Winter/Spring 2023

5/15- Harvested the 4 Double Grape that were ready. I cut the entire plant at the base of the main stalk, removed the large fan leaves, and hung them upside down in my drying tent, which is a Vivosun 36”x36”x72” grow tent. My drying tent has an active 4”, 190cfm exhaust fan and a 4” passive intake with carbon. I use a humidity controller for the exhaust fan and set it at 62% RH. I throttled down the exhaust fan a little bit using a speed controller to try and avoid large swings in the RH. 5/20- dropped humidity controller to 60.5%. I will continue to drop humidity by 1% per day for the next five days until the controller reaches 55%. I will not go below 55% on the controller and will keep it there until the humidity in the tent stops rising above 55%. I may not make it down to 55%RH before the RH in the tent stops exceeding the setting on the controller, but 55% RH is the lowest I will go. Once the plants no longer release enough moisture to drive the humidity in the tent up and above the setting on the controller and they start to “snap” and not just bend when flexed, I will clip the individual branches, and do another rough trim to remove any remaining leaves. Branches will hang another 1-2 days or until they all “snap”. Once they “snap”, I will do the final cleanup of the buds, remove them from the branch, and put them in glass jars for curing. My curing process typically involves two weeks of “burping” and “turning” jars to allow airflow and prevent any mold. Each jar also gets a Boveda pack (either 62%RH or 58%RH). I lay the jars on their side and rotate them; open the lid for 20-30 min while leaving the jars on their side; put the lid back on and rotate the jar a few more times while still on its side; and then stand it up. The “burping” period is only 20-30min per day for two weeks, and after that the jars will remain sealed. My personal preference is to wait another 30-60 days before starting to enjoy the harvest to get this really good flavors and smoke. I always make sure my previous harvest is large enough to cover me while I wait for the next grow to finish, which is usually about 100 days long (germ-veg-flower-drying) plus the additional month or two (30-60 days) for curing. 5/23: clipped branches off two of the four plants I harvested. The branches on the other two were still bending and not snapping, so they aren’t quite ready. For the two that I clipped I did another round of cleanup on the buds before hanging the branches back in the tent, mostly removing smaller fan leaves I couldn’t access when the plant was whole. I will do one more round of cleanup on the buds once they are done drying and ready to start the curing process, which will be in 1-2 days. 5/26-5/27: trimmed branches into final nugs and put on a bin for storage/curing along with two, 62%RH Boveda bags. Totals for the four double grape plants were 138g, 130g, 92g, 120g. The last double grape took an extra week and a half to finish up, and has been chopped and trimmed. The last plant yielded another 140g of double grape, which brings the grand total >600g from 5 plants.