May give up on flowers and just do hash

ltecato

ltecato

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IMG_0267.jpg I just finished drying out my winter outdoor crop, and I have had an epiphany: They don't call indicas "hash plants" for nothing. Because, for me, it's darn near impossible to get nice-looking flowers, whether I grow inside or out. They are always, too airy, too leafy, whatever. They never look like the buds being sold in dispensaries.

I don't know what the secret trick to "curing" is. I follow all the directions but I still get the same mediocre results, which is fine for "head stash" but definitely not "commercial."

But I got a bin with a screen in the bottom and I've been collecting a lot more kief than I expected. Well, duh, that's why they make hash, right?
 
ltecato

ltecato

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Anyway, continuing my monologue, I remembered that the reason I have tended to focus on indicas is not just because they grow shorter and finish faster, but because I always wanted to try making my own version of "traditional" hash, without industrial solvents and explosions and whatnot. You know, the hash that doesn't have to be smoked with a glass pipe and blow torch?

So now, I'm thinking, maybe I will get into screens and those "pollen press" gizmos more. And the hash will take up less space than flowers.

I think I will make coconut oil extract out of whatever is left over after screening.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Hash is great! Have you checked out Frenchy Cannolis hash threads? If not you should search for them they are awesome.

I don't know what kind of strains you've been running but I tend to get much larger buds from hybrids then straight indicas. Getting nice buds is 50% genetics, and 50% environment/grow maintenance.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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there are several ways to make hash, my personal favorite is dry ice hash, very easy, very effective. i use a 120 mesh piece of silk screen material, get all i can get out of my material, let the kief dry for about an hour, then run it through a 90 mesh.
that's what i press into hash. the stuff that's left in the 120, i either just leave as kief and dust it on bowls or into joints, or melt it into cocobutter.
i actually like to put on a pair of rubber gloves and spend about an hour kneading the ball of it, letting the heat from my hands and the kneading melt it together, then pressing it as hard as i can by hand. i've used presses, and it just doesn't come out as good, unless you have a big ass hydraulic one. you have to get that "melting" action going on, or it stays crumbly and kind of falls apart when you break the outer layer
 
ltecato

ltecato

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Thundercat said:
Hash is great! Have you checked out Frenchy Cannolis hash threads? If not you should search for them they are awesome.

I don't know what kind of strains you've been running but I tend to get much larger buds from hybrids then straight indicas. Getting nice buds is 50% genetics, and 50% environment/grow maintenance.
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I've been doing GDP, Godfather Purps, and Paris OG, mostly. Also Cheese and Chem 4.
 
legalcanada

legalcanada

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everything i read said you should hang dry until stems are snapping but imo the stems shouldnt be snapping until the end of the curing process not at the beginning of it ... but smoke is so bad for your lungs anyways, i'm also going to stop smoking flower and switch exclusively to extracts and edibles, maybe shatter rips from my wax pen but smoking flower is so unappealing to me lately
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i don't worry that much about smoking flower, because i smoke MY flower, and i know it hasn't been drenched in pesticide, treated with nasty shit like paclobutrazol, or overfed it's whole life. i give it enough time to cure, and pick out all the stems i can. i use pretty much exclusively glass, so i'm not smoking paper, or blunt wraps with all kinds of artificial flavorings, or metal residue. and i'm not bashing on vaping, but i don't feel like it's that much better for you than smoking flower...unless you're smoking shitty flower...
 
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MidwestGorilla219

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
there are several ways to make hash, my personal favorite is dry ice hash, very easy, very effective. i use a 120 mesh piece of silk screen material, get all i can get out of my material, let the kief dry for about an hour, then run it through a 90 mesh.
that's what i press into hash. the stuff that's left in the 120, i either just leave as kief and dust it on bowls or into joints, or melt it into cocobutter.
i actually like to put on a pair of rubber gloves and spend about an hour kneading the ball of it, letting the heat from my hands and the kneading melt it together, then pressing it as hard as i can by hand. i've used presses, and it just doesn't come out as good, unless you have a big ass hydraulic one. you have to get that "melting" action going on, or it stays crumbly and kind of falls apart when you break the outer layer
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I agree with this 100%. I also believe the hash burns better and more even when melted and pressed.
 
Delztronics

Delztronics

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
there are several ways to make hash, my personal favorite is dry ice hash, very easy, very effective. i use a 120 mesh piece of silk screen material, get all i can get out of my material, let the kief dry for about an hour, then run it through a 90 mesh.
that's what i press into hash. the stuff that's left in the 120, i either just leave as kief and dust it on bowls or into joints, or melt it into cocobutter.
i actually like to put on a pair of rubber gloves and spend about an hour kneading the ball of it, letting the heat from my hands and the kneading melt it together, then pressing it as hard as i can by hand. i've used presses, and it just doesn't come out as good, unless you have a big ass hydraulic one. you have to get that "melting" action going on, or it stays crumbly and kind of falls apart when you break the outer layer
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I almost do this exactly. I usually heat up the hash extracted in a glass container in a semi hot/warm pot of water then massage it together lol.
 
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