Goldilocks bubble bag?

I’ve never made kief hash before but figured I’d try this year since I’ve got a big unwieldy seed crop coming up.

The thing is, I don’t feel like straining it through like 6-7 different bubble bags for the final product. I just want to order one “Goldilocks” bubble bag that will filter out the seeds and the biggest chunks of plant while letting the trichomes and other stuff through.

What’s your recommendation if I only want to buy one?

You are not going to get good results using a single bag. You need two bags minimum, a work bag and a catch bag, 3 bags would be more ideal. I would wash the material in a 220u, or wash the material loose and then filter through the 220u. Then run it through a 160u and then a 45u as a final catch bag.

When you say I won’t get “good results,” what do you mean?

Because I really don’t care about having a bunch of pistils or little sugar leaves caught in the kief.

I definitely do care about the aggravation of sifting a huge amount of biomass three times.

I honestly don’t need the most beautiful high quality hash, as it will get me stoned anyway and the people who get it for free would be wise not to look a gift horse in the mouth, LoL.

I understand you’re trying to be helpful and I’m super grateful for that, but if it has to be just one of those bags, which one? The 220u?

You don't have to sift huge amounts of biomass multiple times. The work bag catches all the crap so to speak. The catch bags just filter the hash to refine it further. You can just stack the bags on top of one another in a bucket. In a separate bucket wash the material with ice and water and once finished pour it into the other bucket lined with the multiple bags.

You need at least two bags for ice water hash. One to catch the plant matter and one to collect the resin. If you want to go extremely minimal, I would say to either use a 220u or 160u as the work bag to catch all the plant matter and then a 45u for the catch bag to collect your hash.

If you really only want to buy one bag and just want some mid-grade kief, get a 120/90u bag and fill it with trim and some dry ice and shake it over a large piece of glass or parchment paper.

NukaKola said:

You don't have to sift huge amounts of biomass multiple times. The work bag catches all the crap so to speak. The catch bags just filter the hash to refine it further. You can just stack the bags on top of one another in a bucket. In a separate bucket wash the material with ice and water and once finished pour it into the other bucket lined with the multiple bags.

You need at least two bags for ice water hash. One to catch the plant matter and one to collect the resin. If you want to go extremely minimal, I would say to either use a 220u or 160u as the work bag to catch all the plant matter and then a 45u for the catch bag to collect your hash.

If you really only want to buy one bag and just want some mid-grade kief, get a 73u bag and fill it with trim and some dry ice and shake it over a large piece of glass or parchment paper.

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So the work bag as you call it will screen out the biomass while the 45u will actually collect the kief, or will it let the kief pass through while catching smaller plant material?

I should probably watch a tutorial or something before I do it, since I clearly don’t know what I’m talking about. I just heard about the concept but didn’t really process the details. Thanks for your help, tho.

The 45u will catch the hash.

A tutorial will definitely give you a much better idea on how to do things. This one has quite a bit of info.

I seen a video of a guy using the 220 bag as a work bag tied off inside a 35G trash bin and had spouts on the bottom to drain thru tubes into the micron bags for collection. He even used the sticks in the bin after the bag was done. He brought back a nice yield.

Another thing that can be done and can get you a shit ton of keif is to cut your branches to about 3 inches long, put them in a plastic closable container in the freezer for like 10 mins and then toss like $2 in sanitized nickels in the container.. close it and shake it to all hell.. and bam.. keif some of us probably don't count on.

HydroKid239 said:

Another thing that can be done and can get you a shit ton of keif is to cut your branches to about 3 inches long, put them in a plastic closable container in the freezer for like 10 mins and then toss like $2 in sanitized nickels in the container.. close it and shake it to all hell.. and bam.. keif some of us probably don't count on.

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Shit I just cut up 6 plants just stems and ran a cold water run and came back cool and light

Dry ice hash with a 190 or 220 bag. You can buy just one bag on ebay.

I use the 5 bags

Mrs. Weedstein said:

I’ve never made kief hash before but figured I’d try this year since I’ve got a big unwieldy seed crop coming up.

The thing is, I don’t feel like straining it through like 6-7 different bubble bags for the final product. I just want to order one “Goldilocks” bubble bag that will filter out the seeds and the biggest chunks of plant while letting the trichomes and other stuff through.

What’s your recommendation if I only want to buy one?

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I know it's not really what you want.. but this was such a good read when I ran thru it that I believed it was a video lol. Check this guy's bubble hash run when you get the chance.

I actually wanna do that. ^^ I have all the bags and a pollen press. Amazon had it for like 36 bucks for the set.

When I hear kief, I think of the dry ice method. It's fast and easy but it's best to use two or three bags. I think I got a whole set of bags on amazon for under 50 usd. IME, the 220 will leave quite a bit of plant matter and the kief will be fairly green. This is fine for edibles but my favorites for kief are 90 and 120. Anything under 73 is best left for pure sativas because their trichome heads are smaller than indicas. Growweedeasy.com has a simple tutorial for dry ice kief. If you're talking about actual bubble hash, I haven't tried it.

I didn't answer your actual question, if I had to pick one size I'd go with 120.

Thanks guys this is all great advice — I will read up and watch videos, probably come back with more questions before I make a purchase and before I harvest (aiming to chop a month from now).

HydroKid239 said:

I actually wanna do that. ^^ I have all the bags and a pollen press. Amazon had it for like 36 bucks for the set.

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I use the same bubble bags