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man, it took a long time to clean up all that crap… lol
turns out if you drain too much water from the hash pile before you wax it, the fucking thing gets all lumpy and fails. When you do it right, you know, because it’s like a sheet of glass. I guess I knew what the problem was after it should have worked and failed, because I had been going nuts with the water draining. I had spun the bag so fast there was almost no water left in the hash. Not good if you are trying to wax it.
Alright now! The real question is this… how does that happen? hah hah I answered one question and now there are 20 more. How can just a little bit of water trapped in the hash make such a difference between it forming a perfectly smooth surface that is waxy, or a clumpy fragile mess?
Another question. After the water is removed with acceleration, why do the trichomes pile up and clump then cannot be turned into goo? Is air trapped in there between the trichome surfaces? Like…something about atmospheric contact changes it… Something evaporates into the voids? Phew I’ll have to think up some more ideas to spitball out there. Got to find that thing I can attempt to falsify.
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I have an idea for you to try, since I don’t have any supply to make anything right now.
Maybe after you add the ice water to spread it out nice and thin, you could take a paper towel to the edge of it to take some of the liquid back a lil to get to a consistency you are looking for that gives you the wax and at the same time let’s it dry in a timely manner in the freezer?
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What does the wax look like under high magnification?
It sounds like a colloid, phase changing to a solid with the removal of a solvent.
Cheers
G
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Colloidal hash I love it lol!!!
The top one is what happens when you fuck it up. The hash kind of congeals unevenly. The bottom one is when it’s worked properly, it forms a perfectly flat surface. Almost like it’s precipitated.
I’ve taken microscopic images of it in the past, but I’m going to do it again! It looks radical, I can say. I’ll do that tomorrow though, right now I’m finished up the hydro prep!
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I don’t freeze dry the wax, but that’s a good idea as well.
I have indeed sponged some of the water from the hash after it all settles to the bottom. Sometimes you can tilt it slightly and make the water slide off the top heh heh, be careful 
I hate dumping some of it onto the cookie sheet underneath, then I have to scrape it off and smoke it. To complete the process overnight you just do less at a time. a waxed gram dries overnight.
Joe how much fresh herb do you typically use to produce this amount of hash?
typically I use 700-900 grams of wet buds. The yield is strain-dependent. Way back in the thread I measure the yield of each plant.
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I think I freeze dried it and i think it came out pretty well but I also don’t have connoisseur knowledge
What bag size are those pics from?
90 micron bag, that’s where I get the most yield.
You ever pick up one of those 120 bags?
not yet lol believe me it’s hard to get stuff around here in the middle of nowhere. nobody delivers. I’m going to whip up a wax batch and freeze dry it over at the super best friends, though. That’ll be exciting!
I could have looked for another bag when I was in town last time, but I had an insane shopping list that had to be completed. Blew a couple hundred bucks on a new system It’s an investment lol
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There are a couple of single ones on Amazon for approx $14 US
As insane as this sounds, I can’t order things like that off amazon. No cell phones either.
ok! I got some images of the wax. It’s insane. Like amazon.
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I focused on what appears to be the trichome core. You can see gooey goo all around and bit of trichome material. This is where I scraped the exacto blade across the glass to smear the wax off.
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here’s a more substantial photo. It’s not like the failed wax, you can’t really pick out “parts” of it. I wonder…what would happen if I dissolve it in alcohol? mmmmm
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ok I think I’ve settled on a theory supported by observations! Here’s the observation right:
the image of two trichomes joined together as goo. Fresh trichomes are gooey. And it requires full contact between surfaces. So my theory is this when I float out the hash it settles where fresh trichome surfaces are in full contact with almost no trapped air. Like none. Then the goo magic happens! Fresh gooey trichomes just combine into a goo ball. Just like these two trichomes came into contact and turned into goo. What do you think about that???
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hah hah I read that several times myself. Fucking nuts! I was scrolling through all the microscopic images checking out all the hash snaps to get an idea. Suddenly I spotted that photo and an idea crystallized in that nanosecond.
It doesn’t explain though how if you get the layers too thick they don’t wax. hmmmm!
has to be:
fresh trichomes
very thin layer
not too dry from the hash bags
a couple millimeters thick for a layer is too much, it won’t work.
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Oh wow, reminds me of Creation of Adam… 
Cheers
G
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