Is bubble hash worth the effort?

OK, since I've got the bags and and over abundance of bud (sucks to be me), I'm going to make bubb. Just so I can say I've tried.

What's a reasonable bacth size for the first timer? Minimum weight?

Yay! Will be watching to see how it goes! Good luck bruvvah

basement farmer said:

OK, since I've got the bags and and over abundance of bud (sucks to be me), I'm going to make bubb. Just so I can say I've tried.

What's a reasonable bacth size for the first timer? Minimum weight?

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I don't really know for sure because I make bubble with fresh material, but I would say around ten grams would be a good starting point.
I started running fresh frozen material because IMO it yelds a cleaner final product, although a bit less

@basement farmer

what size are your bags? I have a 5 gallon set and the minimum I'd run is probably an oz, ideally 2. also you'll definitely want to break the nugs up; bubble hash doesn't extract the trichomes in the middle of the nug that well.

Yeah I forgot to say I have the 1 gallon bags.

Thanks guys,

Yeah, I have 5 gal. bags. I have at least a couple of Oz. to run (much more if I throw in my cured flowers from Croptober) and a bunch more on the way. Been a busy booger.

What about dryness? I had to hang a bunch out in the garage because it'd stink up the house. It was sub zero most the winter and now nothing is going to dry now because we're in a thaw and the humidity is up. It's not green...but not dry either.

Should it be bone dry/ fully cured...or does it matter?

Also for you pros...what am I looking at in terms of time. I'm thinking this will be an all day event? No?

Killick, I will follow up with a report. I'm thinking end of the month...a house cleaning type think. With your avatar, you should become the bubble master.

Dryness shouldn't be an issue, some people will chop the plant and throw it straight into the freezer with no cure and only pull it out when the bubble bags are set up and ready. Bubbleman is a pro, but he does full runs start to finish in under 1 hour videos so I would expect maybe 2hrs or less. Honestly I would take an hour and watch one of his videos first, I find it hard to imagine you wouldn't get at least 1 gem from it. Good luck!

GuyLeDuche said:

Dryness shouldn't be an issue, some people will chop the plant and throw it straight into the freezer with no cure and only pull it out when the bubble bags are set up and ready. Bubbleman is a pro, but he does full runs start to finish in under 1 hour videos so I would expect maybe 2hrs or less. Honestly I would take an hour and watch one of his videos first, I find it hard to imagine you wouldn't get at least 1 gem from it. Good luck!

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Will do...

Feeling good about this. Too bad you're all so far away, I'd invite you over for beer and bubble.

basement farmer said:

Thanks guys,

Yeah, I have 5 gal. bags. I have at least a couple of Oz. to run (much more if I throw in my cured flowers from Croptober) and a bunch more on the way. Been a busy booger.

What about dryness? I had to hang a bunch out in the garage because it'd stink up the house. It was sub zero most the winter and now nothing is going to dry now because we're in a thaw and the humidity is up. It's not green...but not dry either.

Should it be bone dry/ fully cured...or does it matter?

Also for you pros...what am I looking at in terms of time. I'm thinking this will be an all day event? No?

Killick, I will follow up with a report. I'm thinking end of the month...a house cleaning type think. With your avatar, you should become the bubble master.

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5 gallon bags can handle a maximum amount of 100g of dry material and 200g of fresh material. Material that is frozen fresh is the best. Take any of your trim and throw it in the freezer right now. Freeze minimum a week. Use a wooden spoon or mini washer machine. Frozen material works better BC it makes the trichrome head brittle and break off.

You can reprocess the same material 3 times. It takes me about an hour from start to finish with two people using an 8 bag set. I'd estimate maybe 2 hours per process for you?

Quicker you start practicing bubble hash,
the quicker you can master the best concentrate there is! (in my opinion)

Quick question for all you bubble makers: What method/technique/equipment do you use for the actual spinning?

The guy who taught me uses a paint mixer attachment on an electric drill and spins for 15 minutes.

Last batch, I spun for only 5 minutes, and the hash was excellent. My theory is most of the heads get knocked off the plant in the first minute or two, and longer processing just introduces contaminants.

I am wondering if there is an even gentler technique? Seems to me the electric drill method is a little violent and might be breaking off pieces of leaf, not just trichomes. Has anyone ever experimented with gentler techniques? For example I saw one tutorial, they just swish it around a few times with a spoon. Has anyone tried something like that?

