iso hash from 4 oz's of stems??

Decided to try your question.

We took one plants worth of stems. Did not weigh it but likely around an ounce or two of weight.

Did ISO soak for 3min with about 1L of 99%; then let the ISO air dry for a few days.

After it was mostly gone added 192 proof and let it sit in the freezer for almost a week. (Was real busy)

Let it vac for 24/hr and this is what was left.



It's got a good strong undertone body high but taste like you are burning sticks off a tree. Maybe the soak was too long or the winterization.. not sure.

20second wash will suffice....I wouldn't do more than a minute ever

qwizoking said:

20second wash will suffice....

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I know I just figured with them being big stems that a a longer soak would collect more oils, I figured it to come out hashy and heavy.

I've done flowers for 3 min too and never got black stuff. Must of been almost no trichs on them at all.

BluJayz said:

I know I just figured with them being big stems that a a longer soak would collect more oils, I figured it to come out hashy and heavy.

I've done flowers for 3 min too and never got black stuff. Must of been almost no trichs on them at all.

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Ditto on shortening the soak time to around 20/30 seconds.

Stem and fan leaf trichomes tend to be more mature than the bud trichomes and their oil is never as tasty as bud, besides being highly sedative. It tightens up the muscles at the base of my skull in the back, more or less like a charley horse between the ears.

We extract it mostly for topicals.

That's interesting that you said that Fade.

Afterwards I was working on another project and that area of my neck got tight and warm and I felt uncomfortable. It's a typical swelling spot for my migraine but that's good to know.

Thanks for the info, I will try it again and do much shorter.

BluJayz said:

That's interesting that you said that Fade.

Afterwards I was working on another project and that area of my neck got tight and warm and I felt uncomfortable. It's a typical swelling spot for my migraine but that's good to know.

Thanks for the info, I will try it again and do much shorter.

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Same spot that tightened with my migraines too bro. I finally stopped getting migraines after I retired, so it seemed to have something to do with my former work environment. Either allergy, diet, or stress...............

A little trick I learned to get rid of one, was to pack my head in ice, starting with a bag at the base of my skull, one on each temple, and one over my eyes. Within an hour, it always toned the pounding down, and made the nausea go away, so that I could at least keep analgesics down with iced seltzer water.

I picked up a freezable gel wrap at my physical therapist's, that works slick for the one in back and on both sides, leaving only one other bag necessary form my eyes.

Your always spot on its funny Fadee: I do the same thing. lol

I've had MRI and testing and they have labeled me with "hemiacrania Continua" basically means my head hurts all the time and they don't know why. (wtf) They think it's my brain swelling and at the base of my skull there is little room for the spinal cord and the brain is pushing out the little hole causing a boatload of other pains. It increased 10 fold in the last two years when I took over as manager.

Unfortunately I do have two pharmaceuticals in my arsenal for migraines. Alprazolam and Zofran for helping me fall asleep when I have the headache and to keep the nausea at bay. Otherwise I only take Gliacin which is a cactus extract from India (Boswella Serilla) that acts like Indomethicin (super ibuprofen) but does not hurt my kidneys so I can take thousands of MG a day. But when an attack comes as you said I pack myself with enough ice to make an igloo; take a couple things and wait to pass out and hopefully its much less when I awake.

On a side note that stem hash worked nicely in some capsules for a good friend of mine. So no waste there! =)