can i freeze dry a raw plant before i make the hash?

[Prince Vegeta]

i recently got a harvest right, not for cannabis specifically but i 100% plan on running some fresh frozen ice hash.
i have a plant in bags in a regular freezer for a few weeks cause i had planned on just doing normal fresh frozen ( which I'm still going to do) but i got to wondering how freeze-drying the bud would work?
i was thinking (probably incorrectly) that if i chopped and threw some buds into the freeze dryer, then maybe dry sifted the result, would that do anything?
keep in mind, the current plan is:
froze the fresh chopped buds, running them through the washer with ice, running slurry thru the bubble bags, collect hash, put that into the freeze dryer, sift the result, throw in micron bag and squish on the rosin press.
im NOT saying im going to do this...... but seriously before i do this, should i not?

 

[Prince Vegeta]

damn i suck 3 days not one response? oof

 

[formularacer]

I was given a few lbs of trim frozen for hash production.
There were some buds in the frozen pile. I tossed them on my sieves and filtered for kief. Remaining plant material is tossed in acetone and remaining oil is pulled out.
The resultant was a tasty smoke.
I have a trimming table that collects kief so far in processing my plant (Das Beast) I have collected a couple of grams of kief so far. Also have a few lbs of trim a couple of the local growers will give me there trimming which I will use in bubble hash process.

I tried pressing buds on my press had no luck getting oil out. So I took two flat squares of pressed bud put some hash oil between the two squares and pressed again. Made for an interesting smoke.

 

[formularacer]

The biggest mistake I made was not having a method for collecting kief from the drying racks. I have to be trimmed and burping container which both have collected a bunch of kief. Think the big game changer is the trimming table it is amazing how much kief drops off during handling.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

i appreciate the replies, but what im asking is , would there be a benefit to putting my fresh chopped plant into a freeze dryer, prior to rehydration. since the freeze dryer will reduce moisture to 0, but will also make it super brittle. im thinking if i do this the trichrome heads would be more brittle possibly increasing my yield?

 

[Moabfighter]

i appreciate the replies, but what im asking is , would there be a benefit to putting my fresh chopped plant into a freeze dryer, prior to rehydration. since the freeze dryer will reduce moisture to 0, but will also make it super brittle. im thinking if i do this the trichrome heads would be more brittle possibly increasing my yield?

Freeze them at like -80 and then wash as normal and freeze dry. Then press.

this is fresh frozen live rosin

 

[Thundercat]

i appreciate the replies, but what im asking is , would there be a benefit to putting my fresh chopped plant into a freeze dryer, prior to rehydration. since the freeze dryer will reduce moisture to 0, but will also make it super brittle. im thinking if i do this the trichrome heads would be more brittle possibly increasing my yield?

It would also make the plant material more brittle which is not what you want. The more the plant matter breaks down the lower quality your hash will be.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

It would also make the plant material more brittle which is not what you want. The more the plant matter breaks down the lower quality your hash will be.

i see, thats pretty obvious, youd think id have realised that when i typed it but no, totally went past me, so if i pop it in the FD, it wwill be smarter to hand wash it rather than to put it into the washer. i could agitate the freezedriedfreshfrezon in the washer with it not powered on, stirring with a large spatula. so already is more labor intesive than my typical method. ( ol classic blue washer with ice and ro water few bubble bags)

at this point would i be any better off tho? quality is way mor important than yield.
appreciate that @Moabfighter (not being a douche at all, i often seem like it)

 

[Thundercat]

I would ski[p the whole freeze drying the material thing, and just wash it like normal. I'm sure you are excited to FD something, so maybe get some Skittles like everyone else with an FD is doing.

 

[Prince Vegeta]

I would ski[p the whole freeze drying the material thing, and just wash it like normal. I'm sure you are excited to FD something, so maybe get some Skittles like everyone else with an FD is doing.

so you are 90% right, im mostly excited to use the dryer lol, gonna just do it normal, i guess if it were effective larger more advanced people woulda done it lol, thanks for the advice guys

 

[curious2garden]

so you are 90% right, im mostly excited to use the dryer lol, gonna just do it normal, i guess if it were effective larger more advanced people woulda done it lol, thanks for the advice guys

Another option might be to freeze dry a couple branches if you can and then compare it to a regular wash.

 

[Thundercat]

Another option might be to freeze dry a couple branches if you can and then compare it to a regular wash.

Yep comparison for evaluation is always a great idea .

 

[EhCndGrower]

I have a medium size harvest right, and just use it for drying my buds and jarring. I cut my plant down, trim down to buds, wash them, salad spin away the excess moisture and throw them through my motorized TrimPro. I’ve never done bubble hash afterwards but I found my sweet spot of 55f for the tray temps and roughly 17hrs dry time. Actually have some Cinderella 99 coming out in about 25mins. I can’t get all my outdoor plant to dry at once. So I just did the above, tossed into paper bag, thrown into the freezer and awaiting its turn. If you do this I suggest breaking buds apart by hand and don’t place in water to loosen.

 

[Moabfighter]

You’re gonna freeze dry your hash, yeah?

it’s the industry standard.