Contributed by: Smokinrav
Cheap and easy trichome collection, making a
simple shaker...
Hash is one
of the greatest by-products of our favorite herb, but
I've never found a truly easy way to make it, without
being horribly inefficient or spending cash on things
like bubble bags or trying to find anyone that sells
silk screen. Previously, I've used the blender hash
method and have made butter, but they have always left
me wanting the true goodness of some compressed
trichomes and wondering how much I was wasting. The
method I'm going to describe below uses household or
easily obtainable materials and in less than 15 minutes
you can be smoking almost pure trichomes
The
materials:
- A jar the size of a 16 oz pickle
jar or a medium sized tupperware container.
- Rubber
bands
- Panty hose (nylons)
- A smooth, hard
surface to shake over and scrape from. I use a glass
table.
- Some kind bud
Processing:
Remove most of the stems and break up the bud as
much as you want. I personally don't break it up much, I
like to just let it pulverize against itself in the
shaker. This leaves some of the buds interior intact for
the oil I like to isomeritize. You can use this with
trim leaf as well, but that I cut up until its like
grass clippings before shaking. Adding an agitator has
been known to speed things up, but with the nylon you
may get a lot more excess material since its not
intended to be a screen.
Now take your
hose and trim the toe off. Cut it the length of the leg
piece, enough to fit well over the top of your
container. It'll leave a "V" in the fabric. Fit this
around one edge. You can see the V through the plastic
container.
I leave this
much slack because the tautness of the nylon across the
top is critical and the extra allows you to adjust.
You'll need
to adjust after securing the nylon with the rubber band.
Its not as easy as it sounds. We want it tight, but not
like a bongo drum. The tighter you pull it the larger
your mesh will be, the more non-psychoactive material
falls through.
Now comes the
fun part. Shaking the tub. May not sound like much fun,
but when, after 10 minutes you get a pile like this,
you'll be much better motivated to keep shaking.
This is an
example of a first shake and a 7th shake. The white pile
is almost pure trichomes, as pure as can be expected
using panty hose. The greenish pile will still be better
than much of the decent street hash out there.
This took
about an hour of shaking. The pile are in order
clockwise, starting top L. You can see how they green up
as you go along. If you change the screen every 20
minutes or so, a lot of this may be avoided. As the bud
stems become exposed, they begin poking holes in the
nylon as you shake. This may improve the purity
somewhat.
Once you gather the piles up (I'm using some note
paper for each pile), just squeeze them between your
fingers for a few minutes, You'll have to open it and
scrape them together a couple times, but this is what
you come up with. The balls are arranged in order of
purity, left to right. The two vials in the background
are my oil. That's it, I hope this helps all those like
me, who have a hard time finding 120 mesh silk
screen.
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