Tomorrow (~12 hours after washing) I’ll pull it out of the freezer for 15 minutes or so and sit it on an angle so the water can drain to the bottom of the cookie sheet to be collected. Then after another spell in the freezer it should look something similar to this:
I prefer the less messy way. I save sugar leaves and buds and stick 'em in a 70 bag after a cure. Dump some dry ice in the bucket and wait a few minutes then shake. The tricomes fall out into a clean food grade 5 gal bucket (so there is no cloud of wasted tricomes). Scrape it up, transfer it to a turkey bag and press according to Frenchie’s instructions (found on youtube). Sticky dominos of goodness.
After years of doing this every grow you build a collection of dominos.
Completely different product out the back end. I have some friends who make nice looking temple balls but I prefer the presevance of terps joes freezer dry method brings.
Fresh frozen is the tastiest possible. And your yield wasn’t too bad either…if the bud would have lost 75% of its weight during drying, it would have dried to 43 grams, that 9.7 grams would be a ~23% yield!