Last Sunday I finally harvested. This was going to be a much longer post then, but frankly I didn't get feeling back into my right hand for the next two days after all the trimming I had to do. As I sat there for 16 hours trimming (8 of which I had help) I couldn't help thinking that it seemed like more trimming than I've had to do before. I was right.
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Final dry yield was 22.63 oz. My previous best doing Hydro was 20.1, so I'm pretty happy about that. I also ended up with around 1000g of wet trim that I fresh froze with the intention of making the most primo ice water hash ever. The very next day after harvesting, I tried that out. I took pictures, but I'm not even going to post them because it was such a waste of effort... the product turned out awful.
I took 200g of fresh frozen trim, and chopped it up. I put the bubble bags in the correct order (harder to cram them in than I thought they'd be), filled some cold water until the bottom of the bags were covered, added ice, added my trim, and more water until approx. 50/50 mixture of water and ice was reached. I stirred as gently as I could (it was packed with ice) for 15 minutes, then let it sit for 10 minutes. I repeated this 3 more times for a total of 1 hour agitation. I did this all outside, where ambient temperatures were 34*F, and the bucket was packed with snow on all sides. The remainder of the ice I didn't use is still sitting outside in bags, it's been so cold here this week.
After 1 hour agitation, I took the bucket inside and pulled the bags. They drained absurdly slowly, and were clogged with all kinds of greenness. It was green from the largest micro bag all the way to the smallest. The moisture didn't press out very well, and as I put them on cardboard to dry (per bubble man) they were like little patties more than a powder of any kind. They've been drying for 7 days, and I'll probably just throw it all away, it still looks dark, green and awful.
After that failure, I decided to cheer myself up by sacrificing some of my small, dry and curing popcorn buds to the hash gods, and purchased some dry ice. 56g of dry Money Maker 2 buds (she had the most fox tailing, and the tails that broke off were perfect for this) selected to not have stems already were added to the bottom of a food-grade bucket with a handful of dry ice, and shaken for 30 seconds. I then let it sit for 2 minutes to chill, and pulled the 160 micron bag over the top of the bucket. After chilling, I inverted the bucket over counter prepared with parchment paper, and shook vigorously for around a minute, moving slowly down the length of the counter, leaving a trail of golden keif in my wake. The trail turned slightly greenish as I progressed shaking more plant matter out with the trichromes, but everything from the 160 micron bag turned out excellent!
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I then replaced the 160 micron bag with the 220 micron bag and repeated the process. This time, the trail was quite green the entire time, but I believe this material will still be suitable to cook with.
56g of dry buds yielded just over 20g hash of varying qualities. What I call "Prime" was the very golden keif that fell as I first started shaking. I drew a line about half-way down my keif trail, and everything greener was separated from the Prime keif. 10.4g of Prime.
Trippin' on happiness from my dry ice processing, I immediately started the oven pre-heating for hash pills. My process for that was way longer, and if you want to read it, type in "Bad Kat's Cannapharm, hash pills" into Google and check our her Grass City thread. Very detailed instructions on edibles of all kinds, I followed the first hash pill recipe, and yielded 17 full dose pills from 5.5g of dry ice hash.
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My daily tolerance is pretty high, so these 150mg pills are just what I need. Based on the dosing of edibles I've had from my dispensary, I think that the 150mg calculation per pill is pretty accurate. They're walloping. Like getting your head smashed with a giant green cushion of softness.
And that's where I'm at right now. I cut on Sunday, and after 4 days of drying (couldn't get the humidity above 32%, even with 2 humidifiers going... but didn't want them to dry too quickly) I put them in the C-vaults. Each vault holds 4 liters, and each vault fits a plant quite handily, so bravo to me and my yield estimation and C-vault purchasing skills.
I think that's it for now everyone. We'll see if I post more once I acquire my BHO processing material. I'm a little bit anxious about that, given how badly my ice-water hash turned out, and how not dangerous that process was.
At least I'll be back with 1 more recap, my final thoughts on each strain once they're done curing and I can vape them, and what I plan to change for next time.
MC