Page 48 - Daggabay Magazine Issue 2
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Stoners Corner
Some growers may need their bud to last
until the next fall harvest!
Luckily, it’s easy and cheap to store your Freezing weed
bud. You don’t need any special Once buds have cured for at least 4
equipment besides an air-tight glass jar! weeks, you can freeze them and
Air-tight glass jars are the best place to they will maintain their potency for
store cannabis buds! years. Some growers double-bag
Here are the key methods and tools buds in Freezer bags and then wrap
for storing cannabis, with the pros and the bags in foil. This works okay, but
cons of each: Store in Glass Mason Jars in you can store your buds directly in
Cool, DarkPlace 15-21°C dark place is the glass mason jars. If you’ve got a lot
most popular way for growers to store of buds that need to be stored for a
weed and is one of the best and most long time (multiple years), the
effective. Quart-sized glass mason jars are freezer is the best way to do it!
everywhere, from grocery stores to home Note: avoid handling frozen buds as
improvement stores. They often use these the trichomes (glitter) become
for cooking (making preserves or brittle and can easily break off at
marinades, for example), but for storing freezing temperatures. Always let
cannabis they help maintain potency by frozen buds come to room
protecting buds from moisture and air. temperature before handling.
Glass jars will also completely contain Note: avoid handling frozen buds
smells while preventing buds from as the trichomes (glitter) become
getting crushed during handling. Make brittle and can easily
sure jars are at least 3/4 full so there’s
not as much air being stored in with the
cannabis.
