Hash talk

[Gingerbeard]

Bluey Seems most folk around here freeze and/or grind material before kiefing and seems most folk have a reason. But someone said something that makes a whole bunch of sense: Frozen bud breaks. That means you have more particulate matter. Same-same with ground bud.
Video's I've seen of people processing marijuana for kief is whole bud, unfrozen. At least one of the videos was, maybe, I'm not dropping names, could have been that Cannoli hash dude people worship.
For bag selection, I don't know why I don't use them but the whole bag screens look pretty nice compared to the bottom only screen bags. The pyramids are for the washing machines but can be used in buckets.
Now. Once you decide kief extraction is the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the wine in the bottle... take a look at static kief. If I was not so into my dewaxing, I would be into static hash. Maybe that's next since the only direction I can go with my dewaxed resin is distillation. This ginger don't have the money, space, or quantity to run an oil still.

[Gator]

I've been working with silk screen for years and I can honestly say that I get a better return from the bags, and I don't have to be out on the back porch in the middle of winter trying to dry sift

[Bluey]

I have the drill and paddle and plenty of buckets. Do you freeze your bud or grind it first?

I'm guessing you put all the bags into the bucket and remove 1 bag after being fully worked, 220 micron removed first then work again then remove the next bag and so on.

Do you just dry what you catch in the last bags then press through a screen?

[Gator]

And always rinse the bags out with ice cold water when you are done

[Gator]

I use 2 buckets, one is for the bags and one is for working the plant material,I also use a drill and a paddle, the ones used for mixing drywall compound work well,I work the material for 15-20 minutes before pouring it into the bags, and then I work the material like plunging a toilet for another 15-20 minutes ,then I remove the first bag and set it aside, this will be worked at least twice more (220 micron bag,), the next two bags are the 190&160, whatever is in there goes in the garbage, everything after that I keep for hash

[Bluey]

Pretty sure they are these bags that Gator is using

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/316142-time-to-show-your-grow?p=634332#post634332

[Bluey]

I haven't heard of hash caps.

The only experience I have with processing this plant is drying and curing for smoking/vaping and the making of green butter.

I've smoked hash but never made any. Finger hash doesn't count.

I can get 3/5 or 8 bag sets, ice filter or standard (I need to check what the difference is, the standard are 5% more expensive) nylon full mesh bag sets in anything from 1 gal to 55 gal. 5 gal size is workable for me. They are the white bags with color coded stitching/draw strings at the top. Cost is US$52 delivered for a 5 bag 5 gal ice water set.

[Gingerbeard]

Never heard of hash caps? I'm not saying don't do RSO. I'm coming at it with the least amount of work.
In my nascent experience and research about making ice water hash, you don't really need but four bags unless you can tell the difference between, say, a 72 micron and 85 micron hash. Five bags, tops.

[Bluey]

An advantage of RSO is it can be placed in caps. Easily transportable, stored and consumed, all stealthily. I only have a gallon of 99.9% pure ISO stored @ minus 20⁰C. Not enough to do all the bud and trim I have and it's been recommended to soak for a few weeks which purifies it more I'm informed..

I would still like to try the ice water bag method, a set of 8 nylon bags is around US$70 to the door. I have the mechanical mixer and plenty of 5 gal buckets.

No rush. Still drying these remaining buds on the plant, increased the temps and dropped the RH to 20⁰C and 50% these past few days in the grow room making sure I totally dry these remaining buds before cardboard boxing the lot.

[Gingerbeard]

Rwise with all those quarts sitting around, you have amazing opportunity to experiment with infused food products and tinctures. Honey. Cooking oils. Topicals. Lotions. Letting a jar sit to soak up all the goodness for a year... maaaannn... I need to run to the dope store.

[Gingerbeard]

Got you on delivery method. Still, decarbed hash is just as edible as RSO without all the work.
From what I understand about RSO, it is about as full spectrum a cannabis medicine you can get using cured weed. It'll get you high, but it is actually medicinal. And my idea of marijuana as medicine is... unpopular up in these here places like this here place.

[Rwise]

I still have bud from 5 years ago, so I have plenty to run, last year 1 plant gave 38 quarts of bud which I have used 1 Quart of.
The knock off had so many reports of leaking, I wont be looking at them.
I have my reason for wanting it eatable coming from my Dr and a lung CT scan, shit!~

[Gingerbeard]

Bag size depends on how much product you have to work with. I only do a couple ounces at a go and use the one gallon bags with a rice paddle to agitate.
I don't trust knock offs. Pay more for the security of a quality product with history and a warranty.
If you have the little measuring spoons (I have the same set and use the drop for dabbing) for hash Rwise , why bother the process of making RSO? I am real close to melting hash with alcohol and dewaxing for dabbing. See how that goes against washing whole plant. Hash won't be the same product as whole plant but it seems much easier to do.

[Rwise]

I have tried it, dont like the mess, the alcohol is costly and dies fast (absorbs water), I have not tried to run it through my still to remove water (yet) also the batches are tiny. I need to do way more than a quart at a time. I would be making the hash to eat not mixed into sugars or fats. I am doing this now with kief, decarbed, from a trim bin and kept in 1 cup jars using measuring spoons "Smidgen Pinch and Dash". (mostly the Pinch)

[Bluey]

I've been making enquiries here with those that know and was told not to bother with that and just do RSO. It lasts and us a superior product, well thats what I've been told anyway.