Buds into Hash?

Here's what I don't understand: All the research I've done tells me that the way to get hash from trimmings is to dry them out and then strain out the trichomes using ice cold water -- the bubble bag method. But I have what is pretty much bud material, rather than the typical leaf trimmings, and I want to make that into hash (I had to harvest early because a hermie infected my whole crop). So. I have dried the plant material so that it it bone dry, and I notice that the trichomes fall off pretty well just by squeezing the trim. It doesn't seem to me that immersing them in cold water will make them much more brittle than they already are. And, it also seems to me that even if the cold water method recovers a lot of trichomes, what about the THC/CBG/etc. that's still in the bud material? The non-trichome cannabinoids. Are they lost with the bubble bag method, and if so, is there a better method to use when you have material that is predominantly bud?
Thanx again, bob

All of the cannabinoids are in the trichome. Are you talking about sifting versus water and bag extraction? Dry sifting works it just takes longer as you have to be more delicate.

To do it correctly though you need to get a screen. Even a screen of 150microns will give you a pretty green pile of kief. Think around 120 or lower is where most people start for the final screen

Really? All of the cannabinoids are in the trichomes and there is none in the bud material itself? I did not know that.
Thanx, Bob

OK, I've read up on it. I have too much material to go the BTO route. BTW, since the bubble hash method uses water, is it necessary to dry the trim before doing it?
thanx again, bob

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I used two quarts of iso to process 492 grams of material and a 160 screen on this batch.

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