Extraction MaraCachafa hash journey

[Mara Cachafa]

I'm going to try and post my attempts to make hash here. I've pursued it because it's easier on my lungs than flower or dabs. I've been learning from videos and articles by Frenchy Cannoli and others. To keep expenses down while I figure out if I can do this, I started small:

• (2) 5-gallon buckets, one with the bottom cut out, $6 each for food-grade
• (2) 5-gallon filter bags, 45 micon and 190 micron, $10 each

I already had these:

• 2-gallon bucket and large mixing bowl
• Hose with spray nozzle
• plastic trash can to hold ice water (<40°F water is optimal)
• wash-down pump (to spray ice water)
• deep freeze (for making ice, freezing fresh bud, freezing fresh hash)

I don't have water filtration yet, but my tap water is excellent (130 ppm)

 

[Trichome farmer]

I'm going to try and post my attempts to make hash here. I've pursued it because it's easier on my lungs than flower or dabs. I've been learning from videos and articles by Frenchy Cannoli and others. To keep expenses down while I figure out if I can do this, I started small:

• (2) 5-gallon buckets, one with the bottom cut out, $6 each for food-grade
• (2) 5-gallon filter bags, 45 micon and 190 micron, $10 each

I already had these:

• 2-gallon bucket and large mixing bowl
• Hose with spray nozzle
• plastic trash can to hold ice water (<40°F water is optimal)
• wash-down pump (to spray ice water)
• deep freeze (for making ice, freezing fresh bud, freezing fresh hash)

I don't have water filtration yet, but my tap water is excellent (130 ppm)

im quite partical to a bit of hash probably cause thats what we started smoking in my younger years
bubble hash is great i used to make it alot but moved onto dry sifting i find it easier less messy and not having to dry out the hash is a positve for me
with the paint roller and and parchment paper method anyone can make a very high qulity dry sift then press under a hot water bottle like frenchy shows in his videos
i look forward to watching your hash adventures

 

[Mara Cachafa]

I finished harvesting the big outdoor LemonZ photo by Dutch Passion a couple of months ago. I finally picked off the remaining larf a couple of days ago, about a 1/2 a bucket full:

I covered it with a couple of inches of ice, and filled the bucket 2/3 full with ice water. I made my own ice by freezing gallon jugs at -10°F, and chopped them up with an ice pick. I let the material soak for 15 minutes to soften up so the dry material didn't crumble to dust. Then I agitated the water, ice & larf with a drill-powered paint stirrer for 10 minutes or so. Then I poured it into the bottomless bucket lined with 2 bags, 45 micron and 190 micron. The green material stayed in the 190 micron bag, and the trichomes went through and stayed in the 45 micron bag:

I washed it 3 more times, in just the 190-micron bag in a 5-gallon bucket, adding crushed ice as needed, then took the bag of green stuff out and poured the brown liquid through the 45-micron bag, draining the water to waste. The 4th wash gave reduced return, so after that I put the green stuff in the compost bin, and put the wet hash to dry on parchment paper in the houses at 30% RH. Here are the results of the 4 washes:

I started with the worst material, old trim, to get the hang of it. Now this run with larf. Next run will be fresh-frozen LemonZ quality bud.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

im quite partical to a bit of hash probably cause thats what we started smoking in my younger years
bubble hash is great i used to make it alot but moved onto dry sifting i find it easier less messy and not having to dry out the hash is a positve for me
with the paint roller and and parchment paper method anyone can make a very high qulity dry sift then press under a hot water bottle like frenchy shows in his videos
i look forward to watching your hash adventures

My trim-bin collects dry sift, and I recently pressed some into hash. Dynamite! I saw a commercial dry sift machine online somewhere, cooled with CO2 or nitrogen. Amazing! I was watching a video of how they do dry sift commercially in Morocco. Looks good.