I’m looking for a couple of tips and tricks to properly dry my weed the time is coming soon I tried paper bags hay smell at 60/60 I tried grove bags 60/60 hay smell someone please tell me a step by step way that actually works right now I can’t afford a ac unit I have a a 4x4 tent 3 dehumidifiers I humidifier and plenty of oscillating fans I have a vivosun motor and timer that sucks out humidity when its to much and heat the same way
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Once your buds are dry to around 11% moisture, you need to put them in quart or half gallon jars. Open the jars for ten minutes a couple times a day. The chlorophyll should gas off when burping the jars and the hay smell should go away. You want 60-62% humidity in the jars, once they get to that, the longer you leave them sealed to cure the better.
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“Most” weed smells a bit like hay when it is dried. My method, dry as close to 60F and 60 rh as you can manage with your equipment. A slow dry is critical. I dry until the buds are right around 13% moisture using a moisture meter made for wood. I put them in paper bags for 24 hours to sweat them…equalize the moisture in the smaller and bigger buds, then put in Grove bags (i do not heat seal, but never open them during the cure). I cure for 8 weeks, but consider 30 days a minimum. I’ve done that with 100s of ounces. I have never had one come out of cure smelling like hay.
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I use a modified wine fridge to cure and put a sensor inside to check remotely. Fridge is at 64 degrees constant and humidity at 60. You can put packets in to control humidity if necessary and if gets too high open door for a few seconds.
All weed smells like hay at some point, it is chlorophyll evaporation
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The Cannatrol and ones that we have built like it will dry in 4 days to 60% rh in a jar. Less than half usual time. Cures in 4 more, I never had a hay smell in mine. Pretty amazing.
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No, I looked around for a suitible dehumidifier and gave up. But its 65 degrees and 61.6 humidity currently
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Get a moisture meter. If you have grove bags, bag them up at 10-12% humidity according to the moisture meter.
This is the one I have that I bought after a flood and it works great
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@Growdoc agree. You can speed up the dry if you tightly control the conditions. OP was talking about conventional methods.
Last year I switched over to a Cannatrol and got another one at the beginning of this year. I love the way it dries and cures…and it is done in 8 days, but I leave mine in there for storage and it just keeps getting better. Now I only use Grove Bags for temp storage when I have to process new buds through one of the Cannatrols.
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That can work…got to go with what you have.
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You can buy the Pro Breeze on Amazon as well as different peltiers ready to install .
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is that the dehumidifier?
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Yes sir.
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can I adjust the humidity and temp on that or no?
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You’ll need an inkbird controller, I’ll post a link, here’s the dehumidifier.
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And Inkbird.
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If you go back on my journal, you can see the placement and wiring I did.
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You’ll measure the center of buds, push it in there to get a good reading. They are ready to jar when moisture hits 11-12 %, that will give you 60-62 % rh in jars.
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Yea, I do that too. I find that bigger buds will have a higher reading it seems. Just average it out I guess.
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