Some favorite FULL MELT shots from over the last few months

[DJ Nikka T]

BLACK SYN Macro shot
http://i53.tinypic.com/6h2vpl.jpg
Photo by Paul Tokin

BLACK SYN Chunk
http://i56.tinypic.com/1z5iweq.jpg
Photo by Paul Tokin

Boston Bling
http://i51.tinypic.com/5ze6o5.jpg
Photo by Paul Tokin

Jack Fruit
http://i51.tinypic.com/6dsfw6.jpg
Photo by Paul Tokin

NYC Diesel
http://i56.tinypic.com/2gw7q8n.jpg
(Photo by Joe Rothberger)




(There were no solvents used in the making of this product)

[Green Supreme]

Nice lookin piles. Thanks for sharing. Peace GS

[ogPringle]

Pretty Stuff

[d0rk2dafullest]

looks like really good true melt. cept for the last one.

[Bubbleman]

Hey dude..great shots...to the photographer.. stoked to see some phatty dank bubble shots..

Gve thanks for sharing indeed

Peace
Bubble man

[DJ Nikka T]

the last one was super tasty, thats why i added it. Plus, it did melt like crazy too! The Pic just didnt do it as much justice as the others...

[santacruzhashman]

jeez that first pic is insane...

[DJ Nikka T]

Give thanks Santacruzhashman! One of my favorite batches I churned up! Black Hashplant, Cindy 99 & NYC Diesel. The citrus notes from the NYC and and the earthiness of the Cindy 99 really came thru in the flavor and smell. Terpenes for days!

[DJ Nikka T]

Here are a few more from over the last few weeks. Give thanks once again to Paul Tokin for the great pics. And thank u Bubbleman for letting me share. Blessings on this new year.

Lemon Kush 70 Micron Solvent-less Wax
http://i56.tinypic.com/wsqd3.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/wsqd3/7
http://tinypic.com/r/14o6879/7http://i53.tinypic.com/2m4uib5.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/eitbas/7
http://tinypic.com/r/2m4uib5/7http://i52.tinypic.com/14o6879.jpg

Sour Kush 70 Micron Solvent-less Oil
http://tinypic.com/r/29g1rsw/7http://i51.tinypic.com/30nbuvp.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/30nbuvp/7
http://i56.tinypic.com/23lfxnn.jpg

http://tinypic.com/r/23lfxnn/7

Sour Kush 120 Micron solvent-less Wax/Oil
http://i55.tinypic.com/x42ply.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/x42ply/7
http://tinypic.com/r/ev8ci8/7http://i54.tinypic.com/2ptys92.jpg
http://tinypic.com/r/2vtd1sm/7

[CthulhuMelt]

I want some!

[Juicepuddle]

Wow nikka T, those shots are delicious looking, love how it looks so waxy even though its solventless

[DJ Nikka T]

Give thanks guys! More pics comin weekly!!! and some new videos too!

[BigManNew]

*Spills coffee* (damnit not again!)

I would love to try some of that oil or wax mainly because no solvents were used and secondly it looks amazing. /clap

[bighaze420]

very nice pics bro, thanks for sharing with us.. what did you use to make that?

[DJ Nikka T]

Ice, water, gentle agitation and a few tricks of the trade...

[Juicepuddle]

Ice, water, gentle agitation and a few tricks of the trade...

I was wondering if you can do this with any high grade strain? Or do you need fire? Obviously the strain makes a difference in the appearance, do lesser strains or strains that have been grown worse still produce the melty stuff? Or do most strains half melt or something?

[HumboldtSmoka420]

I was wondering if you can do this with any high grade strain? Or do you need fire? Obviously the strain makes a difference in the appearance, do lesser strains or strains that have been grown worse still produce the melty stuff? Or do most strains half melt or something?

Strain and growing medium matter also nutrients and all that! Indoor is better than outdoor, care taken in transporting and storage..................soooooo many things have to come together to make perfect melt, its a science for real! Gotta constantly improve your methods my friend, thats the key!

