I want to make some iso hash, but is it safe to smoke something thats been soaked in iso alcohol?
I have 4 male plants, can i use just them to make hash, even if its a lower grade hash? I think its kind of a waste to spend time and money growing plants to just trash them cuz they are males. They have to be useful somehow.
When you make iso hash you soak calyxes and/or trim in isopropyl alcohol to separate the trichomes from the plant matter.
You then let the alcohol evaporate and end up with an extract which when dried out is devoid of alcohol therefore safe to smoke/ingest.
Some people heat up and stir the oil to make it more solid and kief like (you can also mix it with kief to achieve the same goal but that will lower quality of the end product), others prefer smoking the oil.
Male plants don't produce enough THC to make it viable to grow them out that's why most people chop down any male plants that might pop up in their garden.
You can make hash from male plants but it's very difficult to get an end product you can get properly high by.
All in all it's not worth the trouble since a male plants spot in the garden could be taken by a female plant which would not only give you more bud but also a lot more trim to make hash off due to the much higher THC percentages.
