HerbsNOW bud dryer Review

Ok so this thread will be a 100% review and questions about this device along with my experience.

If you have Opinions about using this vs hanging and they do not follow the first paragraph, KICK ROCKS!

this review is NOT paid for OR of a product that was give to me for free! I did however receive a VETERAN discount.

let’s get this party started!

 

Preface as to what started this thread sourced from my own hydro thread in the “indoor growing” section



so as i am entering a harvest, i need to figure out how i wanted to dry it. then cure it. well i have been eye balling a dryer for bud and how it works while learning how to hang dry bud. i have decided ill be buying a bud dryer, this one to be exact: HerbsNOW Cannabis Dryer: The Growers Choice for Drying Weed in 2019

here is why, i just finished talking to the owner/proprietor/designer of the HerbsNow. he has bio chemical background with degree, has an engineering background with degree, and has another one with degree but i cannot remember what it was for. our phone conversation was ~35-40min with no rush of ending the conversation..

so he has discovered through testing that the issues with a longer dry is oxidation and that oxidation is what causes loss of THC and terpin profiles. he has also knows that 40-45% RH is where mold can develop and interact with other organic material.

his machine will not cause any true turpin loss using this machine. you do lose terpins but they are the low temp turpins. so 100 degrees or less and these specific ones account for less than 1% of the total amount of turpins...

this machine doesnt create a higher THC content but dries the bud quickly for less oxidation to occur which causes the bud to test higher than but that was hang dried.

the 10-15% of moisture content i was worried about is just that. its 10-15% in the STEM not the flower. but in that range is what causes the stems to break (with stings and not allowing the bud to rise back to the stem) vs snapping (two complete separate pieces upon being bent) like other bud driers do.

his drier in optimal conditions dries bud ready to smoke in a room @70 degrees with 40-45RH to be completed in the 96 hr window.

he also explained to me that drying is defiantly one thing and curing is another. curing is the allowing of no new oxygen being present and allowing the turpins to begin to express themself after it has been dried.

but after talking to him about it, i will be buying one. he even said if its too dry for you, put in a humidity pack in the jar you are currently smoking to re hydrate it you "taste" and keep going. he even said you risk your bud with a 62% pack in it and storing it long term. so i too will adopt this method

 

Ok so here is the machine, it is suppose to dry 6 ounces for the standard package, I have had the addition of 3 more trays that you can buy as an expansion.... from my basic math skills it should dry 9.6 ounces using a total of 8 trays....

Shipping was wild fast to me, it was amazon fast but I am close to them so I had that going for me.

the box came packed in a plain brown box and was packaged with good care

pretty straight forward to use and figure out how to use it....

the trays also allow for the centers to be taken out so that you may dry large buds, that too was very easy to do and figure out.

here she is with 8 trays and lid

 

Ok so, I did run the machine and also took notes as to what it’s doing.

Yes just like a food dehydrator (which this is based off of), the air was always moving from the base to the top of the racks and through the lid, fan was quite not bad at all, I could sleep next to it with ease.

so I took measurements on temp, this was my biggest wonderment. Temps were taking after ~20 min after constant running.

starting at the lid vent, the temp was 85 degrees

then the next temp I took was right off the base of the machine with the “shake catcher” on it. It read 83 degrees.

I then took that off and measures again, it read 81. probably lower due to more air movement when removing the shake tray.

Then I measured the vent as to where the air is moved into the drying racks, it measured 83.

machine running while temps were taken.

Measurements were with an infrared thermometer less than 1inch away.

room that this was done in was 74 degrees

here are the pictures

 

Don’t know where you define hot to be, but not being too far off a normal (to me is 70, grow room that the tent is in, 75), and seeing barely a 8 degree difference is negligible with how much air it was truly moving.

This is my first harvest so we shall see, can mess up the bud any worse than what I buy atm....

 

That was the plan, I don’t plan on packing it all though there. I’ll split a plant.

 

You military? It’s even lower and becomes a no brainer to try

 

Yes that’s why I mentioned that, I asked them and they came through. Not pushing this product, just putting out as much info as I can about it.

 

That’s currently what I am waiting on, looking for some amber, everything is cloudy

 

It was steep IMO, but basically the price of the three pack but for one. So math it out. I really don’t want to say because it takes away from this review and may make others mad about a discount that they might not be able to get.