How to Hang Dry Weed – EASY Guide on Drying Cannabis Perfect
How to Hang Dry Weed – EASY Guide on Drying Cannabis Perfect
So your plants finally have the perfect amount of amber trichomes and now you’re ready to chop. But you don’t know how to dry weed? Congratulations, you made it this far, but your works not done yet. You can’t just smoke the buds off these plants and the next steps are drying, trimming and curing. There are hundreds of different ways you can dry your buds but for the purpose of this video, I’m going to show you how to dry weed and cannabis and the easiest way is to hang it upside down.
Freshly cut buds will have about 75% water weight and you want to bring this down to about 10-15%. This will allow chlorophyll in your buds to break down and remove the majority of the hay and grassy scent apparent in fresh cut buds. The whole process can take anywhere from 3 to 14 days, depending on size of buds, amount of foliage and stems and the environment. Properly dried buds will improve the smoke quality and preserve the terpene and THC content.
The first thing you need to do is pick a DARK location in your house that’s close to 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 55% humidity. Just find the room that’s closest to this combo using a thermometer/hygrometer. The room needs to be dark because sunlight contains UV light which will degrade THC. It’s also worth noting, that these plants will be DANK during the first couple of days of drying, so if that’s an issue, you may want to dry in a carbon filtered grow tent. These numbers don’t have to exact, but it’s important they don’t fluctuate and as long as you’re not more than 10 degrees off, I’d say you’re safe. If you’re more than 10 degrees, you may need to control the variables using a heater, AC unit, humidifier or dehumidifier:
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High humidity may lead to mold and bud rot, where low humidity may result in your bud drying too fast. Bud that dries too fast will trap chlorophyll in the center of the buds and that doesn’t taste good. Now, were finally ready to chop, I chop right before I was supposed to feed the plants so that as much moisture evaporates naturally.
Some people like to leave their plants in complete darkness for up to 2 days before they chop, but I just chop right in the morning, right before light is about to start in the tent. Now, get your gloves and put them on because its gonna get real sticky.
Drying begins the day that you chop and if you could chop and flip the whole plant in one piece, DO IT. However, most of the time my plants will collapse once I remove the supports, so then, I have to chop by the branch.
Once all these leaves are off, you’re ready to hang. I like to hang using soft twist ties because they’re easy to use and for branches, you don’t even need to tie them. I reuse the ones I used for low stress training and loop it around branch onto the hanging line. As I’m hanging the buds, I am spacing them out and making sure none of them are touching or too close. If I’m drying in a small room, I like to add a small fan and put it on its lowest setting. I never aim the fan directly at the plants and usually aim it at a wall on an angle. This will help prevent isolated cases of high humidity which happens when buds aren’t spaced out evenly.
Once all the buds are hung, closely monitor the temperature and humidity to make sure nothing gets thrown off. For the first 2 days you will notice the same pungent bud like scent that came from your grow tent while the buds were ready to harvest. This is where the majority of the moisture evaporates and on day 3-5 you’ll notice more of the hay and grass like scent.
You may think that the plants have lost their aroma, but this is where the chlorophyll is just breaking down and with that, the grassiness is evaporating. The smell will be less obvious in the days that follow and soon you’ll be ready to trim. During days 5 and on, I use my sense of touch to know when the buds are dry. Find a stem that’s as thick as a toothpick and use both hands to see if the stem cracks. If it bends, theres still moisture in the buds and you want it to kind of snap. Another great method is weight based drying but it requires a hanging scale. By measuring the wet weight, I wait until around 70% of the water weight evaporates to start snapping. Ive been tracking these weights and 72% seems to be my sweet spot.
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The buds will seem dry to the touch, but the inside still contains moisture which we’ll balance out in curing.
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Nice! Well instructed.
I like grove bags to cure.
Now I am discouraged because this is more rocket science than easy harvesting. I wonder how the poor farmers in Afghanistan do it. Do I need all these gadgets?
