Harvest & Curing Drying in a brown bag

[WildBill]

Eh

What should the rh be inside the bags?

At what stage are you asking about?

 

[InkAddict$]

At what stage are you asking about?

I'm trimming right now and putting in brown bags....

 

[InkAddict$]

Shit I'm drying 578 grams of wet bud 55°rh in my drying/ curring tent with a fan and a inkbird humidity controller...hooked to a cool mist humidifier so it doesn't get to low so I guess they should be done in 6 days right? It's 70-72°f 55%rh in tent and 54°rh in the bags......

 

[WildBill]

I'm trimming right now and putting in brown bags....

At this point, you won't be concerned with the Rh in the bag. Since you're doing it in a tent, you will want to keep the Rh as close to 60 as possible. Optimal temp is also around 60 also, but most will only to do that at certain times of the year. Just try to normal room temps. IF you can cool your growroom separately from the rest of the house, then try to bring the temps down around 70 or as close as you can.
Turn your buds and colas every few days and check their condition and smell when you open the bags.
You need to monitor the Rh of the bags towards the end of the dry. While you're trimming now, try to keep as much bud on the stems as possible.....weighing the chance of mold on really thick colas.
I've used bags and just drying in a box or tent whole. Both work well, but the key is a slow dry and the more of the stems you can keep, the longer the dry will be.
Don'ty freak if you wake up in the morning, check your bags and ou can feel the moisture in the paper bag. That's normal, but freaky the first time you do it! LOL!

 

[Kyote]

At this point, you won't be concerned with the Rh in the bag. Since you're doing it in a tent, you will want to keep the Rh as close to 60 as possible. Optimal temp is also around 60 also, but most will only to do that at certain times of the year. Just try to normal room temps. IF you can cool your growroom separately from the rest of the house, then try to bring the temps down around 70 or as close as you can.
Turn your buds and colas every few days and check their condition and smell when you open the bags.
You need to monitor the Rh of the bags towards the end of the dry. While you're trimming now, try to keep as much bud on the stems as possible.....weighing the chance of mold on really thick colas.
I've used bags and just drying in a box or tent whole. Both work well, but the key is a slow dry and the more of the stems you can keep, the longer the dry will be.
Don'ty freak if you wake up in the morning, check your bags and ou can feel the moisture in the paper bag. That's normal, but freaky the first time you do it! LOL!

And also don't freak out when buds seem way dry on the outside :smoking:

I just puffed a reefer from the material I trimmed up today. 12 day full plant hanging in the tent.

I used toothpicks stuck between any two branches that were touching to keep them apart. Stuck the toothpicks into the stems so they held well. I know that doesn't apply to bag drying, but i'm stoned an rambling now

 

[InkAddict$]

At this point, you won't be concerned with the Rh in the bag. Since you're doing it in a tent, you will want to keep the Rh as close to 60 as possible. Optimal temp is also around 60 also, but most will only to do that at certain times of the year. Just try to normal room temps. IF you can cool your growroom separately from the rest of the house, then try to bring the temps down around 70 or as close as you can.
Turn your buds and colas every few days and check their condition and smell when you open the bags.
You need to monitor the Rh of the bags towards the end of the dry. While you're trimming now, try to keep as much bud on the stems as possible.....weighing the chance of mold on really thick colas.
I've used bags and just drying in a box or tent whole. Both work well, but the key is a slow dry and the more of the stems you can keep, the longer the dry will be.
Don'ty freak if you wake up in the morning, check your bags and ou can feel the moisture in the paper bag. That's normal, but freaky the first time you do it! LOL!

Ok thanks man....

 

[DankDoctor420]

In this video they explain that Oxygen degrades terpenes. Grove Bags also says this hence why grove bag users usually heat seal the grove bag so oxygen doesnt degrade the curing process once buds are dried. I wonder if this is why brown bagging is working better for many ppl rather than the whole plant hang or hanging branches. I have yet to try tbis method but now I am very curious.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

This is how I harvest: harvest a whole or part of a plant hang upside down in a cool dark place with gentle air movement 68°F 55% - 60% RH. in 4 or 5 days. When the sugar leaf points feel sharp in a gentle squeeze, remove all stemmed leaves, break down the big branches to fit in a brown paper sack, close with a second sack over the top. Rotate when you think about it. "Sweat" the buds for a day or two until your moisture meter reads 11% - 12% or a few test buds in closed in a jar read 62% RH. Do a final trim. Pack into Grove Bags with a hygrometer when you are confident they are 58% to 62% RH take the hygrometer out and heat seal the bag. I don't usually open them for more than a month or two. Wait at least 2 weeks.

Sweating means to give the water in the stems and center of the buds time to equalize the moisture throughout the entire bud.

If your ambient RH is high, remove the big fan leaves before hanging the plant. It is also helpful in high RH to brake the plant down into just large branches as opposed to hanging the whole plant.

 

[DankDoctor420]

This is how I harvest: harvest a whole or part of a plant hang upside down in a cool dark place with gentle air movement 68°F 55% - 60% RH. in 4 or 5 days. When the sugar leaf points feel sharp in a gentle squeeze, remove all stemmed leaves, break down the big branches to fit in a brown paper sack, close with a second sack over the top. Rotate when you think about it. "Sweat" the buds for a day or two until your moisture meter reads 11% - 12% or a few test buds in closed in a jar read 62% RH. Do a final trim. Pack into Grove Bags with a hygrometer when you are confident they are 58% to 62% RH take the hygrometer out and heat seal the bag. I don't usually open them for more than a month or two. Wait at least 2 weeks.

Sweating means to give the water in the stems and center of the buds time to equalize the moisture throughout the entire bud.

If your ambient RH is high, remove the big fan leaves before hanging the plant. It is also helpful in high RH to brake the plant down into just large branches as opposed to hanging the whole plant.

This is close to how I been doing it. I crank my ac down to 61 degrees F tho as Jungle Boys and Jeremy from build a soil reccomend in there dry and cure videos on youtube. I chop plant down at the base and whole plant hang. I keep all the fan and sugar leaves on the plant to slow down the dry. 55 to 65 rh it fluctuates in my dry area but i aim for 60 rh. I try for a 2 to 2.5 week slow dry OR until buds read 10 to 12 percent moisture. Then I dry trim. Then sweat in paper bags for 24 hours at least but until buds stay in the 10 to 12 percent range then heat seal in grove bags with wifes hair straightner. I am curious as to trying half a plant hanging and half in a brown bag next run to do a comparison to see if buds dried in brown bags really cure faster than hang drying. Experiment will be done in a few months next grow.

 

[DankDoctor420]

Some ppl say above 68°F some fragile terps begin to evaporate. I know a little warmer such as 68°F will dry them a lil faster than 61°F and not degrade terps and save electricity costs also not running the AC so much. I have been contemplating cranking it up to 68°F for the above reasons.