Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:19 PM

Water Hash or “Bubble” as its known as by almost any grower is one of the real rare pleasures of the hobby. When made properly from 100% Organic high grade Cannabis the results are simply amazing.

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Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:23 PM

I have a unique method that produces amazing quality Bubble that requires little more than a small set of “Bubble Bags” and a steel spoon and a few tall one gallon buckets.
We take the 1 gallon bags and add a layer of ice that’s been crushed using a hammer handle to produce lots of sharp angles.
Then we add about 3” of sugar leaf, meaning encrusted waste only no fans or crap and use fresh wet frozen weed! A big part of the quality is how you collect and process your trim. A good trick is to allow your trim to set out over night before freezing loosely in freezer bags.

This reduces the volume and allows more leaf to be stirred at once.
Add a second later of ice, more weed then top off with Ice lots of rough shaped ice. Top off with water leaving about 1” from top of bucket.
Place in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
After the mix sits and is really cold remove place in sink and start stirring in a motion so that the stuff on bottom comes to top and the ice and water agitates to the bottom. The roundy roundy will come later but at first concentrate on moving the mix in a up to down motion as the trichomes break off and pass the screen they will naturally fall into the bottom of the bucket. As the ice breaks apart and you get more room you can increase the stirring action and really whip it up. This takes 3-6 minutes and it took a few batches before I could do it the entire time without a small break but you get used to it.

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:27 PM

Stir Stir Stir for 5 minutes picking up speed, it will be foaming and this is when I shift into turbo stir really buffeting the mix around to maximize production.

When making multiple batches I just load the next as I press the last batch out.
I even re use the water and we save the left over leaf to use in butter making. Some people run there trim twice but the product you see in the finished pictures is what I’m after and nothing else!
Once the mix is stirred well I again allow it to sit for like 20 minutes and then I simply drain each bag starting with the 240.
The Clean Trichome latent water is then poured through the 120 bag. This is strained and folded into a triangle so the resin heads collect in one corner.

The green water is then poured through the 73 Ui bag and the same process is repeated. Once more with the 25 Ui bag and then we collect the payoff with a spoon and place onto the pressing screen provided with the bags I desperately need a new one of these. Bubbleman?

So scooping it out and onto the screen we close the wet sand inside and press out the water with a paper towel. Once its really dry into the freezer it goes for about 30 minutes this allows easy removal from the pressing screen.

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:30 PM

Now comes the fun part when we see what was made and start the drying process

I use wax paper even though Bubbleman prefers unpressed sand like hash to dry first. Since were making very small amounts I feel this works fine for us and it drys so fast there’s no worry of spoiling. I am generally to the dry and pealing stage in just 2-3 days.

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:34 PM

Now for the Hash Art

After another day passes these shapes fully dry out and can be crumbled into what I prefer to smoke above all other things.
There is nothing like the taste of clean Trichomes.

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:37 PM

It doesn’t hurt to start with great genetics and all of this amazing hash was made using our Hash Hybrids like Vortex and Space Queen. Some plants simply produce larger resin heads and produce large amounts of Trichome heads to be collected as Bubble.
Since we are Hash heads we tend to work with some pretty resinous gear.
Vortex

Subcool · 06-19-2008, 08:42 PM

These blobs were created using 80% Tiny Bomb Trim and 20% Space Queen C lowers. I have the method posted in bubblehash 101 but I hand stirred this run for 12 minutes with a steel spoon.

One trick I have learned is to wash the first 120 bag slowly allowing all smaller trichs to setlle through.

Yes it melts like butter in a skillet

Texas Kid · 06-19-2008, 09:47 PM

Damn, bubble porn, ya gotta love that right there...

We have been playing with those super absorbant shammy things like "Shamwow" and it will suck the moisture out of the fresh drain with the quickness, even if you just set the bottum of the bag on it it sucks the moisture right out..we double or triple stack 4" squares of it and man does it work.

Is that screen attached to an element or are ya heatin the clip or edge of the screen, it looks like you kickin a current through there to heat it up or something...

gotta get home and smoke some bubble now

Good show maing

Tex