Making Charas

Made it a number of times. Cons outweigh the pros unless you have access to a very large number of live plants. What looks pretty simple and quick in the Strain Hunters vid is actually several hours of hard, sweaty work for a pretty minimal yield of hash that is, in all fairness, pretty damn good. Still not worth the process unless you had no other way or were really passionate about it in particular as a technique, in which case I'd say pack up and travel to the Himalayas.

 

I think it would be cool for the first 2 hours. Then I would pay the guy who makes it double for his hard work.

 

I work for a growhouse in Denver that pops any bud smaller than my thumb tip straight into a bucket for concentrates production. I wear rubber gloves and basically strip larfy buds off plants before main colas are sent to the trim tables. In an 8 hour day i change gloves approx 4 times, and each time those gloves are literally cakes in thick resin and trichs and glove hash we are allowed to keep. I take the gloves home and roll al the resin off the gloves into large balls, press flat, then leave to air dry for about 5 days, upon which thy go into a jar for a short 3 week curing process in which i burp them once a day.
 
I personally love hand rubbed hashs, spicy and bubbly, and usually strong enough to knock out my worse arthritis pain.

 

 
I was actually going to say, during trimming is about the only time it makes sense to make hash this way, with handling the flowers so much, and the glove trick is a pro way to do it for sure.

 

Making charas is a bit extravagant unless there is a whole field of plants.
We started about an hour after sunrise and with buttered palms gently rubbed the quite small but very sticky buds for a couple of hours the way Sammy and Hassan showed us and then rolled up a few sticks of hash from our palms and retired to the shikara for bhang lassi , joints and persian tea .
Kashmir 1985.
Some old pics of travels in India I just unearthed.