So I was experimenting with different ways of curing, and a couple of the strains molded. Just my fuck up in not burping the jars they were in long enough.
I was really pissed at myself and was about to throw them away, a combination of HSO Bubba's Gift and Ketama, when I figured I had nothing to lose by making some hash with the buds. Neither were my best work by any measure in terms of growing, but the mistakes I made on those aren't being made on the very happy ladies in the flower room now.
But this is a story of making chicken salad from chicken shit.
I washed them in H2O2, froze the buds, broke them up and laid them out on a tray, froze them again to where they were getting freezer burned (I think this might have actually been a good thing), and then rehydrated them in the wash water. Just used a standard kitchen immersion blender once they were hydrated, and then kept going until they didn't feel oily anymore when I would reach in and touch one. Everything was super cold the whole way through, the whole wash maybe was 15 minutes. I didn't want to do multiple washes and stuff while I am still learning the operational concepts of hashmaking in general. I had no hopes at the beginning that any of this would be full-melt.
But mother of god, it turned out delicious. And potent. And an amazing addition to any sticky dab. I'm so happy with it that I made another batch, this time combining Gelat.OG and the top of that Wild Thailand. That one is even better- straight mango, cream, and diesel.
I may have just fallen in love with making hash...
Also, I got 23 seeds of Nepalma x Uzbekistan from that pollen chuck, and I think that's going to be a lot of fun to pheno hunt. The Uzi and both Nepalma phenos are thick, vigorous, mold and mildew resistant, and sticky as fuck, with smells ranging from bing cherry to black currant to pine/spruce to lemon to cat pee. The highs on both have been lovely. Uzi is a slate clearer, a muscle relaxer, but not a sedative one. Nepalma is a ponderous, introspective, euphoric, focused smoke.
Here's everything in the flower room now:
Violator Kush, DB cut
(Also being crossed with Nepalma and Uzi- I have a feeling that [(VK x Nepalma) x (VK x Uzi)] will be an incredible pheno hunting base for hash. You know, in a couple years.)
Kalashnikov Seeds Moscow Blueberry
HSO Gorilla Breath, Three Blue Kings, Blue Dream x 2 (threw some Nepalma at that, too)
USC Seeds Nepalma x 3 and Uzbekistan x1, (Uzi absolutely is gonna be revegged- the first buds harvested vaped magnificently and it'll only get better with a cure).
NAW Seeds Green Manalishi F2 Honey Hashplant x2<-Very glad I made more seeds of this. These buds are thicker than an Atlanta stripper and smell amazing.
World of Seeds Wild Thailand (top already chopped, bottom branches making seeds of crosses with Uzbekistan, Nepalma, and GM)
DNA Genetics Blood Orange Sorbet
Europa Seeds Heavy Grapefruit
Forgive the lack of pictures, I'm likely going to be immobile if not tripping for the next few hours.
I just did a monster dab of some sour diesel rosin made by an awesome local company combined with that hash and I'm... stuck.