First ever grow. Promix HP THC bomb auto 600w hps.

Is it possible you can hang them inside? I ask because for some people it simply ain't going to work but if it isn't outside your better half's comfort zone then why not bring them inside to dry? If you are going to do a partial harvest, cut the stem at the point you want to leave, trim all the leaves off the cut portion and leave the flowers on. Hang dry in a closet or your bedroom. The temps and RH in a home is perfect for drying, normally around 70F and 50RH. If that isn't practical for you, I have seen people use clothes hangers and clothes pins to hold individual flowers inside a cardboard box to keep symmetry good.

You could do it in a bag in your tent I suppose, I wouldn't put it on the lamp housing because you don't want that heat transferring. Maybe if you could hang the bag in a corner or something, that would work. I wouldn't use two bags though because I wouldn't want all the captured moisture in there. The idea is to get the moisture away from the flowers otherwise they end up kind of brown and ugly looking, like brown fruit does. For example, when you dehumidify fruit, it retains it's color and flavor. When you leave it setting out, it gets brown and funky. Your flowers will do the same thing if you don't allow them to breath while drying. A lot of people here use the paper bag method, maybe someone else with more experience at that will chime in. Otherwise, hunt one of the regulars down and ask their opinion. I am pretty old skool with hanging my entire trees by the main stem. I suppose some habits die hard with us old timers, lol. I have an entire empty closet with wires running across dedicated to drying plants.

Edit: Yeah, you still want to use glass jars for curing. Once your RH is around 50% you can put them in jars. Once they are in the jar, you can expect the RH to rise back up to around 65-70 after a couple of hours. You will just have to open the jar and let the air out and close them back up regularly. Once they stick at your preferred RH then just let them set and open once a week or so to let out any gassing off that may have occurred. The chlorophyll will continue to gas off as the green leaves the plant. The chlorophyll gas also imparts a bad taste so you want to let it out.
 
Well my grow tent is inside my house inside my bedroom lol closet is packed full too. I live in a one bedroom apartment because I moved in it being just me. My girlfriend and her child have moved in and I'm finishing out my lease and upgrading to a 3 bedroom when I find the right one.... Paper bag method placed in a predetermined and RH/temperature tested spot may really b my only option for this first harvest till I'm done with the light this grow. Was hoping to get rid of smell with my carbon filter so maybe tent corners (as I have good room left) may be a plausible option and I'll just have to label the bags so I don't get things messed up lol.....I think @TaNg brown paper bags it..... Maybe he can help with my dilemma figuring out my first harvest because I'm going to have to go brown paper bag method.... Just don't know how it would work in my running indoor tent environment lol.
 
Have any of you tried the brown paper bag method and I still do jars for curing after paper bag dry right? I should read brown paper bag forum in harvest section.... I'm scared it will mess up my bud symmetry lol
Pete, I use shoe boxes with shredded brown bags to dry, and for what we have it works well. I have vent holes in the boxes, and start with shredded bags on the bottom, then a layer of bud, then more bag, etc. I turn the flowers every day just make sure nothing is sticking and they all get good air. Once they hit 50-55%, it's off to the jars for the cure. :biggrin:
We even get a little kief in the boxes afterwards. Waste not, want not!
 
@Renaissance Redneck ....How big of ventilation holes do you use? Like maybe ten pencil holes on the box? Do you just put a hygrometer on top of the bud(which would obviously have a layer of shredded brown bag on it before I laid the hygrometer), then the lid? 4-5 days like the brown paper bag method? Good smell and tastes still? Color? Smell outside of box? Lol Sorry so many questions. Very first harvest and I'm nervous. Don't want mold and I don't want to smoke what tastes like hay. Lol
 
Sorry pictures have slowed up... Swelling moves slower than veg so not a whole lot to see in difference but every few days. My next thread will hopefully b more organized lol
 
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K so I don't want to deprive anyone of my amatuer bud porn lol so I took some photos of my closest to harvest girl!!! Enjoy.... So close to being able to take a sample.... Lol
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Anything I should worry about with the weird coloring on the last pic? Or is that just the look of a not the healthiest plant finishing up it's life and budding out? Lol
 
It is hard to tell but it could be some color coming through now that the green is fading.
 
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