Gentlemen,I have already tried asking to be paid for my work & he says I am asking too much
We had no agreement he was to use my images in any form
It does to a point, you can see the process when you make Charas and let it age, when making Charas it is really hard to get rid of these hairs but after a few weeks they will disappeardoes maturation process of pressed resin consume cystolith hairs* contained with it?
I have been looking at my resin lately and have discovered an abundance in these structures in it.
is the gentility of the separation methodology a large contributing factor to minimizing the evidence of these structures.
how about removing of the stems or the relative age of the material?
* Resin glands on a stem lie close to the surface beneath the cystolith hairs. Hairs always point in direction of growing shoots.
The more obvious covering of white hairs seen on stems, petioles, and leaves are not resin glands. They are cystolith hairs of carbonate and silicate which are common to many plants. These sharp-pointed hairs afford the plant some protection from insects and make it less palatable to larger, plant-eating animals.
These hair should stay in your catch bags (220 or 190) and possibly in your 160 but none should be in the lower microns.Ill make a concentrated effort to first recognize when these hairs release from their bases.
and then be extra careful with the washes at that point. (perhaps not increasing the vigor with which the stirring or washing is done)
If they are already broken and littering the dried material .
I am still on a learning curve as to when and if to increase / decrease the wash / stir time given the state of the trim and on which rinse I am ( 1-...)
His videos came down after he stole my images / work for Weedworld magazine, I told him not to send them to that magazine since I wanted to be paid for them. This after I drove him well over 500 miles and let him stay at my house. The images used were from my camera & I am being blackmailed for my work at this time from him. I would look for another source for hash making from someone that doesn't steal from other peoples hard work.
It doesn't look kosher but had to say, definitely not hair from the flowersmy 120 bubble bag was damaged and I usually use it during the initial wash in the process however this run I did not.
the evidence in the 190 -160 catch bag as well as the 73-45 micron and the 25 micron was full of all kinds of shit. with the 73 - 45 being far less than the others. With the former I had no choice but to toss it in the spent alcohol jar for future iso extraction
However the 160-73 catch looked much cleaner than the others although Im concerned about what appears to be some sort of crap mixed in with it.
any ideas of what it is?
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The resin look Ouh La Ladefinitely not pistillate hairs. after looking at it under 100x some of it looks like broken stalks, some thistle like cystolith hairs, and what looks like single strands of lint.
the resin was very sticky and amber in color and smells turpentine
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Reading hypothetical trims is exactly like checking flowers for quality as a starter when you first choose.a hypothetical:
Say Green Santa left a bag with several big ziplocks full of resin laden trim under your tree and on the sack was nothing except a label bearing the following...
How do you "Read" the trims? What do you read them for?
- To: <inset name here>
- From: Green Santa
- Happy New Year
What would be the steps and in what order would you take them in order to do so?
How would you use that specific information prior to washing?
How would you use that specific information during the washing in an effort to gain a reasonable balance of quality and quantity of the separated Resin Glands?
(Clean: work space, utensils, ice cold water etc are a given)
For example How long of a cycle(s) would you wash it what bags would you use? what specifically would you look for in the bags etc,