Help Me With My Drying Set-Up Please

Hey All,

Would love some tips on how to dry properly (totally messed this up in my last grow).

Here are my plants: https://www.rollitup.org/t/2nd-grow-w-pics-gimme-some-feedback-opinions.1022058/

So I've been monitoring 2 locations where I had planned to dry, both outside, and temps and humidity wont cooperate. So I'm going to need to dry indoors, which means I need to control the smell.

Can you guys give me some links and ideas for how to do this? At this point, I'm thinking of using a closet in my finished basement. Temps are steady around 66-68 and humidity is already good (and easily adjusted with a humidifier/dehumidifier).

I do not have the ability to vent directly to the outside so an inline fan/filter isnt ideal. It's a small closet so what can I use to help control the smell? I also plan to have a small fan blowing against the opposite wall to get some indirect airflow.

I'll buy whatever I need to, within reason, but I 1)need to handle the smell as effectively as possible and 2) need to not mess this up this time.

Thanks!

Why not just wait a few weeks to start your next grow and dry in the same space. If its a good growing environment it will dry pot fine.
Shoudnt be a stinky as when they are growing. Alternatively you could buy the cheapest small tent you can find and dry in that in your grow space.

Boatguy said:

Why not just wait a few weeks to start your next grow and dry in the same space. If its a good growing environment it will dry pot fine.
Shoudnt be a stinky as when they are growing. Alternatively you could buy the cheapest small tent you can find and dry in that in your grow space.

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My grow shed gets too hot and the windows are too small for even the smallest window AC. I'm reading temps near 80, even with low humidity, can ruin the drying, no?

Yes.... Too hot for drying.
If you are going to continue growing in the shed, a dual hose in room ac may be worth the expense. Curious how you even manage temps in there with the lights cranking in the summer?

The closet will work well.
A scrubber on something like an infinity fan/controller works perfectly for me in my second tent. With a carbon filter it pulls air out and scrubs air if humidity gets too high.
I use a humidifier on timer every 15min for a minute. Keeps humidity about 60% and will turn on the fan from time to time to exchange and scrub the air.
This extends my dry time past 7-10 days, which I do to avoid that "hay" smell.

Boatguy said:

Yes.... Too hot for drying.
If you are going to continue growing in the shed, a dual hose in room ac may be worth the expense. Curious how you even manage temps in there with the lights cranking in the summer?

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Just using lots of fans. The buda look great. Sure, maybe they could be bigger in a lower temp, but they are looking good, and seems like weed doesnt mind 80ish temps.

So what kind of filter system can I use indoor to help control the smell and airflow I a small closet in the basement?

Cookie Rider said:

The closet will work well.
A scrubber on something like an infinity fan/controller works perfectly for me in my second tent. With a carbon filter it pulls air out and scrubs air if humidity gets too high.
I use a humidifier on timer every 15min for a minute. Keeps humidity about 60% and will turn on the fan from time to time to exchange and scrub the air.
This extends my dry time past 7-10 days, which I do to avoid that "hay" smell.

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Could you share a few links for your setup so I know what to be looking for?

You want to hang dry in a room that gets even some small ventilation like an open window or door. If it smells by a carbon filter and fan and run it in the room just on the floor or hung somewhere out the way.

Theres a reason you failed first time and it is a requirement to have a drying room
or a room in which they dry.

You leave hanging in this area and temps and humidity arent really an issue, it will taje a week to dry and another week for flavour and smell to be finished. Dont jar before rwo weeks.

Drying is super simple, if you can grow you will sort it out, divorce the wife and sll the kids if you have to.

2Hearts said:

You want to hang dry in a room that gets even some small ventilation like an open window or door. If it smells by a carbon filter and fan and run it in the room just on the floor or hung somewhere out the way.

Theres a reason you failed first time and it is a requirement to have a drying room
or a room in which they dry.

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So like literally, just get a carbon filter and put it somewhere in the room. No ducting, no connecting the filter to a fan, just hang it in the same room and it will ck trol the smell? Guess I was under the assumption you had to "funnel" the air thru the filter by a fan to have it work. Does that make sense?

