Save Hours In Harvest Drying Time

OK, i have grown a fair few plants in my time, and have tested one or two quick dry methods, which in my opinion were all shit; even the steam dry method in the microwave. the taste of my crop when i used the proper way of drying and curin was unbeatable of any quick dry method. but just now, when i was putting my plant back into the growroom, one of the buds snapped a little bit..i looked at the stem with the loose bud on to find that i had obviously bent it quite a few times taking it in and out. i ended up just cutting off the bud, knowing it would slow down general growth just being there healing.
The way i dried it was the best way i discovered and rivals slow dry and cured bud.. heres the instructions:

< Get a half ounce baggie

< Cut a hole on one side of the baggie about half way down, small or big, it doesnt matter. But no bigger than your index finger-tip and thumb-tip touching eachother.

< Get the buds you want to dry and chop them up into smallish pieces, maybe 0.5g pieces. and put about 7g or whatever you want of wet chopped bud into the baggie

< Then, get a hair dryer, there should be one in your house! and put the hair dryer into the baggie so its level with the bottom of the hole you cut inside so a little bit of air can escape from the middle of the baggie, and the top if you choose to hold the baggie round the top of the hair dryer.

< If you want to tape the baggie round the hair dryer its up to you, i didnt do this, but it would probably work better. Remember to cut a hole somewhere to creat a strong flow of air through the baggie. This way, you can just sit down and watch tv or go on the pc whilst monitoring the drying process inside the baggie. It might be quite hard to monitor the buds if the baggie is taped round a hair dryer though, so remember that too! This method takes less than 45 minutes and it is so fucking worth it. The buds have a very natural taste and the crystals stay as normal as you can get. Depending on how far your plant is down the line, this method will get you so toasted. you can even cure it in a baggie when its dry.
FELLOW PEOPLE WITH PLANTS. PICK A FEW BUDS NOW AND USE THIS METHOD, YOU'LL BE LAUGHING!

hydrotech364 said:

which setting???????

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lol!

so basicly i can just put a dryer into this bag and 'spray' the buds with warm air and shaking it so all the warm air gets round.

the air should escape through the 2 holes in the middle?

put the hair dryer on full power on a cold setting! do not put it on the hot setting or it will just melt the baggie. Thats how i discovered the whole processworks better with a hole in the baggie lol!

i might try this out when i come to harvest. so just 45 min of using a hair dryer on them will be ok for smoking?

i have never tried this. i would think that hanging the plant upside down and drying and curing in a proper container would have a much better quality taste. mabee everyone else has a higher quality of standard. i dont see companies doing quick aged booze and getting good taste, if anyone wants something done quick it would be the big companies ( profit) ther is chemicals in the pot that need to go through a process to dry and cure to get good smoke and that takes time, if you could get that quality from speed drying then i think everybody would be doing it and they dont unless thier deparate for smoke. my self i can waite for a couple weeks more after waiting all this time already.

fair points there mate. But who can beat the best quick dry method. If your in need of smoke, why ruin a spliff in the microwave if thats all you need. There is one way which is the hair dryer way which works so well its unbeleivable. yes slow dry and cure is much better taste and high wise, but merely drying all the moisture out of the buds, works pretty well to. try it and see!!!

if you think that i would waste 4 or 5 months of groing to try that method your nuts. i have a friend that works at university of british columbia and does all the chemical analasys on our pot at my medical dispensarie. he makes nutes for groing also, so he is very knowledgable ( my info comes from him) when you add heat you are killing the thc so there is no way it compares to the normal method. there is a reason to hang them upside down also. to us it would be like smoking hemp compared to good bud. i look at like if your impatient after all that work and money invested and then do that method why not just quit groing and just go and buy it. isn`t that the fastest way.

good things come to those with patience

sounds like it would work fine. I have tried quick drying stuff before but never tried the microwave cos that just seems like heracy to me. guy i was buying off did that once and i wasnt all to happy, especially when the bud was wet again a few hours later. The best method i have found is to either stick a Q or whatever under my desklamp bulb (incandescents produce so much heat as you know) but the best so far is to stick it in my computer amongst the many fans as the warm dry air has is crumbly dry in about as long as it takes to download a good film. I tried drying a little bit under UV lamps just to see if it had some kind of unexpected effect, nothing noteworthy though

A food dehydrator set on low drys bud in less than 24 hours for you impatient ones.

bonz said:

i have never tried this. i would think that hanging the plant upside down and drying and curing in a proper container would have a much better quality taste. mabee everyone else has a higher quality of standard. i dont see companies doing quick aged booze and getting good taste, if anyone wants something done quick it would be the big companies ( profit) ther is chemicals in the pot that need to go through a process to dry and cure to get good smoke and that takes time, if you could get that quality from speed drying then i think everybody would be doing it and they dont unless thier deparate for smoke. my self i can waite for a couple weeks more after waiting all this time already.

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I have used the hair dryer with big buds and then cured afterwards still tasted very good!

i`m not saying it wont work i just go for quality not speed or quantity. hell i know people that throw it on tin foil and put it on the stove element to dry it. that must taste good

bonz said:

if you think that i would waste 4 or 5 months of groing to try that method your nuts. i have a friend that works at university of british columbia and does all the chemical analasys on our pot at my medical dispensarie. he makes nutes for groing also, so he is very knowledgable ( my info comes from him) when you add heat you are killing the thc so there is no way it compares to the normal method. there is a reason to hang them upside down also. to us it would be like smoking hemp compared to good bud. i look at like if your impatient after all that work and money invested and then do that method why not just quit groing and just go and buy it. isn`t that the fastest way.

good things come to those with patience

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Out of interest, I wonder what your University friend would think of this method of quick-drying boo?
It is freeze drying. You need two tin cans, one bigger than the other and some dry ice. You put the dry ice in the big tin, the boo in the smaller tin and then place the smaller tin inside the bigger and pour the remaining chunks of dry ice into the space between the tins. The incredibly cold temperatures supposedly suck all of the water out of the boo and freeze it onto the inside of the tin. (*Warning, wear thick welder type gloves and don't touch the dry ice with bare skin because it burns.*)
I've never tried it myself but that freeze dried coffee always looks sort of velvety and chunky. If you're hell-bent on speed drying I am certain that extremes of heat and light diminish the content of the thc and can make the smoke taste harsh, (after all, doesn't a vaporizer work on the principle of heating rather than burning the green to release its cannabinoids?), so why not give this method a go?
Actually, I wonder whether you could use dry ice (which is frozen CO2) to a) keep your grow room/chamber temperatures down since it's really cold, and b) supply your plants with CO2 gas by putting chunks of it into water and melting it in the grow room/chamber? Apparently, plants love to absorb CO2 as part of their growing process.

da hell with quick dry methods cut the buds let them dry cure for a week burp the jar every few hours and u got some good smoke

i have heard of people using dry ice in grow room for exactly that reason. i`ll throw that one by him about the freeze dry. my opinion on it is that i would think that freezing the nugs would make them brittle and the trichnomes would fall off and therefore lose potency. but thats just an uneducated geusse.
vaporizors are the way to go. you get a better high. yes burning a joint will kill most of the thc before you even get to smoke it. vaporizors are much cooler.

my preference of quick dry ( and only to test maturity) is to take a couple small buds from in the middle of plant and put on paper on top of my ballast. gives me a better timing on harvest.