Welcome aboard greenearth. Don't I know you from somewhere?? Ya, the sticky stuff you clean off you tools or fingers is some good shit. In some places that is how they collect it. Off a fresh plant, Sometime's rubbing a bud between their hands or running naked through the field and then getting it off there bodies. Different cultures have different ways of making it. Whatever you decide to do with your trimmings, if you have to grind it up at all I like to use a flour type sifter. I try not to warm it up to much when I'm grinding it up. I got an old one off Ebay because I could not find the kind I liked in the stores and my wife wanted her's back. But in fact, the one I ended up getting was even better. It was listed under "vintage". I did'nt like the ones that had the horizontil blades and two screens in it. I guess it would be great for flour but not what I want. The one I like has the wire that you turn and it goes across the screen. But what I was getting at is be sure to grind it into a large glass bowl. I have found that when I do that lots of the trics that break off from the grinding stick just enough to the sides of the bowl and you can see them well enough after you dump the ground up weed out. Now rub your finger around the bowl and collect the powder that is left, roll it between your fingers and put it in your pipe. Now that's some good hash!! (those little popcorn buds are great to save for this kind of stuff, so you don't really need to trim those to much, IMO).
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