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Croptober Series Part 2: How To Dry Your Cannabis Crop
Drying your plants is what is going to make or break all your hard work for the season. This step is critical to the success of your finished product and is often the most overlooked and underrated part of the entire growing process. As a commercial farmer I have worked for and seen numerous farms that all make the same mistakes. They all get their grows set up and then they try to grow as much canopy space as they legally can. But they don’t put the same energy into setting up a proper dry room that can adequately hold their entire harvest and dry it in a reasonable time period.
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Croptober Series Part 1: How To Harvest Your Cannabis Crop
October is a monumental month in outdoor cannabis gardens. Endearingly termed "Croptober" in the cannabis community, it's the time of year that growers can finally reap the rewards of their months of hard work. As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, the resin produced by most cultivars grown here in North America is perfect for the picking. It's a season of joy and celebration and bounty.
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Top 5 Ways To Properly Dry Cannabis Flower Post Harvest
The purpose of drying cannabis flowers after harvest is to prepare those flowers for either smoking or storage. Wet flowers can’t be smoked, and if they’re stored while they contain excessive moisture, they quickly invite mold growth. Drying cannabis flowers allows the chlorophyll inside the plant to degrade, making for a smoother smoke. It also enables cannabinoids like THC to convert from their non-psychoactive and acidic form (THC-A), into its psychoactive form. After cannabis flowers are dry they’re ready for a cure and then longer-term storage in sealed glass jars.
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How To Build The Ultimate Indoor Grow Room Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of Building Out A Home Grow! In this article I’m going to cover a few more topics that will help you get growing. So now that you have your grow space measured out and how much lighting your circuits can handle, it's time to decide what type of grow method you are going to use. Let's take a look at the two major growing methods and then we can dive deeper into their offshoots in another article.
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How To Take Cuttings To Clone Cannabis Plants
Cannabis cuttings, or clones, are pieces taken from a mature plant and then grown into a new plant. Taking cuttings is the most efficient way that a grower can propagate a desirable cultivar. When growers remove sections of branches from a cannabis plant and then place those cuttings in the right environment, those cuttings will form roots and eventually grow into mature plants. Knowing how to take cuttings is a powerful skill for any grower, and offers distinct advantages over growing from seeds.
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How To Calculate THC Content in Homemade Edibles and Tinctures
Homemade edibles offer an effective way to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the cannabis plant. Eating cannabis provides an alternative to smoking or dabbing, and can be an even more reliable way to medicate. However, if you don’t know the cannabinoid content of your edibles or tinctures, it can be difficult to anticipate and control each dose, making the experience less reliable (and potentially less enjoyable!).
So how can you calculate the THC content in homemade edibles and tinctures?
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What Is Living Soil?
Living soil is a growing medium that’s rich with organic matter, earth minerals, and other compounds that create a perfect ecosystem for microscopic life. Living soil is teeming with microbes which can be incredibly beneficial to growing cannabis. Living soil allows cannabis roots to absorb all the nutrients that the plant requires in order to not only thrive, but to produce the highest quality resin.
Living soil isn’t just any old “dirt”. It’s characterized by rich biodiversity and microbial activity.
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What's the Difference: Home vs. Pharmaceutical Harvest Right Freeze Dryers & What We Recommend For Drying Bubble Hash
Freeze drying utilizes the process of sublimation to remove moisture from wet objects. Most commonly used for drying and preserving food, freeze dryers also work great for drying loose resin, or bubble hash. While it’s possible to allow wet hash to air dry loose resin through the process of evaporation, sublimation inside a freeze dryer speeds up the process, reducing oxidation and preserving more terpenes.
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Harvest Right Pharmaceutical Firmware 4.0.56 - Required Update For Home Freeze Dyers
The Harvest Right brand of freeze dryers is arguably the best brand for drying bubble hash. However, there are two separate versions of Harvest Right freeze dryers that include different default settings, and this leads to a difference in performance between the two. These two versions are the home and pharmaceutical Harvest Right freeze dryers.
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How To Make Tincture Using Bubble Hash or Rosin
Tinctures offer an alternative way to ingest cannabis without smoking or vaping. Dabbing is the most popular way to enjoy rosin, while smoking is common for high-quality bubble hash. But both bubble hash and rosin can also make great sources for creating potent tinctures. Tinctures themselves have something in common with our favorite solventless cannabis products: they’re straightforward to make with minimal equipment right from home.
What Is a Tincture?
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How to Use a Harvest Right Freeze Dryer to Make Bubble Hash (& Recommended Shelf Temp / Freeze Times)
Freeze drying is the ideal way to dry bubble hash. Loose resin that’s collected using ice water extraction comes out wet. If it’s not properly dried, it can quickly and easily get moldy. While it’s definitely possible to air dry bubble hash, and create a premium hash while doing so, there are some downsides to air drying. Air drying takes several days, and requires lots of space to spread the trichomes in a thin layer. Air drying also allows oxidation to occur
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Can You Use the Same Water To Wash Bubble Hash Multiple Times?
