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Glycerin: Flower preservation suitable for hops and legal cannabis displays? · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello and welcome back to Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host Dr. Russell Sharp and on previous episode I talked about freeze-drying
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  and how it could be useful for certain crops and especially for people who wanted
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  to sell online in e-commerce.
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  It's a high value product that could be preserved for a long time so you didn't
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  have to rush to get it through to the end user.
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  A couple of things have come to light since I did then, there is actually freeze-dried
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  flowers you can buy, and particularly confetti,
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  rose petals and things like this can actually be freeze-dried.
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  Very expensive process.
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  Actually the best preserved roses though they
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  actually um they they replace
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  the sap with glycerin and almost
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  like um preserving them for like
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  in a in a a museum exhibition so
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  they're very expensive roses but you can buy them so if
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  you look at preserved roses you'll see these bright red or
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  dark red roses that look completely different
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  to dried roses and can be used on displays for
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  years up to three years you put them in a glass jar then
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  multiple years so that's really interesting and but
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  i think that could be could be used further
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  if i was a legal cannabis grower i
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  would do this and then send my preserved glycerin imbued flowers to dispensaries
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  if it was in america and you could have the flowers on display in glass jars
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  looking like they were fresh just before harvest rather than the dried buds
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  and I think that would look amazing.
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  Other techniques I've seen in hops which is in the cannabis family is putting them,
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  cutting the hops and then allowing them to sit almost like cut flowers in a
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  vase but in a dilute solution of citric acid and that helps preserve them and
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  the colour when you subsequently dry the hops so that could be an option as
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  well in the legal cannabis space.
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  So freeze drying is an option glycerin in
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  in imbued flowers and
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  then citric acid using citric acid for then
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  subsequent drying with the glycerin you don't dry them and obviously
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  freeze drying you do definitely something to play around with if you are looking
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  to produce amazing displays of a flower crop or even some non-flower crops i
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  think this would be a good one to look at freeze drying is used very nichely
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  in hops to produce dried hops but no commercial hop suppliers.
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  Supply freeze dried hops because they're just not as good as the fresh hops or conventionally.
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  Preserved hops so normally they extract the the hop chemicals whatever the word is the,
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  whole host of different flavor aroma compounds
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  from the hops that's the best way of concentrating them
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  down freeze drying is not really the option there but could
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  be an option in your crop so have a look at that so flower
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  crops particularly but this glycerin replacement the
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  sap with glycerin i think that is a good one to look at if you're
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  looking to display your produce in any shops
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  dispensaries anything like that i would look into that that would
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  be a top level thing to do something
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  that only the best growers would have this scientific
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  knowledge to to really pull off
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  and if you're in ornamentals as well if you're growing roses and you're looking
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  for an outlet for super high premium or any flower crop any ornamental crop
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  then using this method to preserve your flowers for three up to three years
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  i think that's a fantastic way of doing it obviously the,
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  customer doesn't come back to you for three years for
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  more flowers but they're not going to other people as well and
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  they will consider you to be the premium supplier so it's definitely
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  one to look at okay that's a short and sweet one for today that's been hydroponics
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