I guess I messed up during the drying process. Such a beautiful cola, too, but I forgot to take a pic before I noticed the mold - at which point I just started peeling away chunks at a time ☹️
What a bummer.
I guess I messed up during the drying process. Such a beautiful cola, too, but I forgot to take a pic before I noticed the mold - at which point I just started peeling away chunks at a time ☹️
What a bummer.
I guess because I was trying that “hang the whole branch to dry” method, with the same arrangement I had with the larfy harvest before it. I needed to increase airflow, I think? I dunno, but I think I’ll stick with taking everything off the strm for now
You mean the entire plant or individual branches with the fan leaves removed? Because the latter should be fine as long as there’s some air circulation and the relative humidity isn’t too high. That’s how I’ve always dried them and I’ve never had mold. Few times I’ve moved them drying elsewhere after the surface has still felt moist after like 4 days of drying.
I removed the fan leaves, and even did most of a wet trim. I think I didn’t have as much air circulation in the part of the basement this was hung in as i did the other spot. It was just one main stem with 2 separate and smaller branches. Nothing fancy over here until I can make one that comes out right from start to finish
What were your conditions? You should keep the air moving at all times.
Where I am it’s stupid dry, so I have to leave stuff on the branches or it’s over dry in days.
It was towars the upper edn of 50% humidity , and I had air moving around the room, but not specifically for this purpose ans I think with the level of humidity I should have had a fan or dehu going. I think it might work well when the weather is actually more wintery than it is now, but until then I have to be more diligent
I’d guess that there was already mold in the bud at harvest. It looks like a lot and I think it takes a few days for mold to spread that much.
You think? I have no idea - the plant seemed fine, and I didnt notice it until I opened it up, so I don’t really know. I’ll have to keep a closer eye, and maybe break the big buds up a little more before drying, just to check.
Thanks!
As soon as they develop buds I check them every day for mold. In both of my grows I discovered mold one day before the planned harvest and had to throw away some of it.
When the buds grow denser I even bend the bigger ones a bit to check its cores. I do this with rubber gloves or skewers because it’s so very sticky.
Huh.
I usually set my exhaust fan to turn on at 60%rh and my humidifier (if I use it) to turn off at 55%rh. I keep my upper and lower canopy fans going 100%, but you want the RH to be up, but that’s why you want LOTS of indirect airflow.
You want a sealed climate, so a grow tent or you can rig up a tote if it’s a small enough batch or something.
Yeah, still working on getting everything dialed in and figuring out how to make my space work - I’ll have to get some kind of tote or box or small tent or sonething. i know my set up wasn’t ideal. Its not a sealed environment, and I didnt have as much airflow as i probably should have. Thanks for the tips and what your setup (that you know works) is like!