The most discreet and easy way of drying

[powerrobbie]

Hey ICmag, this year I'm hoping to have a lb or two to harvest. I'm a young cat who still lives at home and the moms is alright with it but I can't be stinking up the whole house...what do you guys think is the most discreet way of drying it in my situation...My buddy just stashes his in cardboard boxes and puts it in the rafters in his garage but I don't know if there would be enough air flow doing that....what do you guys think, I still want my buds to taste and smell good please dont suggest some sort of over or microwave....Thanks guys

 

[Dislexus]

Probably painkillers and an inflatable raft adrift in the ocean. Fall asleep, roll over, drown, no blood to clean, no body for funeral. Totally discreet.

oh DRYING

Dry it in your flower space, its scrubbed right ?

 

[Karma Genetics]

get a carbon filter and a small extraction fan. , and put that in a big box ore closet, hang everthing in there to dry. Throwing fresh herbs in a carton box, will smell up the room, and defantly degrade your quality and flavour.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

for only 1 or 2lbs get one of the hangable drying racks, and get a dehuey and oscilating fan keep humidity stable under 50 if you can with a little breeze.....if the smell is a big concern get a carbon filter attached to a 6in fan and run it inside the drying area it will purge the air..,,for good smell i let them sit out for at least a week to air dry....then once stems are snappable but before the buds themselves are crispy dry, get them into turkey bags and pop them open once and a while...might smell funky at first but give it a few days or even weeks the smell gets better and better..

 

[Guest 150314]

I hate racks, please hang dry it makes all the difference.

 

[Dislexus]

I hate racks, please hang dry it makes all the difference.

O RLY?

Do you trim then dry, or do you dry then trim.

 

[Guest 150314]

I trim wet and dry, hanging and doing a slow dry is the shit I can guarantee you will never do racks again.

I trim as close as I can before hanging, when they are snappy I take the buds off the stick and trim again.

Wet trim only and rack dry is blasphemy, the only excuse is laziness.

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

Racks are a medieval torture device, just chop the plants at the base and hang them till they are properly dry. Trim wet or dry, or at time of smoking, if you do not crush your weed the trim leaves around can actually protect it. If you do crush it, the trim is stuck to the bud forever, bad move.

If you can just pull a dry flower away from the stalk, the base should almost but not quite snap, then you can chop them off the stems and bag them knowing they will probably [if you get the point right] not need burping.

If you go too far, it is very easy to slightly re-humidify the weed.

IMO, the less you open the bag and mess around with the weed, the better the product. From this point onwards, it is best sealed, untouched, unmolested, till you open the bag and smoke it.

 

[ijim]

Do you use an air filter in your flower room? Get one of those dark garment bags that are open at the bottom hang them in the bag and place the bag in your flower room.

 

[dgr]

and done

 

[powerrobbie]

You can buy those things ^ where at? I already have a few of those racks but its not very discreet you guys are misunderstanding I don't have a grow room I am only permitted to do it outside and I must be as lowkey as possible.

 

[mad librettist]

I am guessing from your details that you live at home with your parents, have a little guerilla grow, and want to dry your harvest (don't pick it early!)

I would go with a rubbermaid bin. Smuggle that in now. You will need to DYI a little carbon filter with weak PC fan powering it. you will need to run that in your closet for at least a week before you can switch to jars.

All mods to rubbermaids can be done with a box cutter. be careful.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

depending on how cool your mom is with it, you can dry in cardboard boxes, they wont get moldy, poke some hoes in the side of the boxes for cashflow. shouldn't really smell too much either. after a week or soe take em out the boxes, inspect, trim and jar.

 

[LouDog420]

If you're pulling down a lb or two, I would go ahead and drop some cash on a fan/carbon filter combo. Make yourself a dry space, whether it is a cardboard box, rubbermaid, or closet... It's gonna stink up the house without some sort of filter, no doubt.

Exhaust the air or recirculate it, depending on the size of the room.

 

[qbert]

I do it like this:

Holds more than a dozen plants hanging, and a couple lbs drying easily. It's a GrowLab GL60 - 2'x2'x5'3". They have a GL40 too if you want something smaller. It's a S&P TD-125 on low speed and a Can 9000 or 2600 - I forget which exactly, they're very similar - I'll be replacing that with a 4"x12" Phresh filter soon as the Can is letting some odor thru

I don't know what dude's major issue with "racks" is. I get a little bit of flat spot on the bigger buds, but it works damn great for me.

I start working on trimming as soon as cutting the plants down, but it takes me up to a week to finish (day job, busy, etc). Trimmed buds go on the screen shelves (non-metallic window screen from the Depot), untrimmed branches stay hanging.

Usually, it's 7-10 days before it's ready for jars, sometimes it goes as long as 14 - actually, last winter, I was using a shut off corner room and I had one batch go 18 days and it could've/should've gone a couple more. All depends on ambient temp & humidity - and we're usually 30-50% RH and anywhere from 65-75*F (but usually right about 72).

 

[Yes4Prop215]

I hate racks, please hang dry it makes all the difference.

ive done racks and hang dry side by side didnt even notice a difference....only thing i could think of is sometimnes the racks make the fan leaves stick to the bud....but other than that why all the hate on racks? i usually hang dry if i can for the first few days but space does not allow this at my grow almost every usable space is filled with plants of some kind...


trimming wet and going into racks is a bad idea the sap will cling to the nugget...but using racks as teh second stage after a quick hang dry or to just store half cured nuggets isnt a bad idea.....biggest risk is leaving them on too long and crisping them...

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[Guest 150314]

You are right prop215, trimming wet and on to racks is what I meant.. I should have made that clear.

I see a lot of rack dried stuff that has sort of a slightly fermented smell from the sap, they also cause flat spots on bigger buds.
If you dry till the outside is crispy and then onto racks I suppose that would eliminate the problems.

This is how you do it properly.

 

[powerrobbie]

^ I wish I could just do it like that. I already have a few of those drying racks and I will be using them but as I said I must be discreet and I cant just fill a whole room with weed...when i say a lb or two I'm just saying that so I dont get ahead of myself but its really looking like (fingers crossed) its gonna be about 4 or 5 #'s so I'm gonna have one of those racks in the closet and the rest I'm gonna stick in cardboard and punch a bunch of holes in em and make sure I got good air flow and humidity...what do you guys think? any holes in my plan? I've dried weed before but last year I didn't have near this amount and the whole house stunk...literallly and my mom was ready to kill me...I gotta keep the smell down this year. My boy dries his outside but I'm way to paranoid of mold and shit....my fall is very cold and wet.

 

[powerrobbie]

I wanna just use cardboard boxes cause I could just stick them in my garage so my house doesn't smell but I can't hang a bunch of weed plants on strings in my garage cause I got neighbours so I think boxes are my best bet.

 

[stinkyigloo]

I agree hanging the buds is the best way to dry them, however i have also used screens before. They dry fine, the trick is to turn the buds every few hours so they dry evenly / dont get crumpled on one side