drying with dry ice

[spineshank]

i bought a grow book lost it and dont remember name of it but in the curing chapter the author talked about laying is fresh buds out on an elevated screen and placing dry ice under it and as the dry ice "fog" passed through the buds above it, the "fog" would dry out the buds leaving them sweet stinky green fresh and dry enough to smoke. can anyone shed light on the situation for me? thanks

 

[bicycle racer]

i dont know but the co2 would maybe prevent oxidisation(misspelled) similar to nitrogen flushing of products for shelf life

 

[blazin waffles]

i bought a grow book lost it and dont remember name of it but in the curing chapter the author talked about laying is fresh buds out on an elevated screen and placing dry ice under it and as the dry ice "fog" passed through the buds above it, the "fog" would dry out the buds leaving them sweet stinky green fresh and dry enough to smoke. can anyone shed light on the situation for me? thanks

I actually just read about it. Basically Dry ice goes from a solid straight to a gas. The gas, when passing through the buds, takes away the water soluble enzymes, nitrogen and other stuff. You want to have at least the same amount of dry ice as weed. Put it in the freezer if you want to delay the process. It'll take about 7 days. And if I rememer right you can just put the weed right on the dry ice.

 

[WWgrower]

Every now and then I hear a idea that just freaks me out! WHY would you want to? Also sounds like a accident waiting to happen. You remember those science experiment where you put a object into the dry ice take it out and it is so frozen that when you slap it against anything blows into a million pieces. If you put it right on the dry ice don't touch the ice you'll lose what ever touches it. Good luck with this one! Be careful be safe1

 

[massmurda420]

touch the dry ice without gloves

 

[ultimate procrastinator]

Every now and then I hear a idea that just freaks me out! WHY would you want to? Also sounds like a accident waiting to happen. You remember those science experiment where you put a object into the dry ice take it out and it is so frozen that when you slap it against anything blows into a million pieces. If you put it right on the dry ice don't touch the ice you'll lose what ever touches it. Good luck with this one! Be careful be safe1

If I am not mistaken I believe you are referring to liquid nitrogen, not dry ice which is CO2

 

[spineshank]

LOL ok i went home last night and found my book. the deluxe marijuana growers guide. by: mel frank. it was written in1978. pg. 306 says dry ice cure increases potency of marijuana considerably. dry ice is co2, when it sublimates the gas absorbs the moisture from the frozen marijuana. it says to put fresh bud in a coffee can with an equal amount of dry ice then poke a few holes in the lid and place in the freezer to prolong the effect. when the ice is gone the bud is dry but still moist and fresh.
hope that helps

 

[honkeytown]

Acetone and dry ice is very much like Liquid Nitrogen...you guys should try it...you can shatter a spoon or a finger....BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY THIS.....but its damn cool

 

[blazin waffles]

Acetone and dry ice is very much like Liquid Nitrogen...you guys should try it...you can shatter a spoon or a finger....BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY THIS.....but its damn cool

Damn, i really wish you wouldn't have told me that!

 

[P@ssw0rd]

I tried it once but it didn't really work very well. The buds froze solid and didn't really dry. It was fun to shatter the leaves off and it could even be used as a novel way to manicure but it was my understanding that it was used to quick dry the buds and it certainly didn't work at that. I did it in a small cooler with the lid cracked in my bedroom floor. It was a very effective roach motel, My guess is that they could "smell" the Co2 being released from the dry ice and were attracted to it in droves. I left it on the floor overnight and in the morning it had like 50+ dead cockroaches in there with my buds, Yummy. I then tried it in the freezer as described above for another 1.5 days when i took it out it was almost as wet as when i cut it down and the buds i had dried the traditional way were nearly dry.

So i wouldn't really reccomend it. My understanding of how the process was supposed to work as fairly straight forward, The theory in my understanding was that as the dry ice moved from solid to gas it created a flow of gas over the buds that had NO humidity as the C02 was dry.

I wrote it off as one of those Canna-Myths you hear so often. How can anything evaporate and dry out if it's frozen solid? If it is possible it's beyond me. I do not reccomend it.

 

[bicycle racer]

obviously not the best way to dry but less destructive than using heat if in a hurry

 

[BigBudBalls]

what about an alcohol cure? Alcohol is hygroscopic.

I'll just stick to the normal methods.

 

[goblin7dg]

so dry ice is co2?? could dry ice be worked somehow to provide a slow release of co2 for the plants growth??? im think im flying to high on this.

 

[blazin waffles]

so dry ice is co2?? could dry ice be worked somehow to provide a slow release of co2 for the plants growth??? im think im flying to high on this.

Yes it can. If you put it in a cooler with ice packs and shit, it will work, just takes awhile to dial it in to the right ppm. Gotta account for the environment.

 

[bicycle racer]

yes it accelerates plant growth

 

[spineshank]

lol if you can afford to constantly use dry ice for a co2 source for your plantsw then go for it. but if you want to use co2 then just get 15lb. tank and reg. and set right ppm there is a calculator on here somewhere. look into it b4 you try it dry ice dont last long either and a 15 lb bottle is cheap to refill.

 

[diggitydank420]

what about an alcohol cure? Alcohol is hygroscopic.

I'll just stick to the normal methods.

No no no!

That's a tincture. You cannot cure in alcohol, it will absorb the THC!!!

This makes for some really good alcohol when done right, though!

 

[bicycle racer]

yes we all know about tanks and regs the person asked about dry ice as a co2 source which it is. not about the various costs of different systems if you can get d.ice free like me it is highly effective. yes a tank and reg is the most economical. that was not the question asked.

 

[goblin7dg]

yes we all know about tanks and regs the person asked about dry ice as a co2 source which it is. not about the various costs of different systems if you can get d.ice free like me it is highly effective. yes a tank and reg is the most economical. that was not the question asked.

yep the reason i asked was because i have a friend who is an ice cream truck driver, and everynight he has some pieces left. so i would add these to my hydrosystem and just check on the ppm? but what about for my soil potting system? would i be able to foliar feed somehow, maybe spray it by mixing in a spray bottle with water?

 

[blazin waffles]

yep the reason i asked was because i have a friend who is an ice cream truck driver, and everynight he has some pieces left. so i would add these to my hydrosystem and just check on the ppm? but what about for my soil potting system? would i be able to foliar feed somehow, maybe spray it by mixing in a spray bottle with water?

With soil, just keep the Dry ice in the same cab. As it evaporates it fills the surrounding area with co2. Co2 is heavier than air so just set it above the plants and your good! circulate the air and you will be straight!