Thermos BHO

For me hash is just a method of salvaging what would otherwise be tossed. Personally for me the bud is worth more as bud than as hash. The trim, especially with what comes from the bud trimmers, makes some wicked stuff and does me just fine.


Now if you've got more bud than you can handle or keep for long periods refining it down to hash is a good idea and great for long term storage.


Be Cool, CG

 

There in lies the difference. For me hash is becoming my staple medication. I still enjoy tasty flowers now and again. Nothing like the green hit off of some tasty flowers. Hash has the potency I need. I smoke a lot. I am growing with the specific intent of turning at least half of my harvest into hash. Whole flower extractions.


As far as what one os worth compared to the other, again I am getting to where I prefer hash over flowers for my medicating needs. If I rely solely on flowers I end up smoking a LOT of flowers and that affects my throat and lungs adversely. I do vaporize some as well but Hash has become my favorite way to get Irie so I value good hash higher than flowers. Flowers are not as valuable $$ wise either depending on your yield% on your extractions. Here in Cali buds are down in price. $200 per Oz all day for really good indoor herb. $100 an Oz for outdoor. Shatter and Wax $50-$60+ per gram for nug run. Trim Run $30-$50+ per gram.


I intend to grow a large outdoor crop next year and process it all into BHO. Here in Cali Outdoor bud is CHEAP and plentiful. However if I process whole flowers (Nug Run) into quality shatter I can supply the dispensaries and they will buy all I have. Dabbing is where all the money is being spent these days out here in legal states. All the youngsters without kids that have disposable income love hitting the dispensaries for shatter and wax. The Dab culture has really exploded. So I am going to save up and get a closed loop and a vac oven hopefully before next years outdoor harvest.


Between now and then I am going to practice and do small extractions with my indoor using low tech methods.


With that tumbler you can get a lot of kief but if you want quality and to get it to full melt you need some good dry sifting screens and to clean it up. You remove like 60% or more of the weight because it's all contaminant. Tumblers are good for large amounts of weight and trim but you still need screens to clean it up.

 

I'm gonna try my hand at this thermos method of BHO extraction. I'll let you all know how it goes. Gotta get to the store and pick up a thermos!

 

I am about to do this in the next couple of days but I have a Q What is the purpose of dissolving the bho in the alcohol if I'm wanting wax/shatter?

 

I've only winterized one batch of BHO. It was pretty neat how much stuff precipitates out of the liquid when it gets cold. My understanding the lower the temp of the alcohol the better the polishing. My freezer is around 0, and I left the jar in there for 3 days. I posted pics of the coffee filter with all the waxes that came from that in a recent thread which I will find.


I had a hell of a time getting the cold thick alcohol through the coffee filter.


One thing I will do next time is use less wax per volume of alcohol and more pans or something, because some of the residue in the pan after the alcohol evapped was tarry and too thick to spread out and purge properly. The thin half of the pan was gold dust when scraped. That stuff clumps up to form delicious smooth gold crumble.

 

That's the winterization process, gotcha. I'll try it, hopefully it'll be a little easier on the throat.

 

Here's the pic





Winterizing is supposed to make the wax/shatter/bho easier on the lungs by removing any residual butane and also waxes and plant lipids that are said to make you choke or burn the throat. As you can see from the coffee filter, there is a lot of something that stays behind in the filter when cold. Whether that's from the bho or the 90% pure alcohol I don't know. I used Everclear for that.

 

DAAAMN, that's looks like some nasty stuff that would irritate your throat. I was gonna skip that step but now I gotta see the difference. Until this thread popped up a few months ago I didn't know about winterizing.