Dry sifters.. lets see your stuff..

Guess i'll start..



I got impatient on a batch of semi-wet stuff and still ran it.. lol.. should have waited.. see what even a little moisture can do, folks? Just a few fragments of green is all it takes.



Same with this stuff.. same batch.. again, just a tiny bit of stuff gets in there, just from not being dry enough.



Ok, your guys turns, heh.

ever heard of "press 2 activate"?

how do you smoke that?

looks very good.

dont get your hopes up... no one here dry sifts, and if we did. would be NOWHERE near that quality.. especially that quality of pics. very nice. any pics of your set up or starting material?? smoking device?? more the better

vacpurge said:

ever heard of "press 2 activate"?

how do you smoke that?

looks very good.

dont get your hopes up... no one here dry sifts, and if we did. would be NOWHERE near that quality.. especially that quality of pics. very nice. any pics of your set up or starting material?? smoking device?? more the better

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Hmm.. nobody does? Gotta be some of you around... lurking in the dark...

As for puffing it, I usually put it on top of a little bit of flower.. lets me hit it nice and slow and let it bubble/clear dome for a few seconds.. always fun to watch, heh.

As for the pictures, just a $100 Veho 200x.. I think you can get them even cheaper these days online. Thanks for the words.

As for the device on how to make it.. well.. this thread is kinda to see if it would be worth it..

ive been here a while and know the locals and dont think any dry sift, but id be surprised.

you might want to read up on "frency cannoli".... he is the hash master around here, and he firmly believes and has a good point that if you press and heat that dry sift material, that is becomes better/more potent!!! it activates and changes some sort of chemical.

basically if you smoked .5g of your dry sift... youd be high.
but if you took .5g and pressed into hash, then smoked that hash... youd be even higher!!!!!!

I highly recommend reading it.. ill look for it in a sec.

I started on page 40 and there TONS of good hash info there that you might be interested in... check it out. they say smoking kief like that is a waste, no offense. sure changed my views... some smart guys in this thread here: https://www.rollitup.org/subcools-old-school-organics/648510-french-cannoli-hash-thread-40.html

I'm not reading through all of that.. but from what I understand you're basically looking for decarboxylation in order to go from THCA > THC by losing the COOH.

This occurs naturally during the drying/curing process as well, so i'm not sure how pressing/heating it would alter anything. Most people do this with fresh material as a way of cheating, though.

If somebody wants to explain it otherwise.. i'm all ears.

Nice clean quality! Good job!

Fadedawg said:

Nice clean quality! Good job!

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Thanks, eh. If I were to put out a setup that could make this quality all the time.. would you guys throw down like say.. $150 for it?

Considering most tumblers and boxes are at least that, if not more money..

What kind of yield did you get?

Starting material quality/weight? Output weight?.

Guzias1 said:

What kind of yield did you get?

Starting material quality/weight? Output weight?.

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Yield is close to 10%.. both grades will melt usually.. first grade usually more/about the same yield as the 2nd.

Starting material is very good sugar trim and as few buds as possible. I only use about a 1/2 oz of trim per run and pull more than a gram at a time of each grade basically.

interesting. does this setup only run a half oz at a time?

people can buy supplies to run more material different ways for much less than 150$

i like what it produces though..


how spent is the material after your sieve?

could you take pics of the trichs on input material, before and after the process?

thanks!

Dude that is some dope stuff there! All white and crystal, it would give a whole new meaning to Green Crack if ya know what I mean

Pulled from a thread at another site... I can run more than 1/2 oz at a time if I want.. it's just I prefer quality, and have the time to burn a little bit.

This is my first grade.. no sifting, no refining, no nothing, just poof... mind you I made this in my kitchen like.. an hour ago.. not in a walk in freezer or anything.. thermostat says ~75, I had a fire going earlier so it's a bit warm, but meh..

This is a ~30 second ish run



Now, it's not bad.. pretty good, right? At the very same time, this is being made on the other side..




Kinda gross, right? I thought this was supposed to melt, bla bla.. ok.. now here is that same stuff, carded through another screen for another 30 seconds..

I usually hate doing this, but you'll see why in a minute..



Not so bad, right? That's your 2nd grade. You really don't need to refine the 1st. But uhh... guess what I made this with?