[DJ Nikka T]

I have been able to get atleast one layer to be Full Melt with no matter what trim i use.. Granted, i havent used any garbage material unless its covered in trichs, but i only use trim and larf, no buds and no fans...

[HumboldtSmoka420]

I have been able to get atleast one layer to be Full Melt with no matter what trim i use.. Granted, i havent used any garbage material unless its covered in trichs, but i only use trim and larf, no buds and no fans...

Yeah I know what you mean, how long of a mix do you do?

[DJ Nikka T]

Really depends.... some 1.5 minutes, some 9 min.. some 12 and 15 minutes... depends on how much moisture and how frozen it is to start with...

[HumboldtSmoka420]

Really depends.... some 1.5 minutes, some 9 min.. some 12 and 15 minutes... depends on how much moisture and how frozen it is to start with...

Most def, would love to try some of that man! Maybe if im eever that way

[DJ Nikka T]

For Sure! Anytime! Here's a pic of one trick used... LIVING PLANTS
This end product must be kept in the freezer...


LIVE Solvent-less Skywalker OG Oil (Hand mixed w/ bamboo pole)
http://i53.tinypic.com/jttl5z.jpg

[Juicepuddle]

Oh man I always thought about extraction from a live plant, why are you so awesome nikka T?! That stuff looks DANK, loving the color, hows the smoke?

[DJ Nikka T]

Still drying... Ill let u know how it smokes when its done. I cant wait, but it looks like this will take awhile to dry out completely, because i could barely get it off of the bags...

[Juicepuddle]

Yeah it looks so gloopy

[tokinGLX]

took some pictures today of nikkas hashes. will let him explain more about them, i just wanted to upload the pics here in their full sized glory. all of my pictures taken with a 10 megapixel canon powershot a1000is. cropped and/or resized. this first batch is the skywalker og live run

[tokinGLX]

these next shots are the strain hong kong

[DJ Nikka T]

Give thanks Tokin! Great shots today!!! Your pics do my LIVE Skywalker OG Solvent-less Oil waay better justice than mine do.

[YukonBikerGuy]

Its wet hash. Nice and gooey from being extracted from fresh undried trichomes, which may be at least partially ruptured. But it is not oil, and you do yourself a disservice calling it so. I have produced the same goey product, but its still hash. IMHO

Try these:

Take some of your solventless oil, and dab it on a clean TI pad.... how much residue is left on the pad after?

Spread some of your solventless oil in a thin layer on a plate or somesuch, and leave it alone, exposed to the air in a dry dark room temprature place for a long while... say a month or more.... is it still sticky the same way, or has it turned into more of a pile of dryer hash?

Take some super macro shots of your solventless oil, to show the lack of physical debris, that differentiate this from hash. Oh. And please post them. :)

Color me interested. I'm sure its a really tasty smoke for sure... I'd hit it.

2 cents
YBG

[Juicepuddle]

Hey tokin cool to see you posting her man, been watching your show almost a year now XD you bitched at me on the comments one time it was hilarious.

Those pics looks fantastic, I wish I could find this quality in SF area but I just suck or its not here :( I would pay over 60 a gram for that shit!!!!

[DJ Nikka T]

thanks for sharin the pics MAtt! That Blackberry Kush looks so tasty!

[HumboldtSmoka420]

Its wet hash. Nice and gooey from being extracted from fresh undried trichomes, which may be at least partially ruptured. But it is not oil, and you do yourself a disservice calling it so. I have produced the same goey product, but its still hash. IMHO

Try these:

Take some of your solventless oil, and dab it on a clean TI pad.... how much residue is left on the pad after?

Spread some of your solventless oil in a thin layer on a plate or somesuch, and leave it alone, exposed to the air in a dry dark room temprature place for a long while... say a month or more.... is it still sticky the same way, or has it turned into more of a pile of dryer hash?

