Drying temps and RH?

[meffa]

I've been drying my first harvest in my tent and the temp has been 66-68F and R/H around 60-62%. I had thought this would be perfect for a nice slow dry, but I'm wondering if the humidity is too high? There's plenty of air movement in the tent but I don't want to screw this up and end up with mold if my humidity is too high.

 

[Emilya Green]

that sounds about right to me... its going to dry pretty fast in there with all the air movement and i dont think you will have any trouble with mold

 

[meffa]

that sounds about right to me... its going to dry pretty fast in there with all the air movement and i dont think you will have any trouble with mold

Is it better to have low air movement? I have tower fans in each corner, though the buds are above the fans and aren't being directly hit by breeze.

 

[Emilya Green]

I get a much better slow dry when I don't have constant fan action and am using the tent as a moisture lock so that I can get a slow dry. I turn on the fans for 5 minutes at the top and bottom of the hour to move any loose moisture out of there, but other than that, I want it to be humid it there... not too humid, but enough so that I am not actively pulling the moisture out of the buds. They are chopped and hanging... they are going to dry, and I don't think they need any extra help. I am doing what I can to slow down the process to a reasonable level. I shoot for 5 days and celebrate when I can get 7, but the slower the initial dry, the better the cure goes.

 

[meffa]

I get a much better slow dry when I don't have constant fan action and am using the tent as a moisture lock so that I can get a slow dry. I turn on the fans for 5 minutes at the top and bottom of the hour to move any loose moisture out of there, but other than that, I want it to be humid it there... not too humid, but enough so that I am not actively pulling the moisture out of the buds. They are chopped and hanging... they are going to dry, and I don't think they need any extra help. I am doing what I can to slow down the process to a reasonable level. I shoot for 5 days and celebrate when I can get 7, but the slower the initial dry, the better the cure goes.

Ah ok, got it. I've been drying for about 9 days now. I put some small stuff in jars that I thought was ready but the humidity was still a little high so I put them back out on a hanging net that I have.

Do you have a particular humidity number that you're ok jarring at, or one that says not ready? I think I heard someone say they burp down to the right humidity, which sounds like they're jarring above their final number.

 

[Emilya Green]

I start moving to jars at around 66% RH and then burp down into the range from there.