Bubble hash

[myke]

I see.
And what with lollipop trim, topping etc?
It will be 3 months of collecting, freeze all this time?

I don’t see a problem with freezing for 3 months.maybe frenchy talks about it in his video’s?

 

[Johiem]

Not sure lollipop trim would be worth anything. Strain dependent of course, I've got one strain that hardly frosts the leaves at all and another that frosted her stems so much that I have intentions on running the stems through an ice extraction.

 

[WeedLover487]

Not sure lollipop trim would be worth anything. Strain dependent of course, I've got one strain that hardly frosts the leaves at all and another that frosted her stems so much that I have intentions on running the stems through an ice extraction.

Agree, but I have it so I am adding it anyway.
I do hard defoliation, lollipop etc, but the time of harvest I have a large bag of leaves.

BTW one use for the leaves is to mix with the bubble hash itself for vaping instead of tobacco.
I am not using tobacco and sometime mixing weed with hash is hiding the soft velvet high of the hash.

 

[Northwood]

Here's the result of last (cold) weekend's effort. Came out to 61 grams:


She's very sticky and gummy. And darn, I better keep this one in the fridge, because this perfectly round ball looks like this turned over if kept at room temperature for any length of time:

 

[myke]

So now you grind/cut it up and let it dry?

 

[Northwood]

So now you grind/cut it up and let it dry?

It's a completely dry ball of hash (temple ball). It looks wet just because it's a mass of resin. It's already gone through the process of rolling with the bottle, folding and folding, more rolling, etc. until all the trichome heads are broken and it has the consistency of sticky soft putty.

After it "cures" for a month or so in air, it develops a kind of impervious rind. After that I wrap it up tightly in cellophane wrap, then vacuum pack it and put in the deep freezer along with the rest of the collection. I'm a collector of sorts. lol

 

[myke]

It's a completely dry ball of hash (temple ball). It looks wet just because it's a mass of resin. It's already gone through the process of rolling with the bottle, folding and folding, more rolling, etc. until all the trichome heads are broken and it has the consistency of sticky soft putty.

After it "cures" for a month or so in air, it develops a kind of impervious rind. After that I wrap it up tightly in cellophane wrap, then vacuum pack it and put in the deep freezer along with the rest of the collection. I'm a collector of sorts. lol

So its dry already from last weekends work?

 

[Northwood]

So its dry already from last weekends work?

Yes it is. I find if it's still a bit wet, it doesn't stick together properly and form a consistent mass. Plus you'll see if it has moisture still in it while rolling, especially if you use parchment paper because the paper does absorb moisture and you'll see its effect. If you leave it too long as very fine powder on cardboard in open air, you'll lose terpenes quickly after it's finished drying.

 

[myke]

Yes it is. I find if it's still a bit wet, it doesn't stick together properly and form a consistent mass. Plus you'll see if it has moisture still in it while rolling, especially if you use parchment paper because the paper does absorb moisture and you'll see its effect. If you leave it too long as very fine powder on cardboard in open air, you'll lose terpenes quickly after it's finished drying.

Well thanks. I’m going to press mine now.should be dry was made last Friday.

 

[Northwood]

Well thanks. I’m going to press mine now.should be dry was made last Friday.

If you do the "Frenchy" test in the palm of your hand with pressing your thumb over it and it doesn't stick together after it warms, it's likely too wet. I'm lucky because the humidity in my house is like 25% with forced air heating, and unlucky because I'm growing a plant indoors too. lol

My plant doesn't seem to be complaining about the low humidity and high temps though, so maybe pushing it so hard isn't so bad. I still worry about it though. I'm giving that one plant 20 litres of water every second day now without runoff. Hmmm....

 

[Skuxx]

It's a completely dry ball of hash (temple ball). It looks wet just because it's a mass of resin. It's already gone through the process of rolling with the bottle, folding and folding, more rolling, etc. until all the trichome heads are broken and it has the consistency of sticky soft putty.

After it "cures" for a month or so in air, it develops a kind of impervious rind. After that I wrap it up tightly in cellophane wrap, then vacuum pack it and put in the deep freezer along with the rest of the collection. I'm a collector of sorts. lol

That is some self control to collect temple balls.

 

[myke]

Ok sweet I pressed it. What a smell. So now what my ball is pretty firm.

 

[myke]

Oh yes I just read your post,a month of air?I thought it was jar and burp?

 

[GreenestBasterd]

Running fresh also provides the best quality flavour.
100% agree!!

 

[Northwood]

Ok sweet I pressed it. What a smell. So now what my ball is pretty firm.

Hey that's not a ball! Lol

I don't think you have to burb temple balls like you would curing bud in a mason jar. You can store your temple balls in mason jars after you wrap them up tight in cellophane and keep in a cool place. The ball shape provides the least surface area by weight than any other shape, which is why leaving it in the air in a dark, cool, dry, dust free place is okay. I want a bit of oxidation on the outside, which changes the outer texture to something more firm. It probably doesn't matter, but it's just something I do before putting it away for long term storage in the freezer away from oxygen. A little CBN gives hash its distinctive high IMO, but I could be very wrong. lol

 

[nl5xsk1]

This was a busy day!
Gobble gobble!

 

[ilovetoskiatalta]

A few tips about running bubble from a master hash maker....
1. Use fresh solid home made ice from an big old ice tray; no store bought ice that will melt right away. You want it to last as long as possible.
2. Be gentle...cold makes trichome heads fall. Hard stirring will cause a lot of trash to fall into the bags. Machines work well because of this; they slosh the material around instead of beating it.
3. Use only as much water as is needed to loosen the material. Should be just fluid enough to spin around. More ice than water; kind of like a giant slushy. It will loosen up even more as it melts.
4. Cool down the water by melting ice in it in a bucket before using it. I buy ice from the gas station only for this...it is easily crushed into small shards by throwing it on pavement and melts away in seconds.
5. Insulate your bucket or washer; I use bubble wrap and tape. Makes the ice last longer.
6. Use ALL the bags. Yes you can make some shitty hash with just 3 bags but it will be real dirty. Get the full 8 bag set...
220u 180u 160u 120u 90u 74u 46u 25u

I use a 20 gallon brute filled with ice on bottom then i put my 5 gallon in the brute and fill the sides with ice. It will have a lot of condensation on the brute so be aware. Thought you might like this approach. @Richard Drysift

 

[Northwood]

This was a busy day!
Gobble gobble!

Nice haul! Can I ask what kind of bag that is? I have the full mesh bags from Amazon, but the very thin colored seam is only on the outside edge, and while folded over the bucket it's easy to mix them up because you can't see it. I went as far as marking the mesh size on the outside of the cut-off buckets themselves for that reason so I wouldn't accidently put them in the wrong order.

 

[Northwood]

I use a 20 gallon brute filled with ice on bottom then i put my 5 gallon in the brute and fill the sides with ice. It will have a lot of condensation on the brute so be aware. Thought you might like this approach.

This just made me think of an idea. An engineer here should come up with a super-cooling pad (like a heating pad) that we can just wrap around our cheap plastic washing machines. If it can cool room temp water in the machine to 3 degrees Celsius within 5 minutes, that would be very nice. Considering weed growing is getting legalized in more and more places, I imagine making bubble hash will be come even more popular since it's so easy to grow more bud than you could ever hope to smoke. lol

 

[myke]

Ok so ball is a couple days old now after dry. Not really impressed hard as rock hard to get a chunk off and I think I lost some taste compared to before I pressed it. Next batch I’ll leave it in the crumbs stage. The color and texture is so much better I think.