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hexcollie

hexcollie

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I've been soaking scraps and small nuggets in 91% alcohol for about 24 hours, then filtering and evaporating in a pyrex dish and scraping up the residue for a while now. The product is pretty awesome, but I have no idea if I'm soaking my scraps long enough to get all the thc out of the plant matter. How long do you guys usually soak your scraps before you start evaporating it?
 
24 hrs is long enough.

is the product broken up or are you throwing whole nugs in there?

for reference, 2-3 minutes is long enough for me. i use bud though and break it up in a hand grinder. I also shake the jar while it soaks for the 2-3 min. any longer and he oil goes from golden and translucent to solid green. chlorophyl and plant material. :/
 
for isopropyl alcohol it is best to use a quick wash method.

washing for more than a minute is gonna be pulling off lots of chlorphyl, plant sugars, waxes, etc.

washing for such a long time will have a very diluted product.

properly done Iso hash should end up getting real hard and shiney when evaporated properly but my guess is that when you evap this stuff that you will have a very waxy lookin feeling substance that doesnt shine.
it will still have THC in it but next time just wash it around and shake it up for 30-60 seconds and you will have a nice product
i know some people say to wash it for a couple minutes to get all the THC but from my experience the majority of the thc is absorbed in the first 30 seconds and only washing longer seems to get a small amount more THC and a lot more plant waxes, sugars, chlorophyl, etc.

a real good place to learn about hash is tokecity.com
 
^right on.

search for "hashmastakut's" hash and oil thread on TC to see some gooood hash. some of the best.
 
yes hash masta kut is seriously the king and knows all when it comes to this but if im not mistaken ninja is the one who does most of the Qwiso stuff both are very knowledgable hash makers
 
HighonLife said:
for isopropyl alcohol it is best to use a quick wash method.

washing for more than a minute is gonna be pulling off lots of chlorphyl, plant sugars, waxes, etc.

washing for such a long time will have a very diluted product.

properly done Iso hash should end up getting real hard and shiney when evaporated properly but my guess is that when you evap this stuff that you will have a very waxy lookin feeling substance that doesnt shine.
it will still have THC in it but next time just wash it around and shake it up for 30-60 seconds and you will have a nice product
i know some people say to wash it for a couple minutes to get all the THC but from my experience the majority of the thc is absorbed in the first 30 seconds and only washing longer seems to get a small amount more THC and a lot more plant waxes, sugars, chlorophyl, etc.

a real good place to learn about hash is tokecity.com
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You hit it dead on bro. Congrats and a small golf clap fer ya
 
2 minutes maximum, anything longer than that and it starts to taste like crap. If you smoke a bunch of this stuff, you'd better have a place to lay down afterwards to take a nap. At least that's my experience with it.
 
To: Cunning linguist, thanks man hash oil is my original love and tokecity was the first forum website i ever checked out and to be honest i never looked around that place besides the hash and mushroom forums
 
hexcollie said:
I've been soaking scraps and small nuggets in 91% alcohol for about 24 hours, then filtering and evaporating in a pyrex dish and scraping up the residue for a while now. The product is pretty awesome, but I have no idea if I'm soaking my scraps long enough to get all the thc out of the plant matter. How long do you guys usually soak your scraps before you start evaporating it?
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about 2 minutes.... there is no tutorial for QWiso Oil around here?

Shake your scraps/leaf matter in glass jars for anywhere from 20-120 seconds, then strain thru 2 coffee filters that were premoistened with a drop or 2 of water. The longer you do it the more product you will yield, but it will be lesser quality. 24 hours you're going to have a TON of green matter in there. Not saying it wont get you high, its just not going to be A++ oil.

I normally do it for about a minute and a half, although ive tried friends oil that do it for 20 or 30 seconds and the stuff is amazing, almost bubble quality.
 
Thank all of you so much, I was wondering why my product was slightly less than primo. Here I am thinking I'm not soaking long enough, and the whole time I've been doing the opposite. Nobody ever really showed me how to do this, I just decided to give it a shot. I do like it a lot better than silk screening frozen trim and scraps.

Next time should be much better! You guys rock
 
HighonLife said:
properly done Iso hash should end up getting real hard and shiney when evaporated properly but my guess is that when you evap this stuff that you will have a very waxy lookin feeling substance that doesnt shine.
it will still have THC in it but next time just wash it around and shake it up for 30-60 seconds and you will have a nice product
i know some people say to wash it for a couple minutes to get all the THC but from my experience the majority of the thc is absorbed in the first 30 seconds and only washing longer seems to get a small amount more THC and a lot more plant waxes, sugars, chlorophyl, etc.
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exactly.
 
