HPC Pure Wax

Anyone heard of this before? picked up some stuff from my local dispensary called Shishkaberry HPC Pure Wax that is extracted with a special technique that makes it look very impressive. It is 70 dollars a gram which is pretty insane, i get amber glass for 50, but i had to buy a half gram after the guy told me about the process. This is the first time ive ever seen this stuff before and i was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.

When you hold it up into the sun, it looks like little diamonds are shining inside of the wax, its pretty crazy

only like 56.2% though, but it gets me loaded, i smoke alot of wax too, through my titanium nail, and ive smoked higher thc wax before and this stuff is definately up there it gives me a crazy buzz.

you should post a picture so we can see what your talking about... hpc..... maybe high pressure critical extraction...co2??? thats my guess..

showtimex420 said:

only like 56.2% though, but it gets me loaded, i smoke alot of wax too, through my titanium nail, and ive smoked higher thc wax before and this stuff is definately up there it gives me a crazy buzz.

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Seeing the word "Pure" followed by 56%, makes me very suspicious..... If it's some type of hash, then okay, but if it's a solvent extraction of some type, then 56% is way too low. Got a picture of this stuff?

EDIT: Just found this: https://www.stickyguide.com/dispensaries/harborside-health-center-oakland/products/shiskaberry-hpc-pure-wax
Is that it?

One other thought..... $70 is too much for something that's only 56%.

thats the stuff, its pretty insane, illl work on getting a pic from my phone up here today but the % is misleading, like i said ive smoked a few different concentrates that are high 70s to 80s % wise and this wax gives me a different buzz, im pretty sure the extraction process is highly advanced and from what i heard at the club 0 plant matter gets into the actual wax, its pretty crazy to actually see trichomes in your wax lol, i was just wondering if anyone had experience with this sort of extraction

showtimex420 said:

thats the stuff, its pretty insane, illl work on getting a pic from my phone up here today but the % is misleading, like i said ive smoked a few different concentrates that are high 70s to 80s % wise and this wax gives me a different buzz, im pretty sure the extraction process is highly advanced and from what i heard at the club 0 plant matter gets into the actual wax, its pretty crazy to actually see trichomes in your wax lol, i was just wondering if anyone had experience with this sort of extraction

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I'd be very dubious if the wax is only 56% and they are claiming 0% plant matter. In fact, that's down right scary.... If the wax is only 56% THC then it's 44% something else, and if that 44% isn't plant material, what is it that you are putting into your lungs?

DreamTime said:

Seeing the word "Pure" followed by 56%, makes me very suspicious..... If it's some type of hash, then okay, but if it's a solvent extraction of some type, then 56% is way too low. Got a picture of this stuff?

EDIT: Just found this: https://www.stickyguide.com/dispensaries/harborside-health-center-oakland/products/shiskaberry-hpc-pure-wax
Is that it?

One other thought..... $70 is too much for something that's only 56%.

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I'm sure it is pure. Pure shitty outdoor trimmings blasted into oil. And yes, $70 is way too much. Should be 30-35 max IMO.

Also, I may not be the world's best concentrate maker, but I do know that if it's green, you're doin it rong.

DreamTime said:

I'd be very dubious if the wax is only 56% and they are claiming 0% plant matter. In fact, that's down right scary.... If the wax is only 56% THC then it's 44% something else, and if that 44% isn't plant material, what is it that you are putting into your lungs?

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Yeah, the no plant matter part is clearly bullshit.

I bought some Sour Kush HPC wax from Harborside. I picked it from all of the hash because of how it looked. I went online to find out more about the process when I found this thread. The only thing I remember is that it does not use any solvent. I liked it, but I also bought some other full melt @ $30/35 that was just as strong. I will upload a photo of what I have left soon.

WHAT DOES HPC stand for? high pressure c....?

Yeah, I saw that shit a long time ago. It looks perfect, until I see it's 56% THC and it's 70$! I'll go to the other dispensary I always go to and get 2 grams of wax for 70$ and they will be 70% THC and up!
EDIT: People like you that buy it, encourage harborside to make that stuff and overprice it. Both are at fault. They overprice, you still buy. While I go to other dispensaries with crazy 40$ wax or get wax 20$ a gram when my friend's have some. lol.

When I picked it up, it was amber. It has been warm where I live (I don't know if that has anything to do with it), but it is a lot darker now. Just smoked half of the piece, still very smooth and stoney!

2Kushed said:

When I picked it up, it was amber. It has been warm where I live (I don't know if that has anything to do with it), but it is a lot darker now. Just smoked half of the piece, still very smooth and stoney!

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That looks decent. How was the taste?

Matt Rize said:

WHAT DOES HPC stand for? high pressure c....?

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High Priced Crap

Dan Kone said:

That looks decent. How was the taste?

