You’re smart. I’d love to see someone do 2 batches with identical starting material and try letting is sit with the ice vs just having at er. It should be pretty obvious if there’s any major difference.
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lol thanks, I try really hard to rely on the tools of the human mind. Got to try really hard to maintain a rational perspective on growing weed and producing the goods. Humans, are nothing if not irrational creatures. I am a human.
This kind of shit gets me in trouble in the real world. ugh. Nothing like someone giving a gusto speech about crystal healing only to have a single voice in the crowd say “Hey…where’s your evidence of that?” Or the latest psychic reading… acK! Then I give them an irony blast…“Hey, I’m psychic”, I say. “Where’s the proof you’re psychic?”, they respond -IRONICAL! Doh but that must make them hate me. Alright! Today I am running the contamination batch. I’ll post some photos. lol and incase you are thinking I am setting the delay mixing test up for failure, I am going to run an additional batch after the contamination one to see if the contamination left any contamination behind after cleaning the bags. That way I’m at least giving the delay mix a leg up because the contamination will probably all be eliminated by then if it was leftover.
I’ll share some more of my philosophy:
“the truth is what I base my future decisions on, so if I don’t have the truth, then I have nothing”
“the truth can be harsh and disturbing”
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ok, we tested positive for contaminates. Classic, small black particles of unknown substance. I’ll post the photo after my camera is recharged. I really expected more contamination from some weed I basically mulched into dust then mixed into hash as a dry dust. It was like mixing flour into cold water! Lol initially it’s so hydrophobic it spits out of the bucket with every power burst. Then after the first round and a bunch of sitting, it’s all water logged and the power bursts only shoot out water. “power burst” defined as a sudden clunk of solid objects that ejects matter from the bucket.
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I sorry Joe, you are loosing me here (well, it is after 4:20).
You milled down some weed to powder then mixed in some hash and added that mixture to water?
Cheers
G
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yah what I did on that last batch was an experiment to see if the small black particles of unknown origin would filter down into the hash. The final phase is that particles of the growing medium are deposited on the buds like small particles of flower in the breeze. Then it winds up in your hash as microscopic particles that you can’t see.
So the control group is my own buds, because I have never seen small black particles in there. When I make the hash there are no particles.
I have been seeing those particles in other people’s hash and recently in someone’s hash who had tested clean then had small particles when they changed to dirt/soil. So next step was to get some buds that were grown in living soil then check for particles, then make the hash and check again for particles.
The final stage is make sure only the growing medium is producing the particles, not bugs shitting. I can tell you the process I used if you care, but it did involve milling the dried buds into almost dust then making bubble hash. The process wasn’t important, only the existence of the particles.
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Roger that. Thanx
My primary target is the environment, my phobia is “what is stuck to my trics?”
Cheers
G
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ok you’re no doubt wondering how I determine which hash is best! Best is a qualitative measurement for sure. I mean, you can clearly see the contamination or, not, but how are you going to see how good the hash is? ok! I got two tests… they involve heat. One, I heat the wire and see how it rips through the hash chunk. If a hot wire carves through that shit and makes it into a puddle…we have a winner. Next step, I take a hot knife and I heat it red hot then I roast that hash nerd into a big bottle. The volume generated… well, I can tell you more is better lol. And the final stage, I rip that into my lungs and see if it makes me happy. Generally, I get really happy when I see a great big hunk of hash in the bags, as long as I know it’s contaminate free. Why don’t I take it to a lab for testing? And let them smoke my hash!!! 
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Joe what is your preliminary read on those photos?
First looks to me like a definite colour change from your earlier batches but I’m at a loss on the rest (obv plant material in #2)
Thanx
G
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yah in the first photo you can see in the close-up of the hash there are small bits of things. In the second photo, those dark small objects are black and opaque, definitely particles of shiiiite. The third photo you can see the large particles of plant material, and the final photo you can see a wide field containing both the plant material in the third photo, other green chunks, it’s kind of indistinct unfortunately, but you can see it’s made mostly of trichomes and a few plant fibers. It’s not like… hardcore plant material all over. Yah the entire batch came out kind of dark.
