greenislands journal 09

[greenisland]

Thanks man! Im stoked about the 5 star rating! Thank you so much! I really appreciate everyones input. Thx again! And remember, bubble hash pics will be posted later today!! unless I run out of time today, then it will be tomarrow instead.

[greenisland]

Ok so it took me an extra day but here we go.

HOW TO MAKE BUBBLE HASH...(MY WAY)

Start out with trim, the better the trim the better the finished product. I used somewhere around a lb and a half of premium trim that had been frozen over night in the freezer. I seperate my trim per strain, so I get different kinds of bubble hash with each kind exhibitanting it own unique flavor and high.



First you set up the screens in order from the finest to the biggest screen size. Make sure the screens are pressed titely against the side of the 5 gallon bucket. I use a small 3.5 gallon jug to help me put the screens in while keeping their shape and keeping the bags tight against the side of the 5 gallon bucket.





It helps to do the rest in the bathtub so you contain your mess and its easy to rinse down when you do make a mess.

I use 2 bags of ice from cirkle k or wherever. I put in about 3 inches of ice first then put in half of the trim. I then put another 2 inches and put more trim...etc, etc until all the trim is used. I finish the bucket with a layer of ice so the trim doest come out of the bucket.

Next I fill the 3.5 gallon jug with more ice from my freezer usually...this ice is just going to be used to cool down the water even more before its poured into the 5 gallon bucket.(you dont have to "pre"cool down your water like I do, its just my preferance)

You want the 5 gallon bucket to me mostly ice but still be wet enough that it mixes thouroughly and allows the trichomes to fall to the bottom. If I had to guess I would guess theres abt 2.5-3.5 gallons of water in there.



Next you take the lid of the bucket and make holes for the blender to poke through. This top has two different sets of hole sizes to accomodate two different widths of blenders.





I usually stir this mixture up pretty well with just a simple large plastic spoon before I put the lid on, this helps the mixture be more consistant to start with.



Next you just put the lid on the bucket and let it do its job for about 15-30 min with the blender on medium. Just leave it alone, usually it stays in place just fine. If it doesnt blend easily try adding a little water to the mixture (it makes the blender not jump around as much) but make sure not to add too much. You dont want to even be close to overflowing the bucket. The water line should be about 3-4 inches from the top of the bucket. And ice should be all the way to the top of the bucket, just not higher than the bucket because the lid needs to sit flush. If it still wont stay put sometimes you have to put weights on the lid to keep it in place( a nutrient bottle, etc, whatever really thats heavy). Or prop it in a corner, whatever works.



Usually you blend for a half hour let it sit for 15, blend for half hr sit for 15. I do this anywhere from 3 to 6 or even 7 times. You can let it blend for an hour then sit for 15..and do it twice. It really doesnt seem to matter much. the longer you go the more conaminants there will be and the less the quality will be. The shorter you belnd it the higher the quality will be.

After you have finished blending and letting it sit. make sure you let it just sit there for15min or so before you start pulling out the bags. As you pull out the bags you will notice that most of the trim and all of the ice come out in the first screen. Usually I pull this out just above the water level then run about a half gallon of really ice cold water through it to rinse off any of the trichome heads still in there. Make sure not to use to much water and over flow the bucket. I never even get within 6 inches of the top because the level goes waaay down after you remove the ice and leftover trim.





Remove each screen in order and set them aside until you get to the second to last screen. depending on how many screens your kit has you may keep the last three screens or you may only keep the last screen. I take the last three screens however the last two are really the only ones that contain "bubble" hash. You will notice that the last screen drains very slowly, sometimes very very very slowly! This time it took about 20 minutes to drain the last screen. You can see this process here.







When it gets down to the bottom you will see your hash there. The longer you let it sit there the easier it will be to scoop it out. It will start to ball up with itself if you shake the screen gently form side to side and usually you can scoop it out easily then. After you get you first scoop drop the bag back into the water to get a little water back into the bag. This little water is used to swish around and collect the leftover trichomes into a smaller scoopable "ball".









I usually keep the pressing screen in the freezer just so the ball doesnt stick to it quite as bad. I also usually keep a spoon in there to just for this purpose.



Once you drop it on the pressing screen continue to sqeeze off the water. make sure you wrap the rpessing screen with paper towels so when the water is pressed out of the hash it soaks into the paper towel. The paper towel is also beneficial because it isnt warm like your hand and usually the hash wont melt through the pressing screen when you use a paper towl, however if you buse your hand it could end in a sticky mess.



Keep working the hash ball until m,ost of the water is out then let it sit out to dry. It will be a few days befor eit is ready to smoke and it will be maybe a month before it can be molded into the black kind of resiny bubble hash I usually have. In the next picture you can see the three different grades side by side and their overall weight. Hope this "TEK" helped someone out. Bubble hash sure is great and well worth the work you put into it. Fro sart to finish I would say it only took me about 2-3 hrs. not bad if you ask me for some of the finest hash you willl ever smoke eh?



Sorry I dont have time to clean this tek up right now but I will be sure to add more pics and stuff later tonight when I get time. Hope you like it!

[The Butcher]

woohhwwhhoooo!!!! that 2 ways 2 make hash in 2 days.I LOVE THIS SIGHT!!!

