Does anyone build a Grow library?

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I plan to create a strain library of everything I grow.
I have a gram saved from my last grow of Amnesia Haze, and I plan to save a gram from my current grow.
Does anyone else do this?
How do you store, display, encase your flowers for categorising?
Have you ever gone back to the first flowers you grew, and sampled them years later to see how youve improved?

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Unless you freeze or freeze-dry them I think the quality will start to deteriorate after 6 months even when dried and cured properly. Certainly there should be some degradation in quality after 12-24 months.

Freeze-drying will preserve them for as long as they are kept in air-tight containers and out of light and would be the best way to preserve them long term.

If you have seeds or fresh leaves/ flowers then freezing them is the best way to preserve them. Put them in containers that are air-tight and put the containers in a polystyrene foam esky and keep it in the back of the freezer (away from the door or sides if you have an auto-defrost freezer). Chest freezers are the best option for freezing things long term.

You could preserve them by pressing them in a book between a couple of sheets of paper. You will have to Google pressed flowers for more info.

From a legal perspective, if you have a library of preserved flowers/ plants and you get busted, the preserved plants will probably be considered part of your stash and any penalties could be higher.
eg: You might be allowed to have x amount at home, which you have but you also have more than that in the library. The law will consider it all the same and you could get done for trafficking or dealing even though it was for a library collection. When it comes to more than the legal amount, the law generally won’t differentiate between a collection and a dealer/ trafficker.

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Yes, I’ve saved in Mason jars in my closet dark and temp controlled. I’ve found that they are best at 6 months and after a year they start to deteriorate. Still potent but some of the smell and taste changes.
I’d like to try doing a live resin or live rosin extract and see how well that would last.
I’ve been doing some research.

Or do a bud smasher type extraction

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