From Kief to Hash...

[Farmbuck]

Making Afghan hash for the winter. Got 26 grams so far.

[SoOrbudgal]

Farmbuck I would like to know how you do yours if I may ask? I use the kief from my coffee bean grinder that's only used for grinding bud for rolling joints. I scrape the lid with a knife and just compress it within a piece of plastic wrap to the size I want for smoking in a pipe, I make little balls then store them in tubes I've got from buy doobies in the past from dispensary. What's your way?

[kingfish]

What do you use to compress into a block?

[9fingerleafs]

thats some nice quality hash, i bet it bubbles and melts

[Farmbuck]

Ok Guys !! It's very simple !!

1. First I use strains like Afghan & Lebanese or Nepal for my hash, it's my personal choice lolll but use the strain you like.

2. Then I let it cure for a few weeks.

3. After severals weeks of curing I put it in a freezer for a few days to freeze the hell out of the trichomes (need to separate the trichomes from the flower) I only use flowers for top quality hash well for me anyway.

4. After I use a sifter box from Ryot to collect my kief.

5. To make my hash I use very hot water (like they do in the middle east) or hot tea to make a kind of paste and I compress it by hand to remove the excess of water (rolling into a ball) after I use a parchment paper to compress (all by hand) even more to create a block of hash just like my pic.

6. Finally I let it dry for severals days before storing it in a Mason jar and once in a while I let it "burp" like we do for buds. Storage should be in a cold dry room from what an old expert told me.

They say if properly store you could keep hash for at least 10 or more years. I've got some from 5 years ago and it still potent.

Hope that give a bit of an inside to how to make hash my way.

for a sifter box here is the website : https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/1...eb_19823999011

Happy hashing guys !!

FarmBuck

[Mazzariman]

Howdy FarmBuck. Would you recommend the 4x7 or 7x7 box? Why is there a divider in the 7x7 box? Just curious. I've never used something like this before. Thanks!

[Farmbuck]

Hi Mazzariman

I use the 4x7 Ryot box and thinking of getting the 7x7 for more kief. As for the divider this video will explain it's use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcFogCdbG8

[Mazzariman]

Thanks much! Looks like the 7x7 will be fine.

[Dieselgrower]

Thank you sir. trying this

[Farmbuck]

You are most welcome!!

[JohnEmad]

I have ordered some bubbledude bags and am going to start with dry ice, then ice /water wash and after that probably dry shake kief.
Weighed my trim and have over 2 lbs frozen. Should be good for a start. lol
Not to mention about a dozen quarts of bud.
So many ways to make hash and store it like temple balls, bricks, compressed puks etc.
The journey begins.
Thanks for the inspiration Farmbuck.

[Farmbuck]

Well thank you friend ..! Keep us post in your new adventure @JohnEma. Once you try your own you will never go back to others.

[Dieselgrower]

So I have 1/2 of kief you think it enough?? I will say the trim I dried first prior to freezing produced way better amount of kief . Trim bin was a great gift! gonna give this a try

[Farmbuck]

How much kief do you have in gram or ounce ? Dieselgrower

I believe the ratio is 10 to 1. 10 grams of buds to 1 gram of hash.

[Dieselgrower]

i have around 14 grams of kief....ive been sampling too much

[Farmbuck]

Ok guess it will be 10 -14 grams of hash Diesel

[Dieselgrower]

can I ask how hot is hot water? maybe Im doing something wrong, I tried through the coffee maker and on the stove top. It did somewhat come together but I'm not really get the consistency I see in the videos? I rolled for an hr or so and tried my vise. Its in a ball but and pressure and it just crumbles? I almost tried the wifes hair iron

[Farmbuck]

Try to use a long cylinder jar instead. I try once with a mason and I failed. enough that the kief is fully cover but not overwater. Press it a several times to remove the excess of water, roll it in your palm of your hand to make little ball. I know it's not easy at the beginning but you will find the consistency you want.

[Farmbuck]

How pure is your kief ?

[Dieselgrower]

thanks for the help first off farmbuck, im starting to think its the mason jar. kief I got from my trim bin from the dried cola and trim, this is very new to me.

[Dieselgrower]

so I ended up sprinkling so water droplets onto and and used the hot pot of water. seemed to have worked better @ least its workable. still a little soft but im assuming itll harden over the cure. thanks for the help farmbuck

[Farmbuck]

Remember it need to dry up to be able to harden.... Dieselgrower & SoOrbudgal "harden" is that a proper word ?? Remember I'm French-Canadian lollllll

[Dieselgrower]

i may try to compress it some more if it stays soft. i do plan to cure for a 3+ weeks

[Farmbuck]

Try to compress while it's still moist Dieselgrower

[Dieselgrower]

will do, it was soft today when I looked at it.

[Farmbuck]

Remember it take a few days before the water evaporate...

[Anansi]

I use the dry ice method to separate the resin from the trim (I usually get about an 8:1 yield). Then I press the resin into pucks with a stainless sleeve press that you whack with a rubber mallet. You can stop there if you smoke with a pipe. However, I prefer to smoke using the pin and glass method and the raw pressed kief is a little too crumbly for that. So I add a little heat and pressure to my pucks with a clothing iron. I set the iron on its lowest heat setting. I wrap the pucks in parchment paper and place that inside a damp wash rag then iron with firm pressure for a few minutes. This firms the hash up so you can stick it on the pin without it breaking. Up until now I have only done this with trim. One of these days I going to try it with flower.

[Anansi]

Idea: When making hash with the whole flower, you won't have to trim.

[Farmbuck]

Yep for my best hash is what I used and I let cure for months.

[MagicMike66]

Here’s some of my last batch of bubble hash. Been curing for about 3 1/2 months and just keeps getting better and better!

[Farmbuck]

Kool..!

[Dieselgrower]

was just over 8 grams. i may heat again slightly and squeeze it once more. but still a nice block of hash

[Farmbuck]

Nice !! With some practices you will be as good as Frenchy Cannoli hey ?

[Dieselgrower]

thanks man and i had to look him up but now I got some reading material...very cool

[Floopydoop]

Farmbuck NICE! Time to study, thank you for finding this thread

[Farmbuck]

You are most welcome !!