BUbblenowXl turns 40lbs of trim into 2lbs of bubble, from trim to clear domes!!!
Well , this post has been a long time coming. I have been wanting to get it up on a site for a while, but realy wasnt into > Now with fullmeltbubble up and live, i am stoked to show this one> IT took two guys two days , ten hour shifts to get this done. We rocked about 10 batches a day at a kilo a batch> I won't be showing every single pull , but will show all the trim we started with, all the ice, and the final product. Gonna give some tips throu out the thread, and hopefuly any that i've forgotten can be added by the bubble ambassadors. So lets get started
What does forty lbs of trim look like anyway?
well here's your answer
all the trim was dried, and seperated out by strain> although there were a few batch's we ran that were mixtures of three to four different strains.
Now dont forget ice, you are gonna need plenty of it, so for this run we bought 1500lbs of ice for 300bucks in vancouver and trucked it to our work place.
each bag of ice is 50lbs worth, about four to five times the size of the bags you see at the store
the trim piled up nicely ( ignore those mixers on top we are using the BUBBLENOWXL)
some of the trim upclose
closer still...
Before adding any trim into the buckets first we are gonna add some drains into the bottom of these buckets. It makes for a much easier pull when you can simply drain the majority of the water out the bottom of the bucket. so lets start with that.
we take our twenty gallon bucket and drill a hole in the bottom
I am not sure the name of this tool, but my buddy had a bunch of them lying around, they are used to make holes bigger in wood and plastic. It goes on the outside and inside of the hole you drill. THen with a few turns, it cuts a bigger hole
with a pair of plyers we can easily give it a few turns...
and in just a few turns you will break thru and get yourself a nicely cut hole.
we then screw in our drain. Bought these at home depot for a few bucks, comes with two pieces that screw together with a washer in between
inside the bucket you can see it fits snug against the plastic wall
we had a hose to the drain with a tap that we can easily turn on and off, and we are done
two buckets with drains and a BUBBLENOWXL and we are ready to start filling the bags.
the BUBBLENOWXL is ready to go
another shot of the BUBBLENOWXL
I didnt have my large all screen barrel shaped bags at the time of this run, ( they are in stock now), so i used four of the five gallon ones. with 200 grams into each bag, we did average runs of 800 grams. I set the scale up so i could make sure we didnt over full the bags.
a nice little bonus on using dry trim for this run, each bag we filled with trim we noticed if we gave it a little bump on the scale it would drop half a gram of nice dry sift. So we were collecting lots of dry sift thru out the run.
Once we got four of them filled up we could move onto the ice
The ice has to go INSIDE The all screen bags, so it can do its job of bashing up against the trim in order to knock the heads off their little plant body prisons.
all full of ice and ready to close up the zippers,
Now take your cold water hose, and fill up the BUBBLENOWXL
once you have the water a little more than half filled , you can throw your all screen bags in.
Top the water up to the top, and start her up> I put this batch at 15minutes of mixing.
Now its time to pull our bags down and add them to the bucket, The order is as follows
25 PURPLE BAG, 45 WHITE BAG, 73 YELLOW BAG, 90 BLACK BAG , 120 ORANGE BAG, 160 RED BAG, 220 BAG i Left out the 190u for these runs, as we were collecting both the 190u and 160 together in order to give to a friend who cooks for med patients
I still use my 220 work bag even though the all screen barrel shaped bubblenow bags are 220u, i figure in case any leaf makes it way out of the bag, you' can catch it in your 220 bag. The BUBBLENOWXL unlike the five gallon unit has a PUMP that allows you to simply turn the dial and the water pumps out the BUBBLENOWXL and into your bags. So you just set up the bags next to the bubblenow and let her drain.
A Nice colour water draining out is always a good sign of good things to come..
If this isnt your first batch of bubble, and you have bubbletools such as scarper as well as your last 25u bag, that needs to be cleaned this is a perfect place to clean those tools, so we can catch all those lost heads in the next batch of bags to be pulled
Rinsing your 25u bag into the new bags will save lost heads
fifteen minutes later and no need to settle or anything, just start pulling the bags out, starting with of course the 220 bag.
Once you've pulled a bag its best to clean it right away. dont put it down and start doing other things, take this bag and clean it. flip it inside out..
and rinse it with cold water
then hang the bag to dry properly
also take the all screen barrell bags and clean them getting as much of the spent trim out as possible.
Next we have our 160 bag ready to pull
a little chunk of some lower grade stuff, that my friend will be stoked to cook with.
we used a five gallon bag to sit the twenty gallon bag bottoms on to make for easy scooping. The bags are heavy duty and hold themselves up nicely