So do you guys see alot of oil that is green/dark green? this is not just hash oil, im pretty sure it is hash oil cut/mixed with something. you smoke it and get a buzz for 15-45 minutes and it is less expensive than "honey oil".

This could just be, like you's said, chlorophyl and other wonderful plant materials, but i just dont think so..

The reason i say this is because sooo many people in my city know virtually nothing about drugs, i think they are literally smoking crap.

Also one of my buddies told me that he has made this green oil one time with an older guy. He sais they just put weed in a pot on the stove, with im not sure what(either alcohol of some sort or water?) and they just evaporate until it is oil?(strain first im assuming)
 
well i have made hash that had a greenish tint but that wasnt with BHO or QWISO it was with bubble, but that was cuz i fucked up but if you can def see lots of green plant material then it is likely that someone is throwin in some shitty dry sift hash into thier oil or something because green plant matter means low quality hash.
 
Yes also almost ALL of the hash in my area is green, you can easily tell that they literally took crystals that have fallen off of weed and pressed it into a block, it is VERY hard and when you bust it up its like powder.. thats shitt shit right?

ive seen some nice brown soft-ish hash ONCE.
 
tBirdee said:
Yes also almost ALL of the hash in my area is green, you can easily tell that they literally took crystals that have fallen off of weed and pressed it into a block, it is VERY hard and when you bust it up its like powder.. thats shitt shit right?

ive seen some nice brown soft-ish hash ONCE.
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that is the definition of hash, if i am not mistaken. and by shit shit, i assume you mean its good?

tBirdee said:
So do you guys see alot of oil that is green/dark green? this is not just hash oil, im pretty sure it is hash oil cut/mixed with something. you smoke it and get a buzz for 15-45 minutes and it is less expensive than "honey oil".

This could just be, like you's said, chlorophyl and other wonderful plant materials, but i just dont think so..

The reason i say this is because sooo many people in my city know virtually nothing about drugs, i think they are literally smoking crap.
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that sucks if thats being sold in your area, must taste like shit. i have never seen people cutting oil. thats just straight up skeevy. :(

most of the oil i see for sale is liquidy and green. kinda stringy like mozzarella.
no-one really sells honey oil. it takes a half oz of kind bud to make a gram of high quality glass honey oil.
 
I'm wondering how much and of what quality you guys are using perbatch of this stuff?

Are we talking an O of mids (buds/stems no leaf) or 10 grams of fire headies (again, buds)?
 
I really only view oil as a reasonable thing to do with trash, ie trim, popcorn, or perhaps bud that has some kind of minor/moderate issue. I personally find good bud to be superior to oil. If you want a concentrate from good bud, I'd suggest water hash as the taste shines through much more and the high feels qualitatively better (than the oil). That's not to say that people don't make oil from elite bud, just that I wouldn't.

As for the green oil. I don't think (but I'm not sure) that they're cutting it. Much more likely is that they're leaving it in the solvent way too long like the OP did and it's absorbing a lot of chlorophyll and other crap. It's very possible they're doing that on purpose to get more volume out of the extraction, but I'd bet it is actually coming from the extraction. If they wanted to straight cut it, I'm sure they could find something that wouldn't effect the color.

I agree with all the other posters that iso wash hash shouldn't be left in the solvent for long at all, personally I suggest 10-20 seconds (or even less). That assures you of a quality result. It's not a complete extraction at all, but long soaks, even ones that are like two minutes can result in noticeably worse or overly gooey hash. The washed trim can still be used again to make BHO or cannabutter to use the remaining thc.

Oh, and it doesn't matter how much you use - use less and you'll get less as a result. I've made iso wash with only a few grams of trim and uncured bud. Obviously I didn't get much, but it wasn't bad at all.
 
there are so many variables. it depends what kind of product you want.

the better your starting product is, the better the end product will be.

i find i average 1 gram of glass per half oz of high grade bud.
 
Huh that is crazy. In all my time smoking, nobody I know has done anything remotely like this. I should give it a try, though I'm bound to fuck it up once or twice
 
drscience
that is the definition of hash, if i am not mistaken. and by shit shit, i assume you mean its good?
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I mean its not *crystal* itself, its trichomes and little fragments of plant, which is why it is green, shouldn't the end result of hash be brown?

by shitt shit i meant shitty shit, and by shitty shit i meant shitty hash.

lol
 
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