Starting my second battle soon. Questions + tips? advice?

[Rootsruler]

Agree with @bluey.

Drop the moisture down to around 61% - 62% and jar.

[Bluey]

I'd be bringing that reading down a little bit by tipping the jar out onto some cardboard for a couple of hours then reseaing the jar.

It's a bit high and you are at risk of mold getting a foot hold in your jar.

Rising moisture leves in the jar indicate the buds haven't dried out enough in the middle and are still releasing moisture.

[realhuuuman420]

Reporting back after 10 days of curing - everything is good!
It was not overdried after all. In the jars now it keeps a constant 66% humidity, this is good, right? Although it doesn't seem to be decreasing, and actually when I leave it open, RH goes up (even tho the outside RH is lower).

It is now starting to smell like real weed. Taste is not great at this point, but the potency is an absolute blast, and it's also very pleasant to smoke, not harsh at all, and burns well, not too fast, not too slow.

Final dry weight after drying was 18 grams. Was hoping for a bit more, but not bad, eh!

[Rootsruler]

Remove all the ones that feel too dry. Probably the lower more larfy flowers. Put them in a jar and give the lid a couple of spritzes of water and close the jar. Your flowers should rehydrate after 24hrs.

[realhuuuman420]

So a bit too warm?
I just checked again and the ones that I trimmed are dry (so dry to touch, I have a couple of smaller buds that are from the bottom of the plant and not fully developed, those are already crisp dry - which I guess is normal, since it's mostly air in them)

The ones that are not trimmed at all except for the largest fan leaves, those are still soft and spongey to the touch, but they don't feel wet or sticky anymore, just soft.

The biggest one, the main cola, feels like it's perfectly dried now, feels just 'right' to the touch, and that one was fully trimmed.

Well, I'm gonna put the ones that feel dry in jars and see what happens.

It's possible that the slight breeze dried them too quickly. But I'm sure they'll moisten up a lil in the jars, and will be just fine after cured.

It turns out that it's really difficult to have perfect drying conditions! Another lesson learned, I suppose. I know now exactly what to do next time - first, use a weaker exhaust fan, and second, no wet trimming unless the harvest is massive and takes up half the tent (doubtful as I will be only having one plant at a time always)

[Bluey]

I aim for 16⁰C and 60% RH and that takes about 7 days wet trimmed.

[realhuuuman420]

Bluey umm 21-22C so good as well... but I'm thinking, especially the main cola which is on the bottom row, perhaps it was already semi-dry when I harvested it?

I haven't watered it 5 days before harvest.

So regardless, should I jar those which seem dry? I mean, prune it well and then jar it up? I smoked a bit yesterday and yeah, everything seems perfect... potency is through the roof, and there's even some good smell - but mostly it just smells like weed that wasn't cured.

But it wasn't harsh, nor wet.

[Bluey]

If less than 7 days a bit too fast.

Your RH for drying is spot on.

What are temps?

[realhuuuman420]

Is it possible that the bottom row of my buds have already dried and are ready for curing? They feel dry to the touch and crumble if I press too hard. I snapped a little bud right now, and had no issues grinding it up.

The top row is still damp-ish to the touch, and feels like a sponge, no crumbling. What does this mean?

RH on the bottom of the tent is always higher, and I actually kept the pants with the soil inside. Put a bit of water in it yesterday as the RH dropped a bit under 60%, and this helps sort of like a natural humidifier.

So RH on the top is hovering at around 60%, on the bottom around 63%. Right now the bottom is 61 and the top is 57%.

Lowest RH was 58% for a few hours last night.

I'm considering putting it in jars already, or at least the bottom row of buds. Thoughts?

Could it have dried a bit too quick because of the exhaust fan? It's strong, but not that strong? like I said, if you put your hand inside, you can barely, barely notice a soft breeze

[realhuuuman420]

I've got something like this https://external-content.duckduckgo....6b5&ipo=images

Until I just googled it now, I've never ever heard of it being referred to as an oven. Granted, I have never heard the term "convection oven" either...

[Gingerbeard]

I think that's talking about a mounted kitchen appliance like a standard oven. A tabletop air fryer is a tabletop convection oven. Don't care what Whirlpool has to say.
I care deeply what you have to say B-dog. But not a hoot about Whirlpool.

[Bluey]

https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitch...ing%20elements.

[Gingerbeard]

Why don't you people call it a convection oven? It's like the Sleep Number beds are padded air mattresses.
Whomever came up with the 'air fryer' verbiage is the electronic gizmo naming person of the year.

[Going2fast]

Not sure about the air fryer thing but congrats.

[Gingerbeard]

There is a feng shui trick to hanging to increase potency, yield, and libido. But we won't get into that.
Real fine looking dope. I'm jealous of your colorful footballs, damnit!