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Finish drying my bud in the freezer in my kitchen?!?
- Thread starter jus'plain'gill
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For anyone interested:
I found me a frost-free freezer in the basement of a relative KACHING
It's also "half-size" so not the size of a grown-person fridge/freezer combo.
Fits perfectly into the grow area and gives me space to store all my buds and seeds safe and secure
I am so happy, can't wait to try out this method.
Might still get a hygrometer and jars to test both methods in my environment against each other first.
But I am confident the freezer method is what I will be using.
Will post when the time comes what I found but that will take months still.
I found me a frost-free freezer in the basement of a relative KACHING
It's also "half-size" so not the size of a grown-person fridge/freezer combo.
Fits perfectly into the grow area and gives me space to store all my buds and seeds safe and secure
I am so happy, can't wait to try out this method.
Might still get a hygrometer and jars to test both methods in my environment against each other first.
But I am confident the freezer method is what I will be using.
Will post when the time comes what I found but that will take months still.
kappa that's awesome!
would you mind sharing the brand/model#? i have been searching for something exactly like that for months!
would you mind sharing the brand/model#? i have been searching for something exactly like that for months!
tejashidrow
Active member
Man
I loved drying /cureing in the freezer
This is by far for me the best Cure I have ever done
In my currant growing conditions.
Check Craig's list for a 3-4 square foot frost free chest freezer.
Those small freezers can hold curing bud and
Long term storage bud.
I wanted one cuz my family re fridge
Will only hold a 1/4 (it's full o food)
But my living conditions does not spare me the space
For a chest freezer..,, not even a small one��
I am now doing tests with cold cureing in a small wine cooler
But this freezer cure works and works great.
Peace
I loved drying /cureing in the freezer
This is by far for me the best Cure I have ever done
In my currant growing conditions.
Check Craig's list for a 3-4 square foot frost free chest freezer.
Those small freezers can hold curing bud and
Long term storage bud.
I wanted one cuz my family re fridge
Will only hold a 1/4 (it's full o food)
But my living conditions does not spare me the space
For a chest freezer..,, not even a small one��
I am now doing tests with cold cureing in a small wine cooler
But this freezer cure works and works great.
Peace
getbuck
Member
Hi! Just cured a harvest in a non-frostfree regular COLD freezer, turned out great! I took some out in jars to smoke on during the summer, but what do you guys recommend for the rest of the harvest? Its still in paper bags in the freezer, should I jar them and put back in, or just leave it in the paper bags - is there a risk of over drying them? I don't have access to vacuum sealed bags that seem to be the best option.
2000pm
Member
I'd jar them and put them back in if you like where they are at right now.
edit: also an update of sorts earlier I stated that I do not get any smells in the freezer during a cure. I have nugs recently harvested and being freezer cured right now (for a couple weeks now) and in the chest freezer the stink definitely exists although it is muted by the cold. The stuff I put in the regular frost-free freezer does not smell as I had typically experienced so that type purges out enough to keep the smell down/out I suppose.
edit: also an update of sorts earlier I stated that I do not get any smells in the freezer during a cure. I have nugs recently harvested and being freezer cured right now (for a couple weeks now) and in the chest freezer the stink definitely exists although it is muted by the cold. The stuff I put in the regular frost-free freezer does not smell as I had typically experienced so that type purges out enough to keep the smell down/out I suppose.
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i do the same. take them out of the freezer when they're perfect and get them jarred up. then into a dark and cool cupboard or back into the freezer for long term storage.
marlo told me if you vac seal them and put it back in the freezer they can stay at that perfect cure for 12+ months or more.
i would suggest whenever you decided to take one of those finished jars out of the freezer to smoke, you let it come to room temp before you open it. i've found if you open the jar immediately, dpending on the rH% of your environment, a bit of moisture can stick to the surface and skunk out the buds if they are recapped and left unchecked.
happens to refrigerated hash all the time. breaks my heart.
marlo told me if you vac seal them and put it back in the freezer they can stay at that perfect cure for 12+ months or more.
i would suggest whenever you decided to take one of those finished jars out of the freezer to smoke, you let it come to room temp before you open it. i've found if you open the jar immediately, dpending on the rH% of your environment, a bit of moisture can stick to the surface and skunk out the buds if they are recapped and left unchecked.
happens to refrigerated hash all the time. breaks my heart.
2000pm
Member
Just pulled out some buds from my last grow I had in a chest freezer and it worked fine as getbuck confirmed (just make sure your initial dryness is on point). Once again I committed 100% of my harvest to the freezer and it worked a treat.
With this batch, slightly over a month forgotten and untouched in the freezer. The RH was about 63% in jars. Burped them down a tiny bit and I am vaping on them now.
Freezer cure is the truth!
With this batch, slightly over a month forgotten and untouched in the freezer. The RH was about 63% in jars. Burped them down a tiny bit and I am vaping on them now.
