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11th Year Anniversary
Is it possible you can hang them inside? I ask because for some people it simply ain't going to work but if it isn't outside your better half's comfort zone then why not bring them inside to dry? If you are going to do a partial harvest, cut the stem at the point you want to leave, trim all the leaves off the cut portion and leave the flowers on. Hang dry in a closet or your bedroom. The temps and RH in a home is perfect for drying, normally around 70F and 50RH. If that isn't practical for you, I have seen people use clothes hangers and clothes pins to hold individual flowers inside a cardboard box to keep symmetry good.
You could do it in a bag in your tent I suppose, I wouldn't put it on the lamp housing because you don't want that heat transferring. Maybe if you could hang the bag in a corner or something, that would work. I wouldn't use two bags though because I wouldn't want all the captured moisture in there. The idea is to get the moisture away from the flowers otherwise they end up kind of brown and ugly looking, like brown fruit does. For example, when you dehumidify fruit, it retains it's color and flavor. When you leave it setting out, it gets brown and funky. Your flowers will do the same thing if you don't allow them to breath while drying. A lot of people here use the paper bag method, maybe someone else with more experience at that will chime in. Otherwise, hunt one of the regulars down and ask their opinion. I am pretty old skool with hanging my entire trees by the main stem. I suppose some habits die hard with us old timers, lol. I have an entire empty closet with wires running across dedicated to drying plants.
Edit: Yeah, you still want to use glass jars for curing. Once your RH is around 50% you can put them in jars. Once they are in the jar, you can expect the RH to rise back up to around 65-70 after a couple of hours. You will just have to open the jar and let the air out and close them back up regularly. Once they stick at your preferred RH then just let them set and open once a week or so to let out any gassing off that may have occurred. The chlorophyll will continue to gas off as the green leaves the plant. The chlorophyll gas also imparts a bad taste so you want to let it out.
You could do it in a bag in your tent I suppose, I wouldn't put it on the lamp housing because you don't want that heat transferring. Maybe if you could hang the bag in a corner or something, that would work. I wouldn't use two bags though because I wouldn't want all the captured moisture in there. The idea is to get the moisture away from the flowers otherwise they end up kind of brown and ugly looking, like brown fruit does. For example, when you dehumidify fruit, it retains it's color and flavor. When you leave it setting out, it gets brown and funky. Your flowers will do the same thing if you don't allow them to breath while drying. A lot of people here use the paper bag method, maybe someone else with more experience at that will chime in. Otherwise, hunt one of the regulars down and ask their opinion. I am pretty old skool with hanging my entire trees by the main stem. I suppose some habits die hard with us old timers, lol. I have an entire empty closet with wires running across dedicated to drying plants.
Edit: Yeah, you still want to use glass jars for curing. Once your RH is around 50% you can put them in jars. Once they are in the jar, you can expect the RH to rise back up to around 65-70 after a couple of hours. You will just have to open the jar and let the air out and close them back up regularly. Once they stick at your preferred RH then just let them set and open once a week or so to let out any gassing off that may have occurred. The chlorophyll will continue to gas off as the green leaves the plant. The chlorophyll gas also imparts a bad taste so you want to let it out.
