Rolling_Stoned
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Before I begin, I realize that the preferred method for ice hash is to use bubblebags or one of the similar products on the market. This method will not produce varying qualities of hash like real bags do, but it is also at a fraction of the cost. Sorry about the pictures they're not of the best quality.
Things You Will Need:
- Trim, buds (Preferably pre frozen)
- 2x 5gal. Buckets (Nice to at least have 1 white one, makes the hash a lot easier to see)
- 5gal. paint strainer (2per pack, only costs like a buck)
- Cone paint strainer (They had two types of them at Lowes, one that is worthless kind of like cheesecloth. The other was a 190 microns, which is what you want. They are not labeled on the packages so I bought both, who cares they were also like a buck.)
- Plastic tubing (Any size is cool the smaller the slower the speed of the drain)
- Ice (At least a gallon)
- H2O (Like 2 gal. but you may need more, just make sure all that trim and ice is able to move around)
- Plastic tarp (Any thing relatively heavy is suitable, could probably just use the side of a gallon freezer bag)
- Hand Mixer (A kitchen one is fine, or you could use a cement mixing attachment for a drill)
- Plastic Card (This is just for scraping the resin glands together, you could certainly use one of those fake credit cards that you get in the mail)
- ***OPTIONAL*** 150 micron framed silk screen (Got mine on the online for like 15 bucks)
The Procedure:
Step 1: Ensure that the frozen trim and buds are in small pieces, if not go ahead and chop your greens into smaller chunks that won’t bind the mixer. While doing this go ahead and line your 5-gallon bucket with the 5gal. paint strainer.
Step 2: Dump your trim into your bucket containing the strainer, followed by your ice, and finally the H2O.
Step 3: Agitate the contents of the bucket for aprox. 20-30min.
Step 4: Remove the strainer and allow the bag to drip into the bucket for several more minutes. The solution inside the bucket should be a dark yellow/green color.
Step 5: Poor your H2O/ Pot mixture through the 190micron cone filters (If this is your only filtration make sure you’re pouring it into a white bucket)
Step 5b: ***OPTIONAL*** Poor your solution through the framed silk screen to further filter out undesirable plant material.
Step 6: Allow the resin glands time to separate, by just letting your bucket sit for about 30 minutes.
Step 7: Begin to siphon off water until you have removed a little less than half of the bucket. You could just poor off the contents of the bucket but siphoning agitates less trichs. Then allow another 20-30min. period for the disturbed resin to settle again.
Step 8: Siphon additional water from the solution until only an inch or two of liquid is left in the bottom.
Step 9: Position the bucket at a 45-degree angle and, again, let it settle.
Step 10: By now all the resin in the bucket should be easily visible. Slowly poor off the remaining water left in the bucket, don’t worry about little bits of resin slipping away, you can collect them later, just make sure you leave the majority of trichs.
Step 11: Scrape out the wet resin with your plastic card and place it on the plastic tarp to dry. As it dries you can card the goo together to form a ball. You will need you let it air dry for like 2 or 3 days but then it is good-as-gold.
Step 12: You can repeat steps 6-11 as many times as you wish to get as much resin as you can, I found that after 2 or 3 times the amount left in the solution really isn’t worth fighting for.
Conclusion:
When you consider that most people already have their trim, some sort of household mixer, and that the silk screen is optional then this whole process can cost less than $20! I yielded a dry weight of around 2 grams from the first run and a combined weight 1.5 grams from the second and third runs, that is a grand total of 3.5grams. All of your trimming that was used originally can be reused at least one more time so refreeze it, if you do the whole process again you should be able to get similar quantity as your first time just lower quality. I would like to thank AmishFarmer for the cone strainer idea!
^^^ 1st run ^^^ (It reads 2g's if you can't make it out)
Things You Will Need:
- Trim, buds (Preferably pre frozen)
- 2x 5gal. Buckets (Nice to at least have 1 white one, makes the hash a lot easier to see)
- 5gal. paint strainer (2per pack, only costs like a buck)
- Cone paint strainer (They had two types of them at Lowes, one that is worthless kind of like cheesecloth. The other was a 190 microns, which is what you want. They are not labeled on the packages so I bought both, who cares they were also like a buck.)
- Plastic tubing (Any size is cool the smaller the slower the speed of the drain)
- Ice (At least a gallon)
- H2O (Like 2 gal. but you may need more, just make sure all that trim and ice is able to move around)
- Plastic tarp (Any thing relatively heavy is suitable, could probably just use the side of a gallon freezer bag)
- Hand Mixer (A kitchen one is fine, or you could use a cement mixing attachment for a drill)
- Plastic Card (This is just for scraping the resin glands together, you could certainly use one of those fake credit cards that you get in the mail)
- ***OPTIONAL*** 150 micron framed silk screen (Got mine on the online for like 15 bucks)
The Procedure:
Step 1: Ensure that the frozen trim and buds are in small pieces, if not go ahead and chop your greens into smaller chunks that won’t bind the mixer. While doing this go ahead and line your 5-gallon bucket with the 5gal. paint strainer.
Step 2: Dump your trim into your bucket containing the strainer, followed by your ice, and finally the H2O.
Step 3: Agitate the contents of the bucket for aprox. 20-30min.
Step 4: Remove the strainer and allow the bag to drip into the bucket for several more minutes. The solution inside the bucket should be a dark yellow/green color.
Step 5: Poor your H2O/ Pot mixture through the 190micron cone filters (If this is your only filtration make sure you’re pouring it into a white bucket)
Step 5b: ***OPTIONAL*** Poor your solution through the framed silk screen to further filter out undesirable plant material.
Step 6: Allow the resin glands time to separate, by just letting your bucket sit for about 30 minutes.
Step 7: Begin to siphon off water until you have removed a little less than half of the bucket. You could just poor off the contents of the bucket but siphoning agitates less trichs. Then allow another 20-30min. period for the disturbed resin to settle again.
Step 8: Siphon additional water from the solution until only an inch or two of liquid is left in the bottom.
Step 9: Position the bucket at a 45-degree angle and, again, let it settle.
Step 10: By now all the resin in the bucket should be easily visible. Slowly poor off the remaining water left in the bucket, don’t worry about little bits of resin slipping away, you can collect them later, just make sure you leave the majority of trichs.
Step 11: Scrape out the wet resin with your plastic card and place it on the plastic tarp to dry. As it dries you can card the goo together to form a ball. You will need you let it air dry for like 2 or 3 days but then it is good-as-gold.
Step 12: You can repeat steps 6-11 as many times as you wish to get as much resin as you can, I found that after 2 or 3 times the amount left in the solution really isn’t worth fighting for.
Conclusion:
When you consider that most people already have their trim, some sort of household mixer, and that the silk screen is optional then this whole process can cost less than $20! I yielded a dry weight of around 2 grams from the first run and a combined weight 1.5 grams from the second and third runs, that is a grand total of 3.5grams. All of your trimming that was used originally can be reused at least one more time so refreeze it, if you do the whole process again you should be able to get similar quantity as your first time just lower quality. I would like to thank AmishFarmer for the cone strainer idea!
^^^ 1st run ^^^ (It reads 2g's if you can't make it out)
so true
