[jmystro]

You will ruin your bud if you just stick it in a freeze drier without knowing the exact parameters needed. There are companies that claim to have figured out the process like https://www.spaceweedusa.com/ and https://harvestright.com/shop/

I’ve asked DGC who’ve used one to give us the data. Time, temp and pressure are a few data points I’d like to have.

[thebeardedbudstard]

That would be great info.

[soil2bowlz]

TY

[thebeardedbudstard]

Just bought a Pharmaceutical unit from harvest right. You can adjust everything, including moisture content of the end product. Any real research on a small level is hard to find. University of Utah has some great research.

[jmystro]

About 8-10% final moisture content is perfect smoke.

[thebeardedbudstard]

Do you prefer bud closer to 8or10?

[jmystro]

Closer to 10% to have some buffer to go up or down a little over time.

[thebeardedbudstard]

Perfect thanks. Did you have any luck with anyone in DGC finding out more parameters?

[soil2bowlz]

This is the only information I have been able to find. I guess we will just have to experiment.

[thebeardedbudstard]

😂 well I guess someone has to lol. I’m 3 weeks from harvest. I’ll be freezing everything but A buds

[soil2bowlz]

I have a local person offering the service. I will be doing a mixed harvest. Slow dry, just in case and then freeze drying and some live hash rosin if the product is suitable for it.

[thebeardedbudstard]

I don’t guess he would be willing to share his secrets lol?

[thebeardedbudstard]

Well here is what I did. I had a few LARFy branches I should have cut off. I know going in it won’t be as good as the tops, but I took them and slapped them InThe freeze dryer. This run was -35 in the freeze, 60 on the tray heat, with 4 hours of extra freezing. Dried to 10% moisture content. I’ll see if it don’t suck too bad.

[bpgrowernm]

I have been freeze drying my flower for the last three years. It isn’t perfect, but it preserves triches and cannabanoids better than hang drying. There was a white paper done on it by the creators of the live frozen process. There is a loss of terpene, but not to a crazy extent. My understanding on the issue is that anytime you go below 400 millibars (?) Of vacuum during the process it burns off some terpene. I dry and store in glass or 5 gallon buckets with 62% humidity packs. It smokes good, gets you plenty high and even presses well for rosin. It does powder up when you grind it, but it smokes and vapes very well. They make a vacuum controller that will regulate vacuum during the process, but they want like 3 grand for it. I haven’t needed it that badly yet.

[smalltubes]

maybe if your extracting…thats one thing..but definitely not for smoking it turns it to powder..

[soil2bowlz]

So the results were fine. Here are my two cents. The smell and taste were muted. I have to rely on my son and wife for this info as COVID took my acute smell and taste. I had this done by a pro, he is a hash maker and has plenty of experience. The results were very smokable, the hits were smooth. It does instantly combust so rolling joints is not an option. This is an option that would allow you to use some of your harvest right away and allowing you to slow dry and cure the rest which is exactly what I did. Is this a replacement for slow drying and curing? Not even close. But my freeze dried weed is still better than buying at the dispensary. Happy growing!

[bpgrowernm]

It does work great for extracting as well. You can dry a full batch of trichomes in 24 to 36 hours.