skylarkey wrote:SWIM recently aquired a good quantity of MHRB and is very new to all of this and taking it very slow. So far he has only extracted two grams and so far is extremely happy with the potency of his yields and feels that, for the foreseeable future he won't be in a place in his life where he can explore hyperspace very often. With this in mind he knows this massive quantity of 2 grams will last him a long time so he's wondering whats the better way to store his lifetime supply? Should he extract it all and store it? The problem he fears with this is that he won't have access to a refrigerator but is located in a mild climate. He wonders also if the bark might degrade or be open to molding or other harmful bacteria in the air, even though it's bagged up in a dark cool dry place. He appreciates any advice.
Freebase, bark, or long term, i would get a decent hermetically sealable bag/container, get a vacuum sealer (or just the sealer ($10) without vacuum and diy a mild vacuum via an easy trick i have tried successfully, vac bags (smaller the better, cheap on ebay), and a bag of 100 or so of silica moisture dessicants 2g, and oxygen absorbers 100cc.
fill the container, but dont seal it fully, toss an o2/h20 dessicant each in the bag with the container, and squeeze most of the air out. Seal the bag near the top.
Let it sit overnight (drys out the internal bag/container/compound), then while still in the sealed bag, tighten the cap on the hermetic container, or the hermetic internal bag, and run theouter bag through the back of the sealer.
Snip off a corner of the top of the bag, suck as much air out, apply pressure to get a seal near the bottom, and turn it on to get a seal with a fairly good amount of oxygen/atmosphere/h20 removal as well. If you wanted nitrogen wine preserver spray can supplement the desiccant packs.
Then put it in a waterproof drybox, in small units of ~200mg freebase, or the lowest you'd need in one batch relative to how much you have/want it to last. Same with fumarate, but you can do higher quanties since its much more stable. Toss in a few dessicants int the drybox, and go dig a 3ft hole in a very unsuspicious place (the woods).
The ground will keep it around ~60F. Not a freezer, but not warm, or even worst hot, days either. Its always that temp, the deeper the more stable the ground temp is (Assuming theres no geothermal/volcanic activity where you place your box. Bury a temp probe and monitor it throughout the day and you'll see how it doesnt heat/cool like air temp/surface temp.
Thats for fairly long term storage though, and a bit of work, but worth it if you wont use whatever you have for years to come, and want to invest in protecting it.
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