premature plants to blast, freeze or quick dry? BHO...

antimatt3r

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trying to make BHO from these plants I cut down about 3-4 weeks into flowering due to suckage (BC Bud Depot Purps) supposed cannabis cup winner well not this pheno tell ya that well anyway they have been drying for a day or so and I would like to blast them now but they are still pretty wet, so here are my two ideas

1. put the oven on real low and slow (quick (lol)) dry the buds till they are a little crispier or,

2.freeze them and the tube and just blast with em frozen

3. just blast em fresh?

worst case ill just wait but id like to blast these ladies tonite while im running the other shit anyway!

ooo now that I think of it I have some identical material thats been already dried I should do an experiment and see if fresh frozen yields as much as dried......
 

Gmz

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Don't do it fresh. I've read that if there's still moisture in your material it can freeze and cause a blow back or even basically explode your tube
 

antimatt3r

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no I didnt matt lol gmz ive dne it before thk god it didnt 'blowback' ill just wait till its dry feck it :P
 

midnitetoak

Active Member
That's 3 ideas but anyway the best thing would be to wait at least 4 days or so to get some more moisture out the bud. Then pack your tube & freeze it overnight so it's ready to shoot right away along with a can o' tane. I found with fresh frozen material you need to pack your tube kind of loose or you get a lot of blowback from pressure building up inside the tube. You are better off waiting til it's bone dry; but then again you would've been better off giving these buds a few more weeks to mature so it's a wash at this point. I've read about people decarboxilating in the oven prior to running their oil but I thought this was not intended to remove mich moisture as decarb is a very quick process under low heat...Wouldn't drying out in the oven also melt away terpenes?
 

Fadedawg

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I would freeze it if I was in to big a hurry to wait until it was down to about 25% water content. Chop it into quarter inch chunks and pack you tube before freezing, so as to not get atmospheric ice covering your trichomes,
 
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