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hmmm…Seems drying at ambient temps isnt so good. I take it thats due to the extended drying time? does using a dehumidifier increase temp or do you need to add a heater?
The answer to this is to hang dry your plants for 3-4 days until the outer part of your bud is just about dry, then cut buds off and throw them in a freezer in a cardboard box, paper bag, glass tub, something that is not plastic or closed. Leave them in the freezer for about 3 weeks. Transfer to glass jars with lids. Burp them twice a day for 30 mins and you're ready to go. The reason for this method is to allow sublimation to occur. Hope this helps.Hmm…the toss up between freeze drying & snap drying with DHs for the purpose of aroma preservation. Volatile profiles in weed will be altered differently in both processes. Biochemically one would expect monoterpenes and oxygenated mono and sesquiterpenes terpenes would generally preserve better through out the air-drying process. Most other sesquiterpenes, ethers, phenylpropanoids etc would be better preserved by freeze drying. Tens of thousands of these compounds are found in biology, of which an almost infinite number of combinations could potentially be arranged to produce an almost infinite number of unique aromas. So for the purposes of preserving aroma I doubt there will ever be a ‘one rule fits all’. Bubblegum that has been freeze dried, will resemble but inevitably smell slightly different to, bubblegum that has been snap dried, and again the case would be for slow cured. It’s up to the subjectee which aroma is preferred and just to point out its aroma, not taste - as many of you would know, like coffee and tea, weed tastes more or less the same when you have a cold.
Cryo cured is best........@cryocurecannabis @timstrimming ...for info IG....send me an email address i can send info to you.Yarra recently posted a really convincing argument for fast curing, or snap drying vs slow curing - actually just having a second read of it now. I’ve also seen a bit of talk about lyophilization (freeze drying). I’m just wondering between freeze drying and fast curing which is the better conserving taste?
the flash freeze will cause small crystals to forum that do damage when drying,,,,,,youn want large and -20 temp 3 hrs min. before drying,,,,,,,, try putting in freezer open for 2 or 3 weeks....take out as time goes by it will dry it. .... frost free type.When it comes to curing flash freezing sucks, they do it at the weed store to get the product on the market faster, less smell, you can pick up a nug and pick a little piece off, I partially fast cured the small buds low on d.devel, I put them in a plastic cool whip container in the 40 to 50 rh, open and close several times a day, a week and your good, leave the top off a few hours close open wait, get it, all my big nugs are curing properly in mason jars, but it works fairly well. See pic
i bet you have never seen or tried Cryo Cured weed........it is not like others and will change your mind ,,,,, hope you get to try soonThat may work, but they do it industrial, the bud allmost looks spongy but hard, i dont like it or buy it, the only thing i buy is kief at $26g only thing worth buying.
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