If you have enough to store, Mason jars come in a variety of sizes. Which size ever you choose, fill it. Not just loosely, pack it in as much as you are comfortable with. Don’t seal the jar yet, just screw it on loosely, do not tighten it yet. Simmer a pot of water and set the jar in the water. I use an infrared thermometer (Amazon, under $20) to wait for the jar temp to reach 175°F. When that happens, tighten, then remove the jar from the simmering water. Once the jar is sealed and the air inside cools down, it will be a vacuum inside.
For smaller quantities that will fit in a Ziploc freezer bag, I put the weed in a fold lock baggie to house the bud, wrap it in one or more paper towels and put that in the freezer bag. Lastly, I wrap it in foil.
Mason or canning jars is what you want. They are designed to be vacuum sealed and will hold a seal, especially when new. You can vacuum seal the jars as the previous poster mentioned, or buy a jar attachment for your vacuum sealer. Personally, I smoke too fast for it to be an issue.
I on occasion save weed for a while. I have a small grow. I grow enough for me, my son and his wife. We all smoke about an ounce/month. My grow produces an ounce/month more than we smoke, so I make dry ice kief from the remaining weed and use it to make butter and ejuice.
At any given time I have 2 cuttings (or seeds) in clone, 4 in veg, and six in flowering. I do continuous harvest. My Grow is so small I gave up on mother plants more about 15 years ago. I waste too much from the mothers using them. Instead, each plant I grow gets the top pruned off of it to use as a clone.
This system has been working for me ever since.
It gets a little hairy when flyin’ fuckers are in season because they LOVE cuttings in root. Don’t ever let yourself get lax about checking for them. Eaten up clones kill a grow in a hurry. I actually have the little bastards year ‘round. During times when they are “under control” I still see a couple of them each day, even though there are no signs of activity at my plants.That is the only time I have more plants at one time, when the flyin’ fuckers are being active. Then I triple what I keep in clone/germination. This always leads to destroying good plants when I get them under “control”, because I am only equipped for my normal cycle sizes.
Your better off with canning jars. Don’t get cheap, it could cause a case of freezer burn (which is just a way of saying the freezer dries them out), then your weed gets harsh. Not pretty!
Mason, Ball, etc. are made made to vacuum pack product. They have a 2 piece lid, the seal disk and the threaded ring. You can seal the jar more quickly. Not sure about the ones with the clear center in your pic. If they are 2 piece they may work the same
Your weed will stop curing as soon as you seal it. If it is too moist going in a jar before sealing you run the risk of ammonia. Personally if I was going to store something for a long time, I’d like it to be doing some work while its sitting around. If you put some weed in a jar with a moisture pack and came back a few months later, it would be a smoother smoke than it was originally because of the continued breakdown of chlorophyll which is halted when you seal a jar. (you’d need to periodically open it to continue giving it air.) Maybe its just the cook in me but I don’t feel comfortable creating anaerobic conditions without pasteurization. Remember once the bud gets dry past a certain point, there is no bringing it back to its former glory.
I have good results vaccuum-sealing and storing in the refrigerator, usually with a Boveda 59% humidity pack inside. I’m curious about the difference between fridge and freezer - I worry that the freezer could break up some of the cellular structure of the flowers and degrade quality, the same reason why people can’t be frozen cryogenically, so I only use the fridge.
Has anyone used both the fridge & freezer and seen any difference between the two???
yes those boveda packs are pretty expensive though, it was $6.50 for an 80g pack, but i guess when you consider the value of the product you’re preserving it’s really just chump change lol. i think i’m just going to have to start smoking bigger joints and more often. until i can start making edibles/gel caps
has anyone tried recharging their boveda packs for re-use?
I actually have the little bastards year ‘round. During times when they are “under control” I still see a couple of them each day, even though there are no signs of activity at my plants.That is the only time I have more plants at one time, when the flyin’ fuckers are being active. Then I triple what I keep in clone/germination. This always leads to destroying good plants when I get them under “control”, because I am only equipped for my normal cycle sizes.