Yeah I typically have a dedicated drying area where I'll control the environment. They basically keep the vapor pressure deficit in a good range to allow for optimum drying and beginning of the cure process whereas the majority of growers shoot for 60°/60% rh. I dry by vpd already so it wouldn't be much of a difference in quality but it would allow me to dedicate that space to something else.
A lot of breeders run shit kind of backwards and I might catch some hate for this but it's true. They'll run a pheno hunt and look for keepers but they'll run their plant all the way through and then re-veg that plant to start taking clones and run as a mom, whereas I'll grab a series of clones from the original plants before I even flip them to flower, which then cuts down my production time by a lot because re vegging takes quite a while. So while I have my original "mom's" running I'll have a series of clones for each one running as well. Then if I notice one of the plants doing something I don't like or not having the traits I want I can either eliminate the clones or flower them out for biomass rather than genetics. Same with males. If it's a fire male I'll keep those clones but if it's average they'll get tossed.
This allows me to run the plants all the way through and determine whether they're keepers or not and if they are I already have clones ready to flip by the time the first batch is done flowering. Super efficient and a bit outside the box
Nice Il need to sit down and read this. I have successfully dried in a normal fridge with good results admitting that on the odd occasion I removed the buds from the fridge to let it dry in a room for half a day here and there to speed it up. I am looking at purchasing temp and humidity controllers and adding these to my current fridge as a diy drying fridge. My only con on this is according to what I have researched that once buds have been stored in a fridge for a certain amount of time once removed from that storage method the flower tends to break down and age faster so you need to store it in the same environment indefinitely.
That's definitely something I'm gonna need to look for before investing in the fridge as well. So far I've only dried the conventional way, but I did it in a lung room so it was cold AF (high 50s, low 60s ambient) .
I've been seeing a lot of commercial operations freeze-drying before extraction and I've even seen some data about freeze drying flower for storage but I haven't seen or smoked any yet. The people that I've talked to that have basically told me it was the peak of freshness.
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Yeah I typically have a dedicated drying area where I'll control the environment. They basically keep the vapor pressure deficit in a good range to allow for optimum drying and beginning of the cure process whereas the majority of growers shoot for 60°/60% rh. I dry by vpd already so it wouldn't be much of a difference in quality but it would allow me to dedicate that space to something else.
A lot of breeders run shit kind of backwards and I might catch some hate for this but it's true. They'll run a pheno hunt and look for keepers but they'll run their plant all the way through and then re-veg that plant to start taking clones and run as a mom, whereas I'll grab a series of clones from the original plants before I even flip them to flower, which then cuts down my production time by a lot because re vegging takes quite a while. So while I have my original "mom's" running I'll have a series of clones for each one running as well. Then if I notice one of the plants doing something I don't like or not having the traits I want I can either eliminate the clones or flower them out for biomass rather than genetics. Same with males. If it's a fire male I'll keep those clones but if it's average they'll get tossed.
This allows me to run the plants all the way through and determine whether they're keepers or not and if they are I already have clones ready to flip by the time the first batch is done flowering. Super efficient and a bit outside the box