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Great thread ! Soo much info for someone who is just getting started but it also seems like a lot of time, effort and weed for such little results. I realize i would need less to get to happy time but i Think maybe i need wAit until i find a friend who can show and help me get started, show being the point. I wish there was like grow clubs or even grow gangs lol
 
Ya a local in person grow club would be awesome for us legal folks

In time most of us have more product than we consume so the return becomes less significant, it’s hard to take at first.
Many people ( myself included) are just using their trim for concentrates so that’s normally a waste product anyway. That’s generally the bonus, you get hash from what normally went in the trash.

There are a tonne of hash making video out there to watch and learn from. It’s is some work for sure, especially ice water hash. It’s all about the end product for us hash lovers
 
Since Covid and the nascent internet phenomenon, in person meet-ups are not as popular. Too many people hiding behind videos.
If a hash group would be neat in your area, start one. The hardest part is finding people to come out of the prohibition closet.
And you might find there are classes and such in legal states. Some colleges are even offering classes.
 
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I would love to try dry ice hash but its hard to find where i live. I have a 1 gal. zip lock full of trim I cud use ( buds are too precious at my level )
 
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I might have put 2 and 2 together... or... if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
If humidity is too high for a good bud drying and the buds stay soft even after a few weeks, dry sift is super inefficient.
When humidity is high, make ice water hash! Solved that problem!! BAM!!!
 
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Desiccation means removing water. You should be using low water content alcohol. If you are doing that there should be no or very little water in it when finished. Water can be removed by evaporation by heat or vacuum, or both if you are so inclined. If you over heat it the THC will eventually start to break down. A vacuum chamber will avoid deterioration. Does this help or have I misinterpreted your question?
 
It's been well evaporated. RSO, by nature, is a gooey liquid. I'm wondering if there is a way to turn it into a solid. Maybe freeze dry?
 
Still talking RSO.
I've seen how people cure buds in water to help draw out chlorophyll.
What does anyone think about water curing before making RSO?
The upside might be a cleaner oil. The downside might be taking away the full-spectrum aspect of RSO.
 
Freezing it would make it more viscous, but the dry part is the same that you would get from a vacuum chamber. Once it warmed up it would return to the previous state. I think you are attempting to "dry out" an oil. RSO is TCH, waxes, and other miscellaneous material from the plant, all non-polar materials. I think if you added some dry sift kief and worked it together the result would become thicker and more like what you are trying to make. Are you trying to make moon rocks? I'm not totally familiar with that product, I was under the impression that they were oil extract mixed with dry bud material.
 
These are the questions of home chemists that are valid, unfortunately the answers can only be found in a lab qualitative analysis. Expensive and usually excluded by labs from the work of home chemists. The closest you will get at home is to make it both ways, then get volunteers to do a blind "taste test" and have them report results.
 
Ckbrew moonrocks are buds covered in oil and rolled in kief. My research was a little disappointing. About all I saw was people dropping oil on their buds, then the kief. Not much more than loading up a bowl. I thought it was going to be a whole other experience, dipping buds in oil then using a vacuum chamber to really oil up the flower. Might go ahead and see how that works.
 
The water cured RSO looks interesting.
Water curing pulls out the leaf stuff, but it also pulls out some terpenes. I don't know how I feel about that since RSO is heated to 180°+ and terps are already plenty lost. The stuff I made is the most potent, most whole body, most entourage effecting marijuana product I have ever had. I use way less than I do 80%+ live resin. Whatever terpenes are lost, I don't know about. Now, I have to consider if it'sFranklin 's strain or the final product. The finger pressed hash is in line with the RSO but not as whole body. Don't know about the flower. I'm leaning to the effects of the flower, in concentrated form.
Next in the brain queue: water cured and dewaxed RSO. I have some experimenting to consider.
 
Still thinking.
If water curing removes terpenes, does making IWH remove terpenes? Or is it a time thing? Days curing versus minutes in ice water. Can the terpenes be extracted from the water? If there are terpenes in curing water, can you drink it for benefit?
 
Hi, guys.
Not a chemist, but somewhat chemistry "aware".

If the goal is to eliminate chlorophyll in RSO, I believe one has to look first at the solvent being used. Most commonly, ethanol or propanol. Unfortunately, these alcohols are "partially" polar, meaning polar molecules like water and chlorophyll will also dissolve into solution. I use the "winterized" (bud and solvent frozen in freezer) technique as it also helps reduce waxes and lipids dissolving into solvent.
Rick Simpson also used "light" naptha, which is non-polar. Butane, hexane and heptane are also non-polar possibilities, but much more dangerous due to flammability. A real lab set up (exhaust hood, distillation glassware, etc.) would be a MANDATORY safety requirement! Terpenes are also non-polar and should dissolve into non-polar solvents, but not water.

Your thoughts?
 
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