Issue 16.pdf - Treating Yourself

UK Cheese 73 u
UK Cheese 90u
Getting Sticky
with Sauron
STB runs off a few batches of bubblehash,
Chocolate Diesel and UK Cheese
Before beginning gather up all your equipment: the
1 bubble bags bags (http://www.bubblebag.com), two or
three buckets that match your bag diameter, two bags of
ice, cold water, hand mixing tools, mixing machines, a few towels,
a bowl slightly smaller in diameter than the bubble bags, a
spoon and your drying screens.
2
Once you have everything organized, put the two buckets
next to each other, one filled with 3/4 of a 10lb
bag of ice, the other with a few gallons of water.
We try to use the coldest water we can find as this keeps
3 the ice from rounding off and smoothing too much
which would reduce the effectiveness of ice extraction.
You can store water in the freezer for a few hours to get it next
to freezing, the colder the more high quality hash you will get.
Add water until the water level is flush with the ice line, no
more water needs to be added.
4
Chocolate Diesel 45u
Next we gently add the remaining 1/4 bag of ice on
top of the ice/water mixture, we do this because the
temperature inside the water is still warmer than the
trim, letting the trim sit in the water for a minute makes the
heads less rigid and more difficult to seperate from the trim.
Now it is time for the trim, the key ingredient in the
5 bubble process. You need to have trichomes that are full
and entact, this will greatly increase your yield and quality.
Having small immature heads from prematurely harvested
product will significantly degrade the end product quality and
yield. Since most cannabis strains produce resin only in the last
few weeks, it is crucial to let them finish and produce as much
oil as possible. Running multiple varieties together will also generally
degrade the quality, if you have strains that are similar in
how they melt between the screens you can safely mix them
together without a loss in how it dissolves through a screen.
around 200g wet is a good amount for a 5gallon run, much
more than that and the trichomes will be ground into the plant
material resulting in a greener less melty hash.
GROW
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