Fresh vs Dry weed for edibles

I have done exactly what you are considering, and it works so well that I usually make edibles the same day as harvest, because I can't wait to try the new stuff. I can't tell much difference between them and edibles made with traditionally dried and cured herb. Here's what I recommend:
(1) Harvest a small portion, bearing in mind that dried/cured bud is about 1/5 the weight of freshly harvested. For example, if you want 5 g to make quick edibles with, then use 25 g freshly harvested.
(2) Dry with a food dehydrator set to around 100 F for about 10 hours. A fan and a hot plate set to 100 F or so might simulate the food dehydrator. Without drying, the herb won't decarb accurately.
(3) After the herb has been reduced to 1/5 its original weight, then decarb @ 240 F for 40 min using an oven thermometer.
(4) Grind the herb to powder using a coffee grinder.
(5) There are a couple of things you can do from here.
a- Add the herb to the oil portion of any cookie or brownie mix, and bake as little as possible.
b- Add the herb to any nut butter or nutella, then spread onto anything and eat.
Pay special attention to amount of dried herb used, so that you can calculate dosage.
For example, assuming 5 g of good 15% herb to make 16 brownies would yield thc per brownie of (0.15)*(5,000 mg)/16 = 47 mg thc, which is too stout for new users.

 

Most food dehydrators are heated fans that blow hot air up thru several stacked mesh trays, meaning they are effectively fans blowing on warm material. We don't want too much heat tho, because that can lose volatiles and partially decarb. A fan blowing directly on 100 F weed would do about the same thing. Most people frown on using food dehydrators to dry MJ, and they might be right for smoke, but for edibles it doesn't matter much. I also believe that terpenes might be preserved as well as with traditional dried, because 10 hours of a fan at 100 F probably doesn't lose more terpenes than 2 weeks at room temp, but I have no proof.

Beware of high temp and microwave ovens, which can ruin herb.

 

get a butane / co2 extrator tube its like 99bucks on amaozn then shoot butane thru it after u freeze plant and iputit in there dry ice freeze helps but -10 in deeprezzer works too . you can make dabs same day as harvest or indeed make edibles

 

Before you go to bed.
Place 2 grams fresh buds on a pie tin. (2 thumbs worth)
Preheat over to 140 F (60 C)
Place pie tin with buds in oven and turn oven off.

Now they will be dry by morning.
Next morning preheat oven to 240 F (115 C)
Bake uncovered buds 40 minutes
Now they are Decarbed.
Grind to dust
Mix with just enough cooking oil to make mud.
Heat 220 F (104 C) for 20 minutes.

Eat 1/4 or it.
Wait 2 hours
If not stoned eat another 1/4 of it.
Wait 2 more hours.
If not stoned.
Eat the rest.

BNW

 

I have since modified this method to get faster results.
Coarsely grinding the herb, spreading thinly onto a cookie sheet, and blowing a fan over it will dry in about 4 hours.
This can produce a finished edible in about 7 hours after a partial harvest.

 

Just curious, how do you grind wet weed? Sounds like a gooey mess.

 

It actually grinds pretty well.
Any grinder should work.
I use Magic Bullet with coarse blade, and also a brush to get it all out.