CanniEvergrow
06-26-2008, 06:06 PM
I shure hope this helps out a bit. If someone wanted to make hash, it would help if they understood exactly what theyr objective was. Straight up, all your doin is knokin the trichs off the veg material. Theirs nothing elce involved and if you do this properly you wont have to do any pressing at all to get it in a lump. It will press in your hand. The trichs are located only on the plants surface. Their are none inside the veg matter. The veg mate is what your tryin to get rid of. What you wanna do is knock the trichs off the veg mat and throw the veg material away. Theirs various ways of gettin the trichs off. In my experiance I have found that the drier you get your startin material the beter youl do. When the trichs are dry it helps, because theyr more britle when theyr dry. In the instance of making ice hash, the trichs snap off, both because theyr dried properly before the proces begins and also because the coldnes from the ice water makes them even more britle. This is shurly the most popular of hash'es. You dont need bubble bags to make it nether. Not that bags aint good, they are, In just sayin that what the bags do is just seperate the differant sized trichs. They have nothing to do with the actual snapin off of the trichs. That is acomplished by gettin the startin materials real dry and then immercing them in sub zerro ice water and aggitating them with a mixer or somthing. The bags simply strain the trichs out of the resulting solution. I make incredibly excelent hash by takin my 2 week or more dried trim and cuttin it up like I was gonna roll it and then puttin it in the freezer for a day. I then put a bukkit of water in the freezer too until it freezes over a bit. Then its ready. I take the frozen trim and dump it in the freezin water bukkit and add ice. I mix this up with a dril with a paint mixer on it for 10 minits. This bukit then goes back in the freezer till it gets a good solid crust of ice on it. Then it comes out and gets mixt again for 10 more minits. This proces is repeated one or 2 more times and then strained into another bukkit threw a 5 gallon paint strainin bag. This bag is suspended in the liquid that it was sepereted from and mixt around a bit in order to get any last trichs to fall into the bukkit. Then the bag is removed and the liquid in the bukkit is then strained threw a permanent coffee filter. Not a paper one. A permanent one. The liquid is strained threw the permanent coffee filter and into another bukkit. Dont force anythin threw the coffee filter, you can rince water threw it but thats it, you dont wanna force anything threw the filter that wont wash threw with water. Then ya let the bukkit settel for a while. Let it settel for bout an hour. Then you can start to syphon off the water. Syphon off the top and stay away from the trychs on the bottom of the bukkit. Syphon down alot, like till you can fit the water and trichs into a glass lasagnia pan. When you got it down to there, spill the bukkit into the shallo glass pan. Swirl the water around in the bukkit to make shure you get all the trichs to wash into the lasagnia pan. Then let the pan settel for an hour or so and syphon it down, being carefull not to disturb the trichs, that you can now clearly see at the bottom on the glass pan. If you like you can take a credit card and scrape a clean spot on the bottom of the pan and syphon over that so you dont end up syphoning down any trichs. Get this down as low as you can and evaporate the rest of the water off. You can put it in front of a fan or something, be creative but try to stay away from excesive heat. When you got it dry enough you can scrape the trichs up with a razor blade and squish it in your hands. It will press rite in your hands, into a nice chunk of hash. Very stikky. All you got there is trichs. Its the last step that makes it so fine. Its that last run threw the coffee filter that makes shure your not gettin veg mater, only trichs. Thats bout the best hash without bubble bags makin tek there is. Sometimes I use diferant teks. Sometimes I even shake the veg mat up in a milk jug and strain it. But the bottom line is, get it real dry, get it real icy cold, snap the trichs off, strain them out of the veg mat, dryem out and squishem into a chunk.