zigzagburning
Well-Known Member
my ideas on harvesting
I do like the Cardboard box method because I find that the bigger the area the less sent your plants will have and less taste.If you are putting them some where warm I would not use fan because this intends to dry the weed to fast and hardly any curring will take place this will cause a hay like smell, same with big rooms.
What I did is got the biggest cardboard(good because it will transfer moisture and asobe it as well) box i could find which is 3 feet high 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. Then I got twine and every foot in hight I made rows of lines to hang the plants on and at each end of the box I put a 1 inch hole .One at top of one end and at bottom at the other. I put them in a cool place because it will bring out the colors in your plants .Some strains(colorful ones) this works really good. Also it will slow drying process so your plants will cure. Like tobacco Weed shouldn't be dried it should be cured.
I also put a fan in the room to increase air flow and have window in room also. Just open box once or twice a day and check for mold and just gently shake the lines to make movement then close ER back up.
Most people get confused when drying and that is why because they think it has to dry and then cure ,but it is wrong is has to cure while drying that way you don't have to let it sit in a jar for 2 weeks after you dry it to get back some of it's sent and taste but i put it in jars anyways for storage.
I did this with a cooler but I found that that the plastic sweat-ed to much and i have seen fungus form on it. Good or bad I never used that method again.
Believe it or not ,harvesting is very critical and can mean the difference between not to bad dope or excellent dope.
my last harvest I tried them racks you get that are round and mesh with multiple levels( you can get this at walmart ,I think it is called a cloths draper .I draped a Lenin sheet over it and hung it in my closet in a cool room .this seem to work OK but i still like the box the best. They seem to come out smelling more then what they did going in.
You will notice the diffence in taste
I do like the Cardboard box method because I find that the bigger the area the less sent your plants will have and less taste.If you are putting them some where warm I would not use fan because this intends to dry the weed to fast and hardly any curring will take place this will cause a hay like smell, same with big rooms.
What I did is got the biggest cardboard(good because it will transfer moisture and asobe it as well) box i could find which is 3 feet high 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. Then I got twine and every foot in hight I made rows of lines to hang the plants on and at each end of the box I put a 1 inch hole .One at top of one end and at bottom at the other. I put them in a cool place because it will bring out the colors in your plants .Some strains(colorful ones) this works really good. Also it will slow drying process so your plants will cure. Like tobacco Weed shouldn't be dried it should be cured.
I also put a fan in the room to increase air flow and have window in room also. Just open box once or twice a day and check for mold and just gently shake the lines to make movement then close ER back up.
Most people get confused when drying and that is why because they think it has to dry and then cure ,but it is wrong is has to cure while drying that way you don't have to let it sit in a jar for 2 weeks after you dry it to get back some of it's sent and taste but i put it in jars anyways for storage.
I did this with a cooler but I found that that the plastic sweat-ed to much and i have seen fungus form on it. Good or bad I never used that method again.
Believe it or not ,harvesting is very critical and can mean the difference between not to bad dope or excellent dope.
my last harvest I tried them racks you get that are round and mesh with multiple levels( you can get this at walmart ,I think it is called a cloths draper .I draped a Lenin sheet over it and hung it in my closet in a cool room .this seem to work OK but i still like the box the best. They seem to come out smelling more then what they did going in.
You will notice the diffence in taste
). Ill snap some pics of it today and will have them posted hopefully in the next day or two. Weekends are very busy times for me.
So that was my project for the weekend. Im happy with how it turned out. Built it using almost nothing but random nick nacks I had laying around. 1.5 inch pvc piping, 4 cans of different shades of green paint even though the cans said it was all the same shade... Ended up spending about 10 bucks total on the cross pieces to connect them all together. 
I like the new setup you got going! You should have plenty of space now.
