Yes, smell is awesome today! 10 meters around house - open air!
@oldcoot how do you dry with brown bag - how often do you turn around buds? You close bag or open? How's RH in bag?
Here is the brown bag method given in AFN [use search function].
I follow it religiously, and it works perfectly.
Cut and trim, then place trimmed buds into the bottom of a brown paper bag.
NB: Single layer only.
Do NOT over pack the paper bags.
Close/seal the brown bag.
Place onto drying rack, in a dark tent/room.
Have an oscillating fan or two in the tent/room, and ventilation too.
I tend to keep RH% around 45-55%.
You can gently stir/shake the bags daily, if you so choose.
Resist the temptation to open them.
It's hard, I know.
Allow 10% drying per day, + 1 day.
For example, if your target is 50% humidity of bud, you would be aiming to reduce the humidity of the bud by 50%.
Simple so far.
Then, @ 10% per day, would mean 5 days [total 50% reduction], +1 day means total of 6 drying days.
The CAVEAT is, the size and density of the buds.
Popcorn or fluffy buds won't need the 6 days.
Baby arm sized giant colas will need more.
BUT - I would never try to dry a baby arm.
It's great for showing off to your mates, but not so great for drying and end product.
Break them down to large gold ball sized nugs.
They tend to be the most consistent performers.
Take them out of the bags.
Place them into sealed jars with some Boveda 62.
Job done.
In terms of wet weight to dry weight conversion - using this method I guesstimate at harvest by using 22.5% of wet weight, and its proved to be pleasingly accurate.
