Drying in a fridge

Not knock it but maybe try with a smaller amount first, would suck to grow all that weed just to lose it in an experiment.

dank'd said:

actually as i have learned after researching this, a walk in fridge is ideal and used by professional growers, or at least in this instance, the grower who used the walk in fridge had the superior pot at the local dispos

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What’s a professional grower? And I work in the legal market. No it’s not

DrOgkush said:

Mold for sure

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Yep the risk to reward ratio is insane.

DrOgkush said:

What’s a professional grower? And I work in the legal market. No it’s not

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in that case i mentioned it was though

it was this thread:


which spawned this thread, two months later by a user who also wanted to share their positive experiences:


and here is the piece de resistance of all douchebaggery that seemed to plague both of those threads and the ops who still managed to get their information across thankfully. this post gives an idea of the reaction to the thought of fridge drying....lol never seen this before in years of foruming lol

quoted from user rippedtorn:

I put my armpit in the freezer and it stinks twice as loud.

Does that make sense?

Think about it.... Today's pot growers are growing deodorant growstore snake oil plants, not natural armpit plants. We don't recognize this hawthorne crap as Cannabis. Fuck hydro, fuck terpenes, fuck hay, its all about them proteins booooooooyyy.


You got dudes out here storing nasty unsmokable bud in a refrigerator patting themselves on the back for 300 ozs of weed i flush down the toilet after one hit..

Time to wake up potheads. You gotta get off that nasty bullshit trail, the big timers got you beat on that nasty placebo market production. Better consider growing some sticky dank (proteins produce thiols when broken down) and quit fucking around like the grow store is some 3rd world religious site or some shit.

Every modern trend in Cannabis is detrimental to Cannabis! Fuck hydro! Grow something worth growing,sticky with proteins, it cures itself, no brovida delusions required, no clinging to evaporating terps of nasty bud.

avoiding mold is a major reason that people who try this method correctly are thankful for finding it

Meh, still gonna try it for myself and know for myself...will report sometime December

DrOgkush said:

Am I the only one who puts salads ingredients in the fridge? Lettuce cabbage spinach kale etc. that doesn’t dry out. And heads of lettuce are completely exposed because we blow thru them. They don’t dry out. They turn red and gooey and mush.

cannabis flowers have to be dried slow. Yes. Cooler Temps. Yes. But as far as I’m concerned. The optimal is 60h-60f
A fridge is 80h-40f. No way. Mold for sure

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Mold up for sure. I seen veggies go bad In fridge and had to clean it…….

Mad878 said:

Mold up for sure. I seen veggies go bad In fridge and had to clean it…….

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Well I got a bud in the fridge now coming close to a day now Honestly looks exactly the same from when I snipped it yesterday

like I put the stem in water. No wilt. Nothing

A lot of people have found the same thing, instead of wilting on day 1 cos it’s lost so much moisture, the cold temperature allows for a prolonged process, everything you’re used to seeing happens at a much slower rate. Which is something that is very desirable to a lot of people. There’s a reason people who have had bad results with a 4 day process adopt techniques to allow for a 7 day dry and so on. Why not keep pushing the envelope.

I’ll find out what happens. If I can give it a shot. Fuck it. Why not. Not hurting my fridge

I’m going to try this drying method myself first time I’ve heard of it but I’m going to give it a shot, I’ll hang the branches and not lay them down so there airated, when I cook pork I leave it in the fridge (raw) for 3 days un covered and it dries out the skin perfectly for that crackling so I’m convinced that this method will work

Middlereef said:

I’m going to try this drying method myself first time I’ve heard of it but I’m going to give it a shot, I’ll hang the branches and not lay them down so there airated, when I cook pork I leave it in the fridge (raw) for 3 days un covered and it dries out the skin perfectly for that crackling so I’m convinced that this method will work

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So do my carrots. But they never dry out complete. So I’m curious to what happens in say 3 weeks? I’m on almost 24 hours right now

DrOgkush said:

So do my carrots. But they never dry out complete. So I’m curious to what happens in say 3 weeks? I’m on almost 24 hours right now

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Looking forward to seeing your results, are you monitoring the environment within the fridge? What else do you have in there? Is this your household fridge with your food in?

Middlereef said:

I’m going to try this drying method myself first time I’ve heard of it but I’m going to give it a shot, I’ll hang the branches and not lay them down so there airated, when I cook pork I leave it in the fridge (raw) for 3 days un covered and it dries out the skin perfectly for that crackling so I’m convinced that this method will work

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Brilliant mate, the more people that try this the more data and experience we can share collectively.

I was thinking I’d maybe use the perforated stainless steel you find on the outside of a carbon filter. And make shelves within the fridge so air can flow through from shelf to shelf, my reasoning is that will keep the environment more stable, from top to bottom.

I also thought about adding a fan like the kind you see on pcs not to blow at the plant matter but just to move air around gently so as to not leave any microclimates.

I need to do some more research about modifying fridges, some people that cite meat modify their fridges with temp and humidity probes so they can see wheats going on without having to open the fridge, apparently opening the fridge is somewhat detrimental to the process.

edit, a quick google search has shown me a bunch of different monitoring equipment for refrigerators, and also seen that ac infinity usb axial fans work down to 0 so one or 2 of those could be incorporated, heat from the motor may be an issue though. Anyone care to comment on Modifying the fridge?

Just to clarify, you are supposed to adjust your fridge temp so it is running warmer than is typical when using it for just food?

I’m just doing this base standard. Footprint to work from. My results will be what was said in the very first post. Drying in a fridge. What I’m doing. And were going on 72 hours. So far so good

waterproof808 said:

Just to clarify, you are supposed to adjust your fridge temp so it is running warmer than is typical when using it for just food?

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4-6 degrees Celsius seems to be the sweet spot for most people

Some food for thought

One of these days I’ll be pulling enough that dropping 2-3grand on a freeze drier will be do-able just gotta double my flowering space to do it.