Quote Originally Posted by RobertInAZ
I recently discovered that a hermie infected my whole crop, so I harvested everything yesterday with the intention of turning it all into hash. I would welcome any advice you could offer, and here are some specific questions I have:
1.) I have all the plants hanging and in a dark room with a fan going. I have removed all of the big fan leaves. Can I speed up the drying process, say, by using cookie sheets in the oven with the door open on low heat? I'm thinking this would be OK since I no longer care how smooth the smoke is, but I don't want to degrade the THC, and I'm wondering if that might do it.
2.) My crop was fairly big -- 8 plants that were tall enough that I had to use a step stool to get to the tops. So I would like to be sure that hash is the best way to go, rather than honey oil, or something else. And, since there are several ways to make hash, what would you suggest is the best way for the large amount of bud/trim that I have?
3.) It is my understanding that the ice hash method with graduated strainers basically just captures the trichomes that fall off the dried plant material, but doesn't capture any cannabinoids that are in the material itself. Is that right?
thanx again, bob
All hash extractions and concentrates whether water extracted, C02, or butane, are typically high in THC and low in the other cannabinoids such as CBD.

CBD is in the plant material itself.

So long as your oven isn't hotter than 350 you wont be harming the THC, but you may be decarboxilating it (if it reaches aprox. 175 F) which means you could just eat the dried bud as the THC has been activated by the heat, or make a tea.

You do not have to dry the bud to make hash either. We have tested it and returns from wet flower and dry are about the same for water extracted hash. The wet material tends to make a gummier more flexible hash and dry material makes a powdery grainy hash.