Finish drying my bud in the freezer in my kitchen?!?

[b8man]

Just tried this method with my latest harvest. Air dried for 10 days, then half in the auto defrosting freezer in a cardboard box, and half my normal method in a glass jar with some 62% Boveda packs. After 3 weeks in the freezer the buds were put in glass jars (with Boveda packs) and they've been curing in the jars for about a month.

The freeze dried buds are soft, not crispy, with a milder but deeper smell and flavor. They smoke MUCH smoother than the air dried. I can load up a large bong of the freeze dried weed and there's not even a tickle when I smoke it. The same air-dried weed feels a lot more prickly and likely to induce a little cough. And the freeze-dried does seem stronger.

For vaping, the freeze-dried weed kept at 62% is a bit too moist to grind to the kind of consistency which works best. But for smoking it's really amazing!

So +1 for sublimation. More people need to be aware of it - thanks for posting the method Gill!

 

[THC_Ski]

Maybe this question has already been answered but "what if u just have a regular freezer?" How does that work? Or is that what was described earlier when someone said that you just have to knock the ice off urself?

 

[Chevy cHaze]

Maybe this question has already been answered but "what if u just have a regular freezer?" How does that work? Or is that what was described earlier when someone said that you just have to knock the ice off urself?

I used a regular freezer, no prob. It's more about the cold and the lack of humidity in the air that comes with it than about the vacuum. Sublimation occurs anyways, regardless. Howver you don't want icicles and too much ice on the walls in there, as it may sprinkle on your buds ( you have to lay em out openly in the freezer). good luck, cc

 

[Marlo]

You do not have to lay your buds out open in the freezer. I had my buds in paper bags, inside a cardboard box at the bottom of my freezer. No complaints whatsoever.
After a few weeks, I started checking them. Smoking one of those buds every cpl days until I thought they were perfect. When they reached the consistency I like, I vacuum sealed them and put em back into the freezer for long term storage. Months later, every time I crack a bag open, the buds come out perfect.

 

[Duke Diamond]

awsome thread ya'll , it brought back a memory from 06, I always dried and cured my bud the old way, hang it, dry it, trim it, jar it, burp it. One winter I had alot to hang and used a old trailor with no heat, below freezing cold. It took a little longer to dry than normal but at the time I was in no rush. the outcome was super funky stinky bud. I chalked it up to humidity differences. It was the same clones,same soil mix etc.. After reading this its clear to me that this is what was taking place but by accident, Thank ya'll so much for your research. I can now replicate what I did then and that makes me really happy. Now I can do it on purpose for now on Awsome thread ya'll and thank you

 

[Chevy cHaze]

True Marlo, sorry.
I was only referring to my own experience. Have read the thread though and your paper bag method seems to work great. so cancel that "laying out the bud open in the freezer"

thanks dude, now "freeze" everyone !

 

[Fishywater]

I'll be trying this in less than 3 weeks.
Can't wait for the results !

 

[Ftscustm]

Why is this invaluable knowledge NOT a sticky

Why is this invaluable knowledge NOT a sticky

I found you through Simons thread and gloried in your clean thinking, masterful development of his technique. This is Simon's A perfect cure every time BUT it is stoner-proof!!! And it ensures the main reason you get busted, the fucking smell...that I adore so...is brought to heal.

I am going take you at face value and pledge to you: I believe in you and your visionary knowledge, you are right and proper in your thinking and I blindly follow you into the fold: I have brought a frost free upright freezer, that can't match soft freeze- the temperature I guestimate is right based on collective learning. I have just checked and the coolest stands at 4.7of. A little chilly but I will be especially mindful of the initial dry, this seems to be where further complications can be started.
When I began letting my thoughts finally reach you all, I have been talking to the screen for three years, MARLO turned my prim and proper English roses into dirty hood rats in the course of one track: Skills MARLO, skills!
These ghetto gals were grown for your freezer method and I am putting all their buds in one basket and rocking with your world.
Here's at ya chap, thanks for the hours of entertainment past, present and future....
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[jus'plain'gill]

I found you through Simons thread and gloried in your clean thinking, masterful development of his technique. This is Simon's A perfect cure every time BUT it is stoner-proof!!! And it ensures the main reason you get busted, the fucking smell...that I adore so...is brought to heal.

