Low grade hash making :-)

Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Kingrow1 thought he could avoid buying 170 micron mesh and as such went el-cheapo with his neighbours kitchen sieve. Kingrow1 now has green hashish - win some loose some.

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I took well cured trim and loose bud, crumbled into sieve then worked over the mesh again with fingers till all crumbled. I sieved, tried my darndest to seperate trim from trichs with a bank card and then wrapped double in a sandwich bag. Bag submersed in water that had boiled previously for two mins then taken out and squashed a few times with heavy glass jar then left to dry.

Smoke is very strong even though i douched this up badly. Crumbles rather than burns into fluffy sprinkles.

Leaves then placed in ice water for gumby/gravity hash run - got more from that than i did this kitchen sieve method.

Happy for a first attempt, it all went soft and formed a hard lump from the heat and pressure - next time i use a proper dry sieve screen and dont be a noob :-)
 
Aussieaceae

Aussieaceae

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Bought some cheap micron bags a while ago, gave bubble hash a go this year. Can't recommend trying it out enough!

Purity's great, great yield and it's a really quick process, same day smoking too.
 
Azubaz

Azubaz

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Same i picked up a cheap set of bags on ebay and they work well i suppose. Though it's more labor, it's great with large quantities of trim or larf. Good looking stuff
 
hawse

hawse

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Yeah I love using dry ice bags - bough a cheap little set off amazon for like $30 or something, totally worth it. Make a trip to the grocery store every three months or so for dry ice :) What you ended up with there looks and sounds about like what comes out of my 120 or 160 bag... Still works just fine though! Waste not, want not right? What I've been trying to figure out is if it's really worth it to make proper pressed hash, or just crown my bowls with keif or make edibles which is what I usually do... Enjoy it!
 
Dr. Who

Dr. Who

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hawse said:
How do you press your keif? Trying to find a good method...
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Buy a hash press
or
Go to a big box craft store and they have a press for making shaped clay extrusions. Use that with dimes as the end pieces.
Not big around but, easy to cut gram "coins" off a long one.

Spritz a bit of water on your keif. Warm for a few seconds in a microwave.....NO more then 3-5 seconds at a time. You just want it slightly warm, not hot.

Form a main chunk with your hands and get a basic square or rectangle shape. Place in plastic wrap and press between 2 smooth surfaces with what ever you can use for a heavy weight on the top one. Leave it over night.

Make a form you can put your keif into and use the form in a vice.

Got a bearing press? Same as above.

A simple method I have been seeing more and more of. An amount of keif is hand formed and, rolled out to a thin (1/8th of an inch) sheet the size of an average book. This is placed between plastic wrap and then between blocks (use books for that matter). Weight of about 75 - 100+ lbs is then placed on the top block and left over 24hrs or longer. Remove the plastic and roll the sheet of hash up (start at the short side and roll to the long), or roll unevenly by flipping it an inch or so over and keep flipping it on it's self till done.... These should be "glossy" on the outside.

Most hash is hand formed in the country it came from. Saw Lebanese formed by being placed between plastic and cloth (sometimes just the cloth) and pressed by driving a car over it in a rectangle form (long time ago).
Once formed. You can add your own textured stamp to it..... In the 70's, got a kilo of Mazar-i-Sharif that had cool stamps on both sides from the grower/maker.....
Saw gray Nepalese "surfboards" made by hand forming and then press rolling them with a "rolling pin". This was sifted keif of odd gray color, not hand rubbed.

While not from "keif".
Traditional Nepalese "finger" hash is rolled into a uniform "string" by hand. These "strings" are then placed together and squeezed by hand lightly to form the straight lined rope. Some are a solid rope and some are just those small strings together......Finger hash is the sticky shit left on your hands from handling the plant. This is what is rolled into "fingers". Generally black or very dark brown.

Temple Balls are another Nepalese hash of note. This hash is made by gently rolling fresh buds between your hands and building up a rather thick amount of resin on your palms and finders. This is then gently pressed into a ball as you remove it from your hands. Then this "ball" is rolled and rolled in your hands to form this glistening, glossy ball of goodness...Been way, way to long since seeing either of those..

