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Re: Xlr8's Hydroponic Adventures and Photos from the Garden - 2012
Thanks for going out of your way to look that up for me. I really appreciate that brother!
Awesome man, thanks!
Nice, I am so psyched to try it!
The chart really helps me - nice!
Thanks for going out of your way to look that up for me. I really appreciate that brother!
Awesome man, thanks!
I would use the 220 mesh. Maybe I am wrong but isn't 220 micons smaller than 80? My 220 Micron bubble bag is from a 5 bag set and this bag was the second to finest mesh bag. I don't like keif. With the 220 micron all I got was yellow trichome hash. Killer.
My bag would not fit over any 5 gallon buckets that I had. So I used a small round rubber maid garbage can. I used bungie ties to secure really good. Worked great. Within minutes I was smoking hash.
Also, I could not find the dry ice pellets. I bought a block of ice and carefully broke it into small pieces using an ice pick and some rubber gloves.
Nice, I am so psyched to try it!
The chart really helps me - nice!
Xlr8: No, get the a bag that is between 65 and 80 microns... 110 is very fast, but you get plant material very quickly into your triches reducing the purity of your hash in a hurry.
Closet Farmer, I think you have the US MESH confused with microns... they are NOT the same 220MESH bag is actually .067mm or 67 microns... 220 microns is actually .22mm, 110 is .11mm, and 80 microns is .08mm. It's not like "Guage" where the bigger the number, the smaller the diameter, or the US MESH that gets smaller in diameter as the number rises.
Thank you for clarifying! I was confused with US Mesh and Microns. By your chart I am actully using the 67 microns which is perfect.
I just use the second to last bag from my 5 bag kit. I will never used the other bags again. Making bubble bag hash is very tiresome and time consuming. And the only Hash that is smokable is what goes through the second to last bag and ends up in the last bag. Now that I have microns and US Mesh figured out. I would like to find a metal 70 micron screen. I noticed some hairs come off the nylon mesh.
Yes, I'm psyched about the SLH. She sounds so so good to me. My wife is really excited about this one too. She loves the "lemony" flavor of our Jack the Ripper just harvested, which tastes more lemony by the day. It was almost cherry/lemon then lemon/cherry, no mostly lemon. Funny how the flavors and aromas mature as the cure progresses, and sometimes really change (sometimes not so much either).
It appears the best dry ice hash can be attained either through about 100 micron or finer. OR, you can also get the fine hash using a larger micron bag (not as fine) because the best material comes out first, and the quality will go down with "time" as far as how long you shake/work it. The best example I saw of this, in practice, was a guy with a 220 micron bag that used a long glass table to "shake" the material out onto. As he shook the bags, he moved down the table. The best material was where he started, and the worst where he finished. One benefit of dry ice extraction is that the larger bags will work as long as you are mindful of having a strategy to collect the pollen in stages in order to keep the best material separate - since the higher grade material will separate out first naturally.
Having said all that, I'm thinking of going with (1), possibly (2) bags purchased individually. I'm thinking of going with a 70-90 micron bag, but might also pick up a 160 to play around with for the lesser grade material. I'm also thinking of doing "All Mesh" bags versus the ones that have the solid sides. I've found a couple of places that sell what appear to be decent bags for about $18-20 per bag sold individually - which seems like a totally great price to me.
Any opinions on the all mesh bags vs. the others? Thanks again you guys for the insight. Let me know if I'm off base with my thinking on this. +rep to all who weighed in on it (if I haven't repped someone too recently).
