Ideal Moisture Curves

Overview & Concept 🗺️

Ideal moisture curves allow you to select a dry that went well and use its moisture data as a template for future dries. Ideal moisture curves are stored on a strain specific basis, as drying can differ between strains.

When you select that strain in a new dry, the ideal moisture curve will be displayed as a green area on your plot. Keep the moisture in the ideal moisture curve to bring more repeatability to the drying process. 

Walkthrough 👣

For a written walkthrough, scroll past the video

1. Select an Ideal Dry on the Strain page

Navigate to one of your strains on the settings page or create a new strain. Under the Ideal Moisture Curve section, use the dropdown to select a completed dry which had good results. 

Figure 1. Selecting an ideal dry for a Strain. Note the moisture data plotted in green.

Completed dries are ordered in the drop-down based on start time. Each item in the drop down with the dry name followed by the start time for the dry. 

The ZONE dashboard will plot the moisture data from the dry that is selected in the select box. The plot also includes the strain's target moisture content as a horizontal line. 

Once you have found the ideal dry for this strain, hit Create/Update Strain button. Once ZONE saves the changes, the ideal moisture curve will be displayed in the plot on the strain page in the form of an envelope. 

Figure 2. The ideal moisture curve in green. The target moisture for the strain is plotted in a white dashed line.

2. Create a New Dry with your Updated Strain

Navigate back to the home tab and click on the Create New Dry button. Select the strain that you just edited using the drop-down menu.

Once you have selected both the strain and the space, the ideal moisture curve from the strain will be displayed along with your moisture target. This will be your moisture template for this dry. 

Figure 3. A new dry with the ideal moisture curve from the strain.

From here, proceed as normal by creating the dry and assigning sensors to the dry. 

3. Start the Dry and use Ideal Moisture Curve as a Guide

Once all your sensors are attached to the plants, use the Start Dry button to start the dry as normal. You will see the ideal moisture curve and the target moisture plotted in green and white, respectively, in the Data History plot.

Figure 4. An ongoing dry with ideal moisture curve as a guide. Notice the ideal moisture curve shaded in green, while the average moisture is bright green.

Keep the average moisture in the ideal moisture curve to bring more repeatability to the drying process. 

Happy drying 🍃