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I have only smoked it on top of a bowl (using skywalker og, cookie monster, and tahoe og). I don't really know how it tastes. It is smooth I am going to hot knife the rest of it soon, and I will let you know.

biglungs said:

High Priced Crap

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It is high priced, but it is not crap. Harborside probably had 25-30 hashes. I picked it because it looked the best, not because of the price. I won't buy anymore, because they had some FM for $35 that was just as good.

biglungs said:

High Priced Crap

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lol funny


seriously though i have a titanium nail and you cant smoke anything that doesnt melt correctly on it, so usually its AT LEAST 35 a gram and thats for some ok stuff that tastes like bam or dirt.....

i smoke that shit every day bro... u get a tolerance pretty fast and eventually the full melt shit dont work anymore, so yea, the cleaner ones cost usually like 45-50 and they taste better and are usually stronger. i actually JUST got back from harborside AGAIN lol and happened to stumble on this post cuz i searched HPC again, anyways, got some today, they dropped the price to 60 a G and and they threw it in a glass container, so you know, ya boy had to cop that shit. anyways, this fuckin shit is crazy, i have a picture on my iphone that has the crystals and as soon as that mother fucker sends the email imma post that shit. i just took 1 hit and im fuckin lit. this post probably makes no sense. but anyways, for real tho, its some chronic dude said 58% again, but im starting to think the % really isnt indicative of quality, ive got some 14% bud that got me way higher than some 21% outdoor crap from sparc sf, worlds leader in fucking out do (FUCK THAT SHIT ) anyways it doesnt have EVERYTHING to do with thc im sure there is more shit to it.

Heres the pics
Iphone so quality isnt perfect but u can still see them crystals shining



HPC Wax Next to the amber glass haha shoutout @karmadelivers best delivery service in the bay




As for taste, there is no other wax that compares to the smoothness of this wax when you rip it, it tastes really clean and it definately sneeks up on you, usually i cant hold wax or glass in for more than 10 seconds off the nail because it rips so hard, but this goes down so smooth you think you arent going to choke, and as soon as you exhale it hits your chest like a ton of bricks. fucks you up

2Kushed said:

When I picked it up, it was amber. It has been warm where I live (I don't know if that has anything to do with it), but it is a lot darker now. Just smoked half of the piece, still very smooth and stoney!

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From the photos, it looks to me to be a Critical Mass Extraction using a B.H.O method, which is fine as long as it was washed in cold water, then heated to not only remove any extra butane, but to make it orally active as well. I found in California that the B.H.O extraction is less effective, ie. "less potency" than the, "D-THC Gold." The extraction process of the Gold is also critical mass, but you would use CO2, in a pressurized extraction chamber, then the CO2 is allowed to evaporate through a Dyson trap collecting the oil at the bottom of the flask. I can explain more on how this is done if enough people would like to know. ~XD

CO2 Extraction

There are two basic types of CO2 extraction. Low pressure cold extraction involves chilling CO2 to between 35-55 degrees F and pumping it through the plant material at between 800-1,500 psi. Supercritical Fluid extraction involves heating the CO2 to above 87F and pumping it above 1,100 psi. Usually this work is done between 6,000-10,000 psi. Supercritical Fluid CO2 can best be described as a dense fog whereas the first method described uses the CO2 in a dense liquid state.

Low pressure CO2 is often the best method for producing high quality botanical extracts. CO2 has a high loading rate in this state meaning that you will have to pump many volumes of CO2 through a given volume of botanical. The loading rate is typically 10-40 volumes. For this reason, it is important to have a high flow pump and a CO2 recycle system unless wasting high volumes of CO2 is not a concern.

Supercritical CO2 has a much faster loading rate 2-10 volumes and a wide range of uses. The downside is that some extracts can be damaged by either the high pressure breaking molecular ring structures or the fact that moisture in the botanicals can react with the CO2 and form carbonic acid which can turn some oils rancid. Following proper procedures can avoid these problems.

TIP: if you heat and melt your wax from the pin to the bowl/joint, that should heat it up enough to evaporate most of the by product, but will leave a petroleum type taste in your mouth. So if this is all you can get I would, minimum dip it in a cup of COLD water for 30 sec, then melt it onto whatever for consumption.

That shit is such a rip off and they know it so they lowered it to 60$ a gram. Still a rip off but better then 70$ a gram, and I still wouldn't even get it if it was 40$ a gram. I got a gram of some Sweet Jack wax earlier for 45$ at a different dispensary and it was 71% THC and 4.1% CBD. And some White Widow wax that was 76.5% THC and 6.3% CBD for 35$ a gram. Sweet Jack is the brown wax, and White Widow is the gold wax. And my dabbing bong, I got the titanium nail and dabber a few weeks ago and I love it! But i'm getting a new dabbing piece soon. lol.

It's been mislabeled "HPC" in the past. It's actually HBC (hyperbolic chamber).