Drying Buds in the Flower Room - Opinions Needed

[Bad Habits]

Hello Friends

I was wondering if there would be any problems with drying buds in my flower room in a closed off closet space? The closet has a roll-up door that is sealed with zippers and velcro.

The closet is in a sealed flower room with Co2 (1000ppm), and has air flow from the main flower area with an inline fan exhausting at the top of the closet, drawing in from 2 passive intakes at the bottom (see pic).

My buddy seems to think this is a bad idea, but has no scientific explanation why. If the closet is light tight so the buds are in the dark, and the dehuey in the main area is set at 50%, why would this be a problem (if any?).

Can the Co2 from the main area mess up the drying buds?

I am currently using the closet to veg in, but will soon have a new seperate veg room. I have been drying my buds in the bathroom with a dehuey so far, which is a pain in the ass.

Opinions???

 

[MensaBarbie]

I think its fine as long as your temps in the closet can be kept under 75 and preferably 70. Terps volatize at 70 degrees so you will lose aroma if the closet is over 70. I dry my buds in my flower room under my tables. I have a nearly light tight paanda paper skirt around it. I place a fan on the floor indirectly stirring air on the floor including co2. Your challenges will be temp, exhaust of humidity and air movement. I place a hygrometer under the table and its routinely perfect 70 degrees 60 rh so if u can achieve those or similar conditio s youre good. IMHO

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

I think you will be fine, 1000ppm isn't even that high. As long as the humidity and temps remain within normal parameters you shouldn't have a problem. Make sure you have plenty of air movement though with that one exhaust fan at the top. If it get stuffy, just open the tent (keep a thermometer/hydrometer in side to make sure-i think i see one in the pic). Where as it is not best practice to expose your buds to light, it is far worse to have them become infected with mold because of a lack of air flow or movement. I have seen lots of people dry their buds right in their flowering room on the side of their next round without experiencing any problems at all. Again, by no means best practice!

 

[vostok]

I doubt very much if the C02 has any effect on drying your bud..? but from my own experience, and similar to yours, is my flower room is kept at 55-65% Rh(humidity) for me thats a tad too dry ..you may note that on your sore throat ....lol
better to hang your buds as per se, then hang your Temp/Rh gauge too, add a dish of water to raise the local humidity
Low (temp) and Slow(time) = Great Bud

>>>Yo my 420th post ....lol!<<<<<

 

[MensaBarbie]

I prefer to dry my buds faster in the initial 3-4 days then slowly drop RH in cure. Temp and terpenes and not drying too fast/slowly are my main concerns.

 

[bmp420gti]

the c02 wont matter at all its just a gas the big thing is the RH and heat like posted, you want to get that right so you can have proper transpiration of the water into the atmosphere. keep it cool and dryish.

 

[OvergrowDaWorld]

If the closet stays cool enough, say below 75* with a RH above 65% you should be fine.
And if the light doesnt hit em.

 

[prune]

My major concern would be hormonal "synchronization" between your harvested plants and what was growing in the room. One ripe plant can draw all the others into premature ripening, lessening final quality and production.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

I don't water the last day and just turn off the lights to the flower room. I put a fan in the room pointed at the wall to stir up the stall air pockets. Put a dehue in set at 50% for the first couple days the jump it to 65%. Keep the temps at about 75 degrees and it takes a week and a half to two weeks.

Works for me. Like metioned air movement, light, temp, and Rh are what you have to control.

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

Prune, that is interesting, could you further explain this synchronization?

 

[Bad Habits]

Thank you very much the responses everyone! I've posted a few other threads in here lately and haven't got much feedback, thought the section was dead lol

So it seems like the consensus for the most part is that it should be fine as long as I can keep the temps and RH under control...

The room is a perpetual grow, with 3 trays, 1 tray being harvested every 3-4 weeks or so. As such, I keep my dehuey set at 50% always.

When drying in my bathroom with a dehuey, I've pretty much always kept it set at 55-60%, which takes about a week for them to dry out and put into bins. So far the quality has been good doing this.

Hopefully with the dehuey set at 50%, but it set outside of the closet, it should mimic this somewhat since the air has to travel into the closet via the passive intakes and out through the inline fan.

I would put some small 6" clip on fans on every shelf where the branches are hung to keep air movement good.

Once I move my veg operation into the new room I will put a couple hygrometers in the closet and do some temperature tests for a few days so gauge what it's like in there.

My major concern would be hormonal "synchronization" between your harvested plants and what was growing in the room. One ripe plant can draw all the others into premature ripening, lessening final quality and production.

Interesting... My room is perpetual as noted above, and I wonder if this affects the plants overall quality? I'd say that my plants don't look quite as good as my friends who don't run perpetual, but assumed this was because of different strains and me not having it dialed in quite yet.

