Hiya all,
Drying day 2 and three. Day 1 was all about adjusting humidity. The temp has been pretty consistent at 23deg Celsius. The humidity started dropping from 55% when I hung them to 45%. I turned down the exhaust fan and waited an hour. I saw the humidity was rising and it wanted it to set at 55% again. I had to slow the fan down quite a bit and I shut off a tiny intake fan as well. Since then the humidity has been between 53-55%. I will look to lower it tomorrow to 50%.
I am posting drying pics of the same bud for a “time lapse” type thing. We’ll see. Heh.
Hiya All,
Drying days 4-6 are all going well, as far aa I can tell. The temp has stayed between 21-23deg C. The humidity has wanted to go low a couple of times. The first three days were pretty consistent at 55%. I had to turn the exhaust fan down to prevent the drier SoCal air, hovering in the high 30%'s, from being drawn in too fast.
I have my small fan circulating air just below the bud and the exhaust fan is drawing the air upwards and out. I will be checking tonight for mold with a black light.
Days 4-6 were supposed to have the humidity down to 50%, recommended on several posts and websites. This just kind of naturally happened as the plants slowly got rid of moisture. By the beginning of day 6, the humidity had dropped as the outside air became drier this week. I poured a bit of water into one of the plant drip pans and the humidity has set at 46% for over 24hrs now, at least the few times I have checked over that time.
I have a couple of small (popcorn) buds that fell off during harvest that I have sitting off to themselves in the tent. I pulled them yesterday and they felt soft still. I had originally thought that this would be 7 days, but I think it may go at least 10, maybe the full 14.
The smell was very "grassy" when they went in the tent. Yesterday it seemed like the grassy small has lessened and a more floral smell is taking over. I will enlist my partner's help today as she has the super sniffer. I read a forum post from @nivek about the smell changing and I think I am on the right path.
