Is using a dehydrator to dry buds kosher?

[basscaptain]

Dude, the thread's 10 years old.

got to love it

 

[Lkmaryfla]

I hate nothing more than people stating lies as facts or regurgitating nonsense they read on line. I've seen in person herbsnow flower win competitions twice. Everyone saying not to and the only way is to hang dry 60/60, they're clearly followers like sheep. I'd bet my soul that the flower coming from herbs now or any dehydrator that goes below 80 will smash your moldy 10 day hanging flower. It's a fact 80+% of all bud that is low and slow has mold growth

 

[greenrhumb]

Now that dehydrator is a REAL GIMMICK shoot style:) why ruin your bud If you have came that far why rush it..

Mizz Elvis and zoeronerer hit it spot on..

Old Yeller, That is very suprising you are satisfied with the outcome of drying your buds like that:)
You go ahead and ruin your fruits of your labors if you wish, bringing that bad advice is just not cool imo..
You can not rush the drying process.. my 2 cents

:passingjoint:

GTD

You know what they say, "used to hate 'till I ate it.." In other words, these guys talking about the dehydrated weed seem to have done it and therefore I wouldn't be able to say it was good or not unless I did it to see. I don't think these fine gentlemen are just on here telling lies, so when you say there is instructions on the best way on here, blah blah blah... If you haven't tried it for yourself what's the difference of you taking these guys words for what they say and the word of who ever you say is passing out the best way to do the dry and cure thing, one method is different than the other so try to have facts in order is all I'm saying not trying to be rude but don't doubt one man's method over another unless you have tried them both and than you have the green light to say what would be a hypothesis if your experience in the matter. But with nothing to base your words on, really I just want to say WTF cuz I just waisted 10 min I will never get back trying to show you the picture outside the box you were in a long time ago when this post was made. Why the hell is it still here messing with people who have solid common sense and feel the need to try to help others who don't.

 

[KG1]

You know what they say, "used to hate 'till I ate it.." In other words, these guys talking about the dehydrated weed seem to have done it and therefore I wouldn't be able to say it was good or not unless I did it to see. I don't think these fine gentlemen are just on here telling lies, so when you say there is instructions on the best way on here, blah blah blah... If you haven't tried it for yourself what's the difference of you taking these guys words for what they say and the word of who ever you say is passing out the best way to do the dry and cure thing, one method is different than the other so try to have facts in order is all I'm saying not trying to be rude but don't doubt one man's method over another unless you have tried them both and than you have the green light to say what would be a hypothesis if your experience in the matter. But with nothing to base your words on, really I just want to say WTF cuz I just waisted 10 min I will never get back trying to show you the picture outside the box you were in a long time ago when this post was made. Why the hell is it still here messing with people who have solid common sense and feel the need to try to help others who don't.

I can provide all the help you want, done every way then went and learnt the science from other industries that dry plant material and wood.

A dehydrator passes the temperature of most places in the world and then adds wind to the equation. Now you can just hang dry your bud and see that between five and seven days it becomes able to burn in a joint but really isn't very tasty by this point. Hanging for a week more provides the taste.

Two processes are happening, firstly the bud is drying down to between 10-15% moisture content and enzymatic processes that require high moisture content are happening. Then once dry processes that require low moisture content bring about the final flavour and smell.

A dehydrated on its lowest setting might just possibly work but it isn't ideal and if you dry too quickly you change the type of enzymatic breakdown into one that produces off tasting compounds.

People talk of slow drying but get confused, that happens just simply hanging your bud and it taking five to seven days, faster is force drying and these metrics are golden standards pretty much.

Only once it is actually dry would you jar it, any residual moisture past the 10-15% will come out and possibly cause mold and off tastes again plus disrupt enzymatic processes.

Why hanging bud works is because there are few places in the world where the heat can force dry bud, need to be well above 40 into 50 and we see these basic settings on dehydrators for herbs and stuff you need to lightly dry. Conclusion is even in a desert you should be able to hang dry a bud and see it slow dry in five to seven days.

The jar was never needed because after two weeks of drying the taste is the same as if you jarred dry bud after a week and waited. People complaining there bud dries to much and crumbles easily, well probably any bud you bought and left on a table whilst smoking for a couple hours is now really dry anyway. You can store it at any environment you want but soon as it's out the jar it will simply dry to the outside environment, the hang dry for two weeks now produces the same end product nothing can do about that one except move out the desert.

The cure, annoyingly, was originally because after we hung for a couple weeks and it was done and had full taste we would have so much we jarred or vacuum sealed and never got back to it for months. Some think you cure with a week it two jarring but that's really the wrong way for me, the cure is the months of slow enzymatic process that can only happen over months. We just realised at that point it seemed smoother tastier and smelt more but it was a little bit not really worth the hassle unless you had so much you could store this amount of time.

We dry to the same moisture percentage as many things, wood for example, visit a lumber yard with a moisture meter, jab it in some wood the number you want just over ten percent and a manufacturing standard when drying wood.

Then all the industries that dried plants for sale and production, they studied chlorophyll breakdown. If you force dry it the cell shatters and some stuff doesn't have time to breakdown into the final product we call green pigments. You shattered cells and it water leaves too quickly.

Lots of blah blah blah, this works for me at most humidities, humidity doesn't slow or speed the dry by much at all, a day maybe but it is more important to understand that at higher humidities bud dries to the higher end of the 10-15% moisture content and at lower the 19% mark which is simply why some dry bud crumbles or grinds well and why some remains slightly more pliable. The difference of a few percent can have these changes and as it becomes more humid with rain you may well notice dry crumbling bud taking on a less crumbling form.

Really why we have so many processes is because one day someone screwed up the simple hang dry or tried to do it in a sealed closet not fresh open room and never quite worked out his error then started looking for alternatives to that one thing man has been getting near 100% success rate since tens of thousands of years ago when some Neanderthal threw some in the fire and got baked as fuck.

This industry and growers overthink everything until the original idea is completely lost and though as something that doesn't work.

Plus one for never using a dehydrator, rep if you worked out how to hang dry for two weeks in different parts of the world like our ancestors did.