Hash talk

[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!

[Phlash]

Good reads, really like all the details. for your green leeching if you use DI/Etoh wash to get your wash temps down below -40 for your initial extract that will help inhibit the chlorophyll pull and filtering while still at those temps any lipids and waxes should be left behind as well.

[Gingerbeard]

I don't think there is a bad way to use dry sift.

[Gingerbeard]

Can't tell you time wise because I did different things.
Double boiler using a mason jar took too long, so I poured everything into a Pyrex pie plate and basically went Jedi mind trick to guess when it was done...ish.
Page 7 has more pictures of my first attempt.

[Phlash]

Your process is interesting especially in how it causes the off gassing when the distillate is agitated. How long was it exposed to the double boiler heat for the evaporation process? Oh and thanks for the link update

[Gingerbeard]

I can see your confusion. I typed a hashtag and the number 124. That, apparently, is some sort of programming code.
It's post number 124 in this thread.

[Phlash]

It’s a stainless steel crab boil paddle, yeah I find breaking down the buds help in the whole process. The link you posted went back to 2016 and didn’t seem to have any posts by you, perhaps a different link?

[Gingerbeard]

Thanks for that Phlash. I'd smoke your hash.
Nug size was an issue in this run. Had some that were half as big as my computer mouse. Not many smaller than large marbles.
Also, too much agitation. I'm looking at your paddle. That's exactly the sort of thing I want to consider for my next IWH.
If you missed this, originally, go back to my post in this thread number 124 to see what I do with my IWH. What's missing is that I'm using straight 220 hash. In the end, there's no need to screen any further.

[Phlash]

Gingerbeard

Missed this originally, but for me, I don’t ever grind for IWH, in fact I use very little ice just enough to keep the water cold, all agitation is gentle, green is the enemy. 220 is a toss bag and 120, 78, 45 are my usual pull bags, sometimes 25 as well if I had to harvest early. Water is used once then discarded, I have two 6gallon jugs that are left outside to chill and are refilled during the runs. The bags capture all the trichomes I care about as it is poured through.

I only make hash one time a year and do so in the winter, free refrigeration you know. This year the source was from one outdoor plant, since I’m limited for space only bud was processed by cutting them to about 3/8” pieces then frozen fresh (-20c), not compressed, weight total was approximately 5lbs.

About 3 months forward yield washed out to about 8oz, most was worked by drying, freezing, micro-planing, drying, heat pressing, then rolled into 16g temple balls. As I was rolling the last one and I guess I got a little over zealous and it completely devolved in my hands. I can say that it is something you don’t ever want to have to deal with, had to clean up with alcohol but will recover that mistake during a later alcohol extraction run.

Here are a few pics from field to table so to speak…

[ScottyHill]

Dry sift is my go-to because it keeps more of the flavor and doesn’t need solvents. I usually press it into rosin, but sometimes I go straight to bowls or joints with it. If I want something portable, I’ll throw that rosin into Boutiq carts since they hit smooth and don’t mess with the terps too much. Water hash is awesome too, but I hate dealing with all the drying time.

Guys, what you'll think about that? Is it a good way using dry sift?

[Bluey]

If you freeze it it slows it down. If you remove O² I am pretty sure it stops.

[Gingerbeard]

Natural curing. Just a plain-ol' bud sitting in a jar, naturally curing. Dry sift trichomes. Unheated. Uncooled. Unstripped.
Extracts are unnatural. From -100° to 400°+ and Ethanol and all the other -tanes. What stops curing? Is there a point where the little trichome says, 'Well, that about does it for me! I'm cured. Can't get no more cured than the cured I am. Thanks for the comfortable environment.'

[Bluey]

What's natural curing?