What does everyone do to cure their grow? From what I’ve read, basically, keep some air movement, temp at 16C and humidity at 60% for a month.
With that knowledge in hand, I went on a hunt to find the perfect “thing” that’s already out there that I can off-label use (lol). In my hunt, I find wine fridges. They keep a constant temp between 12-18C (ranges vary), and a humidity of 55-60%.
So I pick up a used one for $40…why not give it a shot. I have a shitty little grow in there right now, it’s had about 20 days. I DOKT know if it’s the shotty grow or the fridge, but there’s hardly any smell to it… In any case, I’m excited to check it out on another couple weeks
My canning room is totally underground except one side. It stays this most of year. In deep winter it gets too arid. I hang in this for 2 weeks most of time and they end up 60% or close.
Geove Bags work for me. Get the bag 57-64% and they are good.
Very dry here in the winter, 30% and below. Grove bags keep things right.
I have some sativas curing for 3 and 4 months that get better every week.
Better taste, smell and smoother, no cough, burn.
I’m looking forward to tasting after a six month, 8 month and 12 month cure.
Drying plants at or as close to 60°f/60% RH as you can, technically, you could indefinitely leave your buds hanging at these conditions. You don’t have to put your weed into containers, it’s just more conducive due to space; most of us don’t have room to just leave a bunch of weed plants hanging.
Nice! Don’t know why I never thought of trying this. My wife manages a winery and is a sommelier so I can easily convince her to get another wine fridge for more “wine” fuck yea bud!!! Lol
curious which model and/or brand you use. i did a search on amazon for them and when i sorted by price low to high there were 7 pages and all under $20, but when i sorted high to low, it also had 7 pages but they started at $2700 and went down to $62. there was about a $40 gap there and something tells me i want on in that range.
a buddy was doing this. nothing from that fridge was good enough to smoke. it’s almost like you need a lot lower rh level if you are going to have that low a temperature. it’s supposed to be a vpd calculation, not just 60/60. like vpd of 0.7 at as low a temp as you can get. i use mylar smell proof bags instead of jars. they are way cheaper than grove bags, which are mylar bags for weed.
Just got done listening to a really good video of a live talk on this, The Science of Drying and Curing - Allison Justice, PhD, on youtube. I took screenshots on my phone of a few different charts and metrics she went by. She mentioned dew point at one point which is what the cannatrol goes by if I’m not mistaken? She said even after all her scientific studies and research surprisingly the stem snap test is pretty accurate, and 60/60 is fairly close to what you want but she made a vpd chart that she posts at one point of ideal ranges they found through experiments. Science > anything else, and in this case science is confirming some things that some would call bro science
*edited from my phone to add pictures
Interesting, I always thought VPD was a calculation used to assist with plant GROWTH in a given enviroment. Never considered its usage for drying.
I tend to dry my flowers at around 69-72f and I supplement humidity to around 50-ish%, which per the VPD chart puts me slightly below optimal. That’s honestly not bad for only using a $20 humidifier and a $10 fan to move air.
VPD is not being utilized correctly for this application (drying). Although, it’s a matter of hand grenades and atom bombs as close enough is likely good enough.
I know some people will dry for a couple days, then go into a freezer. I tried it on a small branch a couple years ago, seemed to work, and I have pulled pieces of that branch out of the freezer as recently as a couple weeks ago and found it to have held really well.
I don’t have room for a whole plant in my freezer though, and I imagine that is true for most folks haha. Could buy a chest freezer, but not worth it for me.
I’m out of likes for another 11 minutes but, that’s very very cool! It looks like a little cooler temp would mean a little longer cure, which might be a little more gentle on everything? Maybeaking a better end product?
It’s cool to see what I’m doing land within the sweet spots, if I’m reading the graphs correctly lol.
The plant I did it with needed practically no trim, so I can’t say I remember off hand.
There is a thread in IC called “ Finish drying my bud in the freezer in my kitchen?!?” that I got the idea from.
