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Hey everybody on this great thread! Thanks Dr. Ziggy and thanks Sweet Sue!! Bout to harvest a plant m tired of dealing with her ir he/she throwing bananas. I am at week nine with her and dont want her to do anymore harm to her sisiter that she might have already done. Wondering if i should harvest and put in brown paper grocery bag or put on plastic two liter shelves i got from store. Then put in fridge? Which method do yall think is better? I have a couple testers in my frudge. I have some in a plastic container lid open on day nine i have some in a paper bag and i have two buds clipped and hanging. But they are all small samples nothing like a whole plant. So on a bigger scale what would work better?
Oh and another quick question. When u do the normal dry they say let dry till stems break not bend. What is the method if knowing when to put in jars for the cure in the fridge? And is there a optimal temp setting? I have a fridge that has digital settings goes from 34 to 45. I have it set at 40 right in the middle if the lowest and highest i can have it set. Thanks in advance. I have been spreading this great thread in every journal i follow!!
Sorry you got overlooked here pino. I personally try to stick to glass jars when using jars to dry in. I have concerns about the plastic in this process. Paper bags are proving to be a good means to accelerate the drying, so I'd definately advise you go with them. Many of us have been drying on open racks in the fridge. As you can see, there's been a rash of production of different shelf types and racks. All of them have worked so far. It's really just a matter of having the patience to wait it out.
We're still learning to determine when they're dry enough to jar up, but that appears to be coming in consistently around the two week mark.
I hope this helped, and we weren't too late for you. If so, there's always next time.
As far as temperature, we're getting good results with keeping temps around 35-40 degrees F and humidity to 40-50% or so. There's going to be variability, particularly during the spike that occurs in the first couple days, but it'll settle down after that.