It’s a 1 day cure plus it gives the weed a 1 year shelf life. I was kinda asking people’s opinions who have actually used the machines, bro. Not looking to debate what it is. Thanks tho
No debate sir just saying what I know on the subject. Please excuse me
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I did some googling and most of what came up was about Cryo Cure, and mostly by the company that sells the product. Sounds cool, but not a lot of unbiased info that I could find in a short search. I will point out that air drying and curing has worked well for at least hundreds of years. But I’ll be interested to hear about freeze drying results. Good luck!
@TolkinWhite if you’re referring to freeze drying it works great. Down side is they lose the moisture barrier that protects the terpenes so if they don’t go directly into a controlled environment after the freeze dry they lose the terpenes fast due to off gassing. Faster than wet bud.
Have to make sure you have your curing/preservation environment set up on point before you freeze dry otherwise you’ll end up with crumbly flavorless buds.
Well I have C-Vaults with 65% humidity packs. I’m just curious about it because of what I’ve seen on the cryocure website. I just saw today they have a residential unit coming but it cost $50,000 lmao. I’ll pass on that.
My issue is I have plants coming up on harvest and some are more ready than others but I use the tent to dry so thats a problem. It’d be nice to just take out the ready plants and cryocure them while the others finish maturing
Yeah they have good reviews but I wish someone here had one. Like I just told someone else here, the residential machine is coming out soon and its $50,000. I was looking to spend about $2500 lol
Its all good bro, I appreciate it.
They have residential ones for 2.5k or so. They’re smaller home freeze drying units.
I have the brand written down somewhere because I was looking for one myself.
@TolkinWhite the brand is called harvest right. They have small to large sized residential freeze drying units.
Wouldn’t another tent just for drying be an economical solution?
Totally. Thats eventually gonna happen once I get my grow room set up. I’m buying an 8x8 tent then with 4 4x4 lights from ac infinity. That’s still a few months out though. Then I’m gonna give my gf this tent to grow her veggies. At that point I’ll probably also buy a little junk tent just to dry
Thanks ill check it out
I know it’s not what you asked for, but I’m in a very small apartment, and I swear if I start two plants of identical strain, do everything the same, one always comes to harvest a week or more ahead of the other. So yeah, drying in the tent didn’t work. First I built a dry box and plumbed the vent duct going to my tent inlet through it, co opting my filter in the process. Then I upgraded that with a dedicated dry8ng cabinet. It cost about a hundred bucks to build, donor cabinet, fans, etc included. You can look up the thread about cabinets. I just jarred one plant out of it today, and have two more in some stage of drying. Just kept the plants separated by chopstick dividers as I cycle them through. It uses a cheap, homemade charcoal filter and works great.
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Is cryo-freezing better?–better smoke, more terpenes, last longer. Honestly it takes (depending where you live) 5-7 days to dry weed. Plus you have maintain the equipment and cost to run it. Some things are simple and work.
True. I just like the fact that it eliminates the possibility of mold forming
Best way is the slow dry & cure., esp. w/ low plant #'s… Designated C.D.C.R. (Cold Dry & Cure Room) is what I do. 
From what I know about sub-zero sublimation, the technical term for freeze drying, a small batch can be easily tried at home.
Supplies-
• Small igloo cooler
• Dry ice (amount depends on amount to dry) I think I remember something along the lines of 1lb of dr ice per oz of wet bud, give or take as it dries and you see need.
• rack, or some way of suspending the flower right above the dry ice without touching it
• parchment paper to lay on the rack under the bud
Basically all you do is lay the dry ice in the bottom of the cooler, place the rack above it with parchment on it, lay out your buds quickly, then leave the cooler cracked. As the dry ice expands from solid to gas (sublimation), it is extremely cold and dry, as in less than 1% humidity type of dry. This process draws the moisture from the bud through osmotic sublimation into the carbon dioxide. As the CO2 expands from ice to gas, it will fill the cooler and overflow. You want it to sit around the bud and draw the moisture, yet also be able to escape as it expands, taking the moisture in the process.
This process is dangerous in that dry ice is extremely cold, instant frostbite kind of cold, so wear very very thick insulated gloves and dont hold the dry ice just handle it long enough to move it. Also, this is expanding CO2, DO NOT do this in an enclosed space. You CAN and WILL suffocate yourself or others. Ensure plentiful ventilation including a liberal source of fresh air, and a cool spot to keep your dry ice from sublimating too quick. Some people ive heard will do small batches in a foam cooler in their fridge. Even in a chest freezer if you want to make best use of your dry ice.
Anyway, yet to do it myself honestly, so this is entirely book learning. But I hope this might help someone. If not then be mean forum people 
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Good information, thanks. Ended up just chopping them and hanging them last night.
I know all about dry ice from working for a tv production company who used it for fog machines. If you literally touch it for one second ur skin starts turning brown. Place I would get it the guys used real thick gloves to handle it.
Exactly 
I usually get near harvest and im like ahh f it. So far, weird as it may sound, a paper bag cure is my favorite method. Buddy of mine uses a black/yellow tote (you know the kind) strung with jute lines running the length, and a small computer fan on either end. He hangs the nugs from the lines and runs the fans with the lid on until the stems snap instead of bend. Either way they then they go into jars for a cure. I remember that story about the guy who buried his nugs around his back yard in mason jars for 6 mos- year as a cure.
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Paper grocery bags seem a great way, used twice.
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