Extraction Ice Water Extraction Thread

[tokaite]

This is awesome guys, I'm ordering my bags as I speak, also I was watching some youtube videos on this where they all use kitchen mixer, or I even saw someone use power drill, but reading here why it is preferable to hand steer, makes alot of sense and I'm gonna go with that. So glad to be a member of this site.. I start doing pushups every day now so my hands will not get tired too fast, I still have about a month until my babies are done, plenty.

dildano,
What I do:
Water at 4*Cel, has to be! It will knock off the trichs super easily with not too much agitation (too much agitation and your stuff is contaminated with plant materials, and you do not want that green foamy thing to come that you see on all videos etc...)
First batch, do it for no more than 5 minutes hand-stirring gently but fast (if it make sense), filter etc... TOP PRIMO QUALITY (with different grades (i.e how many bags used)
take SAME BATCH AGAIN and hand stir from 5 to 10 minutes (depends of your starting product...), filter etc.... High QUALITY .....
Take AGAIN SAME BATCH and hand stri from 8 to 13 minutes (again depends of your stuff), filter etc... JUST OK (I do not keep it, give / gift away)
Do not mix your end products from different batches.
After you are done, you take your 3 TIMES PASSED batch and you can either QWISO it or BHO it to have the last psycho-active stuff drop. (That resin will be "ok" not TOP TOP cz processed last) but you could mix it with your "OK 3rd batch" and get something like "Jelly Hash", believe me it will do the trich!

P.S: When you will be done with the push-ups, I suggest you buying something like "camping wash-mashine" (got mine for 65$), same as the real thing but cheaper!

 

[dildano]

I just received my bubble bags today can't wait to give it a go. My plants are still not ready yet but in a week or too they will be. I got this one : http://store.bubblebag.com/xcart/1-Gallon-4-Bag-Kit.html
I was wondering what is the "blotting screen" for? It is a square screen similar with the ones on the bags but what do I use it for? I spent alot of money on my grow I'm on a tight budget, so I only got the 4 bags one, it will have to do for now, I'll get more bags later..

@tokaite thanks for the tips, I will try to make more batches as you say, but for now I will skip the BHO part as I don't have a proper safe place to work with that outside, and as I hear indors it is really dangerous, I will skip that for now. Ill try maybe with alcohol, I'll see.

So what is the "blotting screen" for? I don't even know what "blotting" means google translation also seems to miss that word ?!?

 

[killakill86]

hey guys whats sup so i just got my bubblebags friday and did a run ended up with nothing in any bag until the 45 and 20 and it was all green trash. so next mornin did another run of some skunk47 trim nothing in the 120 but did catch sommem in the 73 but it was green tried to wash the green through but didnt happen . caught nothing in the screens below it. was pretty frustrated at this point. so i was like fk it lets try some white urkle trim. this was all done by hand stirrin btw no more than ten min. so i took a cpl hand fulls of white urkle trim mixed it up water came out looking a little light purple then to a dark tannish color thought to myself finally no green shit. ran it through the backs caught hardly nothing in the 120 a speck in the 90 but got a 1.6g wet chunk out of the 7 but it was green so i thought wtf. got a nice chunk out of the 45 and nothing but a little of green out of the 20. so anyway i had them on the screen for a cpl hours pretty depressed about the green hash and when i came back to check the 120 of the skunk47 and all of the hash from the white urkle except the 20 bag waas a nice golden color talk about a mood change. let them sit out over night and then chilled this morning and ended up grating them to fine powder earlier. just took this pic of them after grating and setting out for a bit at room temp.
white urkle iwe 73micron
white urkle 45micron
skunk4745-73 micron

 

[grindin]

looks good bro, I usually run my mix twice, hand stirring 3-4 min each time(but im in 1 gallon bags) did you use fresh frozen or did you dry the trim then freeze?

 

[killakill86]

froze the tirm in the deepfreezer as soon as i cut it. also using 1gal bags btw

 

[low_and_slow]

For what it's worth, I've heard some controversy about pressing bubble if you want to keep it around longer than a few days. If you pop every trich head, a lot of the flavors are exposed to the atmosphere and subject to oxidation. I keep any and all cannabis products in the freezer when they're "in rotation" to keep the oxidation/decay down. When they're in deep storage (lol, what's that, I smoke too much...) I keep stuff in sealed jars as unmolested/cool/dark as I can. I am 100% in agreement with Cres that you absolutely should work your hash before you smoke it, but if you're going to make bubble from like 4 plants and expect to hang onto it for more than a week, I wouldn't work it like that because it'll oxidize faster.

 

[cres]

I run my batch 4 times... always mix in a separate bucket and then pour threw your bags...

 

[killakill86]

yah cres thats pretty much what i did mixed in a empty bucket with just ice and water then used the bags to strain that figured if i didnt mix in the 220 it might last longer

 

[low_and_slow]

Trauma to bags = Bad...plus it's easier to see what you're doing in a white 5g bucket instead of a tiny, dark, cramped bubble bag. I made that mistake the first time I made hash.

 

[killakill86]

did another run of some white urkle tonight and this is what i ended up with
all
45
73
90
120u