New Grower bubble hash bags

[steelydan]

I left a half cup of the brown liquid overnight ans it has cleared a little and after some carefull draining i was left with a match head size of hash! So if i take the remaining liquid out of the freezer (about a couple of pints) and do the same then that should do it. I tried last night to pour it through the 73 micron bag but it left nothing?
cheers
norman
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[Captain Howdy]

Howdy dude,

Right let's go back a few steps. So you mixed the water, ice and trim in a bucket..... How long for?? And how aggressively did you stir??

How visually crystally was your trim before use? From an ounce of heavily frosty trim I expect 3 grams of hash in return (just to give you an idea). How much trim did you start with??

If you leave a glass of the liquid on the worktop (is it free from leaf material), once it reaches room temperature can you see the trichs falling and collecting on the bottom of the glass??

Hit me up when your online bro and I'll try and help

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[steelydan]

Cheers mate, the trim had been in the freezer for a few months. I know it is good as when in need i have taken it out sorted it carefully and had a couple of nice joints. I left half a cup, maybe less of the brown liquid last night and tilted the cup, this morning the liquid was clearer and with a carefull pour left some residue in the bottom so there must be loads of trichs in the frozen stuff in the fridge.

I started yesterday with trim, ice & water I stirred for around a half hour and then poured the lot into the 73 micron bag
I will watch another video and try again tomorrow when my ice is ready.
If i take one tub of the frozen brown stuff in the freezer and let it de frost maybe i can do the same as i did with the cup?
cheers
norman

 

[Captain Howdy]

Okay cool, it still sounds like your trichs are suspended in the water so that's solvable.

Watch these two video's back to back, and then get back to me. I don't use bubble bags myself so once I've strained all the leaf material from the mixture I then leave the water to settle for about 4 hours, in which time the trichs will have settled to the bottom of the glass. From here you can then siphon the liquid down to its lowest point without disturbing the trichs, pour onto a plate, allow to dry and voila. It sounds like your 3/4's of the way to doing it with this method.
As I say though watch both of these and you'll soon see whether the bags or siphoning way help you finish this run. Get back to me once you've watched them

BubbleBags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ht2qdN94Jk

Ghetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0X-C2C_3g

Don't worry though, the hash is there, you've just gotta separate it now


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[Son of Hobbes]

Cheers mate, the trim had been in the freezer for a few months. I know it is good as when in need i have taken it out sorted it carefully and had a couple of nice joints. I left half a cup, maybe less of the brown liquid last night and tilted the cup, this morning the liquid was clearer and with a carefull pour left some residue in the bottom so there must be loads of trichs in the frozen stuff in the fridge.

I started yesterday with trim, ice & water I stirred for around a half hour and then poured the lot into the 73 micron bag
I will watch another video and try again tomorrow when my ice is ready.
If i take one tub of the frozen brown stuff in the freezer and let it de frost maybe i can do the same as i did with the cup?
cheers
norman

Is the 73 micron bag your largest micron bag? You stick the smallest micron bag in your bucket first, then you put in the next largest, next largest, and so on. Just want to clarify you're putting your mixture in the LARGEST micron bag first; this is letting all the big stuff stay behind (like leaf material and stems and whatnot), and the smaller stuff pass through (the trichs.) You put the bags in smallest to biggest, but then you pour your mixture in biggest to smallest. That make sense?

The reason I ask is, I'm looking at a set of 4 filter bags (probably not the brand you have, but just a point of reference.) Let me give you an example:
Purple - 25 Microns
Yellow - 73 Microns
Red - 160 Microns
Blue - 220 Microns

In this setup; I would stick the purple bag in my empty bucket first; then the yellow, red, then blue. THEN, pour your mix in the big blue (220 micron) filter. Take away the crap; you're left with 3 bags and hopefully some dark colored water. If you accidentally reversed this; you're not going to be pulling much of anything out of anything because you're trying to push larger micron material through a small micron filter (the square peg doesn't fit in the round hole, know what I mean?)

Also, when you were agitating your mixture; did you notice it bubbling it? I had HUGE frothy bubbles in my mix; especially once you start filtering.

We'll get you there bro!

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Okay cool, it still sounds like your trichs are suspended in the water so that's solvable.

That was my thought as well; sounds like it's getting suspended in the water for some reason. That's why I think more aggressive agitation is necessary. Not sure if the composition of his water would somehow effect the suspension of trichs? That'd have to be pretty wonky water I would think...

Thinking caps on!

 

[Captain Howdy]

Right, SoH nailed that, totally forgot about the bag setup.

My advice now would be take everything out of the freezer and half defrost. Set up all the bubble bags as mentioned above in one bucket. Mix all the liquid and leaf material in another for say 5-10 minutes just help break up the remaining ice. Pour it through your filters and try again.

SoH is the best man to talk to though as he's actually used B.Bags.


Side note, don't throw away the used material after finishing your hash runs. You can use this for canna-butter afterwards and still get high in CBD product, great for night-time munchies.

Keep us posted dude, you'll have some hash in a few hours

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[Captain Howdy]

That was my thought as well; sounds like it's getting suspended in the water for some reason. That's why I think more aggressive agitation is necessary. Not sure if the composition of his water would somehow effect the suspension of trichs? That'd have to be pretty wonky water I would think...

Thinking caps on!

It sounds like what has happened it the larger bag has acted like a strainer to purely separate the leaf material from the liquid, which should mean 90% of the thrichs are still floating in the water, which would have been caught by the finer mesh. Basically, the way I do it.

Setting up the bags correctly and then washing it through again should solve this..... hopefully

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[steelydan]

Thanks, i have taken out the big lump of ice and trim from the freezer and i am now mixing again, so will try again. As for the two containers of brown mix, i am gonna let them thaw and syphon out the the top so hopefully i will het something. Thanks for all the help:Sharing One:
norman

 

[steelydan]

aghhh i got the bags wrong! started with the 25 micron! I have 4 bags 25 73 160 220 SO i start with the 220 right?
norman