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Curing when on vacation

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Mr Pot

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Hello fellows from gwe,
I'm running some plants and vacation sudden hitted me. I'm out of town for a week late december and it'll be right after drying my whole batch for a week or so. I'll babysit my drying area as most as I can and unfortunately I don't have a trustable person to burp the jars everyday for me at the first week of curing. Went online and saw a bunch of information; people drying for a day-week on paper bags after a standard drying (that seemed like a bad option), others are curing while away by putting the jars in their refrigerators (they're too humid...) and there's always the boveda 62 guy that simply leave it there for a week and come back like nothing happened.

The thing is, curing for the first week when you're not in town it's really worst than when you're not but it can be done and my goal is damage control. I'll make the trip and I'm trying to find a trustable person but I need to have a backup plan.. I'm getting 62 Boveda's for the jars and prep everything for the worst case scenario. Read a review about a guy who has got in touch with Boveda and they told him that the packs are way better putting moisture into the jars than getting it off (this can be bad for me because high humidity here is an issue), drying properly will reduce chances of mold when jaring and that's a reason to babysit this process. I truly don't know what I'm going to do. I'll get some small hygrometer to keep an eye on humidity inside the jars days before making the decision but I'm wondering if leaving the jars close is the better option in this case because of the high rh here. Also wondering about vacuum sealing and freezing the batch but I'm not certain if the humidity won't explode and fuck up everything.

I'm really mad at myself that I didn't planned this with time because I'm really busy. Surely someone here have been through the same. If I do this I'll update this post with pictures and information for others to inspire.
Any tips and thoughts are welcome,
let the games begin,
Mr Pot.
 
Actually it you have a week to dry that's enough time to do a quick dry on a rack with a fan then boveda them when you leave. Burp every few days when you get back.
 
The issue is the 1st week of curing.. I'm concerned that if I'm not burping it could lead to mold after a week while that I'm away.
 
You said you had a week before you left in your original post. A week is enough barely to get Em pretty dry and in a jar with a boveda.
 
Mr. Pot I think what people are trying to say is if you leave your pot drying for the week instead of a couple of days and really dry it out so there is no danger of mold then throw the bovedas in before you leave and come back and start burping like you never left . You can always put moister back into pot if its to dry
 
Morning Mr Pot, if it's as humid as you say, big brown paper bags ,like Alltatup said is most definitely your best way.
My plants are in brown bags right now, I have always hung mine a few days 2-3, then paper bags, then boveda jars, but they don't really need the bovedas, cause they are already 58-64 humidity after the brown bags, your not gonna beat the brown bags, for drying. Good luck, and you an yours happy Holidays. Happy Growing
 
Why not dry the plant while you are gone and cure when you get back?

I've hung a whole plant- not wet trimmed before, for 12 days and it was perfect when I returned.

Just cut at the base/soil line and leave in a cool space with plenty of fresh air, but not a fan.
If I was going to be longer I would have left the root ball intact as well.
 
I had the same issue last grow but timing was harvesting and drying for 6 days unattended, not curing. I dried while gone but in hindsite should have waited to harvest when I returned but that was a photo. Crop was a little on the dry side when I returned but boveda packs brought it back. Alot of folks here use paper bags and that sounds like a good option if you can't delay harvest. Are you growing photos or autos? Good luck, I know it is driving you crazy!!!
 
Exactly OJH, that's why I mentioned a fan. A week would be plenty of time. Not that fan drying is usually recommended but it should get it down to where a boveda
would be effective to hold it until he comes back. Then start with normal burping again.
 
Indirect flow not right on it. I had an issue where my area was running 70-75 percent humidity for the first week of my drying. I was worried about mold because the nugs were hugh and dense. I pointed a fan at a wall so it goes around the room in a circular fashion and it managed to get the moisture level down within a couple of days. It was still a little high when I jarred it but with the boveda in there it held it till the humidity dropped in my area. Then I just left the jars open longer.
 
Yeah Dutch, that's why I said not directly on em, you most always need a fan blowing on the walls or something, but not directly on the nugs.
 
I use a dehumidifier and the water that it takes out of the air needs to be dumped every 12-16 hours or so. Leaving town for 7 days with the plants drying is a problem because my RH is around 70-80% without the dehumidifier. I'll ruin the crop if I do that.
 
Mmmmm, do you dry for 2-3 days with +-55%RH and then you store them into brown bags for how long? It's a faster way to dry?
I really think that if I dry them for a week and store into the bags for another week without even touching it this could ruin it all.
 
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