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I’m no expert but I think you may have bud death mold.... that’s no good... JUST KIDDING! It looks normal to me. I’ve had some nugs do that from time to time and all I could chalk it up to was the trics turning from cloudy to Amber and the Chlorophyll breaking down and browning up the nugs...

I’ve seen that done quite a bit so I was focusing on two things I haven’t seen much on. Vacuum cure and o2 scavenger cure. I don’t have dry ice and additionally I didn’t want additional moisture to sublimate out as the dry ice degasses. Good idea though! I’m just trying things with what I...

Nice! Yah I’m running gorilla glue # 4 and blue dream right now. It’s been a wild ride but I think I dialed in my ebb and grow. I’m just happy I didn’t get any bugs or pm! And I’m definitely excited to see how harvest turns out. Well, I have started one batch of curing. My trial of freeze...

Yep, that’s the Harvest Right freeze drier I use. I have the standard model that was nearly 4K just a year ago. Good to see the price has dropped (those fuckers) I bought mine because I’m a pretty serious camper, hunter, and a little bit of a prepper. I love that I can make my own “mountain...

Well as promised, here’s an update. In just under 12 hours I have gone from frozen to dry! I’ve whisked my nugs out of the drier and straight into the second phase of my experiment which I’m going to do a write up about as soon as I can. For now, I can say that the one flower the SO and I did...

FNSB = Fairbanks Northstar Borough. Yah, we are round the same age. 20 years ago at least for me. I remember all my friends coveting the MTF whenever someone supposedly had it. Although if I had to pick any one strain I miss getting it’s Sour Diesel. I had this one guy that knew a guy (like...

Ha! Good to see a cousin on here. FNSB area for me. Growing up I knew several old timers that all had a similar story. If it wasn’t for the fact that they ran in different circles, I wouldn’t be so inclined to believe them. As lore goes, the original breeder of MTF was long ago raided and...

Looking good! I hear yah, I’m in the same boat, first real grow for me as well. It’s exciting to see hard work and patience pay off. Edit: Heres a snap of my blue dream that I’m finishing up.

As an update, I’ve stopped the freeze drier to take a look at how everything is coming along. First thing I’ve noticed is that the flowers look almost identical to when I put them in. After careful investigating I’ve found the denser nugs and thicker stems are still frozen and will require more...

Lol, I’ll do my best! It’s will take a while, but I’m sure the outcome will be worth it; at the very least fun!

Well, I’m trying out freeze drying vs traditional hang and dry vs water cure. My plan is as follows 1 group dried in a freeze drier 1 group trimmed and hung in 60% RH and 65° 1 group trimmed and placed in paper bags 1 group trimmed and placed to water cure. After all of them are done drying...

Maybe try some oxygen scavengers? That would certainly remove the O2 from the jar but it would retain atmospheric pressures so no “boiling off” of water would occur. Again though, this would be dependiant on how much a vac was achieved. I’m actually running drying experiment right now...

Good to see someone else who’s rockin the FD. I’m experimenting now with drying nugs with it but from what I have read, it’s best to keep the shelf temps down below 80 to maximize the retention of terps. I’d think, if you’re trying to dry the flower to make hash, you’d want it bone dry to...

Are you talking about actually pulling a vacuum on jars or using and oxygen scavenger to remove the o2 in jars? Anytime you subject a container to a partial vacuum you lower the boiling point of liquids. So I wonder if there is any moisture loss in doing this. Although, I guess it depends on...

I’m no master grower, but I believe the trick will be pulling the nugs out of the freeze drier before they are 100% dried. That way they won’t be fragile and I won’t break off all the tricomes when moving them to a jar to finish. From freeze drying food I’ve found that you can think you’re...

Don’t you mean the trics? I thought terpenes were the “smell and flavor” and the trichomes were the actual thc containing part of the calyx...

Funny enough, I’ve been running extracts I’ve gotten locally through it to see if they have been purged correctly, it’s been interesting to see cheap(er) extracts that stay solid (indicating no left over solvent) and other more expensive extracts foam up and then settle down and solidify. I am...

You know, I don’t know. I just recently started growing and just so happened to have an actual freeze drier. I was curious if anyone else had done this and good old google had this as the top hit. Instead of starting a new thread with my 2 cents, i figured I’d just throw in. I saw this thread...

Looks like I may be of help.... I just so happen to have a freeze drier! I haven’t messed with freeze drying buds before but for the last year I’ve been shoving whatever I can in there to see how it does. I just trimmed some of my Gorilla Glue #4 a little early to give it a try. I have a...