Purity - Telling good hash from bad hash.

[cannabis-sam]

SWIM has a new source of hash, SWIM often doesn't buy hash as it's normally soapbar and heavily contaminated. Anyway SWIM's friend took him to said dealer, telling him this 'pollen' was as good as skunk. So SWIM buys an eighth and it looks quite similar to soapbar, but lighter brown in colour, when scaped rather than heated and crumbled it apears quite light in colour. The smell is a rich spicy aroma quite sweet, almost creamy. Quite a hard lump, goes softer when held between fingers and get's quite sticky in SWIM's fingers aswell, could be broken in half but it has to be heated with a lighter to crumble it. Anyway this hash get's SWIM amazingly stoned, he stayed at the dealers for a smoke with aformentioned friend, smoked about 15 bongs and was so high he could barely talk, he had bright red eyes and felt dizzy when standing up.

Now SWIM's question is, is it possible for very good hash to be contaminated, SWIM isn't amazingly experienced with hash, but he has made water extract and dry sift hash at home, it wasn't nearly as hard as this hash, it also didn't require the heating and crumbling that this does.

SWIM knows theres no real way without testing it, but is that what decent imported hash should look/feel/smell like, or is it just high grade crap SWIM is smoking.

[HandyMan81]

try using a microscope, you will see the structure of the hasj. sometimes you see traces of small leaves, Trichomes etc. The hasj is still smokeable but just lower quality.

or take a piece of hasj and roll it into a small long piece. Now heat the tip of the roll and catch the upwards smoke by keeping a white paper above it. The more black staines created by the smoke, the shittier the quality.

What are Trichomes ?

Trichomes are epidermal hairs found on the aerial surfaces of nearly all plants. They can take many shapes and forms. Some function as glandular secretor organs; others act as protection against insect predators.

In Arabidopsis thialania, trichomes are single and very large cells that are regularly spaced on the leaves. Trichome initiation is an early event in leaf organogenesis taking place while neighbor epidermal cells continue dividing.


Arabidopsis is a highly polysomatic species. Cells with more that 4x the normal DNA content have been described. These cells are generated by endoreduplication rounds: where mitosis occurs but nuclear division does not follow. Trichome cells grow large and have very large nuclei. On average the chromosomes undergo four successive endocycles.


Trichomes are one of several epidermal cell fates. Others include stomatal guard cells, root hairs and unspecialized epidermal cells.



And here some Pics of Good Quality Hasj:

Reputation Comments on this post:

very forensic with nice pics

[Blueninjakid]

Originally Posted by HandyMan81

try using a microscope, you will see the structure of the hasj. sometimes you see traces of small leaves, Trichomes etc. The hasj is still smokeable but just lower quality.

or take a piece of hasj and roll it into a small long piece. Now heat the tip of the roll and catch the upwards smoke by keeping a white paper above it. The more black staines created by the smoke, the shittier the quality.

What are Trichomes ?

Trichomes are epidermal hairs found on the aerial surfaces of nearly all plants. They can take many shapes and forms. Some function as glandular secretor organs; others act as protection against insect predators.

In Arabidopsis thialania, trichomes are single and very large cells that are regularly spaced on the leaves. Trichome initiation is an early event in leaf organogenesis taking place while neighbor epidermal cells continue dividing.


Arabidopsis is a highly polysomatic species. Cells with more that 4x the normal DNA content have been described. These cells are generated by endoreduplication rounds: where mitosis occurs but nuclear division does not follow. Trichome cells grow large and have very large nuclei. On average the chromosomes undergo four successive endocycles.


Trichomes are one of several epidermal cell fates. Others include stomatal guard cells, root hairs and unspecialized epidermal cells.



And here some Pics of Good Quality Hasj:

No offence but that looks like shit hash. swim lives in isreal near the arbs who kind of invented hash. here in isreal, thers alot alot more hash then weed and the the hash is the best here. from swims expirience the best hash is the Jarsh stuff wich seems to to be what swiy smoket. its brown looks like and pritty ferm. and it has a sweet aroma that swim just loves.

its good arb Shit.

swim is so so so so so sorry for typos. swim is from isreal and kind of stoned...

[endlessnes]

ok here's a few tests. none of them by themselves is conclusive about quality and none of them when failed by themselves mean bad hash, but all together give a good idea of whether its good hash:

When putting a lighter next to it, it should bubble, and not just turn black. it should not be too hard and neither too soft at room temperature. If its hard, getting a piece and playing around with it in your hand, pressing and so on should make it more maleable.

When it becomes maleable with a little heat from hand or passing the lighter quickly a few times, one should be able to roll it into a ball with a smooth surface

it generally should be lighter colour in the middle than on the outside. When one warms it up, it should get darker.

the most common type of hash is morrocan. It goes from light brown to dark brown. Charas has a greener tint to the colour, and may be more black-ish also.

with the best quality, one should be able to roll a little snake out of the hash and light it up. The amber should keep lighten by itself for at least a little while.


and.. it should make one stoned

[el burgo]

Cannabis Sam

Swim believes what swiy has is good hash - pollen, light in colour, spicy aroma and easily crumbled.
regards

[Future]

How is the hash contaminated? Going through the extraction process should clean up any contaminants, should it not?

[beentheredonethatagain]

people use coca butter and other crap like that to make some low quality hash.

NIk has enjoyed masters hash and bubble hash, in the old days blonde lebonese (sp) was the hash of choice, but now can only get domestic made hashish.

smoking has always been the true test in niks world.

oh yeah some kids make a sage paste in the oven to rip people offf, beware.

[ima-do-proprio-ser]

my monkey asks the same as the Future.Well,we indeed do own a crystal ball,but that's not what we're talking about.The future wants to know if one can purify his contamined hash.Thank you.

[naddel1985]

@ handyman ..... very fantastic photos i was so happy when i see this.

lets go .......... bubble ....... swimm like this hippy crack