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How did I over-dry?

MakeMeSleepy420
MakeMeSleepy420started grow question 1mo ago
2nd ever grow, I cut plants into colas, wet trimmed fan leaves, 60/60 in tent w/ indirect fans, for 7 days until stems audibly snapped. Final trim felt dry, hygrometers are 1 yr old, reading 50% humidity. 412g dry weight) - why would this happen?
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ATLien415
ATLien415answered grow question 1mo ago
You could have went into your dry phase with your flower being too dry. Old timers would sometimes start sunsetting their watering schedule such that the buds are beginning to lower their moisture content before being cut - I used to do this but found it to be an unneeded step that aggravates your real dry phase. Wet trimming, in my experience, is not worth the trouble. I greatly prefer to do any perturbing of the plant prior to cutting them down, so any fan leaves that would be trimmed wet get pulled the week or two leading up. Not only is it easier to trim, do you save more hash, but it also modulates the drying of the flower to an extent (this is the mechanism behind flavor chasers always seeming to fall on the 'whole plant hang' style, as then the fan leaves and stems really temper the drying and slow it down even more). If you had normal-moisture content bud going into dry, and truly held at 60F/60RH, then your dry should have been 10-12 days anywhere in the world with basically any strain with flowers of any acceptable density. For example, where I live the humidity outside can range from single digits to low 80%s depending on the time of year. The same tent, with different equipment, has me between 55%RH-60%RH between 55F-65F depending on time of year. This results in a 10 day minimum when running the 55%RH bottom threshold. In summary, with a 7 day dry expect a harsh/sugary/chlorophyll-laced taste to the flower for the first few months of cure. The way it was explained to me is large humidity dips early in dry can effectively lock sugars and chlorophylls into the plant matter, making your cure take longer. Taste your flower to confirm this. If you really are feeling adventurous, a water cure can fix this at the simple cost of all your terp content.
m0use
m0useanswered grow question 1mo ago
hygrometers don't last forever and I find the cheep ones break around a yr old. at least the ones I have used did that. they would not go above 30% or below 25% the internal spring or sensor gets gunked up or breaks. So might be reading an incorrect amount of RH. Can try and toss them into a jar with a few humidity packs to see if it read it right. Give it a full 24hrs to adjust. humidity packs are great. Note on RH packs: Intergra Boost sucks. bidova is amazeing anything in the 55-62% range works. just don't mix brands and different RH values. Plants will smell like grass or piss if they where put in the jar to early, just let em air dry a day or more.
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 1mo ago
60/60 won't be dry after 7 days unless you had a fan pointed at your buds... or a breeze even if indirect fans... so you did something that sped it up. try something different. also, what do you mean " eading 50% humidity." buds don't control humidity on their own... you need a 2-way humidity pack or it will ebb and flow with ambient RH... can a jar read 60% while full of buds for a period of time? sure, but it's not somethign you can count on. Spontaneous manifiestation of moisture is not a thing. a fan in a tent almost certainly caused too much wind. Stop drying in a tent.. that's some weird thing people do that is not value-added. you have to control the environment outside the tent anyway since there is gas exchange. no way it dried in 7 days without wind.. or misperception about it being dry while still retaining a good amount of moisture inside -- there is a lag between evaporation on surface of the plant material and moisture evening out from within... the surface evaporates much faster than how fast it travels through the plant mass to the surface.
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radagastgrower
radagastgroweranswered grow question 1mo ago
Why do you think you overdryed? In my experience on the seventh day the plant still quite wet inside and you may feel cryspy on the outside but when putting into the jar the humidity will rise again and the bud becomes "fluffy" instead. If you didn't experienced that, it's probably OK. Keep monitoring and be careful with but rot, but leave a Boveda 62% on the pot.
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