That’s called pre-washing your flowers to remove any contaminants before drying them. That’s a smart practice, especially if you grow in areas with a lot of smog or dust. Washing can clean debris off the trichomes without breaking the heads.
There’s also a whole different method called “water curing”.
It’s mostly done for making edibles with weed because the process removes all impurities in the flower. It renders the flower very smooth, without potency loss.
Water cured flowers could be taken and re-cured the traditional way, hang dry and jar, then smoked and you would notice the smoothness I mentioned.
@Indicana_Jones , I’ve had similar issues with high humidity while hang drying flower and can tell you that you just start the drying & curing process all over again.
It’s great that the first two members to give answers gave the right answer. Thanks go to @SensiBowl and @FattyRoots for the quick answer and for giving @Indicana_Jones some piece of mind.
This is proof you’re in the right grow community.
Leaving the fan on around your hanging flowers could have been much worse… flowers becoming too dry is a real problem. The flowers can’t be remoistened properly after becoming too dry.
Too dry creates cell wall damage within the plant tissues and those cells can no longer retain moisture for any length of time, stopping the curing process while making the flowers brittle, causing trichome loss and you also run the risk of losing fragrance/flavor due to terpene evaporation.