Re: most efficient hash extraction.
What kind of criteria and threshold do you use when ruling out certain activities as "unnatural"? As far as I can determine, using CO2 as a refrigerant is not really artificial because Carbon is as indigenous as Weed and there is nothing leftover from the process except for the desired result - Trichomes - unless the maker does something wrong and ends up with vegetable matter in with the good stuff. I like this process because there is no waiting period necessary for drying & curing - I can go from cut plant to trim pot to blender with the trim & de-seeded buds that were pollinated, right into the dry-ice pot and have a pile of Trichomes within minutes of being harvested.
There is literally no downside to using Dry Ice.
Using the wet bubble bag method, there is a likelihood of adding water-borne elements which could detract from the quality of the Hash, such as minerals, chlorine, hormones, etc. from tapwater. Using RO water as the medium would ameliorate that risk to a large degree. You can also use this method right away after harvest.
Waiting for the plants to dry & cure in order to make traditional Kief naturally takes a long time and the end product is very different than that retrieved from the Dry Ice method, due to its containing significant amounts of vegetable matter that increase the harshness and detract from the taste - and effects.
I'd like to see a comparison done here using equal amounts of the same base material and process each in separate batches, one in Dry Ice and the other using RO water, both in the same sized Bubble Bags. The results could be compared, along with the quality.
I may talk myself into personally doing this, so stay tuned.
Urmom,
What kind of criteria and threshold do you use when ruling out certain activities as "unnatural"? As far as I can determine, using CO2 as a refrigerant is not really artificial because Carbon is as indigenous as Weed and there is nothing leftover from the process except for the desired result - Trichomes - unless the maker does something wrong and ends up with vegetable matter in with the good stuff. I like this process because there is no waiting period necessary for drying & curing - I can go from cut plant to trim pot to blender with the trim & de-seeded buds that were pollinated, right into the dry-ice pot and have a pile of Trichomes within minutes of being harvested.
There is literally no downside to using Dry Ice.
Using the wet bubble bag method, there is a likelihood of adding water-borne elements which could detract from the quality of the Hash, such as minerals, chlorine, hormones, etc. from tapwater. Using RO water as the medium would ameliorate that risk to a large degree. You can also use this method right away after harvest.
Waiting for the plants to dry & cure in order to make traditional Kief naturally takes a long time and the end product is very different than that retrieved from the Dry Ice method, due to its containing significant amounts of vegetable matter that increase the harshness and detract from the taste - and effects.
I'd like to see a comparison done here using equal amounts of the same base material and process each in separate batches, one in Dry Ice and the other using RO water, both in the same sized Bubble Bags. The results could be compared, along with the quality.
I may talk myself into personally doing this, so stay tuned.
