In regards to making bubble with fresh vs. frozen trim I found that freezing trim in a paper grocery bag for 24 hours not only yields more but the quality is significantly better. I don't know why, it just is. It's absolutely worth the wait to freeze it for a day. You'll find out for yourself when you do your own comparison but it's a pain in the ass making hash and I want the best quality for the time spent, and freezing for a day yields clearly superior results to using fresh unfrozen trim.
Cool. I'm going to pick your brain on this for a minute if you don't mind.
Do you think that this matters if the trim is dried AND THAN frozen. Or should it go directly from plant to freezer (in a paper grocery bag). I ask because i struggle with my hash yield. Last time i made some i busted out the scale and for every 100g of trim i was getting between 4 and 7 grams of bubble. Good quality. ...between the 35 micron and the 130 micron bag. the 76 is always the best for me.
usually i dry my trim in paper bags and then freeze it for 24 hrs before processing. Maybe that is where my problem is.
Mito, you mite be on to something with that special drill bit. The fellow who posted the pic of his drill bit underneath your post, I have that bit and tried like hell to get the results I wanted, tried mixing my trim with that bit every way possible, fast, gentle, long, short, you name it, I did it cuz I REALLY wanted it to work with that bit, mainly because it's alot easier to use a drill and bit to mix vs. hand mixing but I never ever acheived the same or better results with that bit vs. hand mixing, absolutely never. I tried another bit before that one and all I ended up doing was pissing into the wind and not achieving any desirable results. Maybe your bit mixes the leaf more gently. Using the hand mixing method through, I can get two runs of hash that I have to freeze to remove from the screen. I'll do a 3rd run if I have time an use that run just for brownies and granola bars for my hot as hell stoner gf's. babes cost money.
i will have to run a side by side also, but it seems that it is possible that the drill attachment agitates the trim and glands so much that the heads fall off and break. and then maybe are small enough fall through the holes in the bags straight into the water.
and yeah, i can't keep edibles in my fridge either
Subrob, the cool thing about the hand mixing is that I just mix for maybe 45 seconds, until the water foams up, then stop. wait 15 min, rotate the lump of leaf in the bucket and mix again, wait 15 min, then mix a 3rd time. Wait 20 minutes then hang with a pulley till the dripping stops. Then scape the glory. I'm 6' 2 and hate being hunched over my buckets mixing but damn if it doesn't produce the finest results. I'll also dip my rolling paper in the bottom of the bags I scrape, wait til they get wet right up to the gum, them let them dry on a spaghetti collander. Best tasting and slowest burning rolling papers ever.
If we ever get the sd grow bros together somewhere I'll be gald to demonstrate my hash methods. I'll borrow a digi and take some photo documentation first and see if I can post it. peace to all,
so if you don't mind my asking, what is a good approx yield? Maybe percent would be easiest. I heard 10%. I would say i am averaging around 5% with a 7 bag bubble bag kit that i only use 4 bags of (excluding the work bag, so 5 really).
thanks bro.
the pb library... ha ha i always wondered what went on in there.