Hash talk

[DabberDog]

The secret to decarbing shatter is time. t'aint like decarbing weed where you watch the time. Decarbing shatter is all about waiting for the bubbles to stop and the shatter to clarify. Using a glass bowl is the best because you can watch the bubbling and clarity without opening the oven. The last gram I did took a little over an hour at 240°. This time I did 2 grams, and it took better than an hour and a half.

[DabberDog]

I found dry ice by asking one of our neighborhood pushcart ice cream vendors where they got theirs.

[Ckbrew]

I'm definitely getting some dry ice this year. Not the easiest thing to get in these parts. Going to clear out some inventory.

[DabberDog]

Looks like graham cracker crust crumbles. Mmm... crumbles...

[Going2fast]

I froze the weed first. Just helped it break up faster with the dry ice shake.

[ductwizard]

is that from a regular freezer? 'cause if it is i'll skip the dry ice and do it that way

[Going2fast]

Dry ice you say? Made this batch from the last photo runs trim and larf last week. Put the weed in the freezer for 24 hours and used a 73 micron bag this time. Smaller chunks of dry ice seemed to break it up better. Came out a lovely shade of blonde/beige. Made some brownies with it and forgot where I put the thing.

[Gator]

Not bad, needs a little time to cure

[Gator]

Just a little bit

[ductwizard]

big fan of hash, gonna try nebulas dry ice technique in the fall. 1982-83 was in beirut lebanon with the U.S.M.C. and you could get a pie plate chunk of leb. blond hash for $5 or 3-hot chocalate pks. damn if i knew then what i know now

[DabberDog]

Gotta say... I like hash. Vaporizing in the bowl instead of igniting it makes for a fruity hash flavor. Takes a couple hours to go through a pea size piece. I might be onto something, here. Dabbing is still where it's at but hash ain't as bad as you people say.

[DabberDog]

Did an interesting thing.
Instead of using my bubble bags to make IWH, I made dry sift.
5-gallon bag in a 5-gallon bucket lined with parchment paper so I didn't have to scrape the bucket. Since I don't have gloves, I put 1-gallon bubble bags on my hands. Worked like a charm. Sat in front of the TV with the bucket between my legs and got to rubbin'.
But I might have made lemon hash crack. This is the same dope I washed with baking soda and lemon juice. A little finger heat and pressure made this stuff hard. I can never get kief to press like this with my fingers.
Looks like I'm done making IWH. Doing this dry is way less work, nigh on zero mess, and the kief is ready for use right away.

[Phlash]

Yeah I agree with you, I’ve never liked the thought of the residuals, hence why I’ve stayed with ethanol for extract.

Keeping everything as cold as possible and limiting wash time will definitely aid in limiting contaminants. As for the color chlorophyll will break down into pheophytn letting the color from carotene and anthocyanins to come thru, the effect helps with the color but not any of the harshness. To accelerate the transformation if it’s only color you are concerned with you can put the jar of finished wash in your grow tent for 15-20 min if your lights have a uv component or in the direct sun and the green should fade away..

[Gingerbeard]

Dewaxing has been and still is my goal in all this: I want the cleanest thing I can make in terms of removing plant matter. Before this, I was making BHO. Everything about it made me uncomfortable, no matter how clean and purged I thought everything was. Plant matter free-ish, yes, but the idea of residual butane finally got to me. If I inhale residual ethanol, I am unconcerned.
Funny about that green color wash. It browned like the chlorophyl was degrading in the jar. This time, there was no green at all. I'm not sure if there was a difference in the amount of leaf still left on the buds, but if there was, I would say this time had more leaf and would have been greener.

[Smallgrow]

Very nice!