Thermoelectric wine cooler drying and curing - DIY
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miller6610
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Thanks to @Hook Daddy and everyone on here I feel like I can rest easy drying my first harvest! I was stressing as I won't have a good place with temp/humidity control to dry in. I just finished building my koolatron 20 bottle setup with the pro breeze dehumidifier disassembled and put in the back of the fridge on an angle so that the fan is not blocked but it is blowing towards the fridge door. I will be using the AC Infinity 79 pro controller and installed the probe next to the fridges temperature probe in the center on the back wall. What are the best settings everyone is using? Is VPD the best? Or I've seen a lot of people starting with a 75% setpoint with a 1% buffer and lowering the setpoint 1% each day until 60% is reached? Sorry I know this has already been talked about but just hoping someone has done some trial and error
miller6610
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Very nice build and explanation of how to set everything up, this definitely helps me out. If you don't mind me asking how did everything turn out? Did using vpd make it easier? The best settings I have seen so far seem to be 55° and start at 75 or 80% humidity and work down to 60% over 10 to 14 days. Your settings are very close to cannatrol so just curious if you have tried both ways and how everything turned out
Tremojem
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Thank you for your kind words. My experience is limited as explained earlier, I have yet to have a complete dry/cure session.
I do plan on one soon, when my current grow is ready to harvest and will share the data.
Regarding this session, I did indeed, use Cannatrol settings and VPD was satisfactory, I also closely monitored temp/rh, and dabled with dew point, but for the most part, I went with VPD.
I deviated from Cannatrol's duration, and instead, doubled the time to dry, and cure is still running at 61% rh. That brings cure to a couple weeks now.
Next session will require the settings you referred to with regard to a very high rh, while slowly reducing the rh over days. That will be a new experience for me, and I will share.
Let me know if I answered all of your questions and feel free to ask more.
In summary...winner for sure. Nice tight buds, great smooth flavor and terps.
I do plan on one soon, when my current grow is ready to harvest and will share the data.
Regarding this session, I did indeed, use Cannatrol settings and VPD was satisfactory, I also closely monitored temp/rh, and dabled with dew point, but for the most part, I went with VPD.
I deviated from Cannatrol's duration, and instead, doubled the time to dry, and cure is still running at 61% rh. That brings cure to a couple weeks now.
Next session will require the settings you referred to with regard to a very high rh, while slowly reducing the rh over days. That will be a new experience for me, and I will share.
Let me know if I answered all of your questions and feel free to ask more.
In summary...winner for sure. Nice tight buds, great smooth flavor and terps.
miller6610
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Looking forward to seeing how your results are! I should also be harvesting soon and testing in the next few weeks. I was thinking about adding a fan on the bottom like you did for some extra air circulation but wasn't sure if it was necessary or not but now my OCD has me debating it again lol. I went with the power breeze dehumidifier and if you put it in the back of the fridge on an angle it the fan blows towards the door and doesn't affect and doesn't seem to affect the performance, hoping that will move enough air. I really don't have anywhere else during the summer to dry so with my plants finishing at different times I was scrambling to find an affordable solution. This is the most stressful part of the process by far and would definitely suck to screw these girls up right at the end
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