Take some super macro shots of your solventless oil, to show the lack of physical debris, that differentiate this from hash. Oh. And please post them. :)

Color me interested. I'm sure its a really tasty smoke for sure... I'd hit it.

2 cents
YBG

Well said YBG, especially the part about wanting to hit it :D

[DJ Nikka T]

Its wet hash. Nice and gooey from being extracted from fresh undried trichomes, which may be at least partially ruptured. But it is not oil, and you do yourself a disservice calling it so. I have produced the same goey product, but its still hash. IMHO

Try these:

Take some of your solventless oil, and dab it on a clean TI pad.... how much residue is left on the pad after?

Spread some of your solventless oil in a thin layer on a plate or somesuch, and leave it alone, exposed to the air in a dry dark room temprature place for a long while... say a month or more.... is it still sticky the same way, or has it turned into more of a pile of dryer hash?

Take some super macro shots of your solventless oil, to show the lack of physical debris, that differentiate this from hash. Oh. And please post them.

Color me interested. I'm sure its a really tasty smoke for sure... I'd hit it.

2 cents
YBG

First of all, To me, the terms are just subjective. I make a nice healthy Solvent-less extracted cannabis product for my patients, call it hash, call it oil, call it wax, I personally dont really care. A friend called my product "solvent-less Oil" once, and i liked the sound of it. But, to answer your questions just for fun YBG, here it goes...

1. When smoked on a nail, or TI Pad, or whatever concentrate utensil you prefer, there is little to no residue left behind when smoking most all of my FULL MELT "solvent-less hash/oil/wax"...

2. It really depends on which of my hashes or "oils" we are talking about, but I would say most of them "wax" up very similarly to most BHO oils. For example, When I used to run solvent oils back in the day, I would say after leaving them out in open air, without even whipping them, 50% of strains or more would wax up slightly or fully. Some of the "solvent-less hash/oil" that I make stays in an oil form for ever... As Im sure you are aware, a lot of this depends on the strain and growing medium even.. Some of mine will even "shard" up into amber chrystals and when touched by the human hand (98.6 degress F) it will turn into oil again...

3. Working on the "closer" macro shots. I have some macros, but cant seem to get closer pics right now. I did just purchase some USB microscopes that should come in handy once i get the hang of em. More pics to come for sure...

Plus, Im in Colorado right now, where we have a very dry climate. Whenever I used to make my product in Cali, 90% of the time it would stay an oil and I would even have to keep it in the freezer to maneuver it at all.. even after letting it sit out in a dark, cool environment for up to 3 weeks... *hint : environment humidity is one of the keys to my end product.

So, all in all, I would say that this "trade" is very subjective; in description words for "hash", atmosphere, and even strain set...

Dont BHO makers use one product with one strain to create "oil" , "wax" , "budder" , "glass" , etc. Just by utilizing different ways of shooting their tane, scraping it, and/or drying/freezing/curing it, they come up with different end products.

I see it very similarly, especially in a marketing sense, except, I DONT use butane, alcohol, hexane, C02, or any other solvents in my process. Which, I thought all of you would appreciate, rather than knock..

Hope this helped clear up my reasoning for calling my product whatever my patients want to call it.

Blessings everytime.

NT

[HumboldtSmoka420]

First of all, To me, the terms are just subjective. I make a nice healthy Solvent-less extracted cannabis product for my patients, call it hash, call it oil, call it wax, I personally dont really care. A friend called my product "solvent-less Oil" once, and i liked the sound of it. But, to answer your questions just for fun YBG, here it goes...

1. When smoked on a nail, or TI Pad, or whatever concentrate utensil you prefer, there is little to no residue left behind when smoking most all of my FULL MELT "solvent-less hash/oil/wax"...

2. It really depends on which of my hashes or "oils" we are talking about, but I would say most of them "wax" up very similarly to most BHO oils. For example, When I used to run solvent oils back in the day, I would say after leaving them out in open air, without even whipping them, 50% of strains or more would wax up slightly or fully. Some of the "solvent-less hash/oil" that I make stays in an oil form for ever... As Im sure you are aware, a lot of this depends on the strain and growing medium even.. Some of mine will even "shard" up into amber chrystals and when touched by the human hand (98.6 degress F) it will turn into oil again...

