I have recently seen post from all kinds of growers and their drying processes. I have seen people hang in their garage or closet and even stowed away in dresser drawers on paper towels.
I have heard the 60/60 rules with humidity and temps, but what about the Regular Joe that doesn’t have a spare room and equipment to keep at 60 degrees in the 60% humidity?
What is considered the simplest most efficient way to dry without adding all the engineering solutions? Obviously a fan for air movement, but are there other simple ways of set it and forget it?
I often hang mine right in the lung room outside my grow tents. I’ve also hung them in the laundry room during hot summers.
Basically, just hang them in the coolest room of your house, and toss in a humidifier if needed. A/C though in my opinion is a huge waste of energy to dry weed, unless you’re way over like 85° or something
Cut off the buds and put them inside paper bags, just a handful in each bag, fold the top to close them, and let them sit out in the open in a warm room.
If you want them at a certain level of humidity, you can put some of it in a jar with a humidity sensor for a few hours after a week or so of drying, or whenever the stems are almost dry enough to snap.
I decarb and eat all my cannabis so I let it get bone dry.
Make sense, but if i do it i’m raided within one week with this kind of strong odors diffuser ^^
I use my pollen tent as dryer, with its own safe air exchange circuit and filtered intake (it collect dust i don’t want in buds).
Nothing fancy on RH/temp regulation, the room where it stay is already dialed. Not specially luxury or advanced but it work well with the right cares adapted to bud types/strains.
The most efficient penny-wise strategy i’ve used was cardboard boxes sealed and placed in front of a powerfull fan, directly blowing on the said boxes. With a distance of 2meters/6feets, you can stack a good numbers of them. You just have to take care that all faces (the bottom one too) are free and exposed to enough air circulation.
Find a spot in the house thats the closest to 60 60 already, with the cheapest option to get closer to 60 60. For me it’s the basement with a dehuey on opposite wall. For you it might be the attic with a humidifier. Maybe both, for different seasons.
Ive done the paper bags and it works but always ended up with a slight smell. Ive hung plants in my guest shower with soaking wet towels to keep humidity up (im in the desert) it worked. Tough to get those dialed in and consistent. Use a 2x4 now, easier to manupulate and control air & humidity and guests dont question.
I have an inkbird and a humidifier. I turn the whole bathroom into a drying chamber at 60% humidity. I don’t worry about temp because it’s close enough.
Sorry if I missed something… but what are your local conditions? This time of year I might get away with just hanging, because it’s cool and relatively dry for New England… but if I just hung freshly cut flower in October… I’d have mold.
I use a room dehumidifier, usually set around 60 or 65% the first day or so, and then 65% is fine (and it usually stays around there anyway, so the dehumidifier is basically just sitting there not doing anything).
Where I live, even in December could end up with high 80s temps, so garage is out. In the house, the humidity ranges from low50-high70 throughout the day with the house temp around 72-75 degrees.
There’s ideal and then there’s acceptable and your numbers are acceptable. Short of buying a bunch of new gear you’re stuck with what you’ve got so don’t worry too much about it.
If you’re really clever you can catch them just before they’re done drying and burp them out to proper humidity, if you wanted. But it’s not required.
