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Fletch

Guest Expert First appears: Ep. 210

Pioneer of freeze dryer use for cannabis hash, credited with developing tunable shelf temperature technology and providing the knowledge to Harvest Right. Veteran Washington State cultivator with 23+ years growing experience. Deep technical knowledge of sublimation science, pest management, and sterile tissue propagation.

" I can make any freeze dried hash look exactly like your air dried hash all I literally have to do is put my freeze dried hash into a cold room just like where you're drying your air dried hash "

" the freeze dryer was never going to work as designed because almost all other stuff that's used for freeze drying is to remove a significant amount of water volume "

" the lower the temperature of your shelf temp the better the quality of your hash is going to come out because the head is frozen more "

" the real key with the freeze dryer is to reduce your dry time and your exposure to our environment to be as little as possible "

" if you're vacuuming for four days you might suck all your Terps out too "

" I've been growing in Washington State for 23 years and I have buddies that never took in outside clones from other than me and they've never seen powdery mildew before. Ever. "

" I would much rather get a clone from somebody that has Eagle 20 on it that I can mitigate than get a clone that's absolutely teeming with Eagle 20 resistant powdery mildew. "

" 95% of the stuff in the cannabis space has already been figured out in the commercial agriculture space. "

" Back then you were trying to maximize yield per watt. That used to be. Now it's yield per square foot because the limiting factor isn't the size of your power source. "

" This happened to the very first batches of freeze-dried hash I ever made. I didn't really realize it was something unique necessarily other than it's like a 30-day aged steak. "

" If you have perfectly preserved trichome heads, it's like going to the farmer's market - do you buy the oranges, the already pressed orange juice, or do you go to the grocery store and buy the shit in a can? "

" Even if you don't have allergies to cannabis yet it is a developed allergy, so if you are working with cannabis in a cold room all the time you may develop an allergy over time. "

" So here's what I'm hearing, is that rosin is for sure contaminated with silicone or other forever chemicals. "

" One thing about the freeze drying that helps preserve some of those inside the head is the head being frozen. "

" Reducing your exposure time to vacuum by reducing your water content from the get-go, that's the whole goal. "