3. Working on the "closer" macro shots. I have some macros, but cant seem to get closer pics right now. I did just purchase some USB microscopes that should come in handy once i get the hang of em. More pics to come for sure...

Plus, Im in Colorado right now, where we have a very dry climate. Whenever I used to make my product in Cali, 90% of the time it would stay an oil and I would even have to keep it in the freezer to maneuver it at all.. even after letting it sit out in a dark, cool environment for up to 3 weeks... *hint : environment humidity is one of the keys to my end product.

So, all in all, I would say that this "trade" is very subjective; in description words for "hash", atmosphere, and even strain set...

Dont BHO makers use one product with one strain to create "oil" , "wax" , "budder" , "glass" , etc. Just by utilizing different ways of shooting their tane, scraping it, and/or drying/freezing/curing it, they come up with different end products.

I see it very similarly, especially in a marketing sense, except, I DONT use butane, alcohol, hexane, C02, or any other solvents in my process. Which, I thought all of you would appreciate, rather than knock..

Hope this helped clear up my reasoning for calling my product whatever my patients want to call it.

Blessings everytime.

NT



Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa but its MISLEADING marketing!

[DJ Nikka T]

I am not misleading people at all. Making solvent products would be misleading by saying that they are medically safe and sound. I am just making my product without use of chemicals and some fans have labeled it as they have seen fit. I make a solvent-less hash. if some choose to call it a "solvent-less oil", because it stays in oil form, looks like an oil and smokes like an oil, why should i stop them from calling it an oil? Seems like fair standard practice promoting of an extracted cannabis product to me... Subjective once again, wouldnt you think?

[CthulhuMelt]

^I honestly can not see how DJ Nikka T's logic could be more sensible. Very clearly stated point with rational reasoning for the labeling.

On another note. I would LOVE to try your "solventless hash oil" nikka t, looks mighty fine to me!

[DJ Nikka T]

Bubba OG Solvent-less Wax (Essential Extracts)
http://i56.tinypic.com/20j03lc.jpg

Bubba OG Solvent-less Wax (Essential Extracts)
http://i51.tinypic.com/o73k90.jpg

Hong Kong Solvent-less Oil (Essential Extracts)
http://i51.tinypic.com/15zqbvc.jpg

Master Bubba OG Solvent-less Wax (Essential Extracts)
http://i56.tinypic.com/adzw21.jpg

OG Kush Solvent-less Wax (Essential Extracts)
http://i55.tinypic.com/okoeaq.jpg

Skywalker OG Solvent-less Wax Cannabis Cup Entry (Photo by Kind Reviews)
http://i53.tinypic.com/8yfa0n.jpg

Super Sour OG Solvent-less Wax (Essential Extracts)
http://i51.tinypic.com/k0ggn9.jpg

[skunky1971]

It all looks so fudge like, buttery and mouthwatering:)

[AlexParadis]

DJ Nikka T if your product is hash you should educate your patient and teach them the difference between an extraction process and water hash, because its really two different thing . As oil is different from wax and from budder. oil > fresh or oily cannabis extract wax > cured on wax paper so the ending product is flat and flexible and you can see through, still look like honey . budder > oil in contact with air, look like dry hash.

[CthulhuMelt]

budder and wax are still oil...as you stated...just altered. budder is whipped, wax has tane in it or is strain specific, like for instance i for one know Afgoo to be a very WAXY plant and my oils always show so.

[time2shine]

nice pics nikka thanks for posting.

[AlexParadis]

CthulhuMelt budder is different from oil , especially the high . All cannabinoid degrade to an other compound while expose to heat , uva or oxygene . so your budder will be different than your oil . the reason why your oil became budder by itself is because you let it degrade , and your oily oil may be fulll of contaminant that s why it stay in the same form. put your oil in a vaccum seal jar , a little under room temp and hide it from the uva ray, this way your oil never change.

