Thanks for reading! You should be able to really crank out the hash after some practice. Take photos and post 'em!
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I’ve played a bit lol
I appreciate the open source tek that you’ve shared and it has backed up some of my thots .
I’ve been doing some of what you do developed independently but you pushed yours to about 10 levels further .
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heh heh yah, that’s my secret right? I always go next level to keep ahead of the competition. Your hash has a nice color to it! Live extracts are the way to go, for sure. All the high class extractors are doing it!
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I have access to a large amount of trim so that’s what I play with .
A lot of work goes into making trash in the best trash out lol
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Ran a huge amount of trim last month. Kinda fucked up. Took it out of the freezer after 25 days in there and didn’t let it come up to room temp long enough or let it stabilize at all. Rolled it with a hot bottle and made a ball. Trapped a lot of moisture in it. Doesn’t melt but it’s tasty.
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Usually the melt is killed by contamination, but sometimes a plant just doesn’t put out what you need to make good hash. I usually check it for contamination and if it’s clean, then it’s just not very good. Also, if you take a bit and rub it between your fingers. Sandy is not good, flour texture is good.
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Well… I have to say the shelf dried hash is garbage. I put that chunk down, and I’ve been thinking of making tincture out of it. Bro… if it ain’t live extracts, it’s trash. 
hash baby!!!
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Well, here’s an experiment that I put in the fridge 2 months ago before I joined up here , just took it out today .
Not full melt like the stuffs that’s been shown in this thread but I’ll be working hard to get closer with my trash in lol
My thot process at the time was to get it as dry as I could , I have friends that like new school and I have friends that like old school , old school want to fluff it then crumble and roll .
Old school liked the taste of mine but it didn’t fit the “Ritual” of the fluff .
Unbeknownst to me one friend even sent some of it in for testing , it came back at 53.4%thc .
I hope that this batch is dry enough to fluff .
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Yah I subjected mine to “stabilization” for the contest. Full melt, yet can crush into dust. The first year it was more like taffy, but looked almost identical.
Yours looks good, but it might have plant material trapped in there that makes it less melty. I use the microscope to analyze where it all went wrong. Sometimes the contamination is just “random organics”. My least favorite is “micro plastics”.
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I’m working purely with trim that is made from the dry trim bag .
I expect some contaminants but the return/yield is the best I’ve gotten lol
I’ll keep on trying to make the trash in the best trash out that I can for now .
If thing pan out it’ll be next year for a hand at fresh frozen .
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Yah yields seem higher due to the mathematics of the weight of water. 700 grams wet is really 150 grams dry or something like that. Skews the calculations on yield.
Making the hash from green buds is definitely the way I was taught by the champions! Once you go live extracts, you never go back.
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Finally made a good batch. 
It took 3 to relearn what I used to do.
Weirdly got a lot of 160 & 180 micron that’s still too wet to try.
I remember Frenchy saying trichomes are like fruit on a tree & the ripest falls off first, which is part of why his sequence is short wash at first, longer wash each additional rinse. The other reason being contamination falls off first & you can see it in the water clarity.
Most of what I’m washing is early & rotted(and why), so the first washes left visible trichomes & stickiness. 
I don’t have a thermometer but doubt the water wasn’t cold enough.
On that note…tangentially… Jodrey(iirc) was mentioning a Purple Punch that tested super low in THC but was super frosty looking— it was all plant FATS.
To the experimenters… anybody want to try adding a tiny amount of ISO to a wash? Just for curiosity? Or drinking stuff 
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meh, I coulda beaten frenchy in a competition. His tech is old news to me, something I wouldn’t do. Plus I don’t think he even looked at what his hash was made of. Aaaanyways! I’m always good for an anti-cat-turd-rant when it comes to his process.
If I have contamination on my plants, that’s not good. Fire in Fire out bah hah! not garbage in garbage out.
You could put your water in the freezer or fridge to get it cooler?
Plants with extra large trichomes look like they are “frosty” but in reality when you count the trichomes, that’s what makes the difference to the yield. The bubble hash should be mostly made of trichome caps, not their stalks. I do two runs and it seems to capture all the caps, I checked.
If you want to see, it’s all in my image collection.
hehheh in real life Jodrey is a pretty funny guy!
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To the good in good out point… yes BUT botched flowers can yield pretty nice resin but still be shitty as flower, for whatever reasons that it may be…
In my particular case I’m growing outside in a tropical rainforest & see 10-20% botrytis losses on 20+ strains tried. One round was a 95% loss to 3 fungal problems. After smelling that shit for 2 months I was determined to get at least SOMETHING out of it… even if it came with a huge chaser of humble.
As far as dissing Frenchy, to each their own, but the dude was a contributor & touched more resin than most humans will, seemed genuinely decent on youtube, & recently passed. So IMO he deserves some slack in the afterlife even if I be seen pics of VSOP with pumpkin fuzz growing on it. 
quality control in the supply chain is a mfer for small time operators with underground education.
RIP weednerds 
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Yah RIP
I watched his videos and they hurt my mind.
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Assuming this has been asked but can’t find it.
I totally get freezing the equipment. I’ve tried that with the nitrile gloves even.
But i’m not following you in why alcohol is a bad way to clean the bubble screens. I just set up a alcohol bath and wash the bags in it. Then you can heat away the alcohol to get that residual hash that was stuck on the bags.
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When you say fresh or ‘from green buds’, could you elaborate?
Is that literally immediately post trim, or does it include fresh frozen (trimmed but then put in freezer until batch size was reached)?
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I don’t need solvents to clean the bags. Isopropyl compatibility with nylon says “severe effect”, so why take the risk.
I cut the buds off the plant and bag them into the freezer.
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In a couple weeks I’ll make a hash making video. You’ll be surprised on how quick and basic it is. I don’t fill the air with nonsense quotes! In fact, I never actually talk.
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Being a single source for the hash making, I’m pretty sure, helps the process. I control every step. I can be assured of the quality, quantity and also the properties of the hash. If you are just running this bud or that bud or some bag of buds you found on the side of the road, that’s definitely not going to help. You have to try and reach the pinnacle, by choosing quality choices all the time.
If I make a shitty choice, like say, using pre-dried buds to make the hash, that’s not a quality choice. That’s taking a dump on your hash. Drying it on the shelf, that’s taking a crap on it. Using substandard weed, mulching the buds, storing hash making equipment in filthy places. Untested strains. untested mixed bags.
The important part is finding that groove where you are cranking out consistent product. In an industrial setting if you are rolling in with a different batch every time, some bad, some good, they are not loving you.
The first question asked, when I was making hash for the medical market was “Can you produce the same thing with every batch?” Me: “Absolutely”
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