Hey Chowder, great guide.

I was curious why you don't add any heat to the kif when you make the hash?

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Wow. I'm glad to see this made it as a sticky.

I don't use heat because I find it isn't really needed. Using the pressure with the hammer creates slight heat because of friction. The blows from the sledge are more than enough to make it press and compact together. Adding heat like with the oven just takes more time, and doesn't increase potency any, and also I find the less you tamper with the product, the better chance it has to staying pure.

Glad you like and I'm honered this made it.

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Hmmm I was just curious because whenever I make hash with kif i add heat by flaming it with a Bic lighter because it changes the actual compound of the hash. Instead of pressed kif, it becomes hard like a rock and almost like a much darker hash.. I'll post pics!

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damn thank you so much for this.. me and my friends decided that we should make hash outta the kif that we have.. im glad that i know how to do it now..

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very sweet, im about to pick up a new ounce on monday and once it gets down to my last 10 grams i gonna try this.

awesome thread chowder!!

do you know how to make bubble hash?

excellent thread,thanks 4 taking the time to share it with us all

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Awesome post. Thanks!

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Recently I have made hash both with heat and without heat and have found that the heat makes it stick together better. I wrapped the kief tightly in plastic wrap and newspaper, soaked in water, then put in oven for about 10 minutes @190 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm not sure if that's the best temp, but I got a great piece of hash after heating, although either method will work.

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You do it almost the same as me, when you add the heat [Lighter in your case] it turns the trichomes darker because of the oxydisation.



Nice guide for the hash making noobs

And nice pics too

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how much do you rekon that hash would sell for in your area?

I couldn't tell you bro. I moved here just over a month ago and I haven't come accross any hash yet, so I have no clue how much it would be,

Back in Alberta though, when it was around, it cost $15 a gram of dark brown bubblehash. It was soft, very soft stuff.

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that was sortof what i was thinking

have you tried this with mids?

im trying to figure out if the mids produce as much kif?

No, haven't tried with mids before.

It all depends on how much visable trichs are on the buds because that is what you shake off. The less trichs will mean less hash, the more, the more hash you'll get, so it all depends if the buds are heavy trichome producers.

And remeber, you make hash using mids, it will come out as mid quality hash.

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dude im so confused lol, so you grind the buds to a fine powder, the shake it in the thing and whats left on the dome is the actual hash making stuff? and whats to stop the kief from falling back through the panty hose?

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This is a great thread. And not just because it's stickied.

Last night I sifted some kief for the first time. I've smoked it before, but I'd never bothered to try to sift it myself. The sifter I made is ghetto as hell, but it worked like a charm:

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What I did:

• Used some thumbtacks to attach a sheet of 180 micron aquarium filter bag material to a small wooden picture frame.
• Froze about a half ounce of stems and shake and about 5 grams of ground bud. Like, I put it in the freezer for a couple hours. Supposedly that helps the triches and oil from other parts crystallize or something. Read that in a couple of places.
• Gently sifted all of the frozen junk (small handfulls at a time) over a ceramic plate and collected it in a pile with a business card.

I didn't press the kief. I just smoked it. Good Lord. I totally concur with the 6-to-1 potency guesstimate above. And indeed, the ground bud that I sifted is still very smokeable.

As for people who say, "I'd just smoke the buds," well, that's cool and all. But the advantage of kief (or kief pressed into hash) is of course that you can combust faaaaaar less material and get faaaaaar more baked. Which a lot of us recreational users find to be an advantage. :-)

You don't want to grind the buds up too fine. This is what we mean when we say kief. This sifting technique depends on the fact that trichomes are uniformly tiny in size. Smaller than almost any other material on the plant. Unless you were to grind it into powder.

Another way to sift kief is to exploit the fact that it sinks in water. If you put ground bud in water and agitate it, supposedly the kief will sink to the bottom, but the rest of the plant material will float.

But the important thing is that you just want the kief. Not ground up green.

hot goddamn!!!
i want a rip of that shit!

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can someone suggest or post some pics of what the procedure would be like for the MALE plant...I have massive B-52 strain and very healthy..I hate to throw it ou?

what part EXACTLY of the male plant to we grind down and sift for its KIEF?

I understand this is a popular procedure for MALES if you don't want then for seed prodcution.

also do we harvest the MALES earlier or later in the flowering stage for KIEF production?

so what is the procedure or is it possible to do it to a MALE plant and what is differnt in this techinique as opposed to doing it for e female plant?

thank you in advance....

I have found a good way to press small amounts of kif into small pieces of hash. I got some pieces of hard plastic tubing and some metal bolts that fit tightly in the tubing. You want to cut the tubing short enough that you can push the packed hash out one end with one of the bolts (the size of the tube will depend on the length of the bolts you use). I used 1/2 bolts which will give you a disc about the size of a dime. All you do is put the kif in the tube and press it together with the bolts. The pressure from squeezing it together with your hands is all that is needed for it to solidify. After you have squeezed it together really hard, just let it sit for about 10 minutes or so. Then just push the hash disc out one side of the tubing and you have a perfectly compressed dish of hash. The thickness will depend on how much kif you put in. An 1/8 grinded in my grinder usually makes a good sized disc of kif. It burns very slow and once it starts burning you shouldnt have to relight it

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Thanks for the guide Chowder. I just did your method (slightly modified though), and baked my hash for awhile. I'm stoned as fuck

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I've been collecting the kif in a small grinder that came with my volcano and decided it was time to make hash with this small baggie that I had around, I included scorching the outside with a lighter to make it more solid, and i actually pulled a big hunk out of the pipe I was using because I could tell I was already baked and I thought I might wait until about now to throw it back in the pipe.

hehe...

your hash is beau-ti-ful.

great guide!