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Re: Arteekay's 1st Grow - Sunshine #4 - Spider x 4 - Crop King Autoflowering Mix Stra
Beautiful I'm going to steal your weight of the pot technique.
Beautiful I'm going to steal your weight of the pot technique.
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Beautiful I'm going to steal your weight of the pot technique.
RTK and Jbiz your girls are so fat when they bend over Twinkies fall out.
Kudos on the spreadsheet idea and weighing.
For drying I hang my girls on coat hangers in the grow room until the stems are bendy. Then I will put them in 1/2 gallon Mason jars with small Boveda packs and burp them daily until they stabilize. I really want to buy one of those cvault megas. They have giant Boveda packs and can hold 2lbs of herb.
Twinkies? Lmao!
When you're drying do you try to keep them totally out of the light?
no actually I let them get some light. The plants are still alive when you cut and hang them. Letting them get some light helps them to utilize some of the leftover nutes. But not in direct light. That will bleach them.
Once again Shigs, thanks for sticking around and helping out still. Congrats on your MOTM nomination, You'll have mine (and I'm guessing Jaybiz's) until you win one.
I tell you what, I bet arteekay makes it up there to the voting next month.
Absofriggenlutely! (sorry Glimmer, but Shiggs has REALLY helped us out with our first grow or you'd be getting my vote for sure)
This method is particularly effective for folks who are starting out, those looking to maximize quality in a shorter period of time, and folks who's like to produce a connoisseur-quality product each and every time with no guesswork involved.
It's a very simple and effective process:
Cut the product, trim it per your preference, but don't dry it until the stems snap. Take it down while the stems still have some flex, but the product feel dry on the outside. This is a perfect opportunity to drop the dry-feeling flowers onto a screen and collect prime-quality kief that would otherwise get lost in the jar.
Jar the product, along with a Caliber III hygrometer. One can be had on Ebay for ~$20. Having tested a number of hygrometers - digital and analog - this model in particular produced consistent, accurate results. Then, watch the readings:
+70% RH - too wet, needs to sit outside the jar to dry for 12-24 hours, depending.
65-70% RH - the product is almost in the cure zone, if you will. It can be slowly brought to optimum RH by opening the lid for 2-4 hours.
60-65% RH - the stems snap, the product feels a bit sticky, and it is curing.
55-60% RH - at this point it can be stored for an extended period (3 months or more) without worrying about mold. The product will continue to cure.
Below 55% RH - the RH is too low for the curing process to take place. The product starts to feel brittle. Once you've hit this point, nothing will make it better. Adding moisture won't restart the curing process; it will just make the product wet. If you measure a RH below 55% don't panic. Read below:
Obviously, the product need time to sweat in the jar. As such, accurate readings won't be seen for ~24 hours, assuming the flowers are in the optimal cure zone. If you're curing the product for long-term storage, give the flowers 4-5 days for an accurate reading. If the product is sill very wet, a +70% RH reading will show within hours. If you see the RH rising ~1% per hour, keep a close eye on the product, as it's likely too moist.
Listen to Jbiz throwing some game. You fancy yourself a ladies man don't you Jbiz? Don't lie because RTK will tell the truth!
And MASSIVE congrats on the CKS journal -- they're a really nice company, aren't they? They have been very generous with their support of this community as a whole and of individual growers. I really respect that. Also, this journal KICKS ASS.
I love (and resonate with) the fact that rtk is researching drying and curing like mad right now Researching this subject is one of my own fave things to do. Here's some stuff about drying and curing I found very helpful -- I'll paste it here in case you haven't seen it on your travels ...
I gauged the RH of my bud using the same hygrometer I had used for my grow -- that worked pretty well for establishing roughly where in the cure window things were. I also ordered (and have just received) a couple of little circular hygrometers from China via the e-company -- took a long time to get here, but I have them in two of my longer-term storage jars with boveda packs and they're registering right on 62%, which gives me some confidence the cure has gone well.
Twinkies? Lmao!
When you're drying do you try to keep them totally out of the light?