drying with Dry Ice

[thebigman]

I was reading up on the best ways to dry your buds after you harvest. One site mentioned drying using dry ice. The site explained: you put some buds in a container with a little bit of dry ice. Put a lid on, poke a hole in the top for the carbon dioxide to diffuse, and put the container in your freezer for a couple weeks. The carbon dioxide is supposed to absorb moisture slowly.

The reference said that some people think this is one of the best ways to dry and cure.

Has anyone heard or used this method before. If so please hit me with a link or explain.

thebigman Reviewed by thebigman on 07-26-2007. drying with Dry Ice I was reading up on the best ways to dry your buds after you harvest. One site mentioned drying using dry ice. The site explained: you put some buds in a container with a little bit of dry ice. Put a lid on, poke a hole in the top for the carbon dioxide to diffuse, and put the container in your freezer for a couple weeks. The carbon dioxide is supposed to absorb moisture slowly. The reference said that some people think this is one of the best ways to dry and cure. Has anyone Rating: 5

[thebigman]

here is the excerp

Dry Ice


Many homegrowers have written to us that the dry-ice cure increases the potency of marijuana considerably, and we would be remiss not to mention it.


Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. When it melts (sublimates), it turns from a solid directly into a gas. This gas absorbs some moisture from the frozen marijuana and partially dries it.


There are many variations of the dry-ice method. Fresh or partially dried material is usually used, although some enthusiasts claim that the cure also works with dried material. The marijuana is placed in a coffee can or similar container with a lid, along with at least an equal volume of dry ice. Puncture the lid so that the gas can escape as it evaporates. Place the can in a freezer to prolong the evaporation process. When the dry ice is gone, the grass is dried, but still moist.


Some growers claim that simply freezing the grass increases potency. They often freeze fan leaves or other less-potent material for a couple of months before smoking it. This is said to work only with fresh (wet or dried) grass.

[dmahny88]

does this decrease the "stankyness" of the drying process at all? I am in first time grow at the moment and don't have plans for curing yet and this may work since i have access to dry ice. Would this be an option to limit the smell of this process?

[Siljrath]

man that's genius.

how come this isn't more widespread and commonly known of!?

[dmahny88]

Yes this should be heard..it seems genius at least. In all logic this seems like a great method although i would imagine it would do some good for the overall process to be left in a dim aired room for a little bit before you were to bring it down to freezer temp and do this..idk, These are my uneducated thoughts, anyone who knows a little more? Speak

[fluid69]

i'm not sure about the dry ice, but the freezer alone will dry your bud out. this dealer I used to know would put his stash in the freezer. I hated that! if I caught him when he first re-uped, the bud would be perfectly cured. but a week later after being in his freezer it was dry crumbly shit! and the worst part of it all was it killed the potency.

[syde00]

i'm not sure about the dry ice, but the freezer alone will dry your bud out. this dealer I used to know would put his stash in the freezer. I hated that! if I caught him when he first re-uped, the bud would be perfectly cured. but a week later after being in his freezer it was dry crumbly shit! and the worst part of it all was it killed the potency.

thats funny, i';ve actually had pretty good success by keeping bud in the freezer... though i also wouldn;t do it with bud thats still very wet, and i always make sure its in air-tight ziplocks, most of the time i double up the ziplocks as well as I know they are not perfect, and i do my best to get as much air out of the ziplocks as possible before putting it in.

I have also seen this method wreak havoc on weed like you were saying too... i have a friend that put stuff that was too wet in and it got really crumbly pretty fast... but he also used one of those hard-ish plastic ziplock containers like you'd put left-over food into... so he couldn;t evacuate any of the air out of the container first, so i always kind of blamed it on those 2 things since it has worked for me

[fluid69]

It's been awhile back but I'm pretty sure he wasn't double zip locking, and probably not evacuating the air. thanks for shedding some light on this for me, I'll not rule out the dry ice method just yet after all.