
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