Flowering about 8 weeks give or take. Life has been a bit hectic.
I think the plants look good maybe it’s time to cut them down? We have a jewelers loupe and the wife tells me 30%-50% are amber but personally I can’t manage to see them. So I’m going to have to trust her on this one.
So I’m pretty confident we’re chopping it today/tomorrow
Now the issue. New house I haven’t put up walls for a dedicated room we have been growing in the open basement humidity was fine for a while but the last few weeks especially it has been sitting at 70%
No issues yet but when it comes to drying
My only options are
~ the basement that sits at 70° and 70% humidity (ceiling 6" too short for my grow tent -_-)
Or
~ main floor room that is closer to 77° average and 60-65% humidity. Though the upper floor I could use the tent if that would help at least for venting humidity…I don’t know.
Unfortunately being as this is a new house and I am “house broke” extremely so I really can’t afford to go out and buy an AC unit unless I magically find something that’s like $50.
We have a dehumidifier in the basement that came with the house but with it still being 70-72% down there I’m not convinced it is functional =\
I apologize for the book here but any information, recommendations, pep talk anything at the moment would be appreciated. So far the community here on ILGM has been helpful and not judgemental along my exciting, stressful journey
If you can get temperature down to 60 - 65 F, I would be fine with the 70% rH. Just be sure to have good air flow. Don’t blast the plant but a healthy air flow will help prevent mold or mildew.
Also, a peroxide rinse immediately after chop helps prevent mold and mildew during drying.
The rinse I keep reading about confuses and scares me. You are dipping the flower and all of those beautiful tricombs into liquid…arnt you losing a lot of the good stuff?
LOL Everyone freaks out over this the first time. Trichomes are not water soluble, and they are not hydrogen peroxide soluble either.
Many of the great growers on this forum rinse their buds as do I. At first the idea just seems totally outlandish but it gets rid of all of the dust, dander and spores. I think that the rinsed buds end up tasting better after the dry and cure.
While many indoor growers rinse, it is optional. Outdoor growers should always rinse their buds in my opinion. I can taste the tasty stuff on outdoor grown buds that have not been rinsed.
@kaptain3d or @Oldguy or somebody may have a link to a video that explains the process very well. It is pretty simple.
Everything that I said is true but…When you rinse you don’t want to be too rough on the buds because you can knock off trichomes if you beat them up too much. That is one way of getting “bubble hash”, you put the buds in ice water or dry ice and beat them up to break off the trichomes and pass the water/trichome mix through a fine mesh to collect the pure trichomes.
I got a portable one from a seller on offer up for $50. Been going strong for over a year with dehumidifier function.i set it up on a table and use the drain water to feed my plants. It comes out at 15ppm.
Unable to resolve my Aphid invasion, last fall, I cut down the infected plants.
Then I water-boarded them for 8 hours. I cheated the dry with a fry.
I put them in the dehydrating cooker and 167 for 5 hours. Kief mined the final.
When washing the weed comes clean and soft. The potentially positive effects outweigh the bad.
Worked well on other weed (last fall’s outdoor weed harvest).
@Oldguy didntrealize you put the same vid so i went to post it and accidently posted another of this lady that plays rap/rock songs on kids toys, but with her own lyrics. Ah, screw it, I’ll repost it anyways, the lady is funny.
