Hash/ Cure Question???

When I make bubblehash I usually just throw my material in the freezer uncured or only a few days cured. Should I cure that just like bud then make bubble hash??? Also same ques for the butaine hash oil should I use legitly cured for a month material or uncured material I keep in the freezer??? I always wondered this. My bubblehash always turns out like shit and everyone elses always looks so awsome.:confused:
 
also Id love to see pic of other peoples oil and bubblehash. Once I smoked some bubblehash that looked like a rolled up clump of dog shit and it was some of the best shit ever!!
 

weedboy613

Active Member
yeah you should try curing it first because curing turns any inactive THC into active THC so it maximizes total THC percentage...
 

SimonD

Well-Known Member
When I make bubblehash I usually just throw my material in the freezer uncured or only a few days cured. Should I cure that just like bud then make bubble hash??? Also same ques for the butaine hash oil should I use legitly cured for a month material or uncured material I keep in the freezer??? I always wondered this. My bubblehash always turns out like shit and everyone elses always looks so awsome.:confused:
Trichs don't cure in a technical sense, but bubble can benefit from a short "cure." It's more like the moisture being purged from the product than a chemical reaction within. Oil, not so much.

yeah you should try curing it first because curing turns any inactive THC into active THC so it maximizes total THC percentage...
...ummm...what?

Simon
 

k0ijn

Scientia Cannabis
You should do a somewhat cure of bud you want to make hash or oil from.
The moisture level in the buds when harvested are usually quite high and can affect your outcome.

Though I would say that making oil, it's a bit more essential to have dry bud than when making bubblehash (since you are going to use water anyway).
It's a judgement call however, some prefer dry some prefer wet, and in the end it won't affect the extraction you are doing itself.
It's more of a convenient issue.
I also prefer the buds I make shake-hash from to be somewhat dry.
It's just easier to work with.


weedboy613 your comment about curing turning "inactive" THC into active THC is.. well wrong.
Curing is in effect a way of removing moisture from bud and thereby increasing, taste, smell etc.
An example of an inactive metabolite in THC is THC-COOH.
I think you might've misunderstood something along the way.
 

k0ijn

Scientia Cannabis
You should not cure bud in a freezer.
You can store bud in a freezer if you want to freeze it anyway.
Some people claim to cure bud in a freezer, I've never tried it but I've read a lot about it and it seems that it's not worth the risk.
Freezing breaks the cell walls and may break open the gland heads, turning the bud to mush or powder, depending on moisture content.
This is especially true of frost-free freezers because of the frequent freeze/thaw cycles.

I would suggest you get it out asap if it has not been cured yet.
 

irieie

Well-Known Member
the best bubble hash i have made is with fresh frozen trim. you are just gonna rehydrate the plant material anyway, so there is no real point in drying it at all. actually since all the plant fibers are still intact, they are stringer and you get less plant material in the hash.

bho is a different story. when you make bho you want the material to bone dry. when you shoot the butane through the plant material, it instantly freezes any water and that expands and forms ice crystals in the extractor and on the end. if there is enough, some water will escape into your collection dish and this causes problems.
 

kbo ca

Active Member
weedboy613 your comment about curing turning "inactive" THC into active THC is.. well wrong.
Curing is in effect a way of removing moisture from bud and thereby increasing, taste, smell etc.
An example of an inactive metabolite in THC is THC-COOH.
I think you might've misunderstood something along the way.
well if he's wrong, smoke some fresh weed from your next harvest (if you even grow to begin with) and tell us how high you get.
 

Corso312

Well-Known Member
i have made oil cured uncured..no difference...one thing i have noticed is the longer i let the oil sit on the pyrex after scraping a couple times and balling up i give it a water bath or two.... this makes it easier to handle without sticking to everything
 

panhead

Well-Known Member
Ive been making hash over 20 years now,i gave up on butane hash,not because there isnt a difference in buzz but from the danger aspect,i had a bad experience with fire so now all i do is ice hash.

With that said ive made hash from dry cured bud/trim,from dry uncured bud/trim,wet bud/trim,frozen bud/trim & frozen cured wet bud/trim,out of all these methods i saw no difference in quality or appearance.

If your doing it properly dry veg material should not be an issue,if its filtered properly no particles of veg matter should be in the final product,you loose some thc to the filter process but fuk it,i want pure.

One thing i know to be a huge digference is with ice hash not having much of the essential oils containing cannaboids from within the leaf/bud,this is the main difference between ice hash & butane hash,you can overcome this.

I make ice hash with wet & dry material,it just depends on what i have going,when working with wet material i pulverize the material into a pulp,this releases much of the oils from within the leaf & bud,after pulverizing i use regular ice hash procedures,i much prefer this hash over my dry material ice hash,it has a different buzz & is very close to butane hash,you just have to pound the shit out of the material to release the oils.

Something else to consider when making hash,i see lotsa guys making hash from bud that is for one reason or another premature,for good quality premature bud should not be used,if the bud is too early to smoke its not ripe enough for good hash.

You want as much ripe resin as possible for hash,amber trichomes make for knock out punch weed,same goes for hash,clear trichome hash has a much weaker effect,short term buzz & can give the smoker head aches,all the rules that apply to bud being ready apply to hash.
 
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