A little help on color-curing

[Idaho Mike]

Pictures are from 8 days in a grow tent. Temp held to nearly 70 degrees. Humidity held at 75%.
Some leaves look good. Others are almost as green as day one.
Should I separate those that are nice and brown and dry them, and continue with the green ones?
Also, winter has arrived. I harvested 4 whole plants and have hung them in the grow tent also. Good idea, or should they be dried in a less humid area.

 

[Patriotguy]

I started bringing my stalk harvested plants into my house instead of leaving them in my shed and they are color curing slowly but faster than the ones in the shed for sure. I don't know if this will help you or not but maybe its an option?

 

[deluxestogie]

I see no photos attached. You might try uploading them again today.

In general, you can leave all of it hanging together. Leaves that are fully brown can be separated and dried-down. If you drop your humidity to ~70%, and have a fan going, then you can just leave everything in the tent for as long as you like.

Bob

 

[Idaho Mike]

There we go. It didn’t want to cooperate last night

 

[dubhelix]

In my limited experience, if the humidity is high enough that the brown parts of the leaf stay soft and flexible, the green bits will yellow and then turn brown just fine, though I space my leaf much closer together on the strings to slow moisture loss. Once they’re brown, I space them back out for drying-down.

My preferred approach to preventing “drying-green” is to “box” the leaves before hanging. The box maintains much higher humidity and concentrates ethyline gas (?).
A few days to a week in a box and the leaves are half to full yellow, and when hung at 70rH brown more easily without as much risk of drying green. Rotating/restacking the leaf daily is necessary to avoid composting.

If I hang without boxing first I can end up with a bit of green leaf, unless weather conditions are just right.

 

[Idaho Mike]

Does what I have so far look like its progressing the right way?

 

[deluxestogie]

If the green is not dried, then YES.

Bob

 

[Idaho Mike]

If the green is not dried, then YES.

Bob

Good. It's still very pliable.