How to dry and keep stink to minimum

[faintfuzzies]

I have one plant that i can harvest very soon, But im very worried about my house stinking, I am trying to think up a easy super cheap way to dry and keep the stink down. i dont want or need my house to stink.. i need to build a closet or something and pipe a vent back into flower room or something..

i would love to hear of all the different way you all do it.. Thanks

faint

 

[mg75]

technically, (if you have odor/air filtering in your flower room) then you can dry in there. especially if the temps and humidity are on the lower side (50% humidity / 72 degrees). hang above and/or away from lights.
ideally, you should have a dedicated climate controlled dark drying area. the area should have air-exchange to remove stale ambient air.

 

[philcollins]

i dry above the lights..next to the filter..as well. only can smell a faint odor..if in the same room, otherwise it is stealthy

 

[faintfuzzies]

I thought drying in teh flower room with lights was going to reduce how potent the medical herb will be ? do you notice any potentcy loss issues ?

 

[mg75]

as long as you don't have intense direct light over the buds, you should not experience any degradation. it is high heat, intense direct light, and low humidity that will affect your drying buds. HID lights tend to project a lot of "dry-heat."
keep your light-off humidity in check or your buds will rot.

 

[faintfuzzies]

in orde rto control humidity i should do what i do in flower room and use a humidfier right ? . I set it for 45% and it end up being 47-50 %. I was thinking on building a 4*4*6ft tall drying area then use the black/white plastic and enclose it , make hangers in side and use a 220cfm vent blower to pipe out the stale air into flower room and then let the carbon filter in flower room deal with the smell,use a humifier to keep humidity at around 40-50% and if teh humidity is too high outside I woulduse a dehumidfier to take care of toohigh humidity The area with out any heaters is around 60 degrees so i thinkthat would do . My other option is to just hang the branches from ceilling and worry about smell using ONA in living space up stairs

 

[cloud_forest]

Take a 20" box fan, a box of fabric softener sheets, and a hot glue gun; apply a dual (triple if you have a lot of herb) layer to either side, and place the fan near the door, presumably (between the herb and the rest of the house). Make sure it's facing to pull air from the door back into the room, and optionally set up a smaller fan across the room facing the larger filter fan. You'll end up with some odd air currents, but you won't smell anything but springtime.

 

[philcollins]

i havent noticed any decrease in potency...julian from the park dries his outdoor buds..outdoors...he hangs em in trees...they turn out great...remember, do what u can do with what u have...it reaks during drying, and if u have a carbon filter in your flowering room....i'd dry in there....stealth is of utmost importance always...first and foremost...cant smoke it if u are in jail..or if somebody steals it

 

[jus'plain'gill]

I dry for the first 3-5 days in my bathroom with the exhaust fan going (creates negative pressure with bathroom door closed) and a fan on low in the room for circulation. The temps are in the mid 60s and totally dark so the smell is minimal in the bathroom and completely nil inside my place and outside around my place. After they are dry enough, the buds go into the freezer for a 3-4 week cure. This is also completely odorless and a great way to VERY EASILY get your initial cure going. After the freezer, any excess moisture gets "sweat off" as the buds are put into jars for storage. There is very minimal opening of jars to let the buds breathe so again, you are stinking up your house much less or not at all. I use a hygrometer to know when the moisture content is just right but it doesn't take long after you've done the freezer thing once or twice and kinda tweaked it for yourself. The buds then just continue to cure in your jars until its their time to be consumed, there is plenty more info if you follow the link in my sig. Take care



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[187020]

Drying felony drugs

Drying felony drugs

I thought drying in teh flower room with lights was going to reduce how potent the medical herb will be

Can't help ya with the meds, but my bootleg black market shit dries perfectly in veg over floros holmes...peace

 

[starwatcher]

I dry in a cool, dark closet with a carbon filter and small fan. No smell at all as long as your filter is good.

I would never cure/dry buds outside or in a lighted room or put them in a freezer (only trim goes in the freezer IMO for hash later on). But thats just me, I'm a little OCD in the way I do things.

 

[Granger2]

I just finished fixing up a 6.5'x2'x8' closet to my liking. Cut a 6" hole in ceiling with manual keyhole saw. Held sheet rock cut-out in place, and with a quick "thrust," up went the 2' flue with 1/2" hardware cloth grill on top. [Oh Baby!] The flue was clamped to a flange pipe that had a thin foam adhesive strip. Attached flange to ceiling with screws. Doing it this way resulted in almost no blown-in cellulose insulation in attic to fall thru. The sheet rock cut-out stays in the attic.

Heaved the 6x20 Mountain Air with attached Eclipse 6" fan up on closet shelf. The assembly lays on its side on two 2x4's attached to the widened, beefed up shelf. Before raising the assembly, I clamped the flexible duct to the fan because it is far easier to do when filter and fan are standing on the floor rather than up on shelf. Once the assembly was up I used gorilla tape to keep the excess duct gathered. I've left out some details, but with speed controller it works great. The closet has 2 louvered doors for intake.

I hang buds on coat hangers, and hang on closet rod. To control speed of drying, I later put buds in giant Zipper locks that are hung on coat hangers. Zip open and closed to control drying. Air only leaves the room thru filter and out to the attic. Have fun. -granger

 

[GeneMaxo]

This water bong is so smooth you don't realize how high you are getting till its too late.
-bubbles

 

[faintfuzzies]

This water bong is so smooth you don't realize how high you are getting till its too late.
-bubbles

water bongs are just too much for myself , it always just kills my lungs ..

 

[St3ve]

I have a sheet of left over reflectix that is about 4'x8'. I roll that in a semicircle on its side creating a little "room" or sorts that I lay a couple sticks on top of. Then you can hang your bud on clothes hangers on the stick down in the room. I have a room fan that I aim to just graze the top edge of it to just barely turn the air over.

I do it this way sometimes when I only have a little to dry. I like it on the ground because its cooler than above the lights (which is better for smell/taste). I will hang a hygrometer off the stick to keep and eye on the humidity. If its below 60 I put box or something on top to slow the air. If its over 70 I aim more air into it from the fan.

 

[GeneMaxo]

water bongs are just too much for myself , it always just kills my lungs ..

philcollins knows what i'm saying

 

[The Boys]

you could dry with the leaves intact , that would probably cut down on the smell quite a bit.

 

[SMOKE-ONE]

real good info!! I usually dry in the flower room,because im paranoid about stinking up the rest of the house.