This plant is going to dry too quickly. No free tents to control humidity in so it’s just getting blasted with Colorado room air (and I have a dehumidifier running as it’s in the room with all my tents that are flowering). Soon I’ll have a free tent I can kick up the humidity to 60RH in, but for now, the buds dry a bit faster than I’d normally like.
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A fresh morning grind — too fresh! Half cured bud and then half one day dried blueberry. This plant is an experimental dry for sure between a shoebox and a rack — luckily the rest of the plants will have a proper dry/cure. This one I’m sure will still turn out lovely though.
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Look on the bright side. In Colorado, we rarely have issues with mold or mildew while drying. But everything does dry really quick here.
I have been converted over to curing using brown paper bags and black plastic contractor bags. Simple and best tasting weed I have grown. Try this with a little bit of your harvest and see if you agree.
Curing method borrowed from notsodog, a grower in Mendocino.
Here’s the basic protocol
Minimum dry for 10-14 days
Three phases of the dry:
Stage 1: Day 1 - Day 4ish - plant loses most of its water weight quickly
Stage 2: Day 4ish - 10ish - plant slows down in terms of releasing water
Stage 3: Day 10ish - 14ish majority of water has left the plant. Fan leaves are crispy. Ready for curing stage
Curing Stage (via contractor bag)
Cure on the stem!!! Never cut buds from the stem (until ready to jar & smoke).
Take the majority of fan leafs off before adding to bags
Chop branches down into grocery store paper bag size
Bag should hold roughy 500 - 700 grams
Fold over top of bag and place into a contractor bag
Fill contractor bag with 6 or 9 paper bags
Tie shut contractor bag until ready to smoke.
If contractor bag is too wet after a day or two, just leave it open until it adjusts.
You can jar them or keep in contractor bag for several months. It works well in our climate and ends up in delicious weed.
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I’ll give it a go! I’ve dried and cured now a few different ways and paper bags have worked pretty well. This batch is already at 60RH stable in a shoebox so I’m letting it ride.
Had a Blueberry plant fall over (or at least a branch). Did a quick and shitty patch support job as I’m running out the door to work a farmers market up in the hills.
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The closet is turning into a jungle again. Going to need to cut it back a little bit soon or do some training or something.
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Hung up the blueberry plants. Washed em all to get rid of any pollen and any captn jacks dead bug left over. Some of the nugs were decently thick!
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Coffee and Blueberry go well together ;). Working my first shift at a new job tonight — wish me luck!
The Blueberry dry begins. 12hrs in. Can’t wait for about five days from now when I start sampling the blueberry plants that got to go a bit longer, and the one that was (sadly) banana city and got chopped probably a little early.
The closet plant hit the lights (metallica nod) yesterday. I cut it back a bit for now as it was just a fan leaf but tonight I’m putting up a net for support and taking care of this problem.
The closet tent has one super happy Bodhi plant and one plant that I honestly don’t know wtf it is. It’s annoyingly tall with tall thin buds. Seems foxtailed or just generally pissed off and then also kind of okay? Pictures late tonight.
The Donutz tent is doing pretty well! Can’t wait to try that plant. It’s got a bright, super sticky, strong aura to it. Stinky, sweet, with a hint of gas. Yes, please.
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