First time bubble

[ExtractOrSieve]

Hey guys I'm going to attempt my first ice water extraction. Got my 8 bubble bags. 220 micron work bag. 25 micron pressing screen. 5 gal Bubble machine. Micro plane grater. And non stick Teflon cooking sheets.

Going to follow the Matt rize full melt tek but plan on saving the lower grades of bubble for cooking

I plan on doing 2 15 min cycles so half hour of agitation max

[Herbaloaf]

Welcome to Fmb. Sounds like your ready to rock n roll. YOu have the tools to make some real melt. A 15 minute agitagtion is about 3x times too long in my opinion. 3 to 5 minutes on soft setting will yield a much meltier hash. Its been awhile since I have watch the Matt Rize tech. Are you sure he mixes for 15 min? I usually mix 1st run 5 min on soft. 2nd run 5 to 7 min on soft. 3rd run normal wash setting 15 minutes.

[ExtractOrSieve]

Is this website seriously just fullof spammers?

[Bubbleman]

Well we do have a problem with the spammers as of lately as its only me deleting them and i am spending most of my time in the backcountry sledding and snowboarding.. With that said.. no there are actualy hash makers here on this site..
Post up some of your results would love to see what you produced

Peace
Bubble man

[ExtractOrSieve]

Ok guys so i had roughly 1/4lbs of sugar leaves and pop corn buds of ak47 x blue berry. some of it was from an older harvest so we kept them separate and frozen them.

We used homemade ice, had lots of it, and we bought 10 gal of RO water.

The extraction took place in the basement where the temperature never got over 50*F and the RH is right about 30%

We made a drain bucket to hold the bubble bags, and set the bubble machine on a table right next to it.

We first filled the machine up 1/4 way with water and ice.

Then took our older dry trim and layered it in the work bag with ice

Then submerged the work bag in the machine and continued to add ice and water till the bag was fully submerged, the machine was a little more than half way full.

Set the timer for 6 min and let it spin away, after 2 minutes we noticed a lot of frothy white on top which was good.

When the timer stopped we let the water drain into the bubble bags (we used 7 bags 25,45,73,90,120,160,220)

Begin to pull each bag up one at a time, while the water was draining. Used a pump sprayer with ice water to spray down the sides of the bubble bags and collect all the trichs in the middle to be able to scoop easily.

Take the bag over to the collection station and begin to scoop out the hash from the first bag with a tablespoon. After scooping out the hash we laid it in a clump on a pressing screen on top of some paper towels to help wick the water out.

We repeat our steps for all bags.

Now we repeat our process with the next batch of fresh frozen sugar leaves and pop corn bud. We put all 3/4oz (roughly) into the machine, i think we should have split it into two separate runs.

The machine was up to the FULL line after we had filled it up with water and ice. Turned the timer to 6 min and let it do its thing.

Now we drain into the bags again, but this time we decided to fill up the machine wit more water and ice and do another shorter 4 min run while the other bags were still draining.

After 4 min we drain into the bags again.

We noticed alot of hash on the 90 micron i believe it was. THe hash looks pretty good the yield looks good too.

Now its just sitting in the basement temps around 45-50*F with RH at 30% we will leave it there for roughly 24 hours and then start he microplaning/drying/curing process.

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