i have no small closets i can use to hang my harvest up. Even though I’m in the midwest, my entire house is between 35%-45% RH, lower in the basement, in between on the main floor and highest in the attic/master bedroom (my bedroom)
Currently i have a plastic tote i use for my veg plants, has a hole in the side where i hang my light, sitting face up. i drilled 2 holes in the top and looped a string through. Its a small harvest so i got it all on 1 clothes hanger. A small clip fan on the bottom. Humidifier connected to the InkBird humidity controller i had to snag from my grow tent and a towel hanging over the hole but not totally covering it, to allow fresh air in.
The InkBird is going crazy. The humidity in the closet is 40-45%, space heater set at 65F so it stay right at 68F most of the time. I have the controller set to 52%RH, hanging right in the middle of the hanging branches. Differentials are set at 5% in either direction. The humidifier kicks on when it drops below 47% it Quckly raises the RH in the tote to about 60% in 20 seconds. 3% higher than my dehumidify differential, 8% higher than my set 52%. I don’t need the dehumidifier because the number drops back down to 47% within 1 minute and the cycle continues.
The buds are already drying too fast, smelling like hay and crumbling after only 3 days can they be salvaged?
I have 3 more plants coming up though yay! What would you guys suggest? I have tools, just can’t get…just about anything new now with this lockdown I have another spare (intact) tote. I have a full sized spare refridgerator that’s just chilling in my basement doing nothing lmao!
I know i can just google drying containers or whatever, just want some real opinions
Run some string across the box and hang. Close box and put a hygrometer inside to monitor. I do mine in a guest room and manage the dry with fans and plastic totes. Try for a good bend with (almost) break on stem before putting in jars.
I’ve found that a hand or bath wet towel in the environment helps quite a bit as the moisture evaporates. They are going to smell like hay until they are cured. They will really mellow out and start smelling good during the last few days of the cure. A few days is indeed too fast for a dry. A week to 10 days would be better. My cures run between 58 and 65 RH and it works pretty well. Your temp is spot on.
I put wholes through the top, push the stem through and secure it with a binder clip. One of these days hopefully I will need a much larger box. When you jar it up, add a 62% boveda moisture pouch in the jar. Or some use some fresh trim or fan leaves rather than boveda.
Fan leaves are an excellent recommendation. I’ve used them before for that. Not too much moisture, no off putting smells.
In my experience adding boveda 62% packs during cure will give the final product an off/sour smell. Boveda initially advised using their products to help make the curing easier, but have recently recanted that advice.
can they be salvaged?
What would you guys suggest? I have tools, just can’t get…just about anything new now with this lockdown I have another spare (intact) tote. I have a full sized spare refridgerator that’s just chilling in my basement doing nothing lmao!
