hey I was wondering if you could help me out a a bit given your superior experience, im getting close to harvest time about a week or two away I was wondering whats the ideal humidity for drying and curing? I saw you mention those bovida humidity bags and I've heard of them before, would the 62% Be the one go go for or is that too high of a humidity level?
idealy you want the humidity between 50-58 and you don't want to go over 60 and you don't want it below like 45. sometimes that's hard when you don't have a room specifically for drying. Haveing a humidifier and de-humidifier makes things a lot easier, but their are ways to adjust your humidity without them like a bucket of water and a fan to add humidity, or ac to remove it. A closet works great for drying home grows. I like to cut my branches down to about a foot long remove the fan leaves, then hang them on wire hangers making sure the branches are touching each other and when I hang them up I make sure the hangers are close to each other so the branches are touching there to. You let them dry for about 5-10 days, the longer the better. I make sure to rotate the outer hangers to the inside several times during the drying period. Once the flower is almost as dry as you want it, but not quite there yet, you remove the nugs from the branches and move it into jars opening them for like 30 minutes 2 or theee times a day, and mixing up the nugs at the same time. This is where the bivida packs come it. You want to use the 56% or maybe it 58% I can't remember which ones they make. You just put them in the jar with the flower and it makes sure the nugs don't get to dry. The 62% packs are for re-hydrating flower that got to dry. You leave the flower in the jars for a few more days until it cured to where you like it. Everyone is a little different. during this time is when tou trim it, unless you wet trimmed of course.
That's how I dry and cure, but their are many other methods if you look online. I hope I made sense. I don't like hanging whole plants because I like the branches to be close to each other on a hanger because it makes them dry slower I've found.
I just looked, it's the 58% bovida packs you want. The 62% and 75% are for re hydrating flower that got to dry.
Awesome thats spot on the info i needed, i was thinking the 62 was too high but wasnt sure so glad you could clarify ill pick up some of those for the jar cure and for the drying, i figured i was going to clean out my lil grow chamber spotless and use that to dry since i dont need to put another plant in there right away because i have a smaller operation with some plants in early veg and theyre young so no rush on getting them in the bigger spot yet, i also have a nice humidifier that i can leave running just inside the room set for 55 as max humidity and i think that should work out perfect let me know if you have any other suggestions and thanks again for the help really appreciate the knowledge from someone with the experience because no matter how much you looo up this stuff i think takes some trial and error to get just right and after spending all that time growing i wouldnt want to mess up on the harvest
That should work fine. I really like the wire hanger trick just hang it from the like you hang your light from, but you don't have to do it. Just keep an eye on that humidity and temp, it can change fast. In my experience it's stays consistent for the first few days, then around day 5 or 6 all of the sudden the humidity drops quickly over a couple hours. If you aren't paying attention and it gets to low for to long it will dry them more than you want. Also, if your nugs vary in size, some of the smaller ones will be ready to yank down before the bigger ones. The drying process is super important if you want your buds to taste awesome, you wanna get it perfect.
your help is priceless. I totally agree and I often see people come out with horrible cures after all that time spent growing its almost a waste if not done right. those tips are the kind of advice that come from experience which I lack thank you for you expanding my knowledge