David Tallmadge David Tallmadge

Welcome to Full Melt xTractions

And welcome to a new generation of bubble hash extraction equipment and instruction, with a focus on the small home grower and craft producer. providing an easy to follow and tried and true system for extracting and drying the highest quality live bubble hash, without the onerous expense of a freeze dryer. As well as a curated selection of some of the best quality equipment for that purpose all in one place.

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David Tallmadge David Tallmadge

Wash time and intensity Discussion

So today, I would like to discuss wash time and intensity. It's a commonly discussed topic I see on forums. I recently saw it explained like this:

The point of starting with shorter wash times, is to obtain the best quality from those first washes

The increase of time and intensity is simply to allow you to do less washes

Imagine an apple tree….…(continued)

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David Tallmadge David Tallmadge

The Star of the show

How I see my role as a Hashmaker

As Hashmakers, (I'm admittedly hash-centric, but this also applies to other sorts of extractors) we can only reveal the quality that is already there. We contribute nothing to the quality of the hash. That was already determined at the time of harvest, the vast majority of that, in fact, was determined at the time of the creation of the seed…. (continued)

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One Metric to Rule them All?

Let's talk quality metrics (warning, hash nerd topic)

Discussion

This post, I want to discuss a way of tracking both yield and quality of an entire batch with one statistic.

So we got yield. Let's call that Y. If you want to track your performance, that's an important thing to know. That being said, it only tells you so much. It only tells you how much you got.

For people with preferences like myself when it comes to hashish and their cannabis extracts however, how much we got is only a small part of the story that ultimately isn't that important to us at least not in comparison to the quality of what we've achieved.

Now, I'm… (continued)

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