Harvest & Curing Drying in a brown bag

[WildBill]

I usually have too big a crop to use the bags even though I like them. I needed to dry my buds down a little more after machine trimming this last plant. I used the moisture meter and trimmed at 11-12%. I put them in the Grove bags and the RH went up to about 69% so I put them into a paper bag with a small Hygrometer until it read 58% then back into the grove bags with a meter. They read 62% overnight so I took the meters out and sealed the bags. My next plant will line dry to 10 - 11 on the meter.

Ill probably use the grove bags on my next run. I already have lots of wide mouth jars with all the canning I used to do.

 

[WildBill]

I have one of my girls drying in 7 large paper grocery bags with one loose layer in each bag hanging in my grow room. Temps are averaging 66-69*F and 48-52% humidity. I wet trimmed and left the buds on the stems where I could. The trimmed buds were placed in the same bags.
So I shake the bags daily to keep from flattening them and flattening against each other and increasing the chance of mold.
Ya dry to stem snap.

I'm gonna put the bud in a big Grove bag or two with mini-hydrometers. If I need to adjust the % humidity, I'll either burp to lower or add Integra packs and remove them once at the correct level. I'll probally distribute the buds to smaller Grove bags and seal up.

Correct me if I have anything wrong or ya wanna advise.

 

[WildBill]

I have a Gelato33 that will be chopped relatively soon. No ambers yet with still a large percentage of clears and is VERY frosty. Even with at least 10 days to chop, she has a few colas that are quite a bit larger than the biggest I just harvested above.
Is it best to section those large and bulky colas to stave off possible mold occurring? Yeah, nice problem to have! LOL!

 

[WildBill]

Opened each paper bag, gently rearranged the material, set that bag aside and open and then did the same for all the others. I then started with the first and placed them back on the clothing rack. I figured that would be enough time for the bags to air out enough and get the released chlorophyll out of the bags. I defiantly needed to move the untrimmed canna. They kinda packed together. All the others looked great. It an interesting way to dry.

 

[WildBill]

Sunday night I put a little hydrometer in one of the bags. Last night when I was airing them and checking the buds, outside humidity was 52% and inside the bag was 62%. Still the same as of an hour ago. Kinda looks like 7 days at least to me.

 

[WildBill]

Day 6 in the bags and the hydrometer is showing 60% with outside 66*F and 52%. Bud still pliable and stems are still too moist and springy.
At least another day, more likely two. Maybe the gelato will be ready by then.

 

[WildBill]

Checked last night before going to sleep and it was at 58%. I'm gonna final trim. bag in a couple big Grove bags with hydrometers and monitor for a few days. Once everything is stable, I'll bag up some smaller bags for long time storage.

 

[Budgie45]

Checked last night before going to sleep and it was at 58%. I'm gonna final trim. bag in a couple big Grove bags with hydrometers and monitor for a few days. Once everything is stable, I'll bag up some smaller bags for long time storage.

What you use before Grove bags them bags are expensive,looking for a cheap way of curing

 

[St. Tom]

What you use before Grove bags them bags are expensive,looking for a cheap way of curing

glass mason jars growbro

 

[Budgie45]

glass mason jars growbro

What’s growbro I use the mason jars been drying them out in paper bags for 5 days then into the jars