bigbudzzz420
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I haven't done anything differentThat one has me stumped, i'd love to know what caused to change so drasticaly.
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I haven't done anything differentThat one has me stumped, i'd love to know what caused to change so drasticaly.
Someone decided they liked your bud better and swapped it for their crack house bud :SI haven't done anything different
I've recently been curing my buds for a month in a mason jar with boveda and boost 62% 2 way humidity packs designed for 67 grams . Buds taste,smell and burn great that day . I recently threw some in a bag and stayed at a friend's overnight and smoked the buds in the bag the next day and they tasted,smelled and burned terrible. Like burnt rubber and chemicals . It was a day and night difference. I've been burping the jar properly , keeping them in the dark and storing the properly .
Last night I took the boveda and the boost packs out of the jars since I'm stable at 62 percent. Any ideas why and what's goin on here ?
I'm playing with drying them on the stem. My RH stabilized at 55% inside the refrigerator and being on the stem my thoughts are the stems will also slow the drying. If others think I'm wrong let me know. So far the are drying slowly and no sign of crispness.
I also needs a slightly faster than the 2 weeks people have reported in bags and jars. I have to have them stabilized curing in jars by Nov 23 when I go away for 6 weeks. I think I'm OK but will have to keep an eye on them.
Looking good here. I got a dehydrator to try out!
Some tricks I've learned:
* Leave a bit of stem attached to each bud or bud group you place in the dehydrator. This will slow the drying down just enough to make it more effective for our purposes. The stem bits can be shoved down into the grid to stabalize the buds, if you stand them like I do. I'm working on finding a way to get a bud out of the dehydrator pretty enough to win a contest.
* Always use the lowest setting.
* It seems to work well with me regardless of how the buds are stacked. I've tried smallest on top, and smallest on the bottom, and that hasn't made any difference in the end.
* Cut the centers out of a couple of the trays. In this way you get a deeper space to set the buds, so they don't get smashed at the beginning. HealthFreak purchased extra trays for mine, giving me three with open centers and four with the grids intact. This works wonderfully for drying buds.
* Always have at least four trays stacked before you run the machine. That includes the open ones, so when I set up I have two complete trays and two with centers removed, giving me two drying levels. Did that make sense?
* Make certain there's space all around the dehydrator for the air to escape.
* I'm having great success at 48 hours straight and then on to super-dried rice as a finish.
* If you're like me, set an alarm, or hang a note on the dehydrator reminding you of the scheduled finish time.
Have fun, and please share your results with us.
Giving it another 15-20 minutes with the rice before bed.
I love what we do.
Goodnight everyone.
SweetSue - Can you post a picture of your racks that you have cut the centers out. I like the idea. I will definitely be buying a dehydrator for my next harvest.
High Sue, you are so good at documenting !! My question is, do you cut every other tray & when you're done, how many colas can I dry at once. Ronco has them with as many trays as you want. Wish I could remember who I loaned mine to.Certainly Troy.
An unadulterated tray.
A modified tray. I left the outer ring because I felt it would lend stability. You could probably take that ring off too, but I've not found it to be a concern.
I used a razor saw, but only because that's what I had on hand. It was easy to cut the grids out.
Left unadulterated you only have a small space between the grids.
With a trimmed tray you gain all this additional room, plus the bit between the bottom of the next ring and the next tray.
Cutting the centers out substantially increased the capabilities as a bud dryer.