[droid77]

Best advice is go by vpd. So everyone recommends a 60/60 just about but what they are really saying is to have a vpd of .71. if you keep your vpd above a .6 you should avoid mold. If you keep it below a .9 you will not turn your buds into hay nobody wants to smoke. Within that range you have your relative freedom. So if you are at 72 degrees and that is the best you can get, look at a vod calculator online and you will need to stay withing the range of 65-74% RH to stay in that range with the optimal being 73 at 72 BUT remember that at this temp and RH to get that VPD you are now susceptible to mold so make sure you have better than adequate circulation and you are checking multiple times daily to change the environment if needed. Now is also a good time if you absolutely cannot bring the temp down any lower and want to keep a .7-.75 vpd for optimal curing you will want to be exchanging air CONSTANTLY and I know that before I converted a wine cooler from my dad after he passed into my drying area (65 and 62) that I had similar situation but much worse. I was at 76-80 on a daily swing and all I could do was exhaust, keep the rh correct for vod ( was using vivosun controller to know the vod but you can use any app) and was humidifying the room and exhaust when needed. I was paranoid and would actually use my 100w outdoor led UV light and had it on a timer for 1 minute every hour just to kill any chance if mold and I can say I have a 100 % dry rate without mold or hay in those high temps by monitoring the VPD. The wine cooler set at 65 gives me 62 and is so much easier and cost much less electricity then the other setup but just take it that it can be done and you can get great dried and ready to cure flowers that way… ( I have never made it to end of cure without sampling, but I do wait for end of dry so cure change is always a great day)