New (quick?) drying idea.

Hi, I'm just getting into this, I'm planning on growing my own plant soon (so the information might be incorrect, or already known to work/fail). Note that i dint try it out yet, its just assumptions.

Some time ago ive seen that rice can be used to extract moist. When my cellphone was washed with my pants, i immediately put it in a large bowl of rice, let it sit for 3 days and it worked perfectly.

So, my assumptions would be, to wrap your buds in a paper towel or something, and put it in rice. I have absolutely no idea if this would even work or not, BUT i just tought about it and had the urge to share.

Edit: Or maybe a box, fill the bottom with rice. Get a cardboard plate, poke lots of tiny holes in it, place it on the rice. Put the weed on the cardboard (and maybe also the same principle for the top part?). This way the rice doesn't get in contact with the weed, so no loss of THC. Again, all assumptions..

Input from the pro's strongly appreciated!

in theory it should work i would say, all the rice does is absorb the water faster than just air drying it but ya dont let the rice touch the buds

or maybe just some rice in the area you hang to dry

For get it .....
Starchy tasting buds no thanks.
Even if Rice did pull moisture out stuff better than air and good ventilation going to either do it too fast or contaminated ya food.
Paper towel....... going to feck ya bud as it won't allow air movement.......keeping damp buds nice and unventilated........... equals BUD ROT..... THEN BUD IN BIN.
Use good old air like people have done for hundreds of years without fail

Fast drying bud is bad tasting bud.
The drying and curing is one of the most important parts after the grow, personally.......................
I'd learn to grow first .........think your jumping the gun alittle. READ stickys in the harvesting and cure section

rice works,but so does a cardboard box or brown paper grocery bag..or u can wrap in newspaper..if it gets too dry,put it in a jar with an orange peel..

you want to try as slowly as possible without risking mold, fast drying cost you your flavor in a huge way, ive dried in a number of ways and the faster you dry the more it taste like lawn clippings and less like something dank. yes curing can bring back some flavor but once you fast dry you will never get it all back

orange peel will fuck up your bud and so will rice. I'm LOLing at the picture of you smoking toilet paper sticked to your bud!! you could call it a new strain mate!. FWIW Ounce your bud is dried under 55%RH the curing window is closed. Re-moisturizing it wont bring it back just cause more troubles.

While drying the non psychoactive substances are turning so, do you really wanna compromise that? it's not worth it

Thanks for the input guys, like i sayd i was just shooting an idea (no idea if it would work). No rice it is then .

Hey man welcome to RIU
On a less condescending note I can tell you i tried rice once and if it comes with contact with the bud it will be a bitch to get it out of there + it wont really "quick" dry the bud in less than a day without some other means of drying.
If youre jonesing for a blunt i always boil some water in a pot, then remove it from the hotplate and put a plate with a cut up bud in it. It does take some of the taste away, but the potency is great.
Hope this helped

Shmulster said:

Hey man welcome to RIU
On a less condescending note I can tell you i tried rice once and if it comes with contact with the bud it will be a bitch to get it out of there + it wont really "quick" dry the bud in less than a day without some other means of drying.
If youre jonesing for a blunt i always boil some water in a pot, then remove it from the hotplate and put a plate with a cut up bud in it. It does take some of the taste away, but the potency is great.
Hope this helped

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what about pots and hotplates? what's a hotplate and put a plate in the pot? WHAT

tafbang said:

what about pots and hotplates? what's a hotplate and put a plate in the pot? WHAT

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Step 1 : Boil Water

Step 2 : Put it in a pot

Step 3 : Cut up a freshly harvested bud to the smallest pieces you can

Step 4 : Put the cut up bud on a plate

Step 5 : Put said plate on the pot

Step 6 : Wait 30 min.

Step 7 : Get high as shit and post a naked fat lady on Toke & Talk

Logic : The heat that will dry up the bud will not harm the THC because the temp is lower than the boiling point of water, so technically your drying up the bud with the just right amount of heat.

Is it optimal? no. Does it work. Hell yes

Thanks for breaking that down. Sounds great. I'm going to test it out when my next plant is ready to harvest

ok the ones saying the buds will taste bad your half retarded.....the curing process has to do with taste and potency not the hanging up to dry and your worried about them drying to fast? are you checking your buds every 4 days or something? if you put some rice in the cool dark room you hang your buds to dry in i am sure it will cut your drying time down by a day or more which means you can cure a day or more sooner.....idk how the bud would taste bad? all the rice would do is suck the moisture faster out of the room so it doesnt linger around

slower drying equals better taste.

dont really know why, dont really care. think it has to do with sugars being broken down. sugar is fuel and burns hot.

Shmulster said:

Step 1 : Boil Water

Step 2 : Put it in a pot

Step 3 : Cut up a freshly harvested bud to the smallest pieces you can

Step 4 : Put the cut up bud on a plate

Step 5 : Put said plate on the pot

Step 6 : Wait 30 min.

Step 7 : Get high as shit and post a naked fat lady on Toke & Talk

Logic : The heat that will dry up the bud will not harm the THC because the temp is lower than the boiling point of water, so technically your drying up the bud with the just right amount of heat.

Is it optimal? no. Does it work. Hell yes

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Thanks for for the tip, will defenally try it when i have my first harvest.

no no no and no quick dry = =( =sad face =bad taste, not as poten ...the prosses in witch cannabis matures and fully rippens continues slowly thru drying and curring , you wouldnt quick grow a plant would you , respect the laws and logics of nature god damn it...

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expresses my feelings toward this topic perfectly

I'm sorry, my intentions where not to make you guys mad, or make me look like an idiot.. I have no growing experience, so no harvesting experience yet, so excuse me.

However, i smoke for about 6 years now, and am beginning to see the growing culture differents from the smoking culture a bit. Thanks for clearing that out mate.

ಠ_ಠ hes not mad, just a little turned off by the whole thing.

everyone in my fam will quick dry in a heart beat before we go without smoke. no smoke is just ghey.