I was recently given a large freezer full of “fresh frozen” nugs and trim. They literally stuffed it in garbage bags and put it in a freezer…
This made me almost cry… I’ve heard of horror stories of people running freshly frozen and poorly stored matter before, I’ve just never had the “pleasure?” Of running any myself.
Is there anything I should look out for? Or do differently than a normal run? Is washing it after a thing? Winterizing? Crc? I’ll keep it cold af ofc (like normal) but it’s gotta have a ton of water in it…
load in tubes, vacuum tubes, freeze tubes before run. Make sure you have Moleseives and never let anything warm up and you should avoid most of the water.
Ive had someone do that too. The buds were coated in ice crystals from the refrigerator freezer not even a deep freeze.
I refused to run it and they said they were going to try and dry it out and salvage the buds. Im pretty sure it all turned to mush.
I had some crap from WVA that was “live resin”, tasted like mulch. I haven’t seen any tricks to improve material that wasn’t frozen right or thawed/refroze
Covered in ice can be fixed by lyophilizing as long as it never gets above freezing (really more like -5-10C) to remove the surficial ice encapsulating the goodies. Once it thaws though, it’s heavy clean up and distillation time. Or compost.
FYI this feat can even be performed with a pre-chilled vacuum oven if you have a pump that won’t hate you for it (don’t do this with a rotary vane pump please). Just have to pull the trays back out and get them cooled back down before they approach thawing, multiple cycles may be necessary to get all the ice off and if it thaws you’re fucked
be honest to the client what is probably gonna happen due to how the material was prepared. low yield/h20 /green taste ext…
pre freeze columns in chest freezer, then pack them with material that is siting in the freezer/ dry ice cooler. Make sure you pick any ice cubes or really frozen shit out before packing it.
store the columns under vac in the cold untill you can run them.
make sure your mol seive is dry
If your going to run crc make sure you move that solvent fast to avoid thawing, also don’t use as much of the medias otherwise they can eat your yeild. Fresh frozen takes significantly less media.