Collecting kif and pressing small amounts of potent hash.

[Nochowderforyou]

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.

[bzbuzzard]

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?

[skidoo]

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. :-)

[skidoo]

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?

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.

[Jongbong]

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

[staple123]

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....

[Twitty]

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

[S.P.Q.R.]

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

[herbaltivo]

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...

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

your hash is beau-ti-ful.

great guide!