Eskander
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I've been extracting for people for a while now but with my first crop coming in, I'm faced with the question of how to dry it given that the majority will end up going towards extract (in EtOH). I have a tent set up with a dehumidifier and air conditioner so I can essentially hit whatever target I want on that end of things.
As with everything in weed, there is a great deal of information out there but 95% is either bullshit or doesn't really apply. Google searches on this yield stunningly useless results... The "cure it to increase potency" is clearly pants on head retarded but I'm on the fence about "drying too quickly". The logic I see is that a dry outside limits the ability of moisture on the inside to migrate out. That also tickles my BS meter but doesn't quite peg it. Osmosis would dictate movement across a gradient and that the larger the gradient, the faster it would go to dry.
The bud that I've been extracting for people has usually been on the larfy side of things and I've typically just put it in a chamber with desiccant for a few days to get out as much residual as possible but it was always mostly dry already. That might be scalable for runs of a quarter pound but not much more and it doesn't address the initial drying protocol.
My gut is to dry at the lowest temps I can get to help with volatile retention and as dry as I can get the tent to get it ready for extraction. I'll do some basic stripping of fan leaves but leave the sugar leaf in place.
Thoughts?
-Eskander
As with everything in weed, there is a great deal of information out there but 95% is either bullshit or doesn't really apply. Google searches on this yield stunningly useless results... The "cure it to increase potency" is clearly pants on head retarded but I'm on the fence about "drying too quickly". The logic I see is that a dry outside limits the ability of moisture on the inside to migrate out. That also tickles my BS meter but doesn't quite peg it. Osmosis would dictate movement across a gradient and that the larger the gradient, the faster it would go to dry.
The bud that I've been extracting for people has usually been on the larfy side of things and I've typically just put it in a chamber with desiccant for a few days to get out as much residual as possible but it was always mostly dry already. That might be scalable for runs of a quarter pound but not much more and it doesn't address the initial drying protocol.
My gut is to dry at the lowest temps I can get to help with volatile retention and as dry as I can get the tent to get it ready for extraction. I'll do some basic stripping of fan leaves but leave the sugar leaf in place.
Thoughts?
-Eskander