Hey guys, drying my white widow for 3 days, wet trimming sits on herb drying rack with 50% rh and about 70F and fan running around on low. Until when do i wanna dry without risking over drying? How does the bud wanna feel? It’s smells like wet grass kinda, was stronger this morning. Read here it’s normal so i hope cure will bring back to the smell we all like
About curing, i live in Colorado and its dry in my area, the house about 25-35% rh even lower. Do i wanna start the cure with humidity bags or wait a week before?
Thank in advance
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At 50%rh at 70°F i would giesstimate around 8 to 10 days dry time. Dont freak out if they feel a little crunchy on the outside, the moisture is still working its way out on the inside. After 8 to 10 days, i usually go straight to grove bags, burp em two times for good measure, then seal em up for the cure
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8-10 days for wet trimming?
I wet trim and thats my average.
I think I mistakenly trimmed them to buds already, meaning removed leaves and stamps
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Its all good bro. That how i do it. Remove the leaves for composting, then trim the sugar leaves off the buds and save trimmings for bubble hash.
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So do they wanna feel crunchy on the outside and then it’s ready? Or couple days later?
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When they start feeling crunchy by barely squeezing, take a bud and stick it in a container with a hydrometer and wait about 30 min and see what your humidity level is, if higher than 60 then leave for another day.
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The best bet is to get an inexpensive moisture meter from Lowes or Home Depot and take the guess work out of it completely.
At 70° and 50% humidity with a fan moving air in the space your wet trimmed buds are going to dry too fast in my opinion. If you can’t get the temperature down a bit, I’d definitely let the humidity go up to at least 55%. One of the main reasons I dry trim is so I can hang the plants whole and get the slowest dry possible. When conditions permit, I shoot for 60°F and 60% humidity for the first 2 or 3 days, then I start bringing the humidity down a couple of points every day or so, and most of my plants take about 6 to 9 days until the buds moisture content is between 11 and 13%, and that’s when they’re ready to trim and jar/bag.
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I live in CO too, Denver, and depending on the time of year, I modify my process. In the winter when my heat is on and my RH% drops, I use humidifiers to get back up to 55% and do a minimal trim to slow the drying a bit. In the summer my swamp cooler is on most of the time and it is about 60% RH all the time so I use a dehumidifier and remove all of the fan leaves so as not to induce mold.
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Sounds like a good plan, im more in the desert area by Utah so the dryness in winter is wild and the heat in the summer as well. Just about to get small cooler that produce some humidity for the tent in summer months