Do you know if frozen wet buds can still cure out? Just curious. And if I were the OP I would pay a lot less if they don't.
At almost 5 bucks a gram wet by the time you do all the work to dry and cure you'll end up paying street prices, 15-20 a gram after it loses it's moisture weight. That $5 gram when dry will weigh about 0.3. Then it'll take 3 or 4 of those 0.3's to make a gram.
Freeze it for what? You want the trich's to fall off so you can make hash?
Hmm... fresh cuts quick trimmed buds right off the stem loose around 70 to 80% of weight.. DId he dry it a little bit before he freezed it?
Freezing wet buds causes ice crystals that burst trichome heads resulting in rapid degradation.
Don't ask me, I'm not the one that froze it!
I'm not sure that this is quite true however, as the actual trichome heads themselves do not contain water that would expand and cause this kind of damage. I understand the principal, froze oranges in middle school to observe the same reaction with the little pockets of juice that make up the inside of the orange, and freezing meat tenderizes it for the same reason. However, I have stored pot in the freezer for years without a problem. Granted the pot I stored has always been "dry" (Although there will always be some moisture unless the buds powder when squeezed), but that shouldn't change anything as it is the plant matter that holds the water and not the trichome heads. As for degradation, the cold will actually prevent degradation until you get them back to room temp, so they are probably more potent than if they had been dried and cure amateurishly. Just my $0.02
My bad bugeye, meant to quote the OP.
Well still a good question! Saw another post tonight about someone freezing wet buds to get spider mites off.
Nuff said.
