Fabulous resin production subrob, nicely done. Beautiful blonde hash nata. I make bubble every 25 days and i'll tell ya what I do to really boost quality. right after all the buds are trimmed and I have a paper grocery bag full of leaf, I roll it up in the bag and freeze it immediatly and wait 24 hours. I then get a good size cooler and ice down 4 or 5 gallons of ro water (for a 5 gallon bag run) and get it martini cold. the cooler should have a plug for the drain hole that is attached instead of the screw on variety thats sprays too much water when you try to plug the drain hole with water still in the cooler (I do runs in my small kitchen so this feature is important but outdoors not so much) I put the ice water in the bucket with the bags and fill it with icy water from the cooler till its 3 or 4 inches above the bottom of the blue first bag. I then add my frozen leaf and icy water from the cooler til it's full then add a small top dressing of ice. wait ten minutes and then the most important part....put on some long rubber gloves and agitate(sp?) the leaf with claw shaped hands, being careful not to rip or tear the leaf during mixing, til it foams up nicley, maybe 40 -60 seconds, then stop. wait 15 min, reach underneath the mound of floating mj and rotate the bottom to the top and mix, do it again. then one more time. after 45 min to an hour hang the first three bags with a rope and pulley and let it drip til it mostly stops dripping, maybe 10 min. then scrape. The pulley is essential because it saves you the time of standing there waiting for the bags to drain and u eliminate the frustration of waiting and then impatiently bouncing your bags to drain them, pushing debris into your hash that should be caught by the bags
After pulling all the bags you still have some some really clean mj water left in the bucket. It should look blondish and not green. Since resin falls when chilled in water, take a sauce pan and remove the top third of the water in the bucket then pour the remaining bucket water back into the cooler to use on the next new leaf run to catch anything still in the water. The amount of leaf I get fills a trader joes paper bag which is enough for 2 fresh leaf bubble runs. After I do the 1st batch of leaf I use the water from the first with a little fresh water to chill the 2nd fresh leaf batch. You catch more resin this way. After 2 rinses, I usually toss the twice used water in favor of fresh ro I use on the 2nd soaking, and I can use both previous fresh batches to make one big 2nd run cuz the leaf is already wet.
This method is a bigger pain in the ass than mixing with the drill and drywall bit but damn, I usually have to freeze the hash to remove it from the pressing screen, it's soft and very hard to handle without sticking to your fingers like glue, if that happens then u know you've done it right What happens during hash making is if you over mix, you get a lot back but inferior quality. I'm all about quality smoke so I do it the way I just described and I don't get a big yield, but I do get the besyt quality I can make and that's what I'm after I want to add that it's VERY important to freeze your leaf in a paper grocery bag(I love trader joes bags) because if you freeze trim in a plastic bag you will get green hash that doesn't taste or come out nearly as well, so remember, paper grocery bags are essential for freezing trim w/o damage. I've bought hash several times at dispensaries around town, $45 a gram sour d, gdp, etc and hash made with this method blows every dispensary hash Ive had right off the face of the earth. no comparison whatsoever, and that's not hubris talkin cuz I'm 100%confident you'll find it out for yourselves when ya try it
To give myself a little more bucket space to work with I buy 2 five gallon orange home depot buckets and cut the top 11 inches off of one and put it on top of the other and seal it so I have a 5 gallon bucket with a couple extra inches of height and that allows the bags to hang independentlyof each other and give me a little extra space for more leaf. i found a regular 5 gallon bucket bunches up the screens on the bottom but and extra tall 5 gallon bucket pulls the screen of the last bag off the bottom of the bucket and allows nice separation of all 7 screens. I actually don't bother with the last purple bag, takes to long to drain and the hash seems to be worse than the white,yellow or orange bags, don't know why:/ but it's less bags to rinse off and dry and that's a plus.
Here's another treat I learned that's wonderful for joints....After scraping the bag of hash sludge, I take a rolling paper and dip it on the bottom of the bag til it soaks up to the sticky part, then stick the paper to the side of a spaghetti collander to dry. When it dries, roll a joint with it and it will burn exquisitly slow and evenly and add some octane to the doob. biglove rolling papers enjoy.
My beautiful stoner galpals all love the bubble and its really great for a toke and a bike ride along the bay. I love the level of stone from this stuff, really takes you to the 10th floor and makes colors more vivid. I remember vaping cali orange outdoor bubble and a bunch of us getting on bikes and riding along bayside walk at night. The bay was glassy which made every light elongated and it looked like the bay was decorated with beautiful colorful spikes of light, just gorgeous with a bubble high.
Peace to all,
BL
praisehim. said:so will i ^^ ! nice post big ! thanks much.
MOLDYDREADS: i've also ran two different sour d's an one finished at about nine, super stanky. an the other went 13...which was like smoking oil. i've noticed multiple phenos as well...one being indica dom an the other sativa....
Are you saying all Sour Diesel plants will only finish well at week 11?
I've seen different Sour D finish at different times, and while some do go 11, not all do turn out best at 11. Just saying, I grew Reservoir V2.5, V3 and IBL and had a few longer females, a few hermis I scrapped, but one pheno did turn out excellent at week 8 and 9. 11 was too much for her, she got fluffier and the trichs popped by week 11, what are you basing that off? a clone?
^^^^^^first ive heard!....what channel is that? i dont have cox...
yeah, like voodoo said... but if you’re not a Cox subscriber, you can watch episodes at cannabisplanet.tv for 99 cents...^^^^^^first ive heard!....what channel is that? i dont have cox...
Green Ice flushing in day 50