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Fresh Frozen Live Resin Bubble Hash..

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5Chord

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I've recently fallen down the rabbit hole of pressing rosin.

As a hobby grower, I have always been fascinated with making concentrates out of the leftover trim and even top quality bud. I've made oil and tincture with the Magic Butter machine and some very good bubble hash using a blender and more recently a small RV washing machine and a 4 bag 5 gallon bubble bag set. After washing the weed I always dry it and make excellent butter with final leftovers in the MBM. All was fine until my buddy lent me his Nugsmasher Mini and my world changed.

The next day I pressed up a storm. There's definitely a learning curve, but after about 4 hours I had almost 3 grams of rosin! I pressed most of the bud, kief and 3 different grades of bubble hash I had on hand, and If I knew then what I know now, I would have probably tripled the yield. But there's that learing curve and I still have a long way to go.

About 2 weeks ago one of my AK47 plants suddenly suffered bad heat stress coupled with nute burn.
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I tried emergency supercropping and changing out the water (DWC) but it didn't rebound and seemed to stop prodcing resin so I decided to chop it and try my hand at making fresh frozen live resin bubble hash with it and then pressing it into some yummy rosin. The plant had about 3 weeks to go but it still had massive buds. After removing all the stems and fan leaves, I put about 650 grams of fresh bud in the freezer. Tomorrow morning 1/8, I plan on washing most if not all of it.

I'll be using 220m work bag in the washing machine and a set of 220m, 120m, 72m and 25m bags in the bucket. I figure I'l do at least 3 washes and will need a 10lb bag of ice for each wash as I normally would.

What do I do differently when making bubble hash with fresh frozen bud vs dried bud? I'd love to hear some feedback.
 
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After sleeping on it and reading about some possible issues of Chlorophyll contamination, I decided to scale it back and wash just 240 grams as a test run and run the remaining 400g if the first run works out.
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Keeping the material as cold as possible is key as well as not letting the bud thaw. I layered about 3lbs of ice and bud in the 220m zippered bag and added about 15lbs of ice to the washer and let it soak for 45 minutes.

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I'm so jealous of your utility sink and concrete floor. I've never washed fresh/frozen before and I'm interested to see how it goes for you. My fingers are crossed and I'm pullin' for ya! If it works out well, I might try it on my next run.
 
I ran the first 240g 3 times for 15 Minutes plus 30 minutes wait time in between runs for the trics to settle. I also let it soak and get frosty for 45 minutes before agitation. When draining into the bags, I put the washer on spin cycle and it shaves off a bunch of ice into the bucket making it extra frosty!

This is first run combination purple (25) and yellow (73) bags
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It won't be dry for a few days at least.......Right now I rolled it into balls in about 3 grades.....I may dry it in the fridge as I don't want it too dry and want to preserve as much of the live resin flavor as I can before pressing into rosin.....The top grade is very sticky and flexible, the lower grade not so much
 
Here's the end result of 630 grams frozen premature bud.....While it says 20g on the scale, it will lose at least 3 grams by the time it dries. The 2 large brown marbles are 5g a piece and are super good quality and mostly dry already. The 3 in the back are very green by comparison and still quite wet. The one in the middle, is well.....in the middle
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You’ve got my full attention 5Chord have you now processed your full starting quantity? Is this what you have from your 640 g? Are you stopping here or are you pressing this? Love this stuff by the way. It’s like I’m watching Frenchy Canoli at work
 
Yes Farmall, that was everything.....630g of premature bud, partially heat stressed and nute burned. It was my first fresh frozen attempt. I plan on pressing all of it into rosin. It's my new obsession!
 
Straighten out a few things.... I read that a cure is unnecessary when pressing and drying should be done some? I have read so much stuff in 9 months I have not really let this part set in yet and I will need to go back and review the process. How long will you dry the hash before squishing? Being an obsessive person my self, I am psyched on giving this a try
 
Yeah, I'm definitely not waiting too long but I want to research this a bit more before I squish it, as I have a bit of time and money already invested. I'll post it all here, the good the bad and the ugly.....Hopefully not too much ugly lol
 
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