Gordo's long term storage method.

[Gordo41]

Nothing new here, i"m just doing what many others have done in the past but i know the question of what's the best way to stor buds long term has come up from time to time. First I put my buds in qt jars to cure them as usual. After a month or so of opening every day two or three times,, it's time to either smoke it or store it.
this last grow produced 10 jars of buds losely packed. so I must do something with all that weed, so I take 2 qt jars and compress it down to 1 pint jar.
Even with that i find there is still room at the top of the pint jar for another QT or so. I made a tool to pack the jar with,, out of a 1x1 piece of wood and a round plastic disk just the right size to fit in the jar. Once I squeeze as much air out of the jar as i can,, i put it in the freezer. It can remain there for years without losing any potency or not so you would notice.
I'm still vaping stuff i grew in 2012 and its as good as the day I put it in the freezer. Just remember to let the buds defrost before attempting to remove some of the buds.
even after defrosting it may require tweezers to get the buds out.
Here's a few pics

 

[NebulaHaze]

Interesting! I've never packed buds down like that, but after experimenting with a few different storage techniques over the years, I've also found that freezing buds in glass jars seems to be one of the best ways to store cannabis long-term without losing potency!

 

[gbauto]

Aside from cosmetic changes what you're doing is probably the most effective conventional method you or I could use. Tamp it down enough and you start to make a leafy hash ball.....

 

[alltatup]

Thanks, Gordo!! Ingenious!!

 

[cyberaktif]

this is a good way to store it. i tried vacuum sealing it in bags and think the glass would be better. just have to find a way to expel the air out of the jar because air holds moister and when it thaws out the moisture will make things a bit wet.

 

[Dagmar]

Storing long term is a question I've asked - and this is, to date, my favorite answer. I've been sealing them in 2 qt jars with a Boveda pack and placing them in a dark, cool closet. Do you wait until your buds register a specific humidity level before packing them in jars? How do you seal the jars? I use heat when sealing vegetables in jars but that doesn't see wise for cannabis.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Tika]

YES! This is very interesting Gordo! Cool Tool!

 

[Gordo41]

Plastic is not a good thing to store weed in. In fact i do not even put my buds in plastic short term. I have little glass jars i keep my "ready" stash in. Another thing i have been thinking about is purging the jar with nitrogen before sealing it. That way there would be very little O2 in there.

 

[Gordo41]

Good question. I Wait till the buds are at the point of wetness or dryness whatever, that i would smoke/vape it at. Once in the jars, the humidity should not change over time. I tend to store them a little on the dry side bc the buds can develop mildue if wet, even in the freezer. I bring it back to a normal humidity if needed when i take it out of the freezer.

 

[DW2]

Thanks for the information. I will try it if I ever have any to store, it all seems to 'disappear in smoke' (LOL!).

 

[bobsakamoto]

cyberaktif if you already have a vacuum sealer the brand that makes it usually sells an attachment that sucks air out.

i have a buddy who stores in plastic vacuum sealed bags, in addition to knocking all the tricomes off on the parts that touch the plastic, it has the consistency of having been freeze dried...it's SO dehydrated that i spritz it with mist water when i take it out of the freezer to let it come up to room temp....

in short, ima big fan of glass, use plastic/vacuum sealer if i have to

 

[bobsakamoto]

Gordo, thanks for this....very helpful!!

 

[Gordo41]

Haha,, that seems to be the problem with a lot of people,, but get a good grow under your belt and you will be filling the freezer.

 

[DW2]

Like Curly of the 3 stooges said "When at first you Don't succeed, keep on suckin' until You do succeed!"! LOL

 

[alltatup]

Pastic is the devil's handmaiden...

 

[cyberaktif]

Bob, you saying they make attachment to remove air out of glass jars? I'll have to search that one because that would be the cats meow.

 

[bobsakamoto]

something along these lines....

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T0...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GRT1FJ3NEACFW1SK8RGN

 

[bobsakamoto]

when i was a kid and was around when my aunts used to preserve stuff they used plain ol wax to seal whatever they were preserving. gulf wax brand name iirc...

if you made a "platform" for the wax to "sit on" then you could use it and that's a 100% moisture barrier. don't know if you'd want to go to the trouble tho....

 

[Gordo41]

Yeah I thought about that. I use to can tomatos but it is a lot of work and I'm not sure the extra work would make it last longer. like i said, I'm smoking stuff from 2012 and I dont think Most growers keep smoke around that long.

 

[Gordo41]

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To continue,, as some have asked questions about vacuum sealing, here is my setup. It works well but the vacuum unit runs out of power rather quickly as it is battery powered. Better to buy a hand pump used for break jobs.
Here are some photos showing my rig.