Being new to this, I don’t know if this is typical or not. The bags are quart size. This is the result from a full quart mason jar of White Widow flower. I was thinking the result should have been a greater quantity of powder especially from that much flower. The bag with the large quantity is just the leftover that wouldn’t break down. Maybe the flower was not dry enough yet? Appreciate any help and suggestions. I’m using an 80 mesh screen.
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How often did you sieve? In my experience, you need multiple sieves for the different trychom heads. Your mesh is already quite narrow, preventing larger heads from passing through.
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Just once. Can’t afford anything more.
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You can try sieving it again…put it in the freezer for 24 hours…or you can get dry ice, which is my favorite. If you can get dry ice, make sure it’s large nuggets, not pellets…no problem, make the best of what you have. Afterward, leave the material uncovered and dry; you can usually still smoke your greens
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Dry ice? How do you use that to help sieving it?
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Go to Youtube. Tipe dry ice hash in and you will find the right Video 4 you..
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There must be something I’m doing incorrectly, because I froze a large quart bag of AK47 flower overnight, but this morning this is the tiny amount of powder from that entire bag.
Maybe I just need find a large piece of door screen and just lay out the flower on it to dry over a few days.
I have a food dehydrator, so maybe I’ll try drying some in it on the lowest heat setting which is 95 degrees F (35 C).
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The last pic looks normal. That flower may not have a lot of trichromes on it. But the screens working like it should. More a golden color instead of green/planty color is what were looking foor.
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This is getting frustrating. I cleaned the screen with rubbing alcohol and blew it dry with an air compressor.
I tried a quart sized bag of AK47 (I froze it to make it more brittle and easy to sift) as well as Runtz individually. The amount of powder/dust was practically ZERO. I’m not talking about a little bit, I mean practically nothing at all.
White Widow is the only one that produced powder, and a quart size bag made a lot of powder. Does anyone have suggestions on which strains are useless to sift because they have nearly zero trichomes?
Is the another DIY method to sift out powder that doesn’t require buying equipment?
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Low quality flower.
Better quality flower.
The holes in your screen are not gonna get any bigger. So if it’s not dirty washing it is not gonna help. The fact that you tried three different strains and got different results using the same screen speaks volumes to the difference in the flower. Should be no confusion here. You can’t get anything off of the flower that is not there to start with.
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Thanks. I have no idea which strains are good flower and which are not for this purpose. Which strains have a lot of trichomes?
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I just tried screening about 3/4 of a quart bag of dried White Widow and it produced nearly zero powder even though I had thoroughly cleaned the screen (80 mesh). And Widow is the type that produced a lot of powder the first time I did this a few days ago.
I am going to get some 60 mesh and, hopefully, that will work. I realize sone bits may go through the screen.
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This is more like it. I used the 60 mesh this morning on a quart bag of White Widow that has been drying (with a fan blowing on it) for about 1 1/2 weeks. It made 1/2 pint bag of powder!
I tried some Monkey Slapz that had been in the same drying hanger, but it was still too moist. So, as an experiment, I put that flower on a few trays in my food dehydrator on the lowest temp (about 85 F). I’ll check it in a few hours. I’m probably going to get some grief over that!
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I am shocked at the difference in quantities between strains! Even after cleaning the screen with 91% isopropyl after almost each sifting, the one that produced the most powder, by far, is White Widow.
AK47, Runtz, Monkey Slapz, Gary Payton, Frosted Zombie, and Blueberry Muffin all produced very little in comparison. I’m still trying to figure out how Blueberry Muffin smells exactly like Muffins right from the oven. Kind of freaks me out. AK47 sure doesn’t smell like spent rounds.
I have a Monkey Slapz, Blueberry Muffin, and Runtz in the tent now at about two weeks into light schedule change to 12/12.
I sifted a little more than one quart bag of Gogi Crusher today. It produced way more powder than even the White Widow that I did a few days ago. The 1 1/4 quart bag of Gogi produced a little more than 3 quart bags of WW.
Gogi also produced far less remaining bits than did WW. What do you do with the bits that remain after sifting, even after picking out the stems and twigs? Is it just waste?
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See now you have it dried properly you can actually getvthe trichromes off the flowers. It can take some practice before you get it down. And the bits left over are just waste. I mean you could smoke it but it will taste weird and may not be very stony! And a little heads up it actually called Goji Crasher. Because its has wedding crashers as one of the contributing strains to this cultivar.
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Crasher? I kind of like Crusher better!
I’m keeping notes on the strains I’ve grown that produce a lot and very little powder. Is it usually the case that older, more established strains like White Widow produce more trichomes than new, specialized strains? I found a couple of jars of dried Bruce Banner that was a photo/fem but ended up with a lot of seeds. I’m going to let that sit, spread out, in the drying hanger for a few days to see how much powder it produces.