Making Hash Tutorial

haha, very true.
seeing this thread again reminded me that I have another bag of trim in my freezer. has been there for months!!
Time to make some more hash

Just got done doing it.. It worked out great. Wax paper def made it alot easyer n cleaner.. Also istead of siphone the water out i got a lil pump at hm depo for 5 bucks n was alot faster

Fan leaves do not usually produce trichs... So good luck with the fan leaves I wasted two days making butter and lets just say I was not very satisfied. You are better off using your stems than using the fan leaves.

why buy a mortar bit when u can just use and electric beater lol

Dry and freeze for best results.

We use bubble bags, does the same thing but cleans out the plant debris and makes it much more concentrated. http://www.bubblebag.com/bubblebag.php

smallclosetgrowr said:

why buy a mortar bit when u can just use and electric beater lol

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HAHA thats awesome.

NICE! I still plan on buying some bags someday, but this is DEFINATELY gonna' work until then.

+rep for you, sir!

I'll dare one of my buddies to drink the water when Im done.

motoracer110 said:

HAHA thats awesome.

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-Unless you have an industrial strength electric beater (which we assume is a hand mixer) you will FAIL. A couple of big ice cubes will get between the metal beater blades and GRONK! bent up shit, ruined, end of story.

- Hand mixers are usally NOT a good idea to use over a large bucket of water...one slip or good splash and your toast, crispy even...unless you like electro shock therapy, who knows?

- The paint paddle mortar bit works best as it sits in the bottom of the bucket and stirs everything around very well. The LONG shaft means you Won't drop the drill into said bucket of liquid...its TALLER than the bucket itself!

In summary:
Unless you want to appear on your local news for accidental death by electrocution, DON'T MESS WITH SUCCESS!

And GREAT tutorial Moto- Seen some simliar to this using expensive bubble bags on OverGrow.com (sites been gone for a few years now) and yours is the simplest I have seen..well done. rep+

paint mixer drill attachment. works for me everytime

great tutorial i finally found something my wife can help with she always wants to help she can make hash for me one day while im gone at work all day

i don't wanna sound like a noob, but do male plants produce thc?

ojkushman said:

i don't wanna sound like a noob, but do male plants produce thc?

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i think you will get a bunch of different answers on that question. i think it is very little. i have tried to smoke the dried leaves from the male, and barely got an eye tingle. but if you were cursed with several male plants, i would dry and cure and try something like this gumby method.

This method does look cool and easy. how does it taste smoked? and you can make pills with it and eat it that way? that would be awesome, i could get high at my in-laws then, no smell!!

It really isn't worth the time or effort to get anything out of males. Bin them.

Reiss said:

It really isn't worth the time or effort to get anything out of males. Bin them.

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I second that. Really not worth the time and the quality of little hash that you get with the male isnt very good.

this was awesome moto, just did it, letting the liquid soak then ill be siphoning, thanks alot,

nice method!!!!

That rocks Moto +rep to ya

hashie moto,

Thanks for posting that. I just gave it a go but am not completely done yet. I started with 133 grams of the really good close trim (no fan leaves). It was full on crispy, crumbly dry. This caused a little bit of a problem in that when I first siphoned the 5 gallon bucket down I had quite a bit of plant material that had settled on the bottom. It took me a couple extra steps of washing it thru a fine sieve into 1 gallon glass jars and letting it settle out to be able to collect the good stuff. So far I've got a wafer of it that's the diameter of a silver dollar and about twice as thick. As soon as it finishes drying I'll weigh it and report. I've still got a one gallon jar of liquid (from a second washing) settling out and it looks like I'll get a little bit more. My guess is that this method probably works better with fresh trim that hasn't dried out to the brittle stage yet.

After I strained off all the floating plant material after mixing with the paint mixer in the five gallon bucket I decided to examine it with my 60x magnifier. Found quite a few trichrome stalks still attached to the leaf pieces. Most all of the little round caps were gone though (did see a couple of them).

To see if I could recover more I broke out the electric blender and put this plant material thru it along with some more ice and water. It made quite the green tea (as opposed to the brown tea the paint mixer made). The down side to this is that the blender reduced the plant material to a really fine particle size. But by washing it thru a fine strainer with some more water I got the bulk of it out. I've got a gallon glass jar of this green tea settling out and I can deffinetly see some brown settling out of it. All though it still has quite a bit of fine green pigment particles mixed in with it. My guess is that it's not going to taste quite as good as the first fraction will. Another day or so and I'll have this science project wrapped up and probably have more to report.

Hey Jack,
Thanks for the info. I got some trim ready pretty soon and want to refine my Gumby Hash method. The last (and first) hash I made turned out ok but with too much leaf matter.
Let us know how you go on.

Reiss said:

Hey Jack,
Thanks for the info. I got some trim ready pretty soon and want to refine my Gumby Hash method. The last (and first) hash I made turned out ok but with too much leaf matter.
Let us know how you go on.

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Reiss,

I weighed the main little cookie of hash that I got by following the tutorial that started this thread and it weighed 4 grams. It's nice light brown, crumbly, good tasting stuff.

While I'm not a hash making expert by any means, here's my conclusions for what their worth.

This method probably works best with fresh undried to semi-dried trim. What I used was trim that I'd been saving up from several small past grows. I had completely dried it out before storing it in a 1 gallon glass jar (had about 2/3 of a jar full).

If I had it all to do over I think I would probably go with getting some kind of silk screening material stretched on a frame that fit over a big glass backing dish. And then I would have ground my dried trim material a little finer and worked it back and forth over this screen catching that fine brown powder in the glass baking dish. I think that way I'd have probably have ended up with maybe twice the quantity of good clean stuff with a whole lot less fuck'n around and mess.

Re-running the plant material thru the elctric blender was not one of the better ideas I've ever had. Got some of that finally seperated out and dried but it's a dark green colored product. And it tastes just like it looks. Basically it's probably at least 50% small pure green chorophyll particles mixed in with the lighter brown hash particles. I'd have probably been better off just re-running the material again according to the tutorial.

At first reading of the tutorial I thought maybe the writter was being a little overly zealous with his mixing and settling times. I now know he wasn't. If anything you want to increase those times. I think it would be a good thing if you could rig up a stand to hold the drill and mixing paddle so you could just turn it on and walk away from it for awhile. Getting things good and cold is probably also a key factor. Add lots of ice.

The water you initially siphon out of the 5 gallon bucket after sifting out all the plant material you can should be siphoned into 1 gallon glass jars and allowed to stand overnight. Even though most of the good stuff is going to be down in the bottom of the bucket I'd do it with all the water just to be sure you don't miss any.

Smooth glass plates, pyrex or glass baking dishes, Corning Ware casarole dishes, etc. are good things to pour that final slurry out on for drying. Small metal or hard plastic spatuals will work good for scraping it around and gathering it up into a cookie as it dries. I used a small light weight, really flexible putty knife.

O.K. I've been sampling the fruits of my labors and am beginning to ramble on. So may be more later.