honestly the first batch of hash I made was from a hermie plant I had dried out in the closet. garbage hash! lol! Yah the final freeze drying step is new to everyone. I whip the bag with the hash in it around in a circle until all the water is gone about 30 seconds. It forms itself into a ball that I chunk out of the bag onto a metal tray covered in parchment. Then I use a sharp knife to cut it into tiny bits. It should be so dry at this point it can be cut into the tiniest little fragments. The smaller the better, right? After it’s all mulched into tiny bits by the knife, I slide the tray into the freezer and wait a couple of days before I rip it.
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a couple of days meaning 3-4 days.
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When it’s really dry, it turns to powder like this when you press on a chunk with your finger in the freezer.
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I am wanting to learn to make some hash… proper like. This looks like the thread to learn it “proper like”. I’m going to go the start and read it through. Surely in 1000+ post I’ll have it figured out. Thanks for starting it and sharing @JoeCrowe
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It is a long read but documents my journey from thinking I was making top notch hash to realizing I got 4rth place in the hash contest… then taking it to the next level by producing an easy-to-do freeze drying routine.
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How does it not stick to the knife when you’re chopping it up? Would a razor blade work?
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Now you’ve even got me more interested. I’ll bet that 4th place stuff was what most would consider top shelf. And if you’ve improved on it …well I need say no more. I have a lot of trim I’ve always pitched, I had more than enough flower to last. Plus the quality of my trim has greatly improved and I hate not using it. I want me a big ol hash ball. I better start reading, it is a long thread and this ol man ain’t a real fast reader
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I thought you were spreading the hash out with a little bit of water and then letting that dry into a nice even sheet and then rolling that up and putting in the freezer. Or am I just talking about two different processes to make hash or make the hash into rosin?
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I’ll tell you the entire thing as a recap:
I freeze the fresh buds from the plant, then I make bubble hash. The hash I dry in the freezer, after I spun the moisture out. In order to prep it for the freezer I cut it into tiny bits on parchment then put it in the regular freezer for 3-4 days then rip it. Before I rip it, I melt it into a puddle with the heat of my hand, then roll it up into a tube and cut it into small balls that I vape.
Also at one point I did take a bunch of freeze dried hash and make it into rosin, yum!
I fiddled with many ways of prepping and drying the hash to produce other strange products. I’m only doing the freeze dried hash now though.
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Razor will work as well! It sticks a little to the blade but not as much as you would think. I should show the entire process via video eh?
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I actually use the buds from the bottom of the plant, I only harvest and keep the best buds on the top of the canopy.
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Yeah I want to reread this thread for like the 3rd time.
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lol if anyone wants to steal my ideas and claim them as their own, make sure you’re doing at least as good a job making the hash as I do, or even better than I do would be excellent!
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over at my friends house last night I was explaining the new hash making improvements to one of my old apprentices. One that hasn’t even lit his lights up in 2 years. his wife pipes up hey who taught you how to do that? Sucker! I told her that was the process I’ve been teaching online.
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here’s a link to… well the video image says it all hah hah! I show off how pliable, glassy and a little sticky it is.
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Who can believe those fucking sausage fingers are capable of doing crazy japanese artwork? Look how sausage like they are!
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So I know this isn’t related specifically to bubble hash, but I’ve just been really impressed with your approach and have been wondering if you’ve applied these methods to any other areas of cannabis? I’m personally really interested on how the effects of cannabis interact and how much of the selection of traits are independent/interdependent. I’m sure it’s an incredibly complicated process, but I’m curious if there’s anything we can figure out, like general rules. I know people have tried doing something like that by using terpenes, but from what I’ve seen that has had limited success.
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@JoeCrowe how much wet weight do you process at a time?
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usually about 700 grams in one go.
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