Collecting loose resin via ice water extraction is a relatively low-cost and extremely effective way to make bubble hash. Everything starts with high quality cannabis material which are the mature flowers and trichome-covered leaves that surround them. Mixing cannabis with ice-cold water creates an environment where trichomes (most notably the globe-shaped heads of the trichomes) can fall away from the plant they once grew from. The heads get mixed in with everything else until the hash maker sieves them through a series of filters called bubble wash bags.
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How to Use Gravity to Drain Water from a Bubble Hash Washing Vessel
Washing hash involves two main stages, agitating cannabis and ice water together, then running that water through a series of sieving bags called bubble wash bags. Agitation happens inside a mixing vessel, which could be an automatic washing machine, or a simple bucket or barrel that allows hash makers to mix cannabis and ice water with a paddle by hand. Washing machines come with a drain already installed, although it’s a good idea to change out the drainage hose if it’s a corrugated hose.
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Top 10 Tips on How To Prepare Your Harvest for Fresh Frozen
Here at The Press Club, we love using fresh frozen cannabis to wash bubble hash. It’s tough to beat the explosive flavor, unmistakable aroma, and stunning clarity of loose resin that’s collected from cannabis harvested with fresh frozen preparations. Fresh frozen captures the most vibrant and unique qualities of the ripe cannabis flower, preserving terpenes and slowing down the process of oxidation to levels that dried and cured buds can’t match.
While correctly harvesting cannabis for fresh frozen starting material isn’t the only trick to producing
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Hash Wash Labeling: First vs Second Wash and Microns Collected
Hash makers collect loose resin multiple times, and from multiple wash bags, throughout the course of washing a single batch of cannabis material. The loose resin, or bubble hash, is gathered throughout the process in increments rather than collected in aggregate at the very end. This allows hash makers to differentiate between resin collected from the first wash all the way to the last wash, and from each individual sieving bag.
The two primary phases of washing hash are mixing/agitation, and sieving.
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How Does Terpene Volatility Affect Hash Rosin?
Bubble hash and rosin are two solventless cannabis concentrates both capable of chaning texture and consistency in rapid, sometimes unpredictable ways. This propensity for transformation is possible thanks to the volatile nature of high quality hash. So what is volatility, and how does it affect hash?
Volatility can be defined as the tendency of a substance to evaporate at normal temperatures. Terpenes are the most volatile compounds in hash, and it’s largely the terpene content that determines how volatile a specific run of hash will be. Terpenes are hydrocarbon compounds
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Gravity Drainage vs Hash Pump for Washing Bubble Hash
A hash pump is a specialized pump that moves trichome-infused water from one vessel to another during the ice water extraction. Hash pumps automate the movement of water from the mixing vessel into the collection vessel, which otherwise needs to happen with the force of gravity. In labs with certain constraints that make using gravity suboptimal, hash pumps are a great alternative to moving water efficiently. And most importantly, in a way that doesn’t damage trichomes in the process.
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Guide To Various Forms of Solventless Cannabis Concentrates
Solventless cannabis concentrates are made by isolating, accumulating, and condensing cannabis trichomes into a pure and potent form, all without the use of chemical solvents like butane, CO2, or ethanol which are commonly used in other processing methods. Solventless techniques allow extractors to capture the most therapeutic compounds made in cannabis, namely the THC and terpene-rich resin that’s located within a flowering plant’s trichomes.
While high quality extracts can also be created with the help of solvents, for example
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How To Use a Washing Machine to Make Bubble Hash
Compact, portable washing machines like the kind designed for small apartments and RVs are great for washing hash. Although they’re made to wash small loads of laundry, they can also do a great job of mixing together cannabis and ice water for making bubble hash. Especially for extractors running high volumes of material, washing machines are the way to go. Machines automate the mixing process that would otherwise be done by hand, adding efficiency and scalability to your operation.
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How To Clean Your Washing Machine after Making Bubble Hash
Washing machines are a great way to automate the all-important mixing phase of ice water extraction or washing bubble hash. Washing hash involves mixing together ice water and cannabis, then sieving the mixture through a series of filters called bubble wash bags. Using a washing machine for mixing enhances the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of output, and is often the best choice for processors working through a high volume of material.
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Breeding to Collect Trichomes
The term “Hash plant” has been around for decades. Most notably the term showed up in the Seed Bank Catalogue in the 1980’s and 90’s as a plant that was selected for its hash-like flavor. In this article I will be referencing the term “Hash plant” as a plant that was selected because of the overall quality and yield of the hash that was derived from the sieving process and not that the plant's chemical profile tastes like hash in flower form.
With more people growing and selectively crossing plants, we are starting to see some very unique expressions coming out of some of these contemporary cannabis lines.
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