Gettin' learnt on drying and curing with Ricky
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Willie
🍓 Crush Genetics 🍓
Celery works the best! I recharge my bovedas with 1 stalk in a quart jar. Works excellent and it takes a really long time to mold. You'd have to forget it for a while.........and that is possible, lol.
I would imagine the celery would produce a lot of moisture. I put a carrot slice less than 1/8 th of a inch thick padded hard with paper towels brought the moisture up quicker than i thought. Anyone have any incite as to how well weed will cure in the mid 50's RH range?
I can not find a patent number to this unit plus i do not think Herbs now dryer is a registered trade mark. @SSGrower do you see anything on this tag that would indicate a patent number. I bet there is more to this story that we don't know.
No most I can derrive from that is intertek looks like a testing body certifying the unit is food safe. I am leaning more towards the the unit violates something like the patent for a low temp dehydrator and shipment was siezed in customs. It just dosent smell right feels like an experiment attempt to fly under radar. I am not happy with some things greenleaf does but that dosent necessarily mean they make a bad product.
@Buzzer777 question for you while i am thinking about it. On the HN dryer i think i remember one of his painful videos that the unit would dry even from top to bottom. Is that your experience as well? The reason i ask was the last load i dried was a bit uneven but i had three different strains in there. The strains on top were more moist but not sure if it was dryer or strain related.
I was fairly certain it was strain related but i wanted to check.
Buzzer777
In Bloom
That's just my opinion..I THINK that it has to do with how the warm air circulates thru the buds, and how long it takes the moisture (and some chlorophyl) to leave those buds.
I try to keep the buds the same size as much as possible.
Absolutely NOT sure about my thoughts.
Willie
🍓 Crush Genetics 🍓
This herbs now dryer looks a lot like my old ronco dehydrator. The difference looks like the digital interface and a better ability to adjust temp. The ronco is simply "on" @ one temp and the drying rate is adjusted thru the top venting. I still have that dehydrator here somewhere........since it's only resistance maybe I can put a rheostat switch on her.
This ones from approx 2005...................and unchanged for the most part from the first Ronco I got circa '84. Both make/made excellent jerky. I'm gonna have to see about digging that puppy up and see if she'll work for drying.
This ones from approx 2005...................and unchanged for the most part from the first Ronco I got circa '84. Both make/made excellent jerky. I'm gonna have to see about digging that puppy up and see if she'll work for drying.
Buzzer777
In Bloom
The Herbsnow dryer is also one setting for temps (ON)..It is supposedly set to a temp between 75-80d F. It looks loke a reworked Presto food hydrator to me, and I have a batch "cooking" in it right now. Haven't hung anything since I have owned mine.
Dehydro™ Digital Electric Food Dehydrator
Dehydrates fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. Makes great jerky and fruit rolls too.
@Buzzer777 what is your take on the amp pulse that i spoke of on post # 70 of this thread.The Herbsnow dryer is also one setting for temps (ON)..It is supposedly set to a temp between 75-80d F. It looks loke a reworked Presto food hydrator to me, and I have a batch "cooking" in it right now. Haven't hung anything since I have owned mine.
Dehydro™ Digital Electric Food Dehydrator
Dehydrates fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. Makes great jerky and fruit rolls too.www.gopresto.com
Buzzer777
In Bloom
@Capt. C
I really don't know, but @jaguarlax has been using a regular food dehydrator (by Instapot) that has a lower setting than most and seems happy with the results.
Is it possible that the amps pulse as the heater switches on and off?
Last time I looked, his domain was for sale and Herbsnow is history (I think)
Late to this thread, but intrigued.
I use something very close to this all the time for food:
The lowest reading on the dial is 35c/95f but it can be turned quite a distance below that. I just threw a few small branches in there on low and set a timer for an hour. Could be a handy method.
I use something very close to this all the time for food:
The lowest reading on the dial is 35c/95f but it can be turned quite a distance below that. I just threw a few small branches in there on low and set a timer for an hour. Could be a handy method.
Buzzer777
In Bloom
I have been looking at a few with settings below 90d F, just for when my Herbsnow gives out. lowest that I found went down to 86 if I recall, but most have 95 as the lowest setting. Yours looks to have a mechanical temperature knob and if so should be easy to modify to go even lower.Late to this thread, but intrigued.
I use something very close to this all the time for food:
The lowest reading on the dial is 35c/95f but it can be turned quite a distance below that. I just threw a few small branches in there on low and set a timer for an hour. Could be a handy method.
Plz keep us posted on your results..
edit: The herbsnow guy says minimum of 96 hrs, or until the small stems break and not bend.In my climate, 48 hrs is tops due to the low RH here.
Testing temperature parameters now. Photo for legitimacy. Subsequent posts will only have temps, no need to waste bandwidth.
Seems like the heater can be dialed right off , but I'll wait until my hour timer goes off to check the thermometer.
At 150 bucks, I think I feel comfortable enough with mine to say it works for what I need it for and that was drying in a jam...it’s perfect for this bigger colas that would be susceptible to bud rod on a long hang... I will also say that I am partial to just hanging my plants, because obviously that gives better results, but at just about 72 hours @ 85 degrees, it produces a pleasurable smoke, with white ash as if it was cured with air drying methods. The oven space is big enough where you can actually hang buds with binder clips or whatever from the top of the dryer... maybe I should do a step by step as well with the next plant I take.
it’s also makes the perfect French Fry, so if you don’t care for it, still not a total bust...
Amazon product
It would appear the heater can be dialed right off. After more than enough time to be completely adjusted to ambient inside the dehydrator, the thermometer read 21C.
I'm thinking it would be very simple to drill a tiny hole and mount a small probe-type thermometer if a person was so inclined and wanted to have more precise control.
