Thanks bud buddies!
Slowly getting ready for drying and curing my flowers. I will have some difficulties by the way. Drying need to be done in my closet which have only front door from wood, the rest are walls. Doors need to be shoot down and isolated with tape for some 11 hours par day while I am not at home. All air movement will be inside closet for those 11 hours each day. I will put 1 or 2 cardboard boxes with brown paper bags in them, inside mini grow tent (0,12 m2) located in closet. Fan with carbon filter will be on (some 1/3 or 1/4 of grow tent will be available for air circulation), which has 2 speeds: 140-180m3/h. I am using it at full speed for growth and thinking to leave it at the same speed for drying as cardboard boxes and paper bags will protect flowers from direct air contact. The only problem I face, for those 11 hours when closet doors need to be hermetically closed (sometimes electricity goes away and it will be fatal to leave open doors if that happen, because of smell) are high temperature and humidity. I did some testings with mini dehumidifier and the best I can get is 25-26C (77-79F) with humid around 65%. The good thing is that for the rest 13 hours par day I can have lower temperature and humidity. I have 2 questions at the moment: I don't have available thick brown paper bags but thin ones only so, should I put 2-3 bags inside each other to make them ticker? It is said buds will dry faster in thin bags which I don't want as high temp will anyway speed up the process. And I am a bit confused of a claim that thick bags will dry slower than thin ones as more think paper bag is, more it is able to absorb the moisture and should dry faster. Right? So if it is true, than thin brown paper bags that I have will dry slower and will do better job.
Another question I have: Should I hang paper bags in the cardboard box so they don't actually touch the box (I think this is what Tang says!) or should I just let them at the bottom of the box? In my understanding if bags are laying on the bottom, buds will be in direct contact with thick cardboard and it will speed up the drying which I don't want.
Finally, the last thing I will do is this: I will cut round hole on one side of one of the bags and fix hygrometer in it
(small one used for tobacco boxes). Will use transparent tape to hold hygrometer for bag's wall. I will also cut peace of front side of cardboard box and tape it with transparent tape as well or will put peace of glass. The hole on the box will expose bag with hygrometer to my eyes and perhaps I will have another thermo-hygro meter next to bag (outside the bag, inside the box) so I can moderate temperature inside the box and humidity levels both inside the bags and box, without even need to open the box.
Ah yes, I am also thinking of mixing bigger buds with smaller ones as direct contact between buds of different size will prevent small ones to dry faster as humidity can move from bigger buds to smaller ones. Right?
I kind of made science here and some of you may think that I am overthinking but I invested 4 months of time, risk, stress and money in one small plant and I will do my best to get rewarded for it. 25-26C are too high for drying. Last 2 times I had perfect conditions but not this time. Any advice is more than welcome!
