5 Gallon Buckets

Green Squall

Well-known member

• Oct 15, 2019

• #1

If I'm going to cure/store my outdoor crop in 5 gallon buckets, does it need to be food grade? Home Depot sells 10 packs at a great price, which is perfect, but they're not food grade. I'm also thinking about buying some kind of container off a restaurant supply website. Any ideas would be well appreciated. I think I'm in over my head a little here lol.

 

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Teddybrae

• Oct 15, 2019

• #2

I think NON-food grade containers may 'off-gas' ... emit chemical vapours ... and there is a chance this could poison yr stash and you even if you couldn't taste/smell it . I WOULD buy from a restaurant supplier.

 

GOT_BUD?

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ICMag Donor

Veteran

• Oct 15, 2019

• #3

Everybody I know uses regular old rubber maid totes.

Just give them a wash and a dry before putting your bud in there.

 

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pongster

• Oct 15, 2019

• #4

if you can choose, then it's not worth the chance, i mean... it is going to your lungs, most likely

 

MedFaced

Active member

• Oct 16, 2019

• #5

I got the food grade at home depot for like $4-5 a pop. They use the same plastic as the orange buckets but without the dye.

 

Green Squall

Well-known member

• Oct 16, 2019

• #6

MedFaced said:

I got the food grade at home depot for like $4-5 a pop. They use the same plastic as the orange buckets but without the dye.

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That's what I'm looking at now. I need at least 5 buckets, so with gasket lids, that would cost about $35.74

 

Capt.Ahab

Feeding the ducks with a bun.

Veteran

• Oct 16, 2019

• #7

Go to your local fish market and get some 25 lb. fillet tubs with lids.