I spoke with our 1 local grow store owner and he mentioned using a wood moisture meter to check drying buds. I believe he said like 12-13%? Anyone else try this? If so how were your results🤔? Seems like a great way to learn your drying environment and how a plant reacts to it. Any truth behind this?
Testing Dryness With Wood Moisture Meter
by Your_Mailman_Grows | Jun 3, 2020 | Grower Questions | 10 comments
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My thought would be, how sensitive is it and what is the margin of error? I’ve never heard or tried that, but if I had one at the house, I most definitely would be curious enough to see what data it gives me.
I picked one up from Harbor Frieght for $15, after searching and finding this video. Just curious if anyone else has tried it? I only found a few vids in a quick search.. https://youtu.be/OcdlDPUxVGA
I have done this and it helped me.
There is a youtube video somewhere that uses one you might give youtube a search for a visual representation. But ideally you want to have a bud your comfortable with to jar up with out fear of mold and test that. Create a baseline maybe even do a few different reading and put them in seperate jars to find the optimal reading.
Hard to beat the smoke test.
If it burns nicely in a joint, it’s usually a good indicator it’s time to jar it up. 🙂👍
Sorry i didn’t mention the whole back story. I was talking to the owner about when to stop drying a full hanging plant. I assumed the grow store owner was referring to that while using it while they are still hanging whole.
I’m still thinking about it, new toys are fun. lol. For as “dialed” of a person I am, I still completely eyeball that one.
I’m the same way I love data behind something to show me a positive or negative, or understand a situation better
Long story short just finished 1st grow and it was autos, tons of problems etc. Anyways 1st of 1/4 came down like on day 90, 2nd a
week and half later, then a week later, after that, and a week later again. I was able to keep my basement at the time around 63ish temp 60ish RH.
Thought this may help a noob like me maybe understand “ok this what the feel of just not ready yet, or just to far along or etc. With a tangible #
How do you use it? do you pierce the stem or just stick the probes into the middle of a bud?
Granted from the limited conversation with him and the video, there’s 2 sharp prongs that can be inserted into wood and get a like a reading of14% of moisture in the wood.
He said you do the same to a hanging plant when you think its close to ready…
I remember an older Adam Dunn episode where he mentioned moisture levels of flower, and it shocked me because at the time i was confusing moisture of a flower vs RH in a jar (i think he said to shoot like 10-11% moisture but I could be way off again)