Vacume Sealing For Long Term Storage ? Whats Your Thoughts ?

[rick ratlin]

If you've performed the proper cure, then you're gonna want to cease the oxidation of the bud. I recommend and use plain old mason jars full of bud, then spray argon gas in short then long bursts to evacuate any other gasses. You can save and buy it by the case. If you've been in the wine business, its the same stuff they use to preserve wines that are sold by the glass, and also in the ultra high coravin systems. If you have a wine distributing friend, they can save you loads of money. Just like the hydro industry, the cans of argon are outrageously expensive if you don't have a direct connect. If you've got a connection to nitrogen, it will work as well, you just need an inert gas.
A good cure and dark cool storage in glass jars should hold up well for at least a year, unless your constantly opening the jar or exposing it to light. Adding argon or an inert gas should really add time to that. Vacuum sealing is just crushing all that hard work.

 

[rascali]

Vacuum and freezing are destructive to plant material on a cellular level which results in a dustier, drier flower in the end.

 

[Bulldog11]

Build a room instead of a jar. Holds more.

 

[zeke]

How's about doing all of your packaging in jars or plastic totes or turkey bags and then vacuum seal each pack? Do the whole procedure in a kiddy pool or large tote filled with argon. Easy way to purge the oxygen out of your packaging, just make sure the pool is ful of argon.