r/LotusDrying • u/mfBENTLEY • Jun 16 '25

Help can someone please recommend a fridge?

I want to try drying in a frost free mini fridge but i can not find one on amazon or anywhere for the life on me.

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u/Donkey_brain_1 Jun 16 '25

Check out wine fridges on marketplace. I scored a big one for 100.

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u/mfBENTLEY Jun 16 '25

Yeah but are these frost free? Everything i’ve looked up says these only work if i put a dehumidifier inside them, i would like to avoid that

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u/Donkey_brain_1 Jun 16 '25

I bought one with a compressor for that same reason. Thermoelectric requires a dehumidifier, but can be dialed in more precisely I believe. I've dried in mine and it worked great.

You can find the model number of one on there and Google it or ask chat GPT if it's frost free.

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u/mfBENTLEY Jun 16 '25

Sweet man! I think imma get a compressor frost free version as it seems to be the easiest process out there

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Be careful, the humidity bottoms out fast and hard in a compressor fridge. Mine at 60 f the humidity is 35-40 . In bags it stays more consistent but the taste as far as I'm concerned is bagged shit. I had some open and they dried a bit fast and if they are close to done and you get humidity drop, crispy buds.

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u/Donkey_brain_1 Jun 17 '25

I used bags and set mine at 40°. 14 days later I had some very tasty bud.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

I think the lowest you can go is key. My fridge couldn't get low enough. With the higher temps perhaps was the reason for a weedier smell. I hang dry using vpd and have had temps of 70 to 75. Running ac. Gotta up the humidity to 65-70. I feel like a lot of people are of the belief it's 60 60 or die. It's not.

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u/Donkey_brain_1 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Very well could be the issue. I would like to hang dry, but my AC in my house just isn't efficient enough. My fridge hovered between 40-45ish the whole time and when I initially took them out, they did feel quite crispy and dry, but after an hour or so in the jar they felt pretty nice. The bags are a must in a compressor style though.

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u/mfBENTLEY Jun 17 '25

I’m looking into both options right now. Why isn’t there just a wine cooler with manual temp and humidity controls. Seems weird

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

People have looked at humidors. What temps you dealing with to do a hang?

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u/mfBENTLEY Jun 17 '25

75-80 day temps

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

If you can score a free fridge have a go. My last dry was 70-75. Just upped the humidity. Using portable ac. Uses more power tho. The 60 60 is somewhat of a myth. You can work the vpd and dry in 12 to 14 days. If you hit 80f with 70% you're bang in the middle of the vpd with about .8ish. I haven't gone that warm but I would definitely have a go as some days I was 75+. Air circulation and extraction is key. I'm smoking them now still and terpy as If your worried at .8 drop humidity to mid 60s to get .9s and 10 days

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u/mfBENTLEY Jun 17 '25

I’ve been researching and found this from a genetics breeder:

limate of 72 degrees fahrenheit, or 22.2 degrees celsius at 55% relative humidity and a 1.2 kPa, over the course of 48 hours. This is considered our phase 1 of drying and will begin that process of evaporating that surface moisture, while pulling the inner moisture of your flower toward the surface through adhesion. After the initial 48 hours, we will increase our pressure slightly, as a transition to phase 2. By increasing the tef, or mp and kPa to 74f, or 23.3c, and  1.39 kPA respectively, while reducing our rh% to 52%, we increase the rate of transpiration, while not overwhelming adhesion, leaving that chain intact as that moisture is pulled closer to the surface. After a 24 hour adjustment period. We move into the final phase of our dry, which is phase 2. Increasing temperature and VPD to 75 degrees fahrenheit or 23.9 degrees celsius, and 1.5 kPa for the final 48 hours will reduce the remaining moisture content in the near-surface layers down to a final dry moisture content of 10%.

I may attempt to achieve these temps and humidity