Slow drying - shorter curing?

Grow Cycle Harvesting
1

Where I live we now have autumn. Day temps peak at about 20C (68F) and at night it gets pretty darn cold. Mornings are misty (damp).
My harvest is hanging to dry in a unheated outdoor well ventilated shed. Drying is very slow, but coming along pretty well. No risk of mold.
My thoughts are, if they hang to dry (trimmed already) for three, four weeks will they also start to cure? Will the sugars and chlorophyll start to break down during the drying process so when I finally deem them dry enough I’m also half way through curing?

Your 2 cents speculations are welcome.

4 Likes
2

Howdy
Hmmm…What is humidity in shed. :thinking:

3 Likes
3

What’s the RH in the shed Growmie? Temps around 65 and RH around 60% will get you an Approximate 10 day dry time. I use the snap and moisture meter method for checking my harvest. Once the branches have a slight bend and snap to them I check the moisture and pull and trim them at 11-12%. Then the curing process starts :love_you_gesture:

4 Likes
4

I will share my thoughts , Back in the day we would hang our plants in the barn with the Burley tobacco . After plants dryed We would break them down and smoke . At the time it was better than anything you could buy.

3 Likes
5

The shed has a tin roof and simple walls made of planks with 1/4 inch gaps. So the wind seeps through. RH should be the same as outdoors, maybe slightly less due to tin roof heating and drying a bit when the sun is out. I don’t have a hygrometer, so I rely on the weather forecast on the web. They say 74% relative humidity today but some days going up to 94%, it varies with the weather.

I usually just use the snap test as an indicator of when it’s dry enough, still not close after about 10 days.

2 Likes
6

It could take a couple weeks to dry hanging out in the barn. It also depends on how much foliage you took off before hanging. If you wait till stem snaps it’s usually too dry.

1 Like
7

Could take a couple more days given humidity is running >60%. I’m able to control RH very well in my drying area and I get 7 to 10 day drys at 60%.

Don’t wait for a sharp snap. That’s a bit too dry. Close to snapping is perfect. Some growers use a wood moisture meter and consider it dried when at 11%, IIRC.

2 Likes