Purple hash tek for the solventless folks

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Just wanted to drop this as it’s been a while since I’ve added something for open source. Hope it find your well and y’all have a great time playing with a new sku for the solventless heady boys
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Reintroduction & natural preservation of anthocyanins in hash

  • Firstly there are multiple ways to achieve this niche gimmick with colored spectrum of hash from their natural retention and or reintroduction of the anthocyanins to the hash. You’ll find a few of these tricks helpful and they will help you create new formulations for your hash to be enjoyed.
    Natural preservation and retention

  • You’ll want to use flower that has been harvested and allowed to hang dry at temps below 65°f for 3-4 days. This will allow the the anthocyanins to present themselves profoundly in the flowers structure and will additionally push into the extraction process of the hash to stick better once washed and will be a darker wash water than if the plant were to have been flash frozen immediately after chop.

  • Once you have allowed for hang dry of a few days flash freeze the product to prep for washing.

  • Rehydrate frozen flower for 45 minutes to 1 hour in ice water bath of 33° or lower.

  • Collect wet texture pulls while doing collections of washes to help with the transfer and retention of the anthocyanins in the hash right from the wash.

  • Load collections into freeze dryer and begin preset hash drying.

  • This method is a way of retention without having to go into reintroduction which can lead to multiple variables of color spectrum hash, but will be true to non reintroduction formulation.

Reintroduction formulation of anthocyanins to washed and collected hash

  • Using full term deep purple flowers that have been harvested and either allowed to hang dry for 3-4 days or you can use fully cured flower. (Can use ff as well but isn’t as nice of a purple hue more pinks)
  • Rehydrate the flower for 45 minutes in an ice bath, then remove and pack into 15um-25um press bag (double bagged).
  • Press with no heat and collect your anthocyanins. They will be very liquidy as they are being carried by water which you will then reintroduce this collected super saturated terp anthocyanins solution to your collected hash on a tray lined with parchment prior to freeze drying which will allow for natural reintroduction of anthocyanins to the hash.
  • Then proceed with freeze drying.

You can then either jar up the pigmented hash or press it at normal run temps (I prefer slightly lower heat to retain better color) and have a pigmented hash rosin from naturally derived cannabis anthocyanins and flavonoids.

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Can we stop dying weed please
It serves no purpose

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It’s not dying it’s pigmentation. Also anthocyanins have an anti oxidative factor, so I will gladly formulate with them as cleanly as possible if the demographic or market is right.

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Very interesting. You might add in the shade…
When you speak of antrhocyanicns in “flower structure”
What flower structure do you mean? Do you mean non trichome flower structure. Are you attempting to do an ice water extract of non trichome flower structure, or just proposing a drying before standard ice water shear to remove trichomes after 3 days of drying in opposition to fresh frozen. Freezing is an interesting process as it causes freeze-fracturing to all cells and sub cellular structures with water content.
So you are doing a 3 day dehydration, to do a 45 min ice water rehydration, to do a water extract of anthocyanins by hydraulic pressing at room temp. And this does not work by press non-dried fresh flower or flash frozen, and then unfrozen pressed flower.
I am asking this because I would like to see a room temp press of non frozen ice water Trichomes 70u-150u. And pressed in 25u or less bags. So the material pressed represents the in situ mixture-solutions of H2O- terpenes and cannabinoic acids. The idea is to attempt to delineate how much THCA is in solution as a solute vs how much might be nanocrystalline dispersions in a non solute form.

it is not that far off from what you are doing.

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I don’t see an issue using the latter. It would be interesting to see how well you can isolate the thca in situ form as you say.

As in the actual presence of them in the flowers structure itself as in the bio. If you cure you’ll start to drawn out more n2 & chlorophyll which in turns darkens the chlorophyll making for a darker wash. I chose the mechanical separation as my preference due to not having to remove as much water content to get a super saturated solution.

I have pressed fresh chopped flower non frozen and you get a small amount of color change present but you will have an abundance of water content in the squish. Which will end up causing a wet texture of course but can be manipulated afterwards to be removed and give you a relative yield overall, but I would still prefer to do a small wash and convert my numbers from there.

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