Im thinking about buying a Food Dehydrator to make some Beef Jerky, and was thinking it would b good to do my Bus with aswell.

Does anyone use a food dehydrator to speed up the drying of their bud?

If so would those members care to share about their unit and how their use it?
-Does it have a fan?
-Is it right to Smoke/Bag straight out of the Machine?
-Is Bag/Jar Curing still neccesary?
-How long from Chopping Down your plant til u are chopping up your Bud?

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I have tried it. I over dried the bud. I was just using a test sample and I was unhappy with the results.

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Time in drying increases potency. I know this personally because my first grow was shitty bagseed from shitty weed. I smoked an ounce of it when harvested...it got you high but only kinda. I recently ran out and still have a week to go on ak48...so rather than steal too many buds off of that...I looked through my clippings from the bagseed that've been in a brown paper bag for a month. Found a few underdeveloped buds in there...crispy as hell but they actually got me higher than the main buds which i smoked before fully dried/cured.

So i guess thats a general consensus of 'No' then. Guess it would be alright for the commercial growers who just want bulk turnover and dont care about the average smoker.. But for personal it seems a No Go.

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a dehydrator will dry your bud out way to fast even for the dry much less the cure. The faster you dry weed the shittier it will taste

Well then, im guna give it a miss. How about if u had it in a room with a de-humidifier going?

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you want to dry it in about 70-75 degrees, 40-50% humidty, after a few days like that if possible you can raise the temp a little and lower the humidity some more. You can dry it out faster and still get you high its just going to have the green hay taste locked in.

There is no substitution for drying slowly.

You need to dry slow and evenly. You need to let the clorophyll dissipate.

A slow dry is an evenn dry, and lets the moisture and oils work from the inside out. This is what gives the good taste and smell.

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Personally I like sticking with a slow dry and slow cure process, but I was just wondering wat these gadgets wud b like.

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I agree that slow is better but if I just have to try some sooner I microwave it at 50% poer in 15 second burst until it is at least dry enough to smoke or vape.

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