drying with rice

have any one here ever put there fresh trimmed buds in a seal jar full on uncooked rice
thats what i've been doin to the last few buds i had i was just wodering if any of yall had ever tried it

oh shit, is that to absorb the humidity right? does it mean you can leave them for longer without opening the jar?

the rice will dry it pretty quick in like 3-4 days you just have to make sure not toleave then in there to long so they dont get to quick
i always use this method to dry bannana plant leave to use when i run out of papers if you you get a bannana leave that is the middle shoot that hasnt opened yet the older leaves taste harsh

haha you use banana leaves as smoking paper, so does that mean you skip the initial drying proces and just put them straight in jars with rice

yes bananna paper are suprisingly good only if you use new growth anther good way to dri bannana leaves is to leave them flat in a book but yea i just put the bud in a jar with out drying it and the rice does pretty good i've never had any mold this way it always been 1 or two buds i gotta a plant right now that will be finish in about 3 or 4 more weeks that i might get 2 or 3 ounces from and i'll problly tri and dry half with rice and the other half without to see if it acually help any thing

i'm interested. so it's sort of a quick dry/start to cure method? and then once dry do you take out the rice and let cure for longer?

ah kinda like puttin bread in the cookie jar to keep the cookies soft right? i see where youre headed with this. good thinkin

if using rice turns out to be an efficient quick dry method, might i suggest this get sticked!

Hey chaps, I'm giving it a try anyway as I doubt it will have any ill effects.

I'm sure Silica Gel would do a better job but I don't know anyone who has ever tried it. I realise its not good for you if you eat it, anyone have any experience using it?

watulkuh said:

Hey chaps, I'm giving it a try anyway as I doubt it will have any ill effects.

I'm sure Silica Gel would do a better job but I don't know anyone who has ever tried it. I realise its not good for you if you eat it, anyone have any experience using it?

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i did read somewhere u can use those packets when quick drying bud to absorb the moisture.

not sure if it works...

watulkuh said:

Hey chaps, I'm giving it a try anyway as I doubt it will have any ill effects.

I'm sure Silica Gel would do a better job but I don't know anyone who has ever tried it. I realise its not good for you if you eat it, anyone have any experience using it?

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I was married in Maui yes it was fabulous. I tried the silica granuals to dry our leis. It did not very well & stunk horribly. I would'nt want that on my bud. I think it's toxic as well.

yeah silica gel is toxic, and may dry too quickly, i smoke rice papaers so why not dry with it too? im going to try that

Post your technique. Id like to know how using rice works with drying the bud and what kind of process you used.
sounds interesting.

I am going to keep an eye on this to see how it goes

i know alot of people that live in hawaii put rice in their salt shakers to keep the rice from clumping up due to the humidity. so im really interested to see if this works. would it work great if you used some orange peels or lemon peels also in the jar with rice when curing. and what the effects would be like..anyone?

i use rice to keep other things from getting moist. i use say a zipper leather pouch add dry rice in the bottom, a layer of paper towel on top and i put things in a container and put it in the pouch and zip it up. i do this to keep things dry. i did have some buds hanging in a box and i did put rice in there also due to it was very humid out. the rice may have helped, i didnt get any mold.

yea i always used rice in saltshakers that were i got the idea from but yea i normally took out the rice when it got dry enuf to cure the reason i stared doing this is cuz i left sum weed in a jar and it got mold so i started putting rice it with it so it would asorb any extra moisture in sted of growing mold i dont know if it works just as good as hang dring
i haw hopping it would dry it slow hoping it would make the weed taste better

i'm gunna try to dry this plant with rice when it finishes i was also wonder about them packects they mave now that has iron powder in them i think they react with the oxygen or maybe if you put them in the jar when your curing but i dont know the the bud needs the oxygen for the curing process

Dude i put rice in the bottom of my jar overnight, it sucked up a lot. Only problem i came across was not putting something between the rice and budz, so i ended up having to sit there and pull out the rice from the buds.. But all in all it worked great for me....

hmm i might try this for a bud or two when i harvest cause i wanna smoke it NOW! don't wanna wait at least 3 weeks to dry and cure!

any1 else tried this?

im going to try it next week when i harvest. will have to find something to seperate the rice and buds though.