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I would honestly consider the hash I produced in the contaminate batch as equivalent to “other people’s hash” that I mostly observe through the scope. Bog standard is the saying?
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yuhknowhat? I have never showcased my hash only in a microscopic view. And that’s hilarious because nobody really knows WTF I am talking about when I say primal hash and what makes it that. Scrub open them peepers because here it is.
from left to right: primal hash, SBR hash, and bog standard.
the differences are obvious, I think?
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lol! It’s all about the sparkles meing. Twinkle twinkle in my eye, like a diamond in…a hash pie.
phew that shit went straight to my dome.
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ohhhhhh!!! I used the quality test on the contamination batch. It barely stuck to the wire, then made a thin stream of goodies. Then I ripped it and was like “hmm I don’t think it should make me angry inside, you won’t like me when I’m angry!!!” so I took out some good hash and had a nice rip of that to make me happy. Don’t wake the angry demon by taunting it with substandard hash! Ok those are just some jokes, but really the hash sucked ass. I would take the SBR hash over it, and that shit’snogood.
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I forgot to mention, you know when this contamination weed was brought over, person presented it as some “good weed” to make hash in “my process”. “indoor, good stuff”. This usually represents the breaking point in people. When they see the hash I produced is garbage - they usually give up on trying to understand it. Because it means their weed is garbage. Now, I sure hope…this person is different. Can’t they please see I’m trying to help??? Hopefully the harsh and disturbing truth of it can be absorbed into moving towards change.
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i’m still waiting to test out my theory:
dry ice, 160 bag -> ice water -> (collection)
also curious to play with pH & small alcohol %s
where are you getting dry ice? I mean, I live in buttfucknowhere so it’s hard to get your hands on.
Also, I researched how they are getting thc percentages from weed. It’s bullshit. I can shit in my hand and call it 20% thc based on their testing. ugh, wtf happened in the industry? who is working in there, and how can they be so wrong? I mean…we’re talking science here…right? So…howcome they are pulling numbers like turds from their butts? Sorry bout the shitting analogies…but something smells, and it’s not good.
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grocery stores?.. 
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check! I think I can get it from the drug store but it’s a drive!
I have been thinking more and I’ve decided that yield of the plant IS something you can hold in your hand. Not numbers on a page. Here’s what I learned back when I was “somebody”. Your business survives on the bottom line, and the bottom line is the $$$ you can extract from your crop. Seeing as your whole life survives on squeezing the most “drug” from your production… then it’s only logical, and empirical, that you should look for the highest yielding plant with the best quantity of primal extract production. So in the business world, that really counted. Pump the ledger by growing a gram per watt and producing $$$ primal hash.
Now, I’m not a rocket surgeon, but I can see how any human on the planet could benefit from this knowledge. My pops he’s like “don’t tell them all your secrets!!! you worked hard to get those!” “Shit”, I said “…nobody will believe me anyways”. he laughed. Yo, I mean that’s why I joined up. Either someone is keeping secrets from the world, or nobody knows this shit.
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phew crap now that was a hash rip! Yuhknow, I have heard lots of people are using solvents to clean your bubble bags. Don’t fucking do it. I mean, I’m not the boss or god of your actions, so you can do what you want…but! My cautionary tale is this: your bags will last a lot longer if they aren’t exposed to solvents. OK! So now, how do you clean those bags? In a nutshell - the freezer. I take my red bag and put it in the freezer and leave it there. Thermodynamics will dry out the leftovers in the bag using “freeze dry” tech. Basically changes in pressure make the ice sublime then condense on the walls of your freezer. Take your bag out and then crumble up the screen in your hand so all the leftovers crumble to dust in the bottom. Then invert that on a piece of parchment…voila! Leftover freeze dried hash. mmm I love me a pile of that shit! I find after I do that cycle about 3 times I have got out all the hash dust and puffed it all to my dome. These bags have lasted me about 20 years. Almost time to get a new set 
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