Making Bubble Hash (wet)
Methods for making Bubble Hash with Water (ice hash - water hash)

Wet Methods for Making Bubble Hash - Water, Ice, suspension, and filtration:

1. Just put your hash making bags in a bucket of cold water.
2. Fill 3/4 with cold water.
3. Put in your dried weed trimmings and skuff.
4. Cover with 2 bags of ice and more water.
5. Leave and wait 5 minutes (water must be below 6C!)
6. Agitate well with cake mixer for 20 minutes.
7. Go away and let settle for 10 minutes.
8. Slowly pull your hash making bags out and drain water.
9. Scrape the THC resin pile from the bag and onto a pressing screen - or some paper towel.
10. When at 98% dry - press your resin glands into hash.
11. Smoke it!

Hash made in this fashion is sometimes called "bubble hash" - because it is so pure that it bubbles when heated! Well-made bubble hash is a very potent product – a tiny piece will produce enough billows of smoke to get a small crowd high.

The main commercial ice-water filtration systems available operate on the same principle of using cold water and filtering bags to isolate trichomes. You can also make your own kit by acquiring mesh of the appropriate sizes and carefully sowing it into bags of strong material.

In order to make bubble hash you'll need a kit with filtering bags, two impeccably clean five gallon pails and a hand mixer. The exact method can vary depending on which system you're using, but the essentials are the same. The Ice-o-lator uses two filters to screen out contaminates, leaving the trichomes caught in the second filter.

You will now have a brownish sludge at the bottom of the bags. Remove it with a credit card or spoon to a plastic bag. Blot the sludge with a towel to remove excess moisture, and let it dry out for at least 12 hours. You might want to wait up to a week for it to fully dry and cure, if you are that patient! Be sure that your product is entirely dried so as to avoid mold problems later on.

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You'll get less product from the 25 micron bag, but it will have a unique and potent affect when consumed. Bubble bag creator "Bubble Man" speculates that these are the smaller trichome heads – not immature, but simply the smaller heads associated with Sativa strains. He argues that Indica strains have larger trichome heads, and that Sativa strains have smaller heads on longer stalks. Crosses between these two types doesn't produce medium sized trichomes, but rather a mix of the large and small. This theory seems to be borne out by results, but much more research needs to be done.

The yield from 200 grams of skuff is around 6 to 20 grams, with an average yield around 10 grams. The quantity of hash produced depends in large part upon the quality of your original material.

Washing Machine Ice-O-Lator:
The Ice-O-lator is the simplest & most efficient extraction method for the collection of mature resin glands from plant material. The use of very precise sieve size ensures only the collection of the desirable "mature" resin glands.

As out door & indoor grown plants have different sized resin glands (Outdoor being smaller) we stock both outdoor & indoor Ice-O-Lator kits designed for the different types of plants. The washing machine was designed to agitate the dirt from the fibres of your clothes, therefore the washing machine is also brilliant at agitating the resin glands from plant material. Instead of washing powder to aid the agitation we use very cold water & blocks of ice. The cold water hardens the resin glands & plant material, causing the plant material to hold together better. The movement of the water & ice cause the resin glands to drop off their brittle pedestals and sink in the water.

For those who wish to process a few kilos a day (4-6 dry leaf, 6-10 wet leaf) we have found the washing machine is a brilliant way to decrease the workload considerably. In the following photo’s we will show you how we have incorporated a washing machine into the Ice-O-Lator process and use it to great effect with very little work involved.