Edibles - How long to dry shake?

I would really like to make some edibles and I was wondering how long I have to wait after harvest to start using the trim for cooking? The buds from the trim are not dry after 10 days but the trim seems dry... I just really don't want to waste my time making edibles that are not potent..

You can use fresh trim immediately for cooking AND making concentrate.

In the future, freeze your fresh trimings over night and use them the next day straigh out of the freezer. When the trim is super fresh, putting it in the freezer will help seperate the trichs from the trim and help make your product more potent.

I know a lot of guys who LOVE fresh, frozen trim BHO - they say it produces the tastiest oil.

Doesn't the trim need to dry for the psychoactive properties to develop?

Squidbilly said:

You can use fresh trim immediately for cooking AND making concentrate.

In the future, freeze your fresh trimings over night and use them the next day straigh out of the freezer. When the trim is super fresh, putting it in the freezer will help seperate the trichs from the trim and help make your product more potent.

I know a lot of guys who LOVE fresh, frozen trim BHO - they say it produces the tastiest oil.

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A lot of people think this phenomenon is true, and there is a chemical change in certain cannabiniods as it ages...or actually degrades, but really it's kinda an uban legend...

what happens is people try to smoke bud that isn't completely dry yet, and it doesn't have the same kick. This isn't because the psychoactive properties haven't developed, it's because the bud doesn't burn all the way and less cannabiniods are hitting you at once. Once that same bud becomes properly dry, and burns much better, that 'kick' will be there.

Trichs are either clear, cloudy, or amber. If you harvested when most of your trichs were cloudy, and some of them were amber, the product isn't going to get any stronger - it actually degrades over time.

Also, properly cured bud will taste and smoke better than bud that is just dried, adding to the setiment that bud get's more psychoactive as it dries/ages.

If anything certain cannabiniods degrade, and the product might get more sedative, but if you tested a bud at the day of harvest, then a a few months later for THC content, you would find that the bud is actually loosing potency.

That's kinda why cooking or making concentrate with fresh material is ok - your seperating the cannabinoids from the plant material or your disolving the resin in fat to be ingested - in either scenario your not trying to cumbust wet material.

P.S. I recently discovered the benefits of a vaporizer if you grow - You can stick material straight off the plant in there, and after a few 'humid vegatative' hits, the bud dries out and you can get some nice tasty vapor hits. It's really made the wait from harvest to dry enough to properly smoke more bearable But potency is there from day one. Just like I mentioned above though, once it dries out and you vape it, it seams stronger, but only because there is way less moisture in the product and I get a higher concentraion of cannabiniods per hit, but obviously less hits because it is dry.