[CthulhuMelt]

my oil doesnt become budder by itself...FUCK BUDDER! air + oil = degraged oil a.k.a budder.

Solar Vac Purging FTMFW!!!! shatter you can hold in your hands EVERY TIME!

[salad931]

thought id get us back to the mull felt..

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b195/samcare/DSC_0212.jpg

some blackberry kush too(i think i saw somone else throw some up here)

[DJ Nikka T]

yeah, where did all the tane talk come from? my product is not made using solvents... give thanks Salad931.

[AlexParadis]

DJ Nikka T now i hope your patient are going to call your product "full melt" or essential oil , not solvent free wax ...

[CthulhuMelt]

bump^

mmmm... /mewants

[Hieronymus Bosch]

It is a bummer that everyone seems more concerned with what to call it than rather than how god damned delicious it looks. Excellent work!
It seems like the definition we have for hash oil is archaic and does not take into account extracts that don't use solvents but seemingly possess the physical properties of an oil.

[Daveytree]

Wow, these shots all look so good -- I'm a long time grower but a bubble bag newbie... I'm about 10 batches in and trying to refine the process, so thanks for all the tips y'all are sharing.

One question about the product seen on this thread: what's curing like? I would guess it's pretty much the same as any other bubble hash (let it dry for several days in a clean, dark, dry environment?). Clearly it doesn't need to be pressed at all... just wondering what the deal is with that.

Thanks!

[DJ Nikka T]

A beautiful Melt video of our LAV HAZE shot by Paul Tokin.. Let me know what yall think

tokin daily: ssh+lav haze+hitman= - YouTube

[Juicepuddle]

I think I would kill to get that in the bay :)

Looks very very choice nickaT

[bighaze420]

nice pics and videos dj, paul, and rize!!! bless

[shmalphy]

Nikka T, that looks BOMB. Truly something to aspire to.

I have been working on making bubble for awhile, I use subcool's tek and get good results with popcorn when I use Bubba Kush or Deep Funk (Deep Chunk x SourD) that I have smoked next to the budder king wax everyone raves about, and everyone agreed that mine was better. This was on a ti plate, and mine left little or no residue, which had many people amazed. It was fully cured tho, and made with fresh frozen product.

I am trying to step it up to the next level, and I am interested in the live plant process, if you could elaborate a little on that. I get the basic idea, but I was hoping to get any input you could offer based on experience.

I agree, this AAA quality extract needs a name to differentiate it, whether it's solvent-less oil, or ice wax doesn't matter, it is an accurate description of the process and physical properties. To be honest though, you could call it shit pudding and I would still smoke because it looks so damn good!

At any rate, keep up the good work, and keep posting mouth watering shots.

[DJ Nikka T]

If it will make the people on this site happy, call my product "Water Hash Nikka T's tech" if u really want, but i feel as tho i have taken techs from everyone to create what i use today, so im not looking for the credit in the name of my process... I really dont care what people call it, i just know our patients need it and they like knowing its solvent free and who processed it. Its also very difficult to give you an exact step by step process, because for each strain, grow medium, grower tech, nute line, size of plant, and so many other variables, we process material differently. For a very simple example, if we are running some dry Master Kush from our warehouse, we will use a specific washing machine with a specific time and temp with specific screen sizes inna specific order. Compared to if we are running some Fresh Frozen Sour Diesel X Deep Chunk from another client's warehouse, we would run it in a completely different machine that agitates a bit harder at a lower temperature, etc.... Feel me on why i havent written a complete how-to yet?

As far as the LIVE PLANT process.. thats a whole other story and process. A good story at that....

