Harvest & Curing diy drying box

[realer_dn_most]

hey guys, harvest is near and im turning a XL cardboard box into a drying room.

my question is, would there be too much airflow if i had a 4" fan with carbon filter sat at the bottom of the box with passive intakes cut in at the top of the box? will the buds dry too fast and will the carbon filter be effective as ill be drying in my living space.

thanks AFNers

 

[cloudsosmoke]

@realer_dn_most

Ive been checking around recently for drying box ideas also..
what I’ve heard/read so far..

No extra fan or carbon filter necessary
If you attach box to a passive tent intake...
your existing extraction will pull through enough air and filter smell
..I don’t think you need any intake holes - small gaps in box are enough

But I’m just a passing newbie at AFN
- so hopefully there will be ppl with more knowledge than me posting lol

I’m assembling a new tent very soon - but Ill want to keep my drying box inside my tent - there’s a nice corner
- but to avoid high air temp i might have to give it a separate cool air supply from outside - so ill prolly use a fan
But ill still be able to exhaust it inside the tent and use existing fan and filter for smell

 

[bushmasterar15]

Here is a good thread on drying/curing processes www.autoflower.org/threads/drying-and-curing.43351/
I think @Ash-a-Ton did some drying in a cardboard box maybe he can answer about it to give some help.

 

[Ozone69]

I built a little drying box using a Uhaul wardrobe box (the bar across the top along with clothes hangers works great for hanging branches). The article I got the idea of off on another site (been too long to remember where) suggested using a cut up carbon filter from a hardware store that you can buy for home furnace use and cutting it down to fit a small fan for ventilation. He was drawing out a hole cut in the back top rear of the box, so don't know how pulling from bottom will affect things.

Anyhow....according to what I read there, when he ran his fan full time it resulted in things drying out WAAAY too fast. So what he had done, and what I did with mine, was to setup a timer to turn the fan on for 15 minutes every two hours. Things could still dry out pretty fast for me on a couple runs, but then I'm on the high plains along the Colorado Rockies where we have some of the lowest relative humidity around so stuff tends to dry out fast here, anyhow. :smoking:

 

[realer_dn_most]

I built a little drying box using a Uhaul wardrobe box (the bar across the top along with clothes hangers works great for hanging branches). The article I got the idea of off on another site (been too long to remember where) suggested using a cut up carbon filter from a hardware store that you can buy for home furnace use and cutting it down to fit a small fan for ventilation. He was drawing out a hole cut in the back top rear of the box, so don't know how pulling from bottom will affect things.

Anyhow....according to what I read there, when he ran his fan full time it resulted in things drying out WAAAY too fast. So what he had done, and what I did with mine, was to setup a timer to turn the fan on for 15 minutes every two hours. Things could still dry out pretty fast for me on a couple runs, but then I'm on the high plains along the Colorado Rockies where we have some of the lowest relative humidity around so stuff tends to dry out fast here, anyhow. :smoking:

as ill be drying indoors around alot of noisy neighbours and away from my growing tent so i need proper odour control. got the carbon filter and 4" fan to run in the front room as i harvest my plants but unsure if i should leave the carbon filter and fan inside the dry box of if i should leave it outside the box with the filter against the box like an indirect exhaust.