[PitViper]

great info bro

[HazeSeeker]

+rep

[DownOver]

Greenisland!! I am over the moon for you that the 5 stars is there! Should have been weeks ago!

[WheeloFortune]

i have 1 gal bubble bags. they are just too much work for the amount you get out of it. I so regret not getting the 5 gal bags instead. i think they would make it much wore worthwhile. nice guide. +rep if i can

[obxgardener]

Man, I can't wait to make some hash... thanks for the tutorial greenisland! +rep when I can again...

[420fied]

What a great journal green! I just found it and I'm about to go and read the entire thing.

+reps and a 5 star vote for providing so much great information and doing it right!

[KannabisKid]

Excellent job on the tutorial man and grats on the 5 Stars. I'd rep ya if I could.

[greenisland]

WOW! I feel sooo loved! Thank you for all the nice words everyone, I always appreciate nice comments...hell I appreciate not nice comments too... but nice ones ARE better. I had no idea that Pitviper was posting a hash technique at the same time as me, lol, totally crazy! I just got back from a weekend away and saw his video that he posted. And then came here and saw everyones great words! Thank you ver much once again. I will be starting the new jouranl today or tommarrow. I will link it to my signature and call it greenislands grow journal 09' #2. Also I will add a picture to this journal of the finished "black full melt bubble hash thats the finished "cred" product from the above "TEK" just so everyone can see how black and gooy it gets once it looses all the water. It looks completally different than it does in these pics. Later everyone and dont forget to peep my new journal when it get up!

[greenisland]

Ok guys. Heres my final edition to this journal. Ill still answer all questions or comments so by no means stop that, Im just saying I wont be putting up any more updates because the grow is over and all jarred up! But here is some pics of the bubble in its transformations. You can see that it starts out very light in color then as time goes by and the resin melts together it turns darker and darker until it looks like shiny black tar. When it gets as black as it is in the picture below its really nice pure full melt bubble. Before that time its still bubble hash it just has water in it and it wont bubble quite as easily. The light brown ball attatched to the really aged Black peice of bubble hash is a ball of regular screen hash that I throw in there with the black ball of bubble so I have somewhere to hold it when I want to smoke some. Otherwise as soon as you touch that stuff it melts and sticks to your hand so its nice to have a kind of handle to hold onto so this doesnt happen, and thats what the other ball of less pure hash is doing there. Also when it gets about 2 weeks old and starts really going black you will want to leave it in the fridge or freezer probably because if left out in room temperature it will melt and stick to everything. But when its cold it doesnt stick to things nearly as bad. Hope you enjoyed the journal and the bubble hash tek. PS: To the best of my knowledge this black bubble hash is far superior to almost any other hash out there. It truly is very very potent. And only a little is needed to subside the pain or get you high,or whatever your preferance is.

This first pic shows the transformation. The first pic is an earlier pic of the bubble hash right after making. The next picture shows that same ball about 5 days later. and next to that ball is a peice of bubble hash from last grow and is about 5 months old...so its very pure and not much water is in it, also all the resins have melted together. Its a much smaller amount than the ball I just made. Dont think that this picture means its going to shrink that much because it wont, its just that thats the only peace of cured bubble I had left. Enjoy!





And heres a peice of cured Blue Cheese. Its just an incredible incredible strain. So far its the best pot I have ever had the pleasure to smoke. And that says a lot for Blue Cheese as far as Im concerned. It doesnt look really pretty but it smells and smokes VERY pretty. lol.



And here in these pictures Im demonstrating the "see through-ness" of the bubble hash (even though its very black in color its kinda see through...kinda weird) as well as how it melts and "bubbles" as it should under heat/flame etc.





Ok guys..Im starting my new journal today so like I said this is my last update to this journal however by no means does that mean it has to die so dont hessitate to ask questions or post comments. I will be answering any and all comments as usual, just wont be posting any more pics unless there asked for. Thank you to Everyone for making this Journal a success. Just a quick summary before I finish here.

8 plants total- 3-Blue Cheese, 2-Nosebleed, 3-T2
Total weight-2lbs 2 ounces (dried)
Breakdown wieghts- Blue Cheese-8ozs (2.33oz per plant), Nosebleed-10ozs ( 5oz per plant), T2-16ozs (5.33ozs per plant)
Veg time- 6 weeks (longer than shouldve been)
Bloom time- Nosebleed-7 weeks, T2 and Blue Cheese 8-9 weeks (1.5 week flush for NB, 2.5wk flush for BC and T2)
Finished height- 4.5 ft to 5.5 ft (too tall)
Overall efficiency- .53 grams per watt (room for improvement bud not bad)
Overall garden score- B-

Once again hope everyone liked my Journal. I had soo much fun this go around and I love the audience. Thanks again everyone.

THE END, KINDA

[Soniq420]

Thanks for sharing your journal with us greenisland.

What a fantastic effort and result; particularly the sweet hash bit at the end.

We've moved your journal to the Complete Forum.

Much peace and respect to you from 420 Magazine

[cigo]

yayks, nice rock you got there :DDD~

[greenisland]

Yah, I was pretty happy with it! Actually I still have most of it! lol. Glad you had a chance to see my first journal, I havent been over to it for some time until today.