best screen for highest quality dry sieve
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Well boof thats a loaded question< idealy in order to find your favorite size gland head, you would start with a multitude of screens. Also there are different ways of measuring the screen sizes , say in micron or in LPI< ie lines per inch.
Silk is often measured in LPI's, where as nitex and polyethelene is often measured in Micron, especialy if your buying out of europe.
So for my two cents, i would suggest a larger work screen say around 150u, to 160u. I would then from there go down to a 70u, and then finaly into a 30. A simple method of cleaning what you dry sift thru the first screen, is to run it thru the second screen, and then finaly the third screen. However on the third screen, you will be collecting the heads that sit on TOP of the screen, not UNDERNEATH it.
I have a three screen thread you can view on my website in regards to running kief feel free to pm me for that link.
Peace
Bubble man
Silk is often measured in LPI's, where as nitex and polyethelene is often measured in Micron, especialy if your buying out of europe.
So for my two cents, i would suggest a larger work screen say around 150u, to 160u. I would then from there go down to a 70u, and then finaly into a 30. A simple method of cleaning what you dry sift thru the first screen, is to run it thru the second screen, and then finaly the third screen. However on the third screen, you will be collecting the heads that sit on TOP of the screen, not UNDERNEATH it.
I have a three screen thread you can view on my website in regards to running kief feel free to pm me for that link.
Peace
Bubble man
C
Chamba
there's been some good advice so far!
the right mesh size(s) are only part of the equation when it comes to making your own high quality hash.
quality starting material from selected high potency buds that have been expertly grown, carefully handled, cured and dried for months then stored under ideal conditions...along with a gentle dry sifting technique are equally important factors
depending on the strain I'd suggest a 140 ~ 160 micron mesh....then sift that rough kif through a 115 ~ 125 micron mesh....this will produce a very good quality dry sift that would be equivilent to the very best commercial hash, though 50% ~ 80% of it is made up of contaminants like broken plant leaves, resin head stalks and other non-psychoactive debris.
for an even better, cleaner, melty hash with a brain zapping buzz you could card that 125 micron dry sift over a 45 ~ 70 micron mesh ...which will help separate the contaminants (the stuff that doesn't get you high) from the resin heads (the stuff that gets you high)
I'd suggest you spend some time reading through previous threads in this hash forum for more info
Happy Hashing!
the right mesh size(s) are only part of the equation when it comes to making your own high quality hash.
quality starting material from selected high potency buds that have been expertly grown, carefully handled, cured and dried for months then stored under ideal conditions...along with a gentle dry sifting technique are equally important factors
depending on the strain I'd suggest a 140 ~ 160 micron mesh....then sift that rough kif through a 115 ~ 125 micron mesh....this will produce a very good quality dry sift that would be equivilent to the very best commercial hash, though 50% ~ 80% of it is made up of contaminants like broken plant leaves, resin head stalks and other non-psychoactive debris.
for an even better, cleaner, melty hash with a brain zapping buzz you could card that 125 micron dry sift over a 45 ~ 70 micron mesh ...which will help separate the contaminants (the stuff that doesn't get you high) from the resin heads (the stuff that gets you high)
I'd suggest you spend some time reading through previous threads in this hash forum for more info
Happy Hashing!
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ilife are you carding kief over those screens and collecting what you keep off the top and discarding what falls through? It's my understanding resin heads range in size from 120 micron to 155 micron and on that premise it seems like what you want to keep stays on top and the stalks fall through the screen. Is that correct?
whew LOL, thought i was missing something. Thanks
yes boof, once you get the resin glands seperated into the size's that you want, you can then run them over a much tighter meshed screen> GEntly rubbing the resin back and forth over the screen with a card, allows for the natural plant contaminant ie cystolith hairs, capitate stalks etc, to break thru the tiny mesh, while the heads will sit gently on top. So in this sense, you have already extracted the heads you want, but they are contaminated so to clean them, you do this. Some even use a vaccum under the screen to help pull the contaminants thru> I find a gentle rub with the card to work quite well>
Have also recently begun to work with static electricity again> A very interesting phenomena occurs when you charge screens like the ones ilife posted.
More on that soon
bubble man
Have also recently begun to work with static electricity again> A very interesting phenomena occurs when you charge screens like the ones ilife posted.
More on that soon
bubble man
C
Chamba
resin heads range in size from 120 micron to 155 micron
that must be a typo (did you mean 20 ~ 155 microns?....if so, that's generally correct.....as plants are always producing trichomes so even a fully mature plant will still have some smaller immature trichomes (along with a majority of trichomes at their peak and some past their best)
but since we are talking about dry sifting and take for granted that the plants harvested expertly......then depending on the strain I guesstimate that a majority of mature resin heads on dried and cured buds are in the 70 ~ 105 micron range.......
resin heads/trichomes are larger and fuller looking on living or undried plants,
and these trichomes dry slower than the plant material they are on,
& become they smaller and shrunken looking as the plants are dried and cured, just like a grape does
soon we will see the average trichome size along with flowering duration on seed packets
that must be a typo (did you mean 20 ~ 155 microns?....if so, that's generally correct.....as plants are always producing trichomes so even a fully mature plant will still have some smaller immature trichomes (along with a majority of trichomes at their peak and some past their best)
but since we are talking about dry sifting and take for granted that the plants harvested expertly......then depending on the strain I guesstimate that a majority of mature resin heads on dried and cured buds are in the 70 ~ 105 micron range.......
resin heads/trichomes are larger and fuller looking on living or undried plants,
and these trichomes dry slower than the plant material they are on,
& become they smaller and shrunken looking as the plants are dried and cured, just like a grape does
soon we will see the average trichome size along with flowering duration on seed packets
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I should have been more clear. After we wait and wait to harvest a plant at the optimal time the "majority" of resin heads are mature which range in size of 120-150 micron. Indicas usually have larger heads and Sativa smaller heads. Yes resin heads go all the way down to 20 microns but the smaller heads are immature and in less numbers
