Drying room

Bigbeast

Active Member
Just set up a drying room, 10x10 with a few small circulating fans. Exhaust fan set to exhaust at 58% humidity. I have temp set at 68 degrees. Are these parameters good ?
 

DarkWeb

Well-Known Member
Never set one up before but that sounds like a good starting point and then just monitor. See how it goes and tune from there. I'd love to hear how other people are doing it. I've been thinking about a dedicated drying curing room but much smaller then 10x10.
 

piratebug

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The humidity is fine, but you are riding both ends of the safe drying spectrum in regards to keeping those myrcene terpenes fully intact before jarring your bud!. Myrcene terpenes will begin to evaporate at 68F and it doesn't matter what the RH percentage is or at any temperature above freezing and below 68F if the humidity drops to below 58% RH. That is one of those things I see a lot of guides on the internet get wrong. Let me try to explain what I mean.... you harvest a plant, plants have branches with buds on them, and some of those buds are tiny, and others are small, medium, big, and huge. So every bud on every branch will dry at a different interval. So say your drying environment is set to 68F and 58% RH, the big buds will dry to 63% to 65% RH in 9 to 12 days, but in the same time period that you are waiting for those big and huge buds to dry down to 63% to 65% RH the (tiny, little, and medium buds) will have already been dried down to 58% RH, so the myrcene terpenes on those buds, (ie; the tiny, little, and medium buds) will have pretty much all evaporated away, so when you jar those buds they really won't contribute to the curing process as they don't have anything to share with the other buds that still have all of their myrcene terpenes. Anyway the best drying temperature and humidity should be below 68F and above 58% RH, that way when you jar your bud up all you buds will equally contribute to the curing process! Anyhow... how I was taught is simply like this... If your curing target is 60% RH, then you should dry your bud at +2 point above your curing target. Example, my curing target is 62% RH, so my drying environment would be 64F / 64% RH...
 
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