Noob questions RE:Bubble hash

[Highsenburg831]

What is the best way to process/store trim for making bubble hash? Dry it and keep it in a turkey bag until ready to use? Freeze it?

Can you use larf and/or tiny buds that fall off during trimming to make bubble?

Thanks

 

[Highsenburg831]

Thanks Doc!

 

[dansbuds]

Yeah i freeze all my wet trim till i have enough to do a large run of bubble & gumby hash . the only thing i don't keep are the fan leaves & stalks .... everything else goes into the freezer

 

[Kushed_]

I freeze anything covered with trichomes.

 

[fireman]

Wont matter if its in the freezer in my opinion untill bout a week or so before you use it once its frozen cant get any more frozen and id say a week is enough time to let all the trichs freeze up. Of course on the larf and or buds makes it that much better. I don`t trim till its all dry ( easier to trim) so my trim is always dry when i freeze it.

Hope this helps ive been making bubble for years now ( although i stock it like a doomsday prepper) and its definitely finicky process to get down

 

[toppin]

Me and a fellow grower collect our trim and anything covered trichomes on it like kushed said and we have just done our first bubble hash run with good results except one problem think we may of over mashed the trim for too long can anybody tell me if that would make all grades of the hash the same colour?

 

[gaiusmarius]

it's certainly possible that breaking up the material too much can cause everything to get green. it's important to let the plant matter rehydrate a bit in the water before you start to work it. dry frozen trim will crumble up in to dust if you start working it as soon as it touches the water and ice. that dust then partly makes it into your bubble hash. so always give the trim 5 minutes, so the leaves are soft and only the trichomes are brittle. which just depends on having enough ice in there.

 

[Mud Boy]

I like to use dry trim because it seems to make the trichomes a little less sticky and easier to handle but yes, the dust will get through the screens if you don't let it soak a bit. I found that out the hard way and had to dissolve everything in alcohol and strain out the contaminants, which actually worked quite well.

 

[purple_man]

as stated above, fresh frozen for quality, dry forzen for quantity (but higher contamination rate). you can use everything with crystals on it, if you use buds or bud parts, try breaking them up before extraction.

blessss

 

[toppin]

Thanks for the advise gaiusmarius, mud boy and purple man. Think its a bit of both really used a small amount of fresh frozen trim from my boy and large amount of dry trim, leaf and 2/3oz of grinded up left over bud from last grow from myself (unfrozen). No soaking time was given. Ended up with good quantity of hash but not much variation in colour of each grade of hash which adds up with what purple man said about contamination.

Next time il make sure all trim, leaf and bud are all freshly frozen and soaked for at least 5 mins before mashing together and also i try not to over mash it for too long aswel.

How dos the contamination affect the hash and is it advisable to soak the hash with alcohol to remove contaminants or is it more of a personal thing that you did purple man?

Thanks again everyone

 

[purple_man]

you re welcome bro!
nah dude, i would leave it as is, if you would dissolve the bubble in ethanol you could concentrate the goodies even further the contaminents would stay behind in the coffefilter. but come on, the bubble should be more then potent enough as is, and if it ain't you can extract it with ethanol later

blessss

 

[toppin]

Hi purple man yeah the bubble hash is very potent and dont get me wrong im happy with it just wanted some things clearing up some so to get even better results next time as this was my first time of making bubble hash

 

[purple_man]

i see, if you want the highest purity, use fresh frozen resinated trim and popcorn buds, and try mixing as gentle as possible for the first run (best done with a wooden spoon??? (those used for cooking)) 15 mins, should give you the cleanest possible product, once you filter out that extract, you can do a 2nd extraction with more force and longer duration, to get the remaining goodies out...

blessss

 

[gaiusmarius]

when you say mush it up what do you mean? thats another part of it, not mixing too hard or too long in the water and ice. would not use a mixer or drill, just stir with a wooden spoon. specially the first run. also don't let the stuff sit longer then 30 mins to let the trichs settle. if the hash is left in the water for too long it changes it in terms of reducing the flavor and giving it a sandy look.

 

[toppin]

when you say mush it up what do you mean? thats another part of it, not mixing too hard or too long in the water and ice. would not use a mixer or drill, just stir with a wooden spoon. specially the first run. also don't let the stuff sit longer then 30 mins to let the trichs settle. if the hash is left in the water for too long it changes it in terms of reducing the flavor and giving it a sandy look.

After putting in all trim, leaf and left overs in bubble bags with ice and cold water straight away we began to stir with wooden brush handle (clean brush handle) but due to the amount of trim and ice it became hard to stir so my friend began to mix it up by hand (thats right by hand never seen anything like it in my life he was like a mad man just kept saying how much he loves hash fucking hard core lol) this went off and on for well over half hour at one point i even had to call home for something.

Key points where we went wrong:
* over filled bubble bags with too much trim
* didnt let trim soak for 5 mins at the start
* over mashed trim and everything
* let sit in bags for to long
* dont leave a job till its done

With all said and done iam happy with it for my first run with making bubble hash but none of these mistake will be aloud to be made again.

As alway thanks again everyone for help and advise

 

[Fatty Arbuckle]

Awesome clear info! For only having a few responses this thread has already answered alot of the questions i came here to find answers for. I do have one question about the grinding up of the bud before adding to water/ice mixture. I've got 2 whole plants that due to a timer malfunction started to reveg and is just ugly looking things. But they're still frosty as fuck and i was thinking total hash run. i'm planning on wet freezing after harvest but i'm wondering how fine a grind is needed. are we talking getting some scissors and trimming off 1/2 buds or 1/4 buds or are we going smaller than that almost smokable grind size? Whats your personal experiences with this variable?
Thanks again for the wealth of knowledge
-Fatty

 

[gaiusmarius]

had this happen once many years ago and we ended having vegging bushes growing out of the top of the colas. in the end the bud was fine on most strains we had in there, we just cut the vegging parts off the buds. but yeah you could use all the trichome covered trimmings as well as the budlets that are too small or too airy to smoke. if the buds are tight you will need to break them open a bit, but with enough runs you will break them up while mixing in ice water anyway.

 

[midwestHIGHS]

if your using whole buds do fresh frozen and chop them up into thumbnail size pieces before freezing. If it is quite airy bud, than slightly larger pieces will be more acceptable.

 

[gaiusmarius]

After putting in all trim, leaf and left overs in bubble bags with ice and cold water straight away we began to stir with wooden brush handle (clean brush handle) but due to the amount of trim and ice it became hard to stir so my friend began to mix it up by hand (thats right by hand never seen anything like it in my life he was like a mad man just kept saying how much he loves hash fucking hard core lol) this went off and on for well over half hour at one point i even had to call home for something.

Key points where we went wrong:
* over filled bubble bags with too much trim
* didnt let trim soak for 5 mins at the start
* over mashed trim and everything
* let sit in bags for to long
* dont leave a job till its done

With all said and done iam happy with it for my first run with making bubble hash but none of these mistake will be aloud to be made again.

As alway thanks again everyone for help and advise

yeah and i don't think mixing by hand was a great idea, a big spoon works well. but basically if he was able to stand having his hand and arm in the ice water, it was probably not cold enough either. it should hurt from cold to have your hand in the water for just 1 or 2 mins, let alone for 10 or 15 mins, also the stirring should only be hard due to the amount of ice in the water. if it was hard to stir because too much trim was used it decreases efficiency. i try to get my water to -3°.

 

[toppin]

Fuck no it wasnt a good idea just plan stupid lol. I can assure you it was cold very cold i couldnt even do it myself for a min let alone of 2 mins.