I don't water the last day and just turn off the lights to the flower room. I put a fan in the room pointed at the wall to stir up the stall air pockets. Put a dehue in set at 50% for the first couple days the jump it to 65%. Keep the temps at about 75 degrees and it takes a week and a half to two weeks.

Works for me. Like metioned air movement, light, temp, and Rh are what you have to control.

Word. Yeah my room runs perpetual so there is no "down" time like that.

BTW I'm pretty sure I got my closet roll up door idea from one of your threads. Thanks a ton man!

 

[prune]

Prune, that is interesting, could you further explain this synchronization?

Something like the McClintock Effect, but with more positive documentation for flowering plants available online.

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

McClintock Effect

McClintock Effect

Something like the McClintock Effect, but with more positive documentation for flowering plants available online.

Are you referring to Martha McClintock, the psychologist who studies human pheromones and menstrual synchronization?

 

[Ichabod Crane]

I have 6 flower rooms to use so no big issue for me. Only have had 5 running at one time once.

Keeping your room RH at 50% will over dry the buds. You will have to rehydrate them or the will be brittle as hell. Maybe set a timer so that you can bring up the RH. If you bring the RH up most of the time your plants will grow faster. Only draw back seems to be mold issues. If you can control the mold I would raise the RH to 60%.

 

[JointOperation]

the syncing is kinda like what u see by adding a male to a full room of females.. ull see them squeeze every lil bit of resin out of the plant while its trying to get the pollen to stick to it from the male... if someone could make a male plant.. that was 100% STERILE 100% of the time.. adding that to a sensi garden will increase trichome/med production...

this is another reason why hash producing countries don't bother pulling males.. they get more hash from plants with seed .. atleast that's what ive been reading.. so .. if that's true then it could be possible that chopped plants could fuck with flowering plants..

before people setup there GROW ROOMs. people should be preparing for every STEP.. get your scissors.. trays.. bags/jars.. drying area setup.. clone area setup.. veg area.. flower area.. nutes.. reservoir.. ballast area.. EVERYTHHING should be thought of before even starting to flower.. lol..

but.. u can do it.. people do dry in there grow rooms.. but personally. Id rather hang a string in my bedroom.. and have them hang dry in there.. then be hanging around in a grow room with heat and intense light.. but honestly.. a drying closet with a carbon scrubber.. and environmental controller.. will help u maintain quality..

when I started my first grow.. I started with strains I got from another grower.. Mango.. GForce.. SBG.. and The Purps.. I learned on the first grow.. that drying and curing affects 50% of your flowers quality.. so even tho the buds looked amazing.. I didn't know what I was doing.. they dried to fast.. and ontop of that.. I wet trimmed.. so they dried super fast..

half my harvest.. was dry trimmed because I over trimmed at that point taking off everything leaf related.. so by the time I made it to the last plants they were dry trimmed.. the dry trimmed came out great.. lol..

after realizing that and fucking up a half a harvest. I made it my goal to research everything to do with drying and curing and trimming..

if u can grow great buds.. that's half the goal.. now its time to dry and cure and trim properly.. to make them topshelf.. u could have topshelf at harvest.. and mid shelf after the dry cure trim.. so for all those who think growing is the only thing u need to learn to grow and smoke great bud.. u got another 50% of the process to master lol

good luck.. but the slower the DRY the better.. if u cant control temps .. then dry trim. if u can control temps and humidity.. wet trim will work good too..

 

[prune]

Are you referring to Martha McClintock, the psychologist who studies human pheromones and menstrual synchronization?

Yes, as an analogy, but as mentioned there is much more plant science on this subject than the more complicated mammalian model.

I experienced the effects myself, (depending on the "english") they could be positive and negative. In this case I would guess negative, because of the chance of invoking negative mortality alarms which might induce premature dehicement?

 

[QUANTUMeCANNics]

Yes, as an analogy, but as mentioned there is much more plant science on this subject than the more complicated mammalian model.

I experienced the effects myself, (depending on the "english") they could be positive and negative. In this case I would guess negative, because of the chance of invoking negative mortality alarms which might induce premature dehicement?

I understand that having a male and a source of pollen, can in a room can stimulate the females to produce a higher amount of resin, that is documented and is true. I am significantly less educated on two female plants contributing to each others flowing time or final quality. With that said, has anyone here experienced this phenomenon in a room with say several cycles on going at once (a revolving flowering room). Any literature on this happening with cannabis? I think this is an interesting topic of discussion!

 

[MensaBarbie]

Wouldnt worry about the ripening plants affecting growing plants. Youre exhausting the ethylene gas from the ccut plants so they are downwind from the growing plants anyway. The gasses are pulled away from the growing plants.