dry ice trichome extraction with stb

[Sauron the Blue]

Picked up some dry ice today to do a run of bubble with this new technique, sticky dragon who some of you remember from vegas + santa cruz nugs and jugs stopped by to help out with the adventure.

On with the pics!

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/ice1.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/alive.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/bucket.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/bomb.jpg

sometimes the dry ice freezes the surrounding water, if you know anything about dry ice, you dont put it in a sealed container as the co2 releases as it melts....solid ice = sealed container. The hunks of dry ice can explode with enough pressure and send pieces of ice flying, so be careful. The best thing to do is poke and prod the chunks as they go, the bubbling will shake off the trichs for you

[Sauron the Blue]

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/ao2_963956.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/ao3.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/ao1.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3/9/7/run3copy.jpg

even the third run from a bubble now comes out shiney.

when using the bubble now you must not put the dry ice in the bag, it will inflate it to the point the bag gets damaged, and causes so much pressure the motor wont spin properly.If you put it outside of the bag, it lets it breathe and still agitate the water ferociously.

dry ice gets the nod from stb

[smokey bear]

for how long do u let it soak for?and i guess anny container with a valve would do the trick. is dry ice costly ? peace

[Sauron the Blue]

I dont let it soak ever. water is warmer than a freezer so letting it soak would make the trichs less brittle.

I bought 5lbs at the supermarket for under $6, at the ice manf plant in my town they sell 5lb blocks around 8x10x1.5" for 1.99, its only a buck or so cheaper than regular ice at that price.

I did 150 grams trim to 5lbs dry ice and that bubbled up real good for 20 mins, which let me do 2 5 min bucket runs and 1 10 min run in bubble now

[COOPAROO]

looks great man. always enjoy reading your new threads. keep it up

[Evergreen]

so what is the advantage of dry ice over normal ice?

[Sauron the Blue]

I dont want to make this a definitive statement until I do a few more side by side runs from strains of various sized heads, but at this point in time I dont see how or why it would be untrue.

longer extraction window, more yield, higher quality hash.

downside: can be a few bucks more, you cant leave it alone for too long or it freezes, you can injure yourself with dry ice if your not careful, you cant send a minor to buy it.

[Razz]

oh, wow. that's gooey goodness!

[Hennessy1414]

sounds like it takes some technique to get down proper :pipe:

was that your first time doing the dry ice? Because if it was I bet you could refine your skills finer and finer

nice looking hash man

~peace

[idahoo]

coolllllll

[Pearrich]

are you using buds or just trim???

[TenaciousT]

great idea man!

[jcreamy420]

too sick...gotta give this a try

[smokiyee]

Looks pretty tasty to me, nice job, how's it smoke?

[Bubbleman]

I could almost bet... that if you made that same bubble with regular ice... you would get much the same product...
I never found using dry ice to produce a nicer product anywa.
However as a thread to view... top notch sauren... very fun to see the photo essay done with dry ice.
First time i used dry ice was years ago with some rene trim and although the hash came out as nice as usual... i didnt find it to be different enough to validate using dry ice each time.

What do you think... compared to your dry ice batch... your non dry ice batchs... much difference?

Be interested to see what you found

Bubble man

[Tamon]

I like to get water real cold 29.7 F in a 5 gal bucket by using ice and crushed dry ice to get the water colder quicker. Then pouring it in the bubble now I've heard one downside to putting it in the machine is that is wears down the material bag quicker.