My intro and bona fides...

[PakaloloFromPNW]

I like the look of that VGG. They are attractive at this phase even if the buds don't live up to the foliage's beauty

You're right brother, she is so pretty and I like looking at her. As she ages she doesn't hold up so well with the yellow leaves dying early and the buds being so small. I'll put up pictures of her as she grows.

yea hold on to that variegated one for when full legalization opens up the ornamental market and suburban homeowners are looking for nice cannabis plants to match the azaleas.

I can get another one from seeds that I breed (already have done that) or take a cutting off the Goblin Girl sister that has the variegation. One of the sisters that I'm growing has a branch that is variegated but I just don't have room. When full legalization happens and there is a demand for it I'll bring her back.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

Now that I've got the teenagers moved into the flower areas on July 1 I transplanted the tweeners from their 2 gallon pots into the 5 gallon pots and moved them to the teenage area. I'll be moving the ladies outdoors on August 1 and these teenagers will be moved into the flower area.

Teenagers

Front row left to right: Old Goblin, Blueberry, Purple Star and 3Elders
Back row left to right: Nocturnal, Goblin Girl, Goblin Queen and another Goblin Queen

 

[HatchBrew]

How the 3elders that you have. Mine turned out really funky cocoa chocolate

 

[j189rfc]

Wow this is 70 pages long and I'm only 3 pages in.... I'll have to read through another day. Did any one ever try to guess what those 40 y/o seed were?

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

How the 3elders that you have. Mine turned out really funky cocoa chocolate

The 3Elders I have is a keeper. I'm replacing the variegated Goblin Girl with her. I can only have 8 keepers so GG has to go. The only uniqueness with her is the quality.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

Today I made IWE hash from my trimmings. I started at 10:30 soaking the herb and by 2:00 I had recovered the hash. Let's start first with my ​equipment.

In the back left I have my 5 gallon bucket with my 'Grow Your Own' bubble bags. I use 25, 45, 73, 120 and 160 micro bags for this with the smallest number on the inside working out to the highest number and that's the green bag on top of the rest. Next to it is the herb I've collected over the trimming. The dark pad hanging down in the center is a seed heating pad that I use to dry the hash with. The circle shaped object is some copper tubing I made to put in the bottom of the bags when I scraping out the hash from the bottom of the bag. The white object inside the circular one is my scraper. The wooden spoon is for stir the ice and herb. The blue outlined square shaped objects are the 25 micro screens I use to press the water out of the hash.

I start it off by laying herb then ice then herb...

When I get all the ice and herb in there I fill it with water and let it set for awhile. This time it was about a hour.

Once I have stirred my arms sore I drain the liquid out of the green bag. I don't stir vigorously but after a half hour it does get tiring. This is what I end up with in the bucket.

This is a mixture of very cold water and tens of thousands of resin heads. It's a very dark brown color. I drain each bag and the smaller resin heads flow into the next bag and the bigger ones end up on the screen. I get that copper circle object and place in in the bottom of the bag. Using the white scraper I get the wet hash and place it between the two 25 micro screens and push out the water using paper towels.

You can see the hash in the bottom there of the 45 micro bag.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

I place a sheet of parchment paper over the seed heating pad and put the hash on the parchment to dry. This is what I ended up with.

The hash from left to right came from these sized micro bags: 120, 73, 45 and 25. The 73 micro bag ends up with the most hash.

 

[McKush]

Good write up pakman. Do you wring the first bag or do you just jig it up and down till nothing more comes out?

What was your starting amount and yield off the trim? Ive got a couple of half gallon ball jars that i want to turn into hash or butter

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

Good write up pakman. Do you wring the first bag or do you just jig it up and down till nothing more comes out?

What was your starting amount and yield off the trim? Ive got a couple of half gallon ball jars that i want to turn into hash or butter

The Christmas cookie can the trimmings were in are 1 1/2 gallon at a guess.

