Freeze Drying My First Harvest

[Jules.pluessy]

I just had my first harvest and I’m playing around with different drying and curing methods. I put my nuggs in the freezer right after trimming and cultivating. Is this bad? If it’s not, how long will it take before I can smoke it?

 

[Madbud]

I have a box of buds in the freezer too, humidity around 90%, 5°F. After 2 or 3 weeks take them out for an hour each day for 5 days then jar and cure them. Freezing is a super slow drying process to increase terps. To truly sublimate weed requires carbon dioxide in a sealed container but simply freezing works well.

 

[Jules.pluessy]

I have a box of buds in the freezer too, humidity around 90%, 5°F. After 2 or 3 weeks take them out for an hour each day for 5 days then jar and cure them. Freezing is a super slow drying process to increase terps. To truly sublimate weed requires carbon dioxide in a sealed container but simply freezing works well.

What’s your go-to curing process after freeze drying??

 

[Madbud]

What’s your go-to curing process after freeze drying??

After two weeks i took the box out to thaw twice, now they’re in a mason jar that i open once/day, dark, about 65°F. Compared to the same buds that have been just dried and jarred, the freezer buds are more aromatic and feel denser. Both are holding at 60-62% on hygrometers but i think the freezer buds are better. Plant was chopped 11/11, dried 5 days, still real sticky but if i leave a bud out overnight it’s good to go.