Ok, the results!
Rolled up to Daves and gifted him a care package, he helped me out with some excel stuff at work. I gave him the rest of my paper towel/ hash. 3 nice nugs from a harvest that's been curing for close to 2 months, sticky and frosty and a 40 mg brownie. I loaded up the bowl and put a nice piece of 25 micron hash on top. We both had a bowl and a few minutes later HELLO!!! We set up the Ping Pong Table and put some tunes on.
30 minutes later it was time to smoke again, I loaded up another small bowl and put a small little ball of hash (160) on top, again we each smoked a bowl. I found the 160 to not be as good as the the 25, didn't seem to get me much higher.
Again we waited a while and then smoked the 73. Dave couldn't even finish the bowl, first time he's ever handed me a partially ripped bowl, that says something cause Dave has amazing tolerance, at least in my opinion he does, makes me look like a rookie. Anyway, I finished off the bowl but I think he smoked most of the hash. I did get some decent hits though.
From what I'd read the 25 micron should have been shit but it was The Shit! Stoney from the word go, a bit of a delay which is what this strain has been since day 1 of my first smoke, back in June when I first sampled it. The 160 is supposedly second best compared to the 73 that was not my experience and Dave agreed. The 73 though, it smacked Dave after one hit which is enough for me to say it's good stuff.
The reason for the assessments of the grades is the size of the resin glands. 73 is the optimal size for gathering the majority of what falls of the plant material during the stirring / mutilating process. The 160 is only catching the larger glands and any other material caught by the 220 work bag.
The 25 is the flip side of the 160 it's catching the smaller bits that fall through the 73 micron screen. I found it to be pretty stoney.
I know that my verification method of these grades is rudimentary so I'm going to have to smoke more.
The next time I smoke though I'll be vaping it. I will do my best to try equal samples of each and then just rank the grades on a scale of 1-10 based on how baked it makes me feel. I think the bottom line is that it is all good, and it just depends on how much you'll need to smoke.
Next time I make some I'll do a photo follow along for you guys. One thing I definitely learned is that you always do a second run. It felt like the second run yielded another 30% on top of the initial cycle.
You know it's funny, as I was making the hash I was thinking to myself, "I just dumped an ounce of top grade home grown into a bucket of ice and mashed it into chunks of wet green lumps! What the fuck were you thinking?" Of course shortly after my thoughts were, "I just harvested close to 3 ounces of the same top quality home grown and it's likely better than what I just mashed up..."
I hit the vape and kept on going...
Go make some hash!!!!!!
