Do you mix your sift?

HydroKid239 said:

I use a trimbin which has the same 150 micron screen. I run sift the trim for about 5 mins, then spend another 5 tapping the screen to make the material jump & it helps more heads fall thru quicker. Then I collect before I go further. Quality is much superior from the initial run. After a 2nd run, more plant material has made its way thru most likely making it difficult to bond like you want it to. Just my theory tho.

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ismann said:

The properties of the hash depends on many things, including the strain.

One of the main attributes is glandular head ripeness. Different parts of the plant finishes at different times depending on how much light that part of the plant receives. The tops will typically finish first and if you wait for a good 50% amber on the tops, you'll have a decent amount of >160 micron heads, typically your amber/red hash.

Other parts of the plant may not be as ripe, though still with plenty of cannabinoids and will be of a size between 45 micron and 160 micron. Color here is typically like beach sand -- blonde with some amber/red.

Anything less than 45 microns, for me, is not worth keeping. That will be very white, mostly wax heads with very little resins or cannabinoids.

If the hash is hard like a rock, it's usually not a good thing. Usually it means it's over-aged, over-oxidized in a dry environment but since yours is fresh it's hard to say. I wouldn't count it out, maybe apply some heat to it with a lighter and it should soften up. Smoke it and compare it to the others.

The hash you have which is crumbly and blonde indicates high quality in the middle of the micron spectrum around 70-90 microns. If you smoke it in a screened bowl, I'd wager it will be 6-star full melt. Many "hash connoisseurs" prefer this type. I like the hand-rolled black tar hash which has been aged as temple balls and tastes like Italian top-grain leather -- very narcotic.

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rembrandt100 said:

Last year I started using a tray while trimming. It has a 150 micron screen. After I trimmed each plant I put the good stuff in different packets and into the freezer. After a few weeks I started to process them into hash. Using parchment paper and a bottle of hot water I rolled and folded each packet of sift until it was a ball of hash. I had 4 different strains and 3 of the packets became black hash. The fourth would not stick together as was blond and crumbled easily as opposed to black and a tar like ball. Since I had forgotten to label the packets I do not know what strain each of then was. A week ago I took down an Auto Mazar that is curing now and I had about a 1/2 teaspoon of sift in the tray. Processed it today and ended up with a reddish brown, 1 gram chunk, of the hardest hash I ever seen. It is like a solid rock. So anyone else get different hash from different strains?

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ismann said:

The properties of the hash depends on many things, including the strain.

One of the main attributes is glandular head ripeness. Different parts of the plant finishes at different times depending on how much light that part of the plant receives. The tops will typically finish first and if you wait for a good 50% amber on the tops, you'll have a decent amount of >160 micron heads, typically your amber/red hash.

Other parts of the plant may not be as ripe, though still with plenty of cannabinoids and will be of a size between 45 micron and 160 micron. Color here is typically like beach sand -- blonde with some amber/red.

Anything less than 45 microns, for me, is not worth keeping. That will be very white, mostly wax heads with very little resins or cannabinoids.

If the hash is hard like a rock, it's usually not a good thing. Usually it means it's over-aged, over-oxidized in a dry environment but since yours is fresh it's hard to say. I wouldn't count it out, maybe apply some heat to it with a lighter and it should soften up. Smoke it and compare it to the others.

The hash you have which is crumbly and blonde indicates high quality in the middle of the micron spectrum around 70-90 microns. If you smoke it in a screened bowl, I'd wager it will be 6-star full melt. Many "hash connoisseurs" prefer this type. I like the hand-rolled black tar hash which has been aged as temple balls and tastes like Italian top-grain leather -- very narcotic.

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