ICE WAX (bubble hash) with Matt Rize

Dropastone said:

Very nice tutorial bro. I got about a lb of sugar leaf and little popcorn buds all mixed together and I'm about to try to make some very soon.

Peace.

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aeviaanah said:

Where are the tips?!

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Matt Rize said:

BUBBLE HASH MAKING TIPS:

First: It is all about the quality of the trichomes. Properly grown Cannabis flowers yield quality hash.

Second: Do not use infected/damaged materials to make hash (IMO).

Third: Is the debate on using fresh (still wet) trim versus using dried (and cured) trim. We'll get to that later. For now, use dried/cured trim, and let it soak for a good twenty minutes before beginning agitation.

Fourth: Is a slew of tricks I've learned for using the BubbleNowXL, more later: insulating the unit+

Fifth: Is the debate on which bags to use. It depends on strain and trichome size, but for now I'll say use the 45 micron as a catcher, the 120 (160 depending) as your second (cooking), and a 190 as your third to catch the garbage.

Sixth: get a quality pump sprayer that you will only use for water. Fill it full of ice water and use it to collect your trichomes.

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Matt Rize said:

I had to leave out part one, where I introduce myself and the tools, but you can figure it out.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/user/mattrize1?feature=mhum[/video]

Let me know if you have any questions. The second video: "Drying and Curing" is being made this week.

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Matt Rize said:

Thanks for following along. This part is going to be pictures instead of video.

To allow my wet hash to dry:
1) I lay it out as-is overnight, sometimes 24 hours if it is cold out.
2) I grate it to a sand texture with my micro-plane, used ONLY for this purpose. Consider this a disposable tool that needs to be replaced if you are a big hash maker. They can't be sharpened like knives/scissors.
3) I lay this wet sandy bubble hash out on a baking sheet used ONLY for this purpose. I use a non-stick, so no metal for the next step.
4) I let it slowly dry, covered with a silk screen, and occasionally 'cut' it up with a card to let it dry from all sides.
5) As soon as it is dry it goes into my hash curing jar.

So the report is:
31.0 g of 45-120 for smoking.
3.5 g of 120-190 for infusion and then capsules.
This batch was from some outdoor so there were lots of little flowers. I forgot to weigh the start material but it was around a pound, maybe a little less. Two strains, Purple Kush and a local cross that I was testing. The cross is (Sour Diesel x Lavender) x local Kush. Smoke report pending

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Matt Rize said:

Yo I saw that blunt on another thread, DAMN THAT LOOKS TASTY!

Thanks mang, your bubble looks good too. That BK especially looks really oily. The color really brighten up when you break it up all small like I do sometimes, its really makes a huge difference. The light gets to shine through the bubble and it glows. Sometimes I think it smokes better when you leave it as a paddy though... hard to say. I should make and smoke more hash

I think the tests run for $150 but honestly I bartered with bubble and flowers of about that same value, for two tests. I got hooked up because they know me...

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aeviaanah said:

thanks man! when do you actually break it up, after collecting from the bag? while it is wet or after it dries? which hash of mine, judging by looks (obviously) is the best?

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Matt Rize said:

Crucial question. If you wait too long the paddy is hard to break up. It has to be still wet, but dry enough to crumble. I like to wait 12 to 24 hours depending on the temp. Right now I have one of those temperature controlled seedling mats under the drying bubble, on low.

Your most tasty looking paddy IMO is the 90-45 BK, super shiny means low contamination, and that the trichomes are rich with oil soluble terpenes (good smell). How do they melt?

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aeviaanah said:

Yes that bk was definitely the best...most of them will bubble some of the lower grade once do not. The bk hash smelled just like the BK. Something i am learning- good hash smells like the plant it came from. I am digging that hash bowl you have...that is clever, i need to go get one...like right now. Next time i will try breaking it up- i end up doing this before smoking anyway.

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Matt Rize said:

Yeah, top grade hash does smell really good, and usually exactly like the flowers. I think diesel hash is one of the best examples of this, and that some strains come across more in the hash than others. Some top indica hashes are more perfumy or like amazing incense, than like the buds they came from (IMHO ). I think it has to do with the oil soluble terpenes and other non-polar flavanoids (the essential oils if that makes sense). Bubbleman suggests the best way to make great smelling and full melt is: a wet trim, followed by a quick freeze of that trim, and then this wet/frozen trim is used to make bubble.

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Unnk said:

question for you guys on BHO you think fresh frozen trim would be better for BHO or just fresh trim

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Unnk said:

lol not doing it inside i have a outdoor picnic area i use lol thats like in the 1930's with woman who washed there clothes in gasoline inside.... lol but yah did not know it was a felony charge shit great stuff though but thanks for the minor insight that you could give ill just take have my trim and freeze it and the other have bho it right away and see what happens

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Unnk said:

lol i hope so hop over and check into my thread https://www.rollitup.org/subcools-old-school-organics/355108-my-first-super-soil-run-18.html put you at page 18 at the bottom is the most recent update

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Unnk said:

lol ive only run JTR and this is my first but the jtr4 is a resin effing bomb and it stinks like a family of skunks ate a bunch of pine cones for a week and then got squished in a lemon head candy maker

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