Bubble Hash - Alpha Tech

AlphaPhase

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I figured I'd start a thread for this since it actually worked. While smoking some strong herb last night and laying in bed, I had a dumb idea pop into my head.. So I thought. Some of you may still think this is stupid but I figured I'd share my results anyway since the idea worked and worked well. Now, I am not sure if there is any benefit of making hash with my method, but it is a method that will yield you some great hash with virtually zero work. No washing machine, no stirring, no agitation. As we know, agitation (too much) can cause plant matter to end up in your hash. If you don't have a washing machine, I'm sure sitting there stirring the bucket of ice water is not your favorite thing to do. Here's where my idea kicks into action.

I took some buds, I'm not sure how much as I didn't weight it and wasn't planning on this actually working, but since the idea kind of made sense, I went ahead and went with the flow. The buds were put into a bowl of cold water and submerged. I used a smaller bowl to hold the buds under water since buds float. I then put the water/bud mix into the freezer over night. This morning it was froze solid into a bud ice block.

I then let this thaw out over the course of several hours. Once it was completely thawed, I poured the mix through my bubble bags. Mind you, no mixing, no nothing, other than freezing the buds in water. I was amazed with the hash that I got from this method! I can not report on yields yet as I'm still working on this. The next batch I plan on freezing, thawing, freezing and thawing, multiple times.

My theory is this. The washing machines use agitation to remove the trichs. That is the only reason for using a machine or mixer to make bubble hash. I think that when the buds freeze into a solid block of ice, the trichs loosen. But I think the magic really happens during the thawing. I think when it thaws, the trichs are slowly pulled from the stalks.

Now my theory could be full of shit, I don't know. All I know is that this worked and it took me zero labor to make it. How does it stack up to the traditional methods? That's what I still need to find out. Is this method better than traditional methods? I'm not sure. All I know is that it was the simplest way I've made hash ever. And I like simple.
 

Fadedawg

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Thanks for sharing brother AP!

I'm off to dust off mah bubble bags and try this, cause within the short focal range of your lens, your closeup shots appear to show mostly heads, which would be a keen thang to the aficionados preferring our beloved sweet Mary shaved.
 

AlphaPhase

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No problem fadedawg! There is hardly any particles in the hash, some are here or there, but not many, and I think most of the particulates came from already being in my bags since they were sitting around for a couple months. I figure with no agitation, it should be pretty clean ice wax. The terps are totally preserved as well! It smells just as good as it tastes. I'm still trying to figure out how this works. I'm guessing I did not collect all of the trichs by freezing just once, so next time I will make sure to take notes and do a single freeze, then a double freeze.. Possibly a triple freeze if the yield keeps going up and the quality stays the same.
 

Gquebed

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Mmmm.....maybe works on the same principle as glaciers....when they melt/recede they drag shit along....so...ya....the ice probably plucks the trichs off the leaves as it melts or something...

Will be following this thread to see results of further experiments...see how the extraction rates compare...
 

AlphaPhase

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Thanks guys, after I finish up using the hash I got from the last batch, I'll do the double freeze and report back, should be before the weekend.

@Gquebed Glacier Hash, I like that!
 

Gquebed

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Thanks guys, after I finish up using the hash I got from the last batch, I'll do the double freeze and report back, should be before the weekend.

@Gquebed Glacier Hash, I like that!
Well...ill be waiting...bigger hits, yo...hahahah

I cant wait for my harvest in 10-14 days. I will have 1 to 1.5 lbs (wet) of fresh trim and popcorn nugs to play with and im going to try your method. So...pics too, yo...lol
 

AlphaPhase

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I'm doing a run today. Just started and did some minor easy changes. I bought a strainer to hold everything under water. Also, I stacked ice cubes on ttop of the bud to hold the bud submerged. The strainer goes on top of the ice to further submerge the bud. 20 grams of popcorn/trim. I figure that is a good starting point to get some sort of idea on yield, since most people use trim for bubble anyway. Sometime I'll do a bud run (if this works out well in yield). I'm going to double freeze it and skip the single freeze so I don'thave tto use another Oz soon :p

This seems like it will work better than the last run. I'll update soon.

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AlphaPhase

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Hey yall,

If someone can help me o7t with a question I have that would be awesome.

I'm on the 2nd freeze and going to thaw in a little bit. I'm getting my bags set up now. I got themall clean (the bbest I could) and will be using a 220 and 180 for a work bag. I would just use the 180 but I want to squeeze the juice out of the bud in the 220 work bag so I know some particles will come threw, that's what the 180 will catch.

My question is, I only want to use one catch bag, I could use mor, but my ttheory is most people don't like the 25u because it's usually not full melt because the smallest particle leaf matter gets caught there, right?

But if the wash is so clean that it's only trich heads, would using only the 25u (to catch all the heads at once) be oOK?

Are all Trichome full melt jo matter the micron size? Or are smallermicron size heads not fullnenext?

Basically is 25u known as cooking hash only because particles in it or would the 25u be full melt if it wasn't for particles?

Should I use the 45u for the catch?

Any opinions would be appreciated. Just trying to pick the best catch bag and I only used one last run, it was the 45u
 
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