I am going take you at face value and pledge to you: I believe in you and your visionary knowledge, you are right and proper in your thinking and I blindly follow you into the fold: I have brought a frost free upright freezer, that can't match soft freeze- the temperature I guestimate is right based on collective learning. I have just checked and the coolest stands at 4.7of. A little chilly but I will be especially mindful of the initial dry, this seems to be where further complications can be started.
When I began letting my thoughts finally reach you all, I have been talking to the screen for three years, MARLO turned my prim and proper English roses into dirty hood rats in the course of one track: Skills MARLO, skills!
These ghetto gals were grown for your freezer method and I am putting all their buds in one basket and rocking with your world.
Here's at ya chap, thanks for the hours of entertainment past, present and future....
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Haha, that is absolutely priceless. I am humbled by your words. All the best to you, my friend.



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[Ftscustm]

A man of my word.

A man of my word.


These went into the freezer on Sunday: I shall keep you posted...

 

[algreenery]

Im a noob micro grower and im about to try this with my low yielding plant.
my yields are only about 10grams a plant..
How many days do you think it will take to dry the bud in the freezer?

Best wishes

 

[Marlo]

Read the thread carefully Al. You're still drying your bud the traditional way for a few days. Until the buds start to get brittle and the stems begin to snap. Depending on the size of your buds and your drying room conditions, drying time before they go into the freezer will vary. Some only 3-4 days, others 10 days or more to dry. Once they're ready... usually +/- 21days in the freezer is good for me.




How's is going Ftscustm? I'm sure you have tried some of those buds!

 

[LLL214]

freezer

freezer

Alright, ,when we were growing outdoors, (pot found on INDIANA DUNES STATE PARK ) we always froze our weed, to take the GREEN TASTE ,out. If we got a bad batch it was user error that was to blame. We used paper bags to freeze in, afterwards we would put in black trash bags and bury it in a safe ditch bank to recover in three to four months . thanks for this trip down memory lane ,

 

[algreenery]

Read the thread carefully Al. You're still drying your bud the traditional way for a few days. Until the buds start to get brittle and the stems begin to snap. Depending on the size of your buds and your drying room conditions, drying time before they go into the freezer will vary. Some only 3-4 days, others 10 days or more to dry. Once they're ready... usually +/- 21days in the freezer is good for me.

Oh sorry i was very medicated and very tired, im gonna read more carefully next time!

Then im right on track i think, i hung my plant for 3 days to get the not snappy but dry stem and after that they went in a paperbag and in the freezer for 3 days now.
Got 2 nugs that are curing in jars from the same batch that i will compare with the freezed bud.

 

[2000pm]

Whats good freezer fanatics! Happy to report I have freezer space again and the whole crop went in again. I will be pulling out the first buds soon (Cannabiogen Mextiza) and expect the same great smoke as always using this method.

Great to see this stickied!

 

[Psyco G]

I know this girl who give me all her trimmings, she keeps them in a freezer and when I defrost them they knock my socks off, always really potent and smoke abl, I hate leaf but this method makes it tolerable.

 

[funnymath]

Does this make your freezer absolutely reak of weed though? I could see someone visiting and going to get some ice and get blasted with a gust of dank.

 

[Marlo]

Yes it does

 

[jus'plain'gill]

Does this make your freezer absolutely reak of weed though? I could see someone visiting and going to get some ice and get blasted with a gust of dank.

My experience has been there is no smell at all coming from the freezer when it's closed or opened. There could be pounds of roadkill skunk in there and still zero smell. It also imparts no smell or taste on my foods. I'll try to find out exactly why this is the case but I know it has something to do with the temps at which different terpenes evaporate. Take care all.



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[heady blunts]

lovin this so far....