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How to Quick-Dry Fresh-Off-The-Plant Cannabis

To ensure the best quality for your freshly harvested buds, you must prepare your buds with a process known as curing. If you want to learn how to harvest properly, dry, and cure your cannabis, check out this guide. If you can’t wait a few days/weeks, we have some options for you.

If you’re fortunate to have fresh-off-the-plant bud, you will know that the fresher your bag, the harder it is to smoke. Your weed needs a reasonable amount of time to dry itself out, but we get it; you don’t get a fresh bag of pot just to look at it.

Here are some tried and true methods to quick-dry your cannabis to make them smokeable. Some of these methods are better than others, but cannabis users have satisfyingly passed their methods in some way or another. Let’s take a look:

Vape It

Vape your wet weed instead of drying it

If you don’t want to dry it at all, you can to smoke fresh weed with a vaporizer. The vaporizer bypasses the plant matter anyway to burn only the cannabinoids in your plant. The downside of vaporizers is that it usually costs a lot for a good one. We have put together a solid list of good dry herb vaporizers.

The Oven

cure weed in the oven?

This is probably the quickest way to get your weed dried, BUT, you are quite possibly activating your THC (decarboxylation) – and storing decarboxylated weed for a long time is not recommended.

Usually, if you are decarboxylating using heat, such as in an oven, you should use the weed pretty much straight away. Once THCA has converted to THC, it starts converting to CBN – so if you decarboxylate your weed then store it for long periods, you may find potency has gone down by a lot. On top of this, subjecting your cannabis to high temperatures in the oven can cause a rapid loss of terpenes, which will make your weed less tasty.

Microwave Steam Method

Dry your cannabis in the microwave?

This is a bit more “involved”, but it involves placing ¼ of a dry paper towel at the bottom of a Tupperware container, then putting some cut-up, moist bud on top of that sheet. Wet two paper towels, cover the top of the container with those, and “half-snap” the lid shut to let steam escape.

Put your microwave on 40%(ish) power and let the microwave go for a minute, taking your buds out after to let the steam go. Check the dryness of the buds and replace the paper towel on the bottom if it gets too wet or if the top towels get dry.

Essentially steaming the moisture out of your buds will help them dry quickly while allowing them to maintain their quality and potency.

Toaster Oven Method

Toaster oven method for drying weed

The key with this method is to put the buds on the TOP of the toaster oven on a baking tray, NOT inside it. Place some cut-up small pieces on the tray and let the heat from your toaster oven rise while turning your buds around every 5 minutes or so. It will take 20-30 minutes or so, but it doesn’t decarboxylate the THC as much as placing it in the oven would.

Under/On a Vent

Place Cannabis near vents to dry it faster

No matter whether you live in a place where you crank the heat or where air conditioning is your jam, placing your buds either under or on a vent that is blowing air into your house will get the air circulating within the bud to get that moisture drying. This is a slower method,  so many people leave the bud overnight or for a few hours, sitting in a baggie and secured, of course.

Sitting on an Electric Device

Electrical appliances heat will help weed to dry faster

Many everyday electronics give off heat that can be used to quick-dry your marijuana. The top of the fridge, a TV monitor, a cable box, or the top of your computer tower may do the trick. Just make sure it’s not too hot!

Bulb & Foil Method

Bulb and Foil Method for Drying Weed Fast

This could get dangerous if not watched with the closest eye, but if you want a quick solution, wrap your moist buds in some tin foil and place the foil on a light bulb, making sure to stir the bud every 30 seconds. This should dry your buds in anywhere from 1-3 minutes.

Toaster Method

Toaster Method to Dry Weed Fast

The toaster method involves laying your toaster on its side and placing your bud in foil while running the toaster on its lowest settings. Innovative users will build in a method to retrieve the foil pack to avoid the potential of electrocution because we all learned as kids NEVER to stick anything in the toaster but bread!

Silica Gel or Desiccant Packs

Silica Gel - Dry Weed Fast

Silica gel or Desiccant Packs are designed to remove moisture and keep moisture away from areas where it can cultivate. Placing your bud along with a silica gel pack or desiccant pack can help hasten the process of sucking up the moisture in your bud. You can get these items in auto shops, stores, and most likely any bag or pair of shoes you’ve bought. But remember as the package always warns: “Toxic, Do Not Eat!”

Patience is a Virtue

The best method of all the ways to dry your weed?

Time.

Simply being patient and allowing your natural air from your environment to do its thing with your buds will ensure the integrity and potency of your weed is intact.

Every enthusiast gets the problem of wanting to smoke weed when all you have is moist bud. Next time, just plan better to allow your plant to have sufficient time to dry to remain at its best and keep you happily high.

Have you already tried one of these methods, or do you know one that works even better? Let us know in the comments!

7 responses to “How to Quick-Dry Fresh-Off-The-Plant Cannabis”

  1. Robert T. Therriault says:

    What about setting bud on a dried out wood table no finish to soak out the water moving big every couple of hours. Would that work. Maybe 2 ta 3 days.

  2. Robert T. Therriault says:

    What about setting bud on a dried out wood table no finish to soak out the water moving bud every couple of hours. Would that work. Maybe 2 ta 3 days.

  3. Sophia says:

    Thank you so much for you this! I used the microwave method and it worked beautifully! Mind you, I had to do it a few times in the microwave at 1min increments but my bud was fully smokable afterwards. Awesome

  4. G says:

    Just tried the microwave method myself–worked wonderfully. Buds smoked in a bowl just fine, and even tasted great! (smell was a bit bland, but hey)

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  6. Annie Bacak says:

    I put fresh buds in brown paper bag. Could take 7-10 days

  7. Joseph says:

    I saw Elton Brown dry herbs (Not weed.) by placing them between two new furnace filters held together with rubber bands and set up with a fan blowing through them.

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