Congrats on the hash haul!Greetings all and a belated happy Easter to all of you who celebrate it! Not a lot going on worth talking about but I did do a dry ice hash run on some old and new stuff, so that can be my Tuesday afternoon update.
First off, the Queen G auto 2 with the mold settled at 62% in the turkey bag, so I weighed it:
That's 105g or 3.7 ounces, so not as much as the one where I didn't cut it down to just 8 colas. That's not my normal style anyway and it does work for a lot of folks, but not for me. I can say it had a very sweet and fruity scent to it.
Next stop for those flowers was the oven on a baking tray. I ran them for 20 minutes at 175ºF (lowest my new oven goes), but then I decide to do another 30 minutes at 200º. Not enough to decarb but hopefully no mold survives at that temp.
And from there it got sent to -109ºF when I converted it to dry ice hash!
My son and I picked up 10lbs of dry ice, grabbed a 73 micron hash bag, and ran four batches of flower from mostly old stock. I ground it up loosely (not too fine) first, and for the record, here are the four batches:
• Sour G from 10/7/19 and droughted Sour G from 11/14/21
• Doug's Varin (no THCV) from 4/29/22 and Durban Poison from 2/21/21
• PowerPlant from 10/3/20 and Purple Urkle from 10/15/22
• Queen G auto 2 from 3/29/24
We shook for less time than we did a year ago to make sure we didn't get plant material (if it even goes through a 73 mesh screen...dunno), and we tried shaking it into a plastic bag as @GratefulBud explained, but the cold split the bag in a few seconds, so we went back to using the mirror (seen here from my last go when we used 120 micron).
Here are the results:
I didn't weigh flower vs hash so I have no idea about yield, but I do know that it's difficult to use the color change method for knowing when to stop shaking if you're working with older flower since it's brown to start with as you can see in the pic. The only blonde hash was from the brand new QGa2.
It's drying in a closet with a mini-dehuey at the moment because @HashFart said dryer was better. That's a great smelling closet for sure!
On the Candida seed making front, it's flip day 10 and there are neither pistils nor balls yet, so I'm still spraying every 3 nights. As I recall, Candidas are slower to flower than other plants (@Heavenly Hybrid might be able to confirm that since she's grown them more recently than I have). Either way...we'll see soon I hope.
Thanks for stopping by!
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Thanks Grateful! I have much more fun growing outside (I'd have more next to a pool) but I found growing only inside kind of a drag.
Thank you Boo! All are well. My daughter and her BF are off camping for the week and my son went back up to school yesterday, and we're back to being empty nesters until mid-May.
I was wondering if a turkey bag would freeze and split while trying to make dry ice hash and now I know. I still like the concept of shaking the 73micron bag into larger bag. Less of a mess. Or I need as larger mirror.
CL
to my perpetual grow journal! I didn't trust myself to know when the first run should end and the second run begin so I'm sure there were trichomes in what went into the green bin, but since I'm mostly clearing out 2+ year-old jars I can't worry about it. The short shake of the 105g of Queen G auto produced as much nice blonde hash as two jars of the older stuff.
CL
? You could maybe start with schleping 101 and then move on to the more advanced levels. CL