So, as soon as I started posting my pictures of "solvent-less Wax" on facebook, a man most of the community knows and loathes, immediately began commenting with "None of this stuff looks natural" and "This is garbage" and many other slanderous things he has since erased on my pictures and in messages.... But one of the things that did stand out in what he said was this; "I use LIVE plants...u cant come close to me in flavor taste and aroma" haha.. So I replied with, "I prefer using fresh frozen material myself, is that what you mean by "LIVE"?" He then replied with a simple "yes." However, it got me thinking and that is why I owe this little trick to Joe P... Not because of any intellect he shared with me, but just his "simple" word choices such as "LIVE". So, I wanted to take it a step further than just "fresh frozen"...

It just so happened that the warehouse growers were doin a little R&D on a row of Skywalker plants and sent the whole row into the start of some weird re-veg state. After inspecting the trichomes wit the scope, as I like to do before processing a new product we havent worked with before, I realized there were still developed trichome heads, so we argreed to let me process the whole row before they finished cycle. Thus processing fairly clear resin glands.. However, there was no way we were gonna be able to fit that amount of product in a freezer and why was my warehouse gonna pay trimmers to break it down if it was useless as flowers for the shop? So.....I decided to take Joe P up on his challenge of true "LIVE" plant extraction. (It made sense to me, the less I agitate my material generally, the better my product is, so if the material is still growing and alive, it must make an even cleaner product!-I thought to myself)

We then created a huge Ice bath within a large water drum still maintaining our optimal temperature for this strain and batch without having our mixture freeze solid. And immediately, we starting hand churning with bamboo poles as we brought whole immature plants one by one into the mixture removing them and adding another in rotations of about 6 minutes... (I know, as soon as they hit the water, they are pretty dead..but this is as close as we could get to LIVE considering they are alive when they hit the mixture) Remember, we are about quality not quantity. After finishing the row of 30 plants, we filtered the water thru our large screens ranging in microns. Removed water from the resins quickly and tried to break it down to dry after barely being able to remove it from the screens, but we realized that cutting oil was an impossible task, however, we also realized that we cant just trap the moisture in, or we would lose a lot of the flavor, clear/golden translucent appearance and amazing smell, so this is what we did. We took the gooey oil mounds and created a parchment paper fold, placed the parchment paper containing the resins inside individual ziplock bags and immediately put all of the product in a deep freezer. A few minutes later, since this freezer is pretty immediate action, we were able to remove the bags, smash them with a hammer and quickly place them back into the freezer. After doing this quite a few more times, we were able to turn the oil into tiny shards of glass looking resins when laid out on large pieces of parchment to increase surface area. This is where it gets tricky... At room temperature this stuff just lays down like oil and will eventually dry out further or possibly trap moisture in if left alone, ruining the appearance, smell & taste, etc.. So, we must bring the temp and humidity of our environment down for this particular LIVE style of processing. Remember when i mentioned the longer you let the product (hash and plant material) sit submerged in water, the less terpenoids you will retain? Often times "LIVE" material is so sticky its hard to remove all of the water immediately, while also allowing it to be broken down to increase surface area... In order to get the water out with ease and quickness, you must bring the temp and humidity down in your room. Not quite freezing tho, or u will trap moisture... After a few weeks (and a huge power bill to keep temps that low for that long) your product will be ready for your patients to consume... Theres a little "how-to" for ya... and a story to make it a little more interesting... We have since run more LIving immature plants in this manor and achieved very similar oily results...

[shmalphy]

Very interesting. I have the Sour D x Deep Chunk. I love it for bubble. We call it Deep Funk...

A few questions:

* I am intrigued by the idea of using different methods for different starting material. Would you say warmer, shorter runs for dryer material, so the leaf soaks up more and breaks down less? And colder, longer runs for fresher? Or is each case a matter of trial and error?
*Are you basically saying that you are only doing the live plants because you don't have the freezer space? Would you say based on the live plant runs that fresh unfrozen is better if it can be made immediately, or just an option for when freezing is not possible?

Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.

[LazyHippie]

Hey Nik,
Thanks for taking the time to post us that information, really really appreciated.

"If it will make the people on this site happy"
Haha it did make me happy bro :smoke3:

Peace