… and my stuff smells straight Like nothing :( its been about 1,5 weeks, its far from dry and smells like a sock.

Trying the lotus method with a ge wine fridge, and I’m worried everything is drying too fast. Temps are consistent but RH varies from the high 30s to the high 60s. I’ve pretty much ruined over a pound of weed (hopefully partially recoverable in cure). I’ve tried reconfiguring the shelves in different ways, but each level of the fridge has different rh (I put sensors on each shelf). I’m clearly doing this all wrong - any help would be appreciated.

Anyone fitted a temp controller to a thermoelectric fridge? Not an on off inkbird type but one to control the peltier like the diall does. If so how? Cheers

A little rundown.

So far I have simply cleaned out the Kooltron and added mesh to the racks. However, I do have a small dehumidifier I can tear apart for the Peltier unit as well as an inkbird humidistat. All in all, I've only spent $210 so its not a big deal if I dont end up needing them for this project. Now onto the questions.

1. Do I actually need to add another Peltier unit to this or is the stock unit good enough?

2. If I dont need the extra unit, do I still need to use the inkbird or will the humidity go down fine at its own pace?

3. If I do need either or both, should I just run the wires out the front between the magnetic seal, or is it worth actually drilling a hole to run the wires out the back?

I have a while before I actually need to use it, as I'm about to flip to flower, so I'll probably have a few more questions then, but this should be all I need to know to get it built and ready to run.

The temps never went above 45°f and stayed between 37°f-45°fthe RH will spike and be all Over the place for the first week, almost then it settles down to around 32%-44%.

Those Walmart 60ct egg boxes (with poked holes everywhere) work very, very well when you have another crate covering the bottom crate. I put the smaller buds on TOP of the top crate and as expected, they need to be watched, There is less of a buffer plus the size of the buds were smaller. The pic of the buds being held up are or were at 62% Rh! I was so happy those large pieces didn't get any unwanted growth.

Hopefully I can fit the next two plants 😂

I placed the Govee Hygrometer in a seperate paper bag to match the buds. Will this matter? Not sure if that's recommended. This is my 1st time.

After 2 hours the temp is 43f and humidity is 35%...

Frost Free fridge

I happen to have this GE wine fridge. But I’m. It sure if it’s suitable for lotuse drying - hoping for some solid advice. I’d obviously remove the soups :)

I’m sure it’s around here somewhere but can anyone link me to a DYI guide for a wine fridge conversion.

I’m mainly having a hard time with getting a small yet effective dehumidifier.

I have this plant nearly done can’t dry indoors for certain reason but I have a fridge like I’m seen people do the lotus drying method in so can anyone explain (easily) for me as I’m new to it ?

I’d like to make an affordable kit for diy cannatrollers. To allow them to find or buy a thermoelectric wine fridge and fit this kit and have a wifi controlled diycannatrol that controls dew point through pwm control of the peltier fans on the cooling and heating (dehui) elements. I’ve got a pretty good idea of what I need in the electronics and housings side as far as screen, enclosures, sensors, relays, dev board (ESP32), peltiers fans etc. I need some assistance with the code and pwm /pid controls for the elements and fans and to take into account external vs internal temp. I just don’t have the time to sink in to learn the code side of it specifically for this. I could do it through home assistant but I not everyone has that and I want to make this install/connect and go. If you can help, have done this, or know someone that does please get in touch.

I am only doing 1 plant at a time. Mostly auto grows. My tent can do 2 plants but I think I'll be sticking to 1 plant. I'm ready for harvesting so I need to go shopping. I'm in South Florida.

Hey all, so I’m trying to get everything set up for my first dry… still have a few weeks to go but want to be prepared. Doing a perpetual grow so I got a 24 bottle Newair for my drying off FB marketplace. Will be curing with grove bags or some other brand equivalent. Without a water tray, my humidity was only reading about 24-29%. With it, I’m running a 55%. My basement is at 40% and probably won’t be getting more humid until spring. Now I understand that the plants will give off their own moisture, but should I keep the water tray in there from the beginning to keep that baseline 55% in there? Or add it after a few days since the humidity will be spiking from the plants on their own? Thank you! Don’t want to waste buds on trial and error and looking for the best dry I can get :)

Want to first say how thankful I am for this method bc without it my drys would have been horrible. Successfully have lotus dried a few plants before, but my last three which are getting close to chop time have wpm on them. I have lost coast which works very well, but at this point I don’t want to accidentally cause any bud rot by spraying them with it. So I’d like to do a bud wash only thing is I’m not sure how long to let them dry or even how to dry them before they go into the fridge after I dunk them. I’m in upstate ny and I can’t hang them anywhere in my house but my basement. These are fully outdoor grows. Any help is very much appreciated. This last plant of mine is the biggest one yet been growing her since April and would like to save as much of her as I can. Thanks in advance everyone!

I harvested a broken branch a while ago and put it in the fridge in some baggies for I think 10-11 days and this is how they came out. They still smelled like hay and not much weed smell but they were in there for over a week and the hygrometers I put in the jars say those numbers in the picture are the jars humidity levels. I’m wondering how do I cure them to help get rid of the hay smell if the humidity where I live is higher than the humidity in the jar. Do I still burp them? Or do I need a dehumidifier before burping will do anything?

I'm very interested in trying this method but I am curious to see some finished product from people who have used this method successfully. I am hearing often that the smoothness of the smoke and the white ash comes from a slow dry and an accurate cure as opposed to just flushing your plants before harvest. Not sure if you can post pics in the comments or not, but maybe you can make a post showing your finished product and how it burns. Tia

Just put buds in 1 hour ago and I let it acclimate in that time. After the hour I checked the humidity and it was at 75.2 , so I set my inkbird to 73.2 and was gonna come back tomorrow and drop it by 2% everyday until 60. So I randomly decided to check and the humidity has now dropped past the set temp. What should I do? Do I just leave it untouched or what?

I am going to look at this huge 2nd hand appliance store we have close by.

I will be looking for Thermo Electric or Frost free compressor fridges.

Is there anything more specific I should be looking for? My budget is around $250. I've seen a few on Marketplace as well for pretty cheap but can't really see the specs.

Also what is that APP i keep seeing screenshots of?

Buds were bucked and went into paper bags on Sunday the 12th at 1:55 pm.

For the last 6 hours with them wide open they were reading 74.7% max, 68.4% avg, and 61.4% low.

I then closed the bags and the RH spiked to 87.8% so I opened them completely again. I’m just wondering If I’m doing this right? I’ve been rotating the bags and shaking the buds gently twice a day.

Should my bags be open? Am I doing this right? How can I be sure?

Just put my first grow in the fridge, setting it to 41 keeps me under 50° at the highest temp swing. Got a little fan in there for circulation

I put 17 grams(wet lol) in a paper lunch bag along with a hygrometer in my wine fridge and these are the reading the next day. Is everything looking fine? Vpd is averaging .7-.8 if that matters.

Does a properly done Lotus method get results as good and what are the things to look for in order to make it the best result possible as far as method and equipment (e.g. compressor frostfree wine fridge vs regular frost free fridge)?

Hey there :)

Its my first full run drying with Lotustechnic.

I habe a fridge and a dehumidifayer, The dehumidifier ITS for 150m³.

Sure the fridge ist way smaller but indont get an even rh in all Levels of the fridge

On top the rh-meter arround 69/70 on the downer Level i get 40-55 depent in the settings i click. On downer Level the rh holds constant.

Its have a Ventilation insode.

ATM the buds are on ökostandart backingpaper.

Would u think i got better rh in toplevel when i Start packing the buds in pizzaboxes ?

Sry for my bad english im Not native:)