Cold-defying Jane - Survives 4 degrees F

[420izzle]

Hi...I found a plant finishing up flowering in an attic..:D .so I figure I should dry it and cure it. I'm cruising to Cali in a couple weeks, so I'll cut 'er and hang 'er to dry in the attic while I'm gone for a week. So the problem is that it's cold, like into the teens at night. I have a fart fan from the bathroom blowing into the chamber - keeping the temps around freezing at night inside. During the day the temps rise to the 50's or 60's. Crazy, but the sweet jane has hung tuff! My question is this: is that too damn cold for drying. Should I hang them around the lights and keep them on to keep temps up (lights go down at night for reasons of another story). I read that sunlight and other light is no good during drying, but the cold may be worse?

5 CFL's
1 Girl
entering week 7 of flower
bagseed in black gold, perlite, foam pellets, red lava rock
shultz cactus fert
one tuff bitch

[stinkyattic]

Light is worse than cold, but CFLs shouldn't do any damage!

[420izzle]

Light is worse than cold, but CFLs shouldn't do any damage!

Thanks much Stinky! You are always so helpful to all the folks around here.
I'll leave the lights on while I dry then. Just wondering though...will the cold only slow the drying process? Or can it ruin it? It's a dry cold, if that makes sense.

I'll post a pic. She is a warrior!

[dutch.lover]

i have been reading about harvesting (anticipating my own harvest in about 7 weeks) and I THINK that the cold will definitely slow drying and the downside of that would be possibility of mold growth, but as long as it's a "dry cold" i don't think you have to worry about that.

[dusto2k3]

you just gotta make sure the humidity is not high=mold in the cold

[420izzle]

Thanks Dutch.Lover and Dusto2k3. Humidity is so low my knuckles are cracking as winter sets in here.

Why wouldn't CFL's degrade the THC when other light sources would. Is it the lumens? Or ? Does it matter which bulbs (warm/cool) I leave on?

[BananaLanderS]

so can most cannabis survive freezing temps?

[420izzle]

Hey banana...(love the name)...
I donno much about the strains which will withstand the cold, but I've read somewhere the sativas can be fairly hardy. This is bagseed, but looking like some sort of sativa. Seriously got down to 4 degrees F the other night. I thought she was going to die of hempothermia or someshit...and she has strained a bit.

[dutch.lover]

i think cannabis is a lot hardier than people give it credit for...your plant got down to 4 deg F, and mine ended up at 100 F today!! yikes- i am having temp problems obviously, but the plants haven't seemed to show any signs of minding it so far. i figure the worst that is happening is the high temps are slowing their growth, which is fine for me anyways cause my space is maxed out.

[BananaLanderS]

Thanks 420,did your plant show any signs of stress or wilting after it got that cold?

[420izzle]

Thanks 420,did your plant show any signs of stress or wilting after it got that cold?

Yes, she did some wilting, but finishing up nicely still. I think it shocked her, and I should clarify -the outside temps were at 4 degrees Farenheit. In the chamber it was in the teens that cold, wicked night. :)