Philsthetent
Well-Known Member
The method I used in past grows is to chop, break the branches into smaller branches, wash everything and wisk the water out, trim wet, hang dry in open air for 3-5 days, put every branch into those long flat clear totes for under bed storage until all the buds redistribute the remaining moisture still in the buds back onto the previously dried bud. Once it's wet again, rehang in open air. A lot of growers hang theirs in their bloom areas, but the added RH heebs me out so I'm aiming to dry in a closet or a large cardboard box, but that's just me. The process is to dry, then sweat (in the tote) then dry then sweat. Actually, now that I think back, large paper bags were used for the first sweat phase. I'm still feeling out the process of optimal bud drying times because too fast is not good and too slow can be disastrous but when I learn it well enough, I plan to program it into an automatic bud dryer, like a humidor to a certain degree.
I used these last harvest , I bartend and this one wine comes in these wood crates - I started taking them months before I had my setup going.... I always said they would be great for drying.... and I am happy with the results , they act like humidors with the screen in them