Anything but the normal hang dry in a room is seriously prone to problems. Tbh id just hang in the grow room out the way and wait two weeks. Better than tents fans and all the rubbish, eventually you will get something sorted.

1st_Time_Grower said:

So like literally, just get a carbon filter and put it somewhere in the room. No ducting, no connecting the filter to a fan, just hang it in the same room and it will ck trol the smell? Guess I was under the assumption you had to "funnel" the air thru the filter by a fan to have it work. Does that make sense?

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You need a fan to pull or push the air through the filter. Use the foil ducting to pump the filtered air out the closet.
A step better would be get a small tent fan filter combo just for drying.
It holds in the humidity and smells gives a chance of being stealth.

Im going to put down an idea and i bet its sold by christmas - tent, low power inline and carbon filter - $200 instant drying tent and area.

There is a reason that idea hasnt been made until now - drying in tents is stupid, its never caught on.

Works a treat for me.
It's perfect for it.

No im refering to the other million threads here where they failed. Once you understand humidity and temperature away from stoner sites it becomes all to easy to build a drying area tent or just hang in a room.

Too much adjusting hulidity and temperature or mum/wife dosent like the smell etc sees fail as much as early jarring. It seems the biggest stumbling block for growers at the moment and why boveda got rich of noobs.

Cookie Rider said:

Works a treat for me.
It's perfect for it.

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I learned by ruining my first time.
Then with the ok of my other half (no secrets) I figured out the best way to slow the drying time and keep the stink under control at the same time.

Drying should be natural not slow or fast, thats the problem with tents and fans. This happens just by hanging in a room though so yes no secret.

Cookie Rider said:

I learned by ruining my first time.
Then with the ok of my other half (no secrets) I figured out the best way to slow the drying time and keep the stink under control at the same time.

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2Hearts said:

Drying should be natural not slow or fast, thats the problem with tents and fans. This happens just by hanging in a room though so yes no secret.

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I kind of agree with this and want to just hang em in a closet like you said and dont really mess with them. But I have to do something about the smell. Plus I dont have a way to vent out of this particular closet and I'm not cutting a 4" hole in the door to out a duct tube thru lol. Have also considered one of those air ionizer to run in the closet. I dont know, but gotta come up with a solution in the next 2 weeks before harvest gets close.

I dont advise a closet but an open room, closets and tents will need venting because air inside is stagnant.

This is the problem with a lot of indoor growers, you overcomplicate an easy process because of the smell or lack of space to control this. Few are following and respecting an ancient tradition and the skills behind it but looking for shortcuts which might work for one but kill anothers hard work.

The ventilation and airflow for a closet would have to be low, much less negative pressure than a grow tent. You might construct it then hang fresh picked bunches of herbs to practice with before, some oregano maybe bunch of parsley that sort of thing.

Whatever method you use the same principles apply, dry enough to smoke after one week and full taste and flavour after two. You must not seal the bud until it has had enough time to become ready to consume. Jarring after a week is noob stuff, it has never been done this way except by a small bunch of stoners who never took the time to work the whole process out and thought that simply being dry meant it was ready to cure and that the cure was where the taste and flavour came from.

1st_Time_Grower said:

I kind of agree with this and want to just hang em in a closet like you said and dont really mess with them. But I have to do something about the smell. Plus I dont have a way to vent out of this particular closet and I'm not cutting a 4" hole in the door to out a duct tube thru lol. Have also considered one of those air ionizer to run in the closet. I dont know, but gotta come up with a solution in the next 2 weeks before harvest gets close.

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Thanks for all the tips guys. I'm just going to have to make do as best I can. I'm still searching for other options, or someone I can trust that will let me hand em in their basement, but I have some work to do. And not a lot of time to figure it out.

2Hearts said:

I dont advise a closet but an open room, closets and tents will need venting because air inside is stagnant...

Whatever method you use the same principles apply, dry enough to smoke after one week and full taste and flavour after two. You must not seal the bud until it has had enough time to become ready to consume.

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What would you say your ideal temp/RH is for your drying? Is 65-70 degrees (F) and 50%-60% RH a good range to be in?