drying fat buds

[doobydoobydo]

I have a couple of huge buds, wine bottle size. Is it best to cut them them down to smaller pieces ?

 

[derek420colorado]

I have a couple of huge buds, wine bottle size. Is it best to cut them them down to smaller pieces ?

Big buds are only good to show your friends, having larger buds can lead to bud rot and mold type issues. Cut them down into one or two inch nugs

 

[doobydoobydo]

Thank you

 

[derek420colorado]

Thank you

No prob. You got any pictures of these nugs lol. We love bud porn

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I have a couple of huge buds, wine bottle size. Is it best to cut them them down to smaller pieces ?

If you have an environment at 70°F/21.2°C 50% relative humidity good air movement and dark. Then all you need to do is remove the stemmed leaves and hang. They will dry without issues. Not everyone is blessed with ideal conditions and the further away you get from ideal the more you need to do to get a good dry down to about 62% moisture. Honestly it is a battle. Over the years I have gathered the weapons to control one room in those ideal (ok close) conditions. I have a dehydrator, humidifier, oil heater, swamp cooler and charcoal filter with a 6" hyper fan to recirculate the air in the room to eliminate possible escape of odors to outdoors. A legal requirement here. In the winter I remove all stemmed leaves and make smaller branches to hang. it takes 6 - 8 days to a final trim and in to cure. In the summer I leave the stemmed leaves and branches with the main colas for a couple of days and then give a rough trim. 3 or 4 days later sometimes even sooner there in the cure. Sometimes the outside air here actually goes to 0% RH. If that happens while I am drying it knocks the shit out of the quality. The buds get crispy dry on the outside and weird on the inside. Terps are absent! Learned that one the hard way. With my swamp cooler I can get the RH up to about 45 on days like that. Not ideal but reality.

I hope my ramblings give you some insight to the art of growing cannabis.

 

[doobydoobydo]

 

[derek420colorado]

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Nice job! I would personally cut it down into smaller nugs

 

[doobydoobydo]

Thank you, i have done that, 2 other similar ones had bud rot inside, brown and dry, I think that maybe they didn't get enough of the fan ?

 

[derek420colorado]

Thank you, i have done that, 2 other similar ones had bud rot inside, brown and dry, I think that maybe they didn't get enough of the fan ?

Most likely the culprit