Cold temps drying
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schwagg
just keep your air circulated. i've dried in *23 F. just keep good airflow and have some patience.
It will dry but it is too cold to dry and cure correctly. The plants will still have the greenie taste in them.
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schwagg
can you eventually jar it in warmer temps?
I say PERFECT!
I dry right now in a corner room of my house that's unused, with the door and heater vents closed it hovers at about 55* F (very close to 12* C) and about 50% humidity.
It seems like perfect conditions to dry and cure. The herb dries nice and slow. It's next to impossible to over dry, but it doesn't take any longer to dry. Mold is minimized at these temps, too. And boy are they dank after week or two drying and just a week or two in jars.
I use a Growlab GL60. 2'x'2x5'3" tall. I've suck air with a Solar & Palau TD-125 blowing through a Can Filter 2600.
I chop and hang from the top and trim as I get time, takes a week sometimes for me to get through a big harvest (day job and all). But with the cool temps and close to optimal humidity it doesn't seem to matter.
The stuff that's trimmed sits on screens until dry. I picked up some non-metallic window screen from home depot. I cut some bamboo sticks to length, the same sticks I use to support the plants. Zip strip em to the tent pulls, then zip strip the screen across and pull it tight. Works awesome.
I can dry a crap load in here, a 1lb when dry harvest had room to spare. It's surprising how much fits on the screens, and you can stack a hell of a lot in there, with room to hang quite a bit. The hanging space is the limiting factor.
I dry right now in a corner room of my house that's unused, with the door and heater vents closed it hovers at about 55* F (very close to 12* C) and about 50% humidity.
It seems like perfect conditions to dry and cure. The herb dries nice and slow. It's next to impossible to over dry, but it doesn't take any longer to dry. Mold is minimized at these temps, too. And boy are they dank after week or two drying and just a week or two in jars.
I use a Growlab GL60. 2'x'2x5'3" tall. I've suck air with a Solar & Palau TD-125 blowing through a Can Filter 2600.
I chop and hang from the top and trim as I get time, takes a week sometimes for me to get through a big harvest (day job and all). But with the cool temps and close to optimal humidity it doesn't seem to matter.
The stuff that's trimmed sits on screens until dry. I picked up some non-metallic window screen from home depot. I cut some bamboo sticks to length, the same sticks I use to support the plants. Zip strip em to the tent pulls, then zip strip the screen across and pull it tight. Works awesome.
I can dry a crap load in here, a 1lb when dry harvest had room to spare. It's surprising how much fits on the screens, and you can stack a hell of a lot in there, with room to hang quite a bit. The hanging space is the limiting factor.