Excellent question @puddleglum was wondering that myself. Thumbing thru the briefs in the Cerventes Bible they talk about up to 15 min. that seems awful long...thoug the source is dated too.

Man that brown sugar looks tasty @SD_haze

I have done a lot of 5gal batches with an electric hand mixer from 5-15 min, but when I did a wooden spoon for 5 min I got a much cleaner end product with less work since I only needed a few bags ( which bags is strain dependent). Anything electric is going to get lots of debris through while gentle wood spoon stirring I am trying to only get the only tricomes off.

Getting your ice bath to the absolute lowest temp is what makes a big difference in the wood spoon technique for me. I am on the fence if freezing material does much but I have not found it hurts it.

Did it.

I gently mixed with a spoon.

First of all, it went way better and faster than I expected. I'm satisfied with the results and the modest yield. Probably part of the leap is seeing all of that carefully tended herb getting mixed with water, but I got over it. The water was pretty clear towards the end of the second run, so I think I got most of every thiing.

It was a good learning experience.

I learned that I was way too unorganized and lacked some of the appropriate things that I needed for total success. Having everything on hand is important. Nothing sucks like searching frantically for that one thing that you need when under pressure.

I didn't have any clean 5 gal. buckets so used a couple of 3 gal. sauce pots that I had around. The 5 gal def. would've made it easier. I split the process into two buckets with one being the courser and the other being the finer screened bags. It worked, but like I said, the 5 gal. would've made it go much smoother.

There was barely enough ice. Next time better safe than sorry. I had enought to make a couple of runs. I didn't remove any bubble between.

Some of the bags won't be used next time. I can see trichomes stuck in the screen of some of the intermediate bags. the 220 and 190 bags removed almost all of the plant matter.

Some of the finer screens probably aren't necessary either like the 45. These didn't catch enough glands to make it worth using and I'd rather it all collect in the 25 bag.

Finding appropriate containers is something I didn't do so swell on either.

It got late, so I hung the bags out in the garage and everything froze. I found that I could peel off the frozen hash easily this way. Maybe this technique will get used again.

I really wish that I had a scale so that I could figure out net yield. I can see how good trimming saves you a lot of work during the buble making process.

I'll be doing it again.

Glad to hear it turned out! If it's still in a frozen chunk, I'd pick up a microplaner and grind it into fine pieces. That'll help with the drying/cure and give you better taste down the road. For the cure I'd keep it in glass jars in a dark, cool spot (~60°), opening the jars everyday or so, ideally for a couple weeks.

Also it's usually recommended to rinse the bags before they dry, otherwise they get gummed up from the leftover resin and are a pain in the ass to clean (pretty much need to soak them in ISO).

I'd love to see some pics if you get a chance.

Bouldorado said:

Glad to hear it turned out! If it's still in a frozen chunk, I'd pick up a microplaner and grind it into fine pieces. That'll help with the drying/cure and give you better taste down the road. For the cure I'd keep it in glass jars in a dark, cool spot (~60°), opening the jars everyday or so, ideally for a couple weeks.

Also it's usually recommended to rinse the bags before they dry, otherwise they get gummed up from the leftover resin and are a pain in the ass to clean (pretty much need to soak them in ISO).

I'd love to see some pics if you get a chance.

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Planning ahead...yeah. that would've gone far. I hung everything up and kind of forgot about it.....a solvent soaking is probably going to happen.

I got a fairly large chunck of stuff that reminds me all the world of that epoxy shit that you you use to repair your POS beater car with a radiator leak.

I put the 45 micron blob that I able to collect with a chopstick into a Lotus WPA on a J-hook.

It was exquisite. I could definately get used to this.

The taste was amazing. Until I took it too far and combusted. But with a little practice I can definately see the point in using hash. I see a water tool in my future. The Lotus was suffering under the fury of my torch, an Orbiter looks like it might be promising for future vaping adventures.

I have a much larger chunk of stuff that collected in my 25 micron bag.

Unfortunately my cheap dollar store phone camera isn't up to close-up photo ops but I think I may go buy a cheap cameara that does.

@basement farmer - sounds like a great success! Thanks for sharing