HASHISH MANUFACTURING VERY SMALL TIME

 Hashish, made from bits of left over sugar leaf and broken bud and what ever glans heads can be scooped up, or scraped off of a table top which has been used for trimming can be separated from broken leaf and stem by screening through a 80 micron polyester or silk screen. The stems should be removed as much as possible before the product to be screened is scissored till it is the consistency of  tea leaves or sawdust.

It is preferable to place the entire hash making appliance with the scissored product on it in the freezer. 

       

Any sort of bowl which has a sturdy tight fitting top can be used, most of the center of the top is cut out.


The parchment paper will be seen in later photographs lining the bottom of the bowl.

Silicon parchment paper made for baking is inexpensive, readily available and essential as a surface which will not adhere to glans heads.

Silicon parchment paper is ideal to store hash.

Silicon parchment paper is essential to manufacture screened hash, to press squeeze and store concentrates.

Silicon parchment can be seen lining the bottom of this bowl which is stainless steel and ideal.

The 80 micron polyester screen which is used to top the hash making bowl appliance can be seen in the photograph above and can be purchased at artist's supply stores, blueprint supply stores and at specialty stores catering to hobbyists or growers.

The destemmed and scissored sugar leaf and bits of broken bud with any glans heads that could be collected is placed on top of the polyester screen.

In this photograph the polyester screen can be seen placed on top of the parchment paper lined bowl with the cut out top forming a retaining ring. There are other methods of securing a polyester screen to the top of a collecting container. It is advisable to have the silicon parchment paper extending up and over the sides of the bowl or collecting container and retained by the ring which holds the polyester screen in place. A sturdy plastic credit card is a fine tool to use to rub the product through the polyester screen.


                                                                                    
                                                                                                                          

Above is the credit card being used as it would to rub the frozen scissored destemmed product on and through the 80 micron polyester or silk screen.

To the right is an example of how the credit card would be used vertically to stir and to mound up the product to rub it through the screen again as demonstrated in the picture above.  






The credit card can be used as a scoop or shovel to carefully remove the undesirable material which did not go through the 80 micron screen.

In the bottom the bowl, in the non stick nest of parchment paper liner will be a drift of green, white or gold glans heads. Pick up the parchment paper carefully over a table top surface, fold it and pour the screened product into a smaller piece of silicon parchment paper.  Use the credit card to scrape the liner parchment paper carefully and pour that in with the rest of your screened glans heads.

The resulting product can be made into hash, using a heated press, heating it in a cocoon of parchment paper and then aluminum foil and pressing it with a gluing clamp or making it into a little bindle which you place in the bottom of your shoe under your heel for a few hours.  All of these methods will create really fine hashish.

                                                           MARIJUANA  TRIMMING

Marijuana buds should be partially trimmed before they are dried. The final product will taste better and dry properly if the large leaves and stems are removed before drying.

I toured a marijuana breeding facility recently and a bud was obtained of each of fourteen  varieties of marijuana.


The spring return scissors and rubber gloves are essential equipment. Gloves can be removed and dried crushed glans heads which is a charas type hash can be collected from gloves and scissors.

Trimming your personally produced and consumed marijuana does not have to be as exacting as the production of product for sale. As long as the bulk of the large leaves and small leaves which would interfere with drying are removed the marijuana can be placed on a screen and subjected to gentle heat and air movement. Specialty stores have many sizes of drying screens which hang one atop the other to accomplish drying efficiently in a small space.

Some commercial operators use various types of trimming machines. Expensive automatic trimming machines maybe effective for certain parts of some breeds of marijuana. hand trimming can more thoroughly remove small bits of stem which are embedded in the buds. Hand trimmed marijuana might command a premium price due to higher cost and higher quality product.  

SQUEEZE

HOW TO MAKE SQUEEZE

Squeeze is made by pressing, with great pressure, marijuana buds which are rolled into a pencil shape, moistened during the rolling process and then heated to about 230 * F. in between sheets of silicone parchment baking paper.     The squeezing process can be repeated.

A glass cylinder rim or special glass rod is  used to roll off the squeeze. The squeeze which is primarily melted glans heads, is rich in THC and Turpenes.  A razor blade scraping at a sharp angle is used to remove the squeeze which can be vaporized in many commercially manufactured appliances.

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