How can I send you a pic to see if my buds are ready….I’m a rookie
I can’t wait for harvest. I love the smell of {dank} weed in the morning.
i wont dry with my exhaust fan on anymore the buds dried out way too fast ruined the flavor and smell of that plant
that weighting thing is a brilliant idea 🙂
Well done mate! I have grown roughy 30 years now, indoor and out, and most folks don’t really have a good grasp on the process, it’s good to see the success you can have when they do….nugs look great! 2 common mistakes I notice in new growers is overwatering and early harvesting….🇨🇦 Well done mate! 👍🏻
If my temps were good for 7 days but today temps went up to 77. Goimg to be 80 for about n hour bf it starts to cool off. So will my budd thats been drying 7 days at 50-60f 57-61rh but today temps goin to 74 for 2 horrs 77 for 2 hours and bout to be 80 for 2 hours then bsck to cold will it lose alot of terps bc those few hours of warmth?
Yo… Whats up with the exposed insulation in your dry room??
It’s not sounding good for mine down here in Florida. The air condition in my house is 77. I guess I’ll leave it to the medical growers could hang them in under a ceiling fan in the garage at 100°.lol I’m not going through all that crap, humidifiers air conditioners, fans yikes.
What if you don’t have that you have a room thats 70 40
Would u recommend drying the whole plant or in branches? Im doin both the branch dried in 5 days
I’m on my 3rd grow all my grows looked and smelled amazing… BUT completely went to the trash when I was drying them.. im going to try again using this tutorial… hopefully I do it right this time! THANK YOU!
Thank you for the detailed explanation, sir, I have been growing my own for 2 years now and believe me, lol when I see buds like yours, I listen to EVERYTHING you say. Everything you explained in this video gives so much information for new growers and beginners as well. Sorry my comment is a little lame, LOL!! I just woke up, I haven’t smoked or had my coffee yet, so ya know, the brains not right yet lol!!!
Excellent video 🤘🏻
leafs are for shatter !
Not fer enough ….need to turn and curl…looks good but would be bette if you allowed about two weeks more
Hang’emmm high!
If you dry to fast and leave chlorophyll..will the bud turn a brownish color inside..other than hay tasting weed what are some signs of leaving chlorophyll?
thats the most snow i have seen on christmas in a long time (meaning the trichomes)
What happens when it’s colder (40-50 degrees F) and humidity is roughly 70%? I dry outside in a shed with fans to push air, but I can’t control humidity or temp
Great info 🤙
Cool deal. Ty.
Me and my ptr want to watch this in our t.v but it’s not working 😢
No es un buen cultivo , los cogollos no estan compactos , han salido muy abierta la flor
Just completed my first ever grow, it’s some bush ngl but I’m still so happy with it.
Thanks for all the help this Chanel is awesome 🙌
What do you mean by 72% is the sweet spot ? 72% of the water weight gone ?
Good episode🎉
Where I live, it is very hot and dry. Last year I dried my plant inside the tent with very low humidity, the end result was crispy weed with hay taste. Now I have a humidity controller, should I Ieave the extractor fan On all the time?
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It’s great that you mention the grassy hay smell on days 3-5 as being a normal part of every dry. I used to freak out until I learned that it’s totally normal and the sweet diesel returns around day 6-8 every time.
Awesome info bro….thanks for sharing
I’m on my 8th week of the flowering stage of my first run of Blueberry Cheese. I needed this information for the drying process.
WARNING!! waaaarning! 😂
Hi. I was hoping is there a way I can show you the best pictures I could take of my first grow and tell me if I close to the milky/browning enough to start processing?
Who’s garage is at 60* I’m in Arizona and it already in the 90’s
Bro thanks for making everything so simple helped me out so much. Sweet bro sweeeet.
Great!
No way it’s done in three days.
You don’t really have to trim tho right? Isn’t that just for the aesthetics or is it absolutely necessary?
Beautiful buds! Thanks for the tips
Where do you get your seeds
This is an excellent and straight forward video that’s going to help in about a month lol. First time drying for me 😅
what if I don’t trim all those mini-leafes at the end so i can add grams to the final harvest.
like what if they are full of that white stuff even on the leafes, can I leave ’em on?
I was wondering if I could just pull my plants up by the roots but leave them facing up in the trellis net to dry in the tent without hanging upside down ? 🤔
Dude, you have a speech problem lol. I could hardly pay attention to the content when I’m laughing at how you over pronunciate every single vowel and syllable.
Thanks. Very helpful videos. I’m kind of new to this and I’ve been trying to absorb everything I can. I learned a lot from this video.