Drying bud....where?

[Sctanley007]

Yup. I set the fridge at the highest setting and put the bags in. Gently rustle the bud in each bag after 3 days and close them back up. Start checking rh after 8-10 days by putting a bag of buds into a mason jar with a hygrometer. They will be in the 50’s and will rise to about 62-67%. If they’re too wet put them back into the bag then fridge for a few more days. If not jar with a 62% 2 way pack.

Theridge preserves the terpenoids and the buds don’t over dry. The fridge allows the chlorophyll to break down and the taste is amazing

it does have to be a normal fridge, dorm fridges and wine fridges won’t work.
28 g in equals 1/4 oz dry.

 

[Olderfart]

Yup. I set the fridge at the highest setting and put the bags in. Gently rustle the bud in each bag after 3 days and close them back up. Start checking rh after 8-10 days by putting a bag of buds into a mason jar with a hygrometer. They will be in the 50’s and will rise to about 62-67%. If they’re too wet put them back into the bag then fridge for a few more days. If not jar with a 62% 2 way pack.

Theridge preserves the terpenoids and the buds don’t over dry. The fridge allows the chlorophyll to break down and the taste is amazing

it does have to be a normal fridge, dorm fridges and wine fridges won’t work.
28 g in equals 1/4 oz dry.

Would that fridge have a frost free freezer? What are the temperature and RH in there when you dry your bud?

 

[Sctanley007]

Yes it needs to be a fridge with a separate freezer. The unit needs to exchange air and thereby extract moisture.

When I put the bags in the humidity obviously rises but the starts to decrease in a few days.
If the bags feel too damp you can also change out the bags as well.

I’ll have to look back for the temp and rh. After the first two times it worked so perfectly I don’t even monitor it.

Here’s a pic from a prior harvest. I use window screens as shelves for airflow.

 

[Olderfart]

Yes it needs to be a fridge with a separate freezer. The unit needs to exchange air and thereby extract moisture.

When I put the bags in the humidity obviously rises but the starts to decrease in a few days.
If the bags feel too damp you can also change out the bags as well.

I’ll have to look back for the temp and rh. After the first two times it worked so perfectly I don’t even monitor it.

Here’s a pic from a prior harvest. I use window screens as shelves for airflow.

Really interesting idea. As I suspected, it is the frost free design that is doing the moisture removal.

If I had an extra fridge, I would give it a try. But subjecting the other half to a kitchen reeking with the smell of curing bud might not be politic. She is amazingly tolerant of my mischief, but I suspect that there might be a limit and it is likely somewhere short of curing bud in the kitchen fridge.

 

[Old-fashioned Coughy Pot]

Yup... paper bags and the nugs broken down to smallish golf ball clusters off the stems works for me.

 

[Sctanley007]

Hope this helps someone out there. It’s not an original idea, I got it off of another forum. Search low and slow drying method and you will find hundreds of posts.
Yes it does smell quite a bit when the fridge door is opened.

 

[Olderfart]

Hope this helps someone out there. It’s not an original idea, I got it off of another forum. Search low and slow drying method and you will find hundreds of posts.
Yes it does smell quite a bit when the fridge door is opened.

If my growdrobe is, at the moment, any indication, opening a fridge door with bags of that stuff in there would fill more than just the kitchen. That CDLC cross is getting rank, and it is just getting going with flowering. I have been exhausting the output of the extraction fan outdoors rather than putting the filter back in, and that is going to have to change because the stink outside might reach neighbours a couple hundred meters away through the trees. From three plants.