Microscope bubble hash pictures!

Though I would share a few pictures I've taken over the last year of the bubble hash I've been making. Looks like Matt Rize has the "how to" aspect covered pretty well on this site, so no need to post redundant information. These shots are all from some of my tutorials posted up on other cannabis sites.

First up are pics of freshly harvested bubble hash before it has dried:

Next are a few shots of bubble hash that has begun to dry about 24 hours after it was made. Picture #5 is of the 25 ru grade, notice how much more contaminants are in it. Smaller is not better!

As the hash dries it tends to oxidize and from a bit of a crust on the outside. Here is what the 45, 73, and 90 ru hash looks like up close after it starts to cure a bit:

This is what is looks like after it has been dried and cured. There is also a shot of the hash bubbling as it melts and of it burning:

Here are some "before" and "after" pictures of some of the material that I've been using. The "after" shots were taken after a 8 minute hand-stir with a paddle. So long as your water is cold, your shake is frozen, and you have proper mixing technique, a 5-10 minute mix is all that is needed - anything beyond that is wasting time. As you can see virtually all the trichrome heads have been removed.

These are some shots of some the batches I made over the last few weeks. These are all of dried and cured hash:

Finally we've got a few pictures of the "C" grade being smoked:

nice pics thx for sharing

Eff yeah!!! I need a microscope/camera! Sick thread bro. Plus reps all day.

Great picture of the 25 micron fraction, I don't even keep it because it is impossible to rinse clean. Bigger is better? haha.

Yeah the 25 is always "food grade", almost never worth keeping around to actually smoke. PLus it can be a real bitch to clean the screen as you pointed out. The 120 usually looks very similar under the scope to - tons of crap, not many trichromes. My best quality is usually off the 73 or the 90. A few shots of last night's runs right after they came off the screens. These were made from Blueberry x C99 and Bluberry Pie, 73 and 90 grades:

Same batches, at 12 hours of drying time. The heads have started to congeal a bit on their own, and there is some color change happening:

Here we are at 24 hours. The change in color is happening more rapidly, and it is getting harder to make out the individual gland heads:

Some finished "flash frozen" bubble hash made from Blueberry Pie. Probably one of the better batches I've made this season:

Those pics made my day man, very nice.

A comparison between bubble hash made with fresh frozen wet material and with dried and cured material. First four shots are of the hash from the wet material, next 4 are of the dry material, both at 12 hours of dry time. Both batches were made from the same plant of Guava Kush, and all shots were of the 90 micron grade:

Here we are at 24 hours. First four shots are of the hash made from wet material again, shots #5-8 are of the dry material, same batch as the pictures in the previous post. Check out how some of the flash frozen looks like liquid chrome in pics #3 and #4 - I have not had a batch that looks quite this weird before.

yeah man, 3/4 look like weird alien landscapes. the triches melted?

I think what is going on is that the trich's on the surface of the hash have ruptured due to being pressed, and have released oils or what ever is contained in the trich glands. Those two shots were of the surface of about a golf-ball sized sphere of it - on the interior the trich heads are relatively in tact still. I've noticed tirch's rupture really easily, you can see a pretty big difference under the scope between pressed and unpressed hash, even if it has only been lightly hand pressed. The surface trich's lose their definition, turn a different color, and bind together almost instantly when pressure is applied.

The Guava Kush bubble had a pretty unusually color to it in general though, even when it was fresh it looked weird. I've gotten blond and light colored batches in the past, but never one that was so bright yellow:

well was it any good ? what was the smoke like?