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coda said:
1.) ISO Oil is probably the worst way to make hash, reserve this method for runs with dirt weed or crap trim.

2.) the reason ISO runs suck is because there is water within the alcohol.  This water leaches the chlorophyll from your material and deposits it in the final product.  You've already witnessed this, shitty tasting, harsh to smoke, hash.

3.) Seeds and stems left within the mix add to the crappy taste, texture, and smoke in the final product.  Stems are a bit more forgiving, but no seeds should ever be mixed in with your plant material

4.) That trim looks crazy green to me.  Green as in not dried.  To maximize yield, taste, smell, and smoothness, dry your material like you would some fine buds.  Then like you would do with fine buds, sweat out your trim for a few days in a jar.  A week of curing can make a big difference in the overall quality of your final product.

5.) Lastly, after you've dried it completely, stick it in your freezer overnight for the best results.  You want those trichs to be nice and brittle so the solvent can do it's work more efficiently.  Even a few hours in the freezer is better then none.  But, IMO, an overnight stay in the coldest part of your freezer is the best route.


Honestly, if you like the ease of the ISO method, I would look into hexane.  It's readily available, doesn't require any special tubes to extract with, and is just about as easy to use as the ISO is.  Simply drain a can of the hexane (AKA no residue electrical contact cleaner, see my how to make hexane hash thread for brands) into a canning jar, add in your trim, let soak, strain trim, evaporate hexane (happens really quickly since, like butane, hexane has a low BP), and collect your oil.

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My trim was dried and pulverized slightly.  That was a picture of it after 2 pulls.  I know about all the other extraction methods but I have $0 to my name so I had a bottle of ISO in my first aid stuff, So I used it.  Believe me, I'm not the type to skimp on quality, was just my only choice.

The 2nd run I did was comparable to BHO.  It was barely contaminated at all, and tasted of nothing.  Very high potency. 

The mistake I made on the first run was to squeeze the shit out of the trim, gotta learn to lose some... That's where all the chlorophyll entered the game.

Thanks for the advice Coda!  I pretty much know all that already I just have to use what I already have lying around the house... Unless I steal it from the store...