At any rate. Just lightly spritz with a some water, and slightly warm in the microwave and hand roll balls from it.....Just don't call it Temple Balls!
 
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hawse

hawse

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Dr. Who said:
Buy a hash press
or
Go to a big box craft store and they have a press for making shaped clay extrusions. Use that with dimes as the end pieces.
Not big around but, easy to cut gram "coins" off a long one.

Spritz a bit of water on your keif. Warm for a few seconds in a microwave.....NO more then 3-5 seconds at a time. You just want it slightly warm, not hot.

Form a main chunk with your hands and get a basic square or rectangle shape. place in plastic wrap and press between 2 smooth surfaces with what ever you can use for a heavy weight on the top one. Leave it over night.

Make a form you can put your keif into and use the form in a vice.

Got a bearing press? Same as above.

A simple method I have been seeing more and more of. An amount of keif is hand formed and, rolled out to a thin (1/8th of an inch) sheet the size of an average book. This is placed between plastic wrap and then between blocks (use books for that matter). Weight of about 75 - 100+ lbs is then placed on the top block and left over 24hrs or longer. Remove the plastic and roll the sheet of hash up (start at the short side and roll to the long), or roll unevenly by flipping it an inch or so over and keep flipping it on it's self till done.... These should be "glossy" on the outside.

Most hash is hand formed in the country it came from. Saw Lebanese formed by being placed between plastic and cloth (sometimes just the cloth) and pressed by driving a car over it in a rectangle form (long time ago).
Once formed. You can add your own textured stamp to it..... In the 70's, got a kilo of Mazar-i-Sharif that had cool stamps on both sides from the grower/maker.....
Saw gray Nepalese "surfboards" made by hand forming and then press rolling them with a "rolling pin". This was sifted keif of odd gray color, not hand rubbed.

While not from "keif".
Traditional Nepalese "finger" hash is rolled into a uniform "string" by hand. These "strings" are then placed together and squeezed by hand lightly to form the straight lined rope. Some are a solid rope and some are just those small strings together......Finger hash is the sticky shit left on your hands from handling the plant. This is what is rolled into "fingers". Generally black or very dark brown.

Temple Balls are another Nepalese hash of note. This hash is made by gently rolling fresh buds between your hands and building up a rather thick amount of resin on your palms and finders. This is then gently pressed into a ball as you remove it from your hands. Then this "ball" is rolled and rolled in your hands to form this glistening, glossy ball of goodness...Been way, way to long since seeing either of those..

At any rate. Just lightly spritz with a some water, and slightly warm in the microwave and hand roll balls from it.....Just don't call it Temple Balls!
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Awesome info thanks! Yeah I love finger hash! I find it has the highest amount of terpenes compared to anything else I make. Gives you that ZING when you hit it... So Temple Balls are basically finger hash rolled into a ball then because I assume that's what's coming off the fresh bud as you roll it around? That's why just rolling keif into a ball is not the same thing right? I sadly only get a small amount of finger hash usually because I try and not handle it much while trimming... Oh also I do have one of those little t shaped presses, just a little small one to make keif discs, but honestly, I don't ever mess with it because just crowning a bowl is about the same to me...
 
Dr. Who

Dr. Who

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hawse said:
So Temple Balls are basically finger hash rolled into a ball then because I assume that's what's coming off the fresh bud as you roll it around? That's why just rolling keif into a ball is not the same thing right? I sadly only get a small amount of finger hash usually because I try and not handle it much while trimming..
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The difference between Temple Balls and finger hash is.....

Finger Hash "Nepalese" is just from plant handling.

Temple Balls are from actually rolling the buds between your hands to collect the resin. I went to a wedding in Nepal (Friend is into the spiritual thing there. He met this absolutely stone fox local.) and my friends new wife's family has a side business of growing and producing hash......Mostly Tea growers (I get the most delicious tea's from them at new years). They showed me the process - hands on learning experience too!
 
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