Freezer cure is the truth!
jus'plain'gill
Active member
I haven't posted here in over a year, but its good to see this thread going strong as it comes up on 6 years of experimenting and sharing. I hope many growers have found success and improved the quality of the fruits of their labor!
I am still using my freezer to do the curing deed, just had one of my most successful runs and have the majority in the freezer curing now. I am also using Tangwena's thread to explore the cob cure method. It is fascinating to me all the ways the plant can be handled to make the final product different/better. I have really high hopes for my cobs
Good luck to all and take care,
.JPG
I am still using my freezer to do the curing deed, just had one of my most successful runs and have the majority in the freezer curing now. I am also using Tangwena's thread to explore the cob cure method. It is fascinating to me all the ways the plant can be handled to make the final product different/better. I have really high hopes for my cobs
Good luck to all and take care,
.JPG
JacFlasche
Member
Well I guess you got your answer. I don't have time to read all the responses, but I will tell you about something we used to do in the seventies if the latest brick of Mex was not too great. We had a large super thick high density Styrofoam box, that a further insulated box fit inside of. We would buy twenty pounds of dry ice. Break up a pound of weed and sprinkle it all over the ice then close it all up for a few weeks. That's how long the ice would take to evaporate in there. The result was weed that would routinely knock you out. I mean it got a lot stronger, but in a kind of weird way.
I haven't remembered this for like forty five years.
We never really did it much, and only with below average weed, so I couldn't say if it would do any good with high quality starting material.
That was the whole thing about hash oil in the seventies, the typical weed had so many degraded isomers in it that could be spun up to THC that you could often more than double the potency of the oil you extracted by soxhleting it with a little hydrochloric acid for a few hours. This factor made it worth extracting oil, now that the flowers are running 25% THC, it is a waste of time. Well, for me. I understand that if you a bunch of leaves and stuff, it is still worth it.
I haven't remembered this for like forty five years.
We never really did it much, and only with below average weed, so I couldn't say if it would do any good with high quality starting material.
That was the whole thing about hash oil in the seventies, the typical weed had so many degraded isomers in it that could be spun up to THC that you could often more than double the potency of the oil you extracted by soxhleting it with a little hydrochloric acid for a few hours. This factor made it worth extracting oil, now that the flowers are running 25% THC, it is a waste of time. Well, for me. I understand that if you a bunch of leaves and stuff, it is still worth it.
2000pm
Member
Has anybody messed around with using a freeze-dryer to do this quick? I know people are using them for drying out bubble and concentrates these days. The units were and still are out of my reach in terms of cost but these units are "affordable" now to some.
https://harvestright.com/
I'm still freeze drying everything over here! My latest stardawg batch came out perfect as expected.
https://harvestright.com/
I'm still freeze drying everything over here! My latest stardawg batch came out perfect as expected.
jus'plain'gill
Active member
Has anyone come across freeze dried buds? I mean buds that were actually freeze dried not just dried in a freezer. There is such a huge difference in dehydrated vs. freeze dried fruits and veggies, it makes me curious what cannabis would be like.
.JPG
DrGrowThumb
New member
I am a new grower and have just only started my second grow. I have used the same book Rosenthal plus lots of research and reading online to help give me the best outcome.
I grew Girl Scout Cookies and Larry OG. When I harvested my first grow, I decided to experiment with Rosenthal's freeze dry method, and put about an oz of GSC in the freezer after maybe about 48 hours of drying, while the rest cured in Jars.
Today was the first time I tested the buds. The high and taste is incredible beyond a doubt. I will go as far as stating the fact that GSC frozen dried has a better high and taste that jarred GSC.
But the only thing I don't like about this frozen dried herb is the smell. It is hard to put into words, so bare with me, but it smells like a natural tea of some sort. Not even close to the piney dank smell I got from curing in the jar.
Is there some I may have done wrong? Or is this normal for freeze drying herb?
I appreciate any suggestions and advice while I work on perfecting this craft.
I grew Girl Scout Cookies and Larry OG. When I harvested my first grow, I decided to experiment with Rosenthal's freeze dry method, and put about an oz of GSC in the freezer after maybe about 48 hours of drying, while the rest cured in Jars.
Today was the first time I tested the buds. The high and taste is incredible beyond a doubt. I will go as far as stating the fact that GSC frozen dried has a better high and taste that jarred GSC.
But the only thing I don't like about this frozen dried herb is the smell. It is hard to put into words, so bare with me, but it smells like a natural tea of some sort. Not even close to the piney dank smell I got from curing in the jar.
Is there some I may have done wrong? Or is this normal for freeze drying herb?
I appreciate any suggestions and advice while I work on perfecting this craft.
Lowellprince
Member
My bad, post interesting right from the jump and........
My bad, post interesting right from the jump and........
From my experiences in life, when chronic first started hittn the mainstream, I would find myself w bud not fully cured.... and found that either method was ok as long as the patience was observed.
My bad, post interesting right from the jump and........
From my experiences in life, when chronic first started hittn the mainstream, I would find myself w bud not fully cured.... and found that either method was ok as long as the patience was observed.