Ready? *drumroll*



Seeds. Tons.. and tons.. of seeds. No trim, really.. there was a little bit, but it mostly looked like this.. very few 'whole' leaves to trim up ahead of time before I crushed this garbage up in order to give it a go. The process still held up pretty well..

I have made a few tweaks to it over the past year, but so far so good.

I wouldn't be too mad if I gave a thousands seeds to somebody and they gave me those quality sifts back in return.

You could always refine either again if you wanted as well.

I generally don't touch the first grade, though.

Looks really good, here is mine. Shitty pictures (especially compared to your pictures). Mine were taken from a Cell Phone.

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Hmm.. nobody does? Gotta be some of you around... lurking in the dark...

As for puffing it, I usually put it on top of a little bit of flower.. lets me hit it nice and slow and let it bubble/clear dome for a few seconds.. always fun to watch, heh.

As for the pictures, just a $100 Veho 200x.. I think you can get them even cheaper these days online. Thanks for the words.

As for the device on how to make it.. well.. this thread is kinda to see if it would be worth it..

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Hey friend, it is so nice to finally get to connect with a "dry siever".
Sorry I have no pick to share yet but plenty knowledge and love for it. I am planning to get back to it with a revenge so it's quite nice to have a thread dedicated to it.
If you do not press your trichomes (that are absolutely gorgeous by the way) you should put it in the middle of the flower in your bowl, like that you will have a pretty good decarb but not as much fun to watch

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Thanks, eh. If I were to put out a setup that could make this quality all the time.. would you guys throw down like say.. $150 for it?

Considering most tumblers and boxes are at least that, if not more money..

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Are you doing Bubbleman technique by "carding/pressing" the trichomes through your screen?

No, I am 100% against crushing/grinding buds (unless absolutely needed, like in the seed bud case), and do not card.. again.. unless absolutely needed. Those pictures on the first page are all done in a single shot, zero refinement or carding. If I wanted, I could 'clean them up' a tad.. but it's really not worth it.

I have been on b.mans site and on ICM and there are quite a few people doing dry sifting very, very wrong.. and i'm guessing that their products stink because of bad advice, so nobody really does it anymore. It's far easier to make any number of BHO or Water extracts these days and get great products..

I just prefer the smoke and taste of a clear dome dry sift. Have not had anything better.. regardless of being more potent. That's not the only thing I look for when I smoke something, heh.

WarMachine - That looks good man. Try to borrow a microscope or good camera from somebody and get in there close.

DrySiftWizard said:

No, I am 100% against crushing/grinding buds (unless absolutely needed, like in the seed bud case), and do not card.. again.. unless absolutely needed. Those pictures on the first page are all done in a single shot, zero refinement or carding. If I wanted, I could 'clean them up' a tad.. but it's really not worth it.

I have been on b.mans site and on ICM and there are quite a few people doing dry sifting very, very wrong.. and i'm guessing that their products stink because of bad advice, so nobody really does it anymore. It's far easier to make any number of BHO or Water extracts these days and get great products..

I just prefer the smoke and taste of a clear dome dry sift. Have not had anything better.. regardless of being more potent. That's not the only thing I look for when I smoke something, heh.

WarMachine - That looks good man. Try to borrow a microscope or good camera from somebody and get in there close.

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I totally agree in a way with you on the grinding buds and carding, it is the opposite of what I was taught but at the same time the carding of Bubbleman when well done works, his pictures are there to prove it.
Also it is not easier to do water extract, believe me I have done enough dry sieve in my "youth" and plenty water these past years to be a pretty good judge of the 2 processes.
Have you ever try to hand press your clear dome of dry sieve as done in producing countries? If not you should, amazing experience.

Thanks brotha, I'll be doing another sift real soon and I'll be using a better camera for sure.

DrySiftWizard said:

I'm not reading through all of that.. but from what I understand you're basically looking for decarboxylation in order to go from THCA > THC by losing the COOH.

This occurs naturally during the drying/curing process as well, so i'm not sure how pressing/heating it would alter anything. Most people do this with fresh material as a way of cheating, though.

If somebody wants to explain it otherwise.. i'm all ears.

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Have you ever done any lab test on your dry sieve? A decarb of trichomes on flowers done through drying AND curing is rarely well done, especially the curing part
But pressing is not only to decarb. You should try, it's easy but a lot of work.
By the way looking at your pics, those trichomes looks very transparent but it could be the light. What is the screen size used on those pics?