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freeze dryer ✂️ Harvest & Cure

A piece of equipment that sublimates water out of frozen plant material at low temperature, preserving terpenes and colour for hash production.

Jeremy references freeze dryers as the downstream processing step after fresh-frozen harvest. Keeps the product as cold as possible the whole way to preserve volatile terpenoids.

Discussed in: Ep 037

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