DrZiggy's Low And Slow Drying: Maximizing Your Harvest

[weenmeoff]

Looking for hygrometer brand suggestions. Never used them, how many should I have? I may have up to 20 mason jars at any point but don't want to buy 20 hygrometers.

I'm gonna do my whole upcoming harvest low and slow. I do have a bunch of Boveda 62 packs.

Thanks!

 

[Derbybud]

I quit using Boveda's in my jars. Since using the roasting bags I only use them to calibrate my hygrometers. I get the cheep ones from the pet store for reptiles. Something like $3-4. And put them in a jar with a Boveda for 24 hours and mark on the face where 62% is. Into my bags to keep my rh where I want it until cured. Once stable and cured into the jars.
With the bags you can do more product at once and I have more control over the finish rh. In a bag you could easily do 12 oz at a time. That's a lot of jars to burp.

 

[SweetSue]

I quit using Boveda's in my jars. Since using the roasting bags I only use them to calibrate my hygrometers. I get the cheep ones from the pet store for reptiles. Something like $3-4. And put them in a jar with a Boveda for 24 hours and mark on the face where 62% is. Into my bags to keep my rh where I want it until cured. Once stable and cured into the jars.
With the bags you can do more product at once and I have more control over the finish rh. In a bag you could easily do 12 oz at a time. That's a lot of jars to burp.

Brilliant! I never thought of that trick with the Bovedas.

 

[InTheShed]

I quit using Boveda's in my jars. Since using the roasting bags I only use them to calibrate my hygrometers. I get the cheep ones from the pet store for reptiles. Something like $3-4. And put them in a jar with a Boveda for 24 hours and mark on the face where 62% is. Into my bags to keep my rh where I want it until cured. Once stable and cured into the jars.
With the bags you can do more product at once and I have more control over the finish rh. In a bag you could easily do 12 oz at a time. That's a lot of jars to burp.

The most reliable way to calibrate a hygrometer is the salt test. A cap (like from a gatorade bottle) filled with table salt. Add distilled water until just before it pours over and put that in a zip lock bag with the hygrometer overnight. It should be 75% in the morning.

 

[SweetSue]

The most reliable way to calibrate a hygrometer is the salt test. A cap (like from a gatorade bottle) filled with table salt. Add distilled water until just before it pours over and put that in a zip lock back with the hygrometer overnight. It should be 75% in the morning.

 

[Mr. Magoo]

Wish I could save these 2 pages. Haha. Maybe I can just make myself remember.....69, 69, 6...got it!

 

[InTheShed]

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[Derbybud]

The most reliable way to calibrate a hygrometer is the salt test. A cap (like from a gatorade bottle) filled with table salt. Add distilled water until just before it pours over and put that in a zip lock bag with the hygrometer overnight. It should be 75% in the morning.

I've done it that way before also but i'm only worried about my 62% reading. Some of those cheaper ones will be off when they come down to the 62% from the 75%. I've checked even my more expensive ones and didn't like what I saw.

 

[InTheShed]

I've done it that way before also but i'm only worried about my 62% reading. Some of those cheaper ones will be off when they come down to the 62% from the 71%. I've checked even my more expensive ones and didn't like what I saw.

I think if I was going to go with the B62s I'd use a small ziplock rather than an empty jar. Seems like a lot of air for that packet to work in with nothing in it.

 

[Derbybud]

Well to be honest I have a bunch of them in a jar with like 10 meters sitting there all the time. Someone for months like that until I need one.

 

[kelticBlue]

I just took a Devil’s Carnival harvest out of the fridge. I’m gonna try this for the cure.

My frogo-meter

cheap but useful

Have a GratefulDay

 

[SweetSue]

My frogo-meter

cheap but useful

Have a GratefulDay

Love it!!! Where did you find that keltic?

 

[kelticBlue]

Where did you find that keltic?

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there is cheaper but it was too cute to pass up, i am a sucker.................

 

[SweetSue]

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there is cheaper but it was too cute to pass up, i am a sucker.................

So am I. Lol!

 

[weenmeoff]

The deed is done, 4 plants cut, washed, hung to dry for 4 hours, into paper bags and in the fridge.

There are 22 bags on the top,shelf of my fridge and 3 in a crisper. I tried to stack them so as to leave a little air between each bag but am wondering if these are packed too tightly? Also what should the average temp,and rh be? Not that I can control it much.

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• weenmeoff
• Aug 12, 2018

 

[SweetSue]

The deed is done, 4 plants cut, washed, hung to dry for 4 hours, into paper bags and in the fridge.

There are 22 bags on the top,shelf of my fridge and 3 in a crisper. I tried to stack them so as to leave a little air between each bag but am wondering if these are packed too tightly? Also what should the average temp,and rh be? Not that I can control it much.

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• weenmeoff
• Aug 12, 2018

Ween, I lay them flat and stack them. It gives you more surface area for drying that way. It’s easier to get them all in there laying flat.

Congrats! When you taste these buds you’ll be surprised.

I don’t bother much with temps and humidity control any more. The fridge keeps my food cold enough to dry.

 

[weenmeoff]

Thanks Sue! Most of mine are lying flat, maybe all of them now that you said that. Still, they're packed in there. I'll check em in 2 days then again in another 3. I have a few bags that I took on Friday, time to check em,

I did a very small batch when this thread first started and the gf loved it, not sure why it's taken me so long to get back to it. Part of this is that I only trimmed off fans and any leaves that did not have any resin, that is the way they will stay when I jar them and those dry sugar leaves will trim themselves in the jar (thanks Neiko!) this trim session took me just over 4 hours, chop, wash, trim and bag (after 4 hours hanging) for 3 significant plants. I love it and will never go back to wet trimming, hang dry. Don't ask me about cob, I'm not ready yet, some day.....

 

[big bud fan65]

Wow, just kinda perused this thread... I am so happy Hacks turned me on to it, I have a basement that is half root cellar.. My grow area stays at like 78 and 56 with little effort in the summer obviously, but during the winter it is like 45 and dry outside the grow area containment... Certainly perfect at the warmer temps for my outdoor harvest to cure... Additionally the different methods such as paper bags and the like are very valuable tidbits.... Thank you all for great info...

 

[StoneOtter]

Why don’t I do this proper?

Low and Slo: In The Bag

Basic points:
* Paper bags will help speed the process by about a week.
* You’ll get better than 25% back, so loading the bags at 28 grams wet means every four bags’ll bring you very close to an ounce dry.
* 28 grams to a lunch bag is a good volume for smooth drying.
* Save most trimming for later to retain even more terpenes. I only take off fans.
* Laying the bags on their side increases surface area facilitating the drying process.

I wash the buds and hang dry for 4 hours and then trim the buds into the bags.

After three days open the bags, reach in and gently bounce the buds apart. Close up and put them back in place.

Do this again at least one more time, about 3 days later. After that you can forget about them.

In two weeks I pull them and finish drying with rice balls to 62-65%. Then into a jar with a Boveda.

Hope that helps.

Thanks

 

[StoneOtter]

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brilliant