Drying in a fridge

Hash Hound

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I harvested mid December and two weeks later i placed 2oz in jars and 2oz in a Groove bag.
a month later I rolled a joint of each and brought them over to my fellow grower friend and gave him a blind taste test and he selected the Groove bag joint as the tastier of the two.
 

Hook Daddy

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anyone have a build for the winefridge with dehumidifier?
and would something like this work?
Yes and yes. Link below

 

Dboybudz

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Yes and yes. Link below

Just as I got done writing,lol.nice
 

Week4@inCharge

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Anyone tried this?

I’m going to try it, been reading about it over the past few months and I feel confident it will work, it’s actually pretty well documented practise over at thc farmer and on 420 mag.

I understand the science behind it and have seen it work, and I also understand why so many less knowledgeable people dismiss it as a recipe for disaster. So I don’t really need convincing either way, I know it should work aslong as I don’t fuck up.

I just wanna know if anyone who’s done it has any pointers or wanna share any problems they ran into while using this technique.

how did you deal with the smell?
What size fridge did you use for how much bud?
what kind of fridge? I’m torn between buying a double wide wine cooler or using a spare frost free fridge I have in storage.
I’m looking to dry what would normally weigh 20oz fry

thanks in advance to anyone willing to share
Thanks for the invite!! :lol:

So this is where my temps are at the moment, holding steady.
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Roy O'Bannon

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I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
 

Week4@inCharge

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I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
I'm thinking since the plant is alive and always drinking that no, the terpenes will not fly away, but if your smelling that dank...whoo weee.. mixed feelings on that one, to smell the dank or not..lol, jokes aside, its when your drying that preserving the terpenes is important (you chopped the plant and it's no longer self sustaining).
 

Roy O'Bannon

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So the wet bulb effect applies to the plant so my leaf temp is 80ish. My tent is 85ish. As the plant dries it become closer to the air temp.
I kind of get what your saying. It just seems like heat is heat. I wonder if cooler grown plants have more taste than hotter grown ones?
I kind of want to make some bubble hash, which means I won't be drying much.
 

Week4@inCharge

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So the wet bulb effect applies to the plant so my leaf temp is 80ish. My tent is 85ish. As the plant dries it become closer to the air temp.
I kind of get what your saying. It just seems like heat is heat. I wonder if cooler grown plants have more taste than hotter grown ones?
I kind of want to make some bubble hash, which means I won't be drying much.
Well, I'm no scientist, but... for me, plants grown and finished during the winter have always come out tastier than the ones grown in the summer.
 

Week4@inCharge

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Maybe one of those fancy labs with good climate control will test this.
And probably dependant on strain as well, we have plants growing in very warm climates near the equater (sativa) who thrive in warm and high humid conditions, vs those (indica) in the cold and dry climates of the Hindu and Afghani Mountains.
 

Blue brother

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I have a question about drying and refrigeration.
Wouldn't the plants growing conditions determine terpenes flashing off?

You would have to grow the plant at low temp and never let the flower get over to preserve that low temp terpene right? Makes sense logically anyway.

I'll be back when drying time comes around, my second time so I'm looking for a doable simple method. I'm thinking my tent and I can leave my humidifier and fan control set to handle the rh. Temp will be 75ish.
Good question, the fact is, while the plant is alive it's constantly losing and rebuilding the terpene profile. Once we chop it this stops and we're stuck with what it has at that point, so the goal is to preserve as much as we can that was present when we cut the plant
 
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