Hash Oil - brown/yellow

[StonyGeoff]

Whenever I make hash oil I get a sticky brown product.

I use butane and a stainless steel tube. I've use flower AND trim.

How do I get yellow honey oil? What am I doing wrong?

Cheers

[how3y]

are you useing the stalk aswell? if you are that could be the trouble. i dry my leaf or bud bone dry then push it through a fine steel sieve to remove any stalk and its always so golden. hope you crack it as the golder the better

[25micron]

either the weed has something left in it or the steel tube has an oily film on it.
also if you grow your own weed you can ge t much better hash.
you might want to try making pollen oil instead its alot stronger.

[AmorEMorte]

pollen oil???

i didnt know we were just making things up now

[Indicana Jones!]

Originally Posted by AmorEMorte

pollen oil???

i didnt know we were just making things up now

IF I have what he's saying right it's a method I've used successfully myself. You collect your Keif or Polln or whatever you prefer to call it by whatever means you use (I use a 8 bag bubble bag set). Then you run butane through what you collected. You're running the butane through less plant matter this way. The draw back is that depending on your hashing making process some thc can be lost there. If you grow your own and have a good supply this hardly hurts. At least it never bothers me.

The oil is first rate!

Good luck!

Indicana.

[ArcticBreeder]

either u have not enuf dried bud or not using real buds, only cuttings(cutting's depend unless u are using hash plant).NO STEMS PLEASE OF ANY KIND, EVEN FROM BUDS.Harder u work the harder the stone.

[TorturedSoul]

Butane will wash the trichomes off WHATEVER material you use and very quickly too.

Having stems in the material never seemed to be a problem, just "not much point" lol.

If your material is of the dry and crumbly variety then you're probably just washing some of it into your collection device along with the actives.

If you're using fresh unground bud then you shouldn't have any contaminates (well, maybe a bit of chlorophyll?). You may have less product but it will be pure as soon as the butane evaporates (and at 4.6°F that's pretty quick).

Make sure that your butane is of premium quality. If you've got a clean glass and you dispense a measurable amount of butane into it, after it boils off there should be nothing left in the glass.

Have used buds broken up a little bit, have used trim, and a mixture of the two. Used a piece of pvc pipe with end caps, one with one hole for the butane to enter and the other looking like a salt-shaker top for the butane to flow out.

Poorly broken up buds seemed to be the cleanest, although not 100% of the trichomes were washed off (don't have a qualifier - just gave the "used" buds to a friend and he said they got him there) but the end result was PURE. Using dry crumbly trim the results were somewhat less so (also quite a bit less end product). I would assume that was because SOME amount of the crumbles were small enough to get washed through the "salt-shaker holes."

[StonyGeoff]

Thanks for all your replies.

It turns out the oil I make does in fact resemble honey, it's kind of greenish with a dark yellow tinge to it. It only goes brown/black when it's all together in a clump.

Don't worry, I feel like an idiot now lol

[25micron]

Don't worry man.... making and smoking oil and hash is always trial and error
i made Plenty of my own mistakes
thanks for finally responding haha

[StonyGeoff]

Hehe yeah I totally forgot I started this one