What’s up dgc.
So dude has been talking about using dry ice to harvest your trichomes and to the novice person or the unknowing, dry ice is a horrible agitator for collecting trichomes.
Why? Some dry ice has lubricants in it to stop them from sticking together. Put a piece of dry ice on a mirror and let it melt. Anything left over? If so it’s additives from the making of it. I don’t want unknown contaminates in my hash. Also it’s super cold and does so much damage to everything it touches. Plant matter breaks down and gets into your final kief and your trichome heads burst which allows the terpenes to evap easier.
Here’s what I do as an alternative to fast kief.
I follow the directions for making dry ice hash but instead of using dry ice as an agitator I use $3 worth of quarters.
Make sure the trim and larf is super bone dry, put an oz at a time in a 160 micron screen bubble bag, add your quarters and over a large surface, like a clean kitchen table, shake shake shake, for about 5-8 min for each oz. This part you’ll have to watch what’s coming out for the time you shake. Don’t shake to hard though. If it’s gold keep on shaking, as soon as you start to see a green tint to the kief that’s coming out, you’re done. Collect it and do whatever you want with it.
I do this to get fast results from my normally unused plant matter. The kief that came out is awesome for pressing out into rosin. Unlike the dry ice, which is really dark most of the time, when pressed, this rosin will be a nice golden blonde color thats loaded with terpenes. The left over plant matter after shaking, I’ll add that to my feco pile for later. Waste not.
A 5gl 160micron bubble bag can be found on eBay for cheap. I got mine for like $10 and everyone has quarters laying around so it’s a cheap way to do it as well.
Hope this helps someone, it’s a very safe and effective way of harvesting your trichomes.
Peace
This sounds awesome! I never tried this kind of hash, do i smoke it from a rig? Bowl? Thank you for the info.
Basically what you’re going to end up with us kief. Think the bottom of a 3 teird grinder.
What you want to do with it is up to you. Loads of stuff.
My primary reasoning is to press it out into rosin. Dry ice hash typically leaves to much plant matter and oxidizes the trichomes so when you press it out into rosin, it turns dark brown, almost black. Not all but most.
With the quarters, unless you shake to hard or to long, you’ll end up with some bright yellow gold budder rosin.
I have also decarbed the kief and made edibles with it. This takes away some of that nasty weed taste in edibles, since you’re using less plant matter, which means less chlorophyll.
You can also smoke it in a bowl on its own or sprinkled on top of some flower.
I wouldn’t try dabbing it, it’s only like 60% melt, if that. You’ll get a dab off of it buttered you’ll end up with tons of left over carbon on your nail.
If you press it out into rosin, you need to follow the steps on how to press out hash. Basically in a nut shell, prepress it to a uniform size and thickness. Wrap it in an unbleached coffee filter. Put that in between parchment. Set your straightener or plates to 190f and squish away. You can expect a 30-60% yield of rosin, depending on how violent you were with the shaking.
Wow cool. I’m going to purchase the hair straightener for this stuff. This is going to be a game changer for me! I’ve been thinking how I can get away from smoking so much plant material and this is the ticket for small scale rosin, without having to squish every bud. I appreciate the detailed answer my friend.
This sounds really cool! I had never thought dry ice would have any kind of residue. That is kinda disturbing. Thing is… i cant get over how gross it sounds to throw my weed in with a bunch of quarters covered in whatever you could possibly think of. Money is some of the dirtiest stuff on the planet! So i am trying to come up with something that could be sterilized. Maybe stainless washers and alcohol? I was even thinking about using an autoclave or something. Or maybe those glass bead/rocks from the craft store? Anybody have the perfect answer? I will try some stuff and get back to you all. Thanks for the ideas Nodnarb!💚
Yo! I have thought about that too and have gone as far as washing them with some iso. I like the idea of stainless steel washers. Definitely would have to clean them off really well too, I’m sure there’s a lot of residuals from machining them but that wouldn’t be to hard. One of my buddies makes his own aluminum casts and made some discs for this but I hate aluminum. Stainless sounds ideal. Time for a trip to menards.
Yo, anyone got update on this method? So as I understand it, dried herb (one zip) in a 160 micron bubble bag, add 12 quarters and shake vigorously and stop at first sign of green shaking out? Just couple questions? Is there a better agitator then quarters? Does this work better if herb is frozen first. Ultimately I’ve dry icing it as well and thought the wet residue left over was just condensation? Any article available on dry ice production? I would hope the dry ice I get at the grocery store which is advertised as making soda with to drink doesn’t have lubricants’ in it.