Indoor A-Train's Going Back to Basics.......

[A-Train]

@The Elvis much appreciated my friend

 

[AWhitnam]

The rh+1 holds pretty true here too, I dry at 40%, but I usually jar on day 3/4 and burp for a week to get in the 62-65% area and let the Boveda do the rest. Otherwise it taste like grass from drying too quick.

Do you insert the boveda before the 62-65% area or after?
Which % and grams of boveda you use?
Do you hang or use paper bags?

 

[Atulip]

I trim fully at harvest and hang dry on stems until the buds feel crispy. Then I clip buds and jar for 24 hours. Usually they're damp again at this point and I'll lay them on a paper towel to dry another day. Then back in the jar, anything above 70% or so I take out to dry for 12-24hours, under 70% I open them a few hours every day until I'm under 65%. That's where I'd use a 62% Boveda pack and store it. But continuing to burp the jar daily would be better, down to 62% or whatever humidity you like. I prefer 65% humidity myself, but the wife likes it overly dry at around 55%.(I slow roast a bowl and she lights up the whole bowl at once) so there's a lot of personal preference.


Humidity meters and Boveda packs are unnecessary though. Dry them until they smoke good, and an easy way to tell when it's too wet is it sticks to the grinder teeth pretty bad, I usually see that when I'm grinding up something in the 70% area.

 

[AWhitnam]

Nothing specific on the tent. The rh runs around 62% and yes it takes about 7 days to dry.

Hey A-train , if you dont mind me asking, can you explain your drying and curing method also...

 

[2Stoned2Care]

That heisenberg looks awesome bro.i just cant wait to see the ponytailed and lst SODKxAlien trimmed.also looking forward to seeing what you can achieve with coco and autopots.this grow has been a joy to watch.keep doing what you do bro.

 

[Waira]

.... ..... Dewd! -- pic's like this are giving me "repetitive motion injuries"!! ... I swear, it's uncanny how your girls seen to know to stay low, and build fat-phat so they fit like jig-saw pieces in that tent,...And what lookers they are-- Wow!... you get lots of beautiful colors my friend, are they getting a little chill during lights off to promote it? As usual, the resin meter needle is bending off the stop peg! --- talk up the aromas, would ya? .... - dig the new dry tent brudda, great idea for your situation...

...Ah, the ol' darkness period theory,... I think there's some truth in it, but it's conditional, IMO,... my understanding is that plants outdoors, and to a lesser degree indoors, are exposed during day/light hours to environmental conditions that deplete terpenes-- wind/breezes, Sun/powerful lights, warm temp's-- all of which evaporate/degrade terpenes (many lighter molecular weight ones are very volatile); it's at night that they are replenished, and is why cannabis and many other aromatic flowers are best taken early in the morning, when peak terp' contents are present... I know my plants (outdoors) are undoubtedly at their most stanky mid morning, after a little Sun has warmed them up! As for the time in the dark, I've found nothing but anecdotal opinion, but my thinking is beyond a day or so, gains, if any, are minimal,... too long in the dark, and the energy to make those terpenes is gone, and from there out it's a negative effect.... As for cannabinoids, nothing I've read indicates the dark period increases the potency per se, but max'ing out the terpenes (and all they do for making the quality of the high) can make it seem like it does ,... It's a fact that UVB increases THC content, the theory being that it probably protects the plant--or more likely, the (potentially) developing seeds- from DNA damage that this wavelength is known for; take away the "stressor" of UVB for long, and the extra build up stops, maybe even goes down (?)... terpenes and cannabinoids are energetically and resource expensive for the plant to produce, so take away the extra "push" influences, and they may reduce output in kind,... :smoking:

 

[A-Train]

@AWhitnam I take the plant out of the grow tent. Trim down to manicured nugs and place them covering the bottom of paper bags but not on top of each oyher.then tape the bags to the walls of the drying tent and let sit for 7 days at 63%rh. Then place the nugs in jars with mini hygrometer and burp daily til at 62%


My boy @Waira dropping off the valuable info as always, thanks for the insight My man, thanks for the Co pimento it means the world guys. As for the structure of my plants that's just how they've always been. I guess the way I grow and the atmosphere they tend to look that way. You have certain folks around here when you see the plant you can tell who grew it. Say @Trapper and all of those beautiful plants of his. As soon as I see that elongated main cola and the satellites looking like a brilliant cannabis sword almost I know who grew it. Same with ronin and a few others. And yes my night temps (lights off) are 62 - 65 it always brings out some late color. Can't wait to drop the purple kush next round and see what she does

 

[BCrisis420]

Sorry for blowing up the notifications with all of those likes but there were so many great posts in here.

So much great info by other members too. I'm really proud to be a member of this community.

I just dropped my first auto and I'm looking forward to being more active on this side.

PotPros has been equally awesome, shoutout to those who have helped me out there too!

Keep up the great work @A-Train , your journals have been a great inspiration!

 

[A-Train]

Thanks for the kind words my friend. Glad to see ya on this side of the fence can't wait to see the autoflower journal

 

[A-Train]

Ok chopped the Heisenberg and Sour crack today. I have to say @mephisto sour crack is my absolute hands down favorite cannabis strain in EVERY department besides yield. BUT it more than makes up for it in every other category.


Sour Crack is the hardiest plant I've grown. It pretty much grows itself. The potency and quality of the smoke is top shelf shit. Trimming this plant is a dream. None of that stringy leafy undergrowth or any popcorn hardly at all... just ROCK hard nuggets of frosty goodness .


Not to take anything away from HS she is a beaut as well but SC just does it man