The first bag I hang and let drain for 1/2 hour or so. The other bags I don't squeeze but wiggle around to get the water/hash to flow through while trappings the bigger resin heads. The finer the mesh the longer it takes.

 

[McKush]

Do you only run trim and not bud? Also you ever compare frozen trim against room temp to start with? Curious about this. Not interested in solvent anything anymore. This looks easy enough. Might order some bags

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

Do you only run trim and not bud? Also you ever compare frozen trim against room temp to start with? Curious about this. Not interested in solvent anything anymore. This looks easy enough. Might order some bags

I put the trim in the freezer inside the cookie tin for about a week. I've never started at room temperature.

This is the only way I'll make hash. No more solvents for me.

If you buy bags shop around. There is a big price difference. These are not Bubble Mans' bags but made of the same material and a lot cheaper.

The do get resin stuck to the mesh over time but I found you can clean them with isopropal alcohol.

 

[Mikell]

The ol' drill and mortar mixing bit would save you arm some strain.

Nice run down, Bubblemans gear is expensive

 

[MrTea]

Water is a solvent!! Although in this case it acts as a delivery mechanism versus as an extraction

 

[McKush]

The ol' drill and mortar mixing bit would save you arm some strain.

Nice run down, Bubblemans gear is expensive

^^ hey, i've got some of those also with a old 1/2" drill double handed drill. might have to chip some of the cement off the bits first before i use them tho...

you could use a drill press also and fix the bucket squarely beneath the drill... or wonder if anyone has ever used one of those large dough mixing machines to agitate the mixture, then pour into bags.

leave it to me to take an easy process and make it more complicated to achieve...

 

[McKush]

Water is a solvent!! Although in this case it acts as a delivery mechanism versus as an extraction

true enough but you know what we mean Mr. T! hehe i was doing ISO for a while but I'm over it. Never liked the taste and how the hell do i know if i got all the ISO out of it..?

anyway, i also got tired of being flummoxed by its stickiness when I would try to use it. I guess if you have an enail or something this is not an issue tho. I was put off by how goey it can be and what a chore it is with which to work.

 

[MrTea]

Iso oil is poison. If I could find the article i'd post it, but there are always impurities leftover no matter how much you cook the hell out of it. I also prefer Water hash.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

The ol' drill and mortar mixing bit would save you arm some strain.

Nice run down, Bubblemans gear is expensive

I've used the drill before and what I discovered is that I get some small leaf bits in the hash. Stirring with the large wooden spoon doesn't do that. So there is much more work but I like the end product better. Nothing wrong with some leaf in it if you're okay with that.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

true enough but you know what we mean Mr. T! hehe i was doing ISO for a while but I'm over it. Never liked the taste and how the hell do i know if i got all the ISO out of it..?

anyway, i also got tired of being flummoxed by its stickiness when I would try to use it. I guess if you have an enail or something this is not an issue tho. I was put off by how goey it can be and what a chore it is with which to work.

Iso oil is poison. If I could find the article i'd post it, but there are always impurities leftover no matter how much you cook the hell out of it. I also prefer Water hash.

I don't like the taste of QWISO either. Making hash with IWE is just like the Afganhi I used to get in Europe in 67-68 when I was in the army.

 

[PakaloloFromPNW]

I spent a big portion of my morning taking cuttings and transplanting tweeners. This is the order of my current stable of cultivars from top to bottom. Goblin Queen, Goblin Girl, The One, Blue Orca, Gooey, Nocturnal and Blueberry. Blueberry is on the bubble and will more than likely get bumped in favor of 3Elders. My teenagers are running Old Goblin and Purple Star along with 3Elders. I can only run 8 girls so I have to make tough decisions.

Cuttings

The tweeners got transplanted from gallon to 2 gallon pots. The were in the gallon pots for a little over 2 weeks and grew nice a tall. So once I got them in the 2 gallon pots I tied them down.

Tweeners

 

[McKush]

I don't like the taste of QWISO either. Making hash with IWE is just like the Afganhi I used to get in Europe in 67-68 when I was in the army.

What was your MOS?