At every step, resin gives indications of whether the process at hand is going smoothly.
Through the scope, the suitability of the resin for hashmaking becomes clear—though hopefully all of your resin will not be. We want to see a dense covering of sturdy, vaguely mushroom-shaped trichomes with medium-length stalks and full, unshrunken heads. Their color may range from somewhat clear to somewhat amber, but the vast majority should resemble frosted glass.
When we are washing, the water that drains should have no semblance of green. Water can be every color besides green.
In the bags, the oily sheen of the resin hints at the contents of the heads. When collecting, we want generous helpings of creamy resin devoid of visible green plant matter.
After drying, the resin should sift easily because it is truly dry and the environment has remained cold. Once sifted, it should twinkle like stars in the sky.
And when it comes time to press the resin into temple balls, the ease with which it relents and becomes a homogeneous mass tells you a great deal about the melt to come. Sometimes the resin can be pressed so effectively—fully melted into one solid mass, without creases or cracks—using nothing more than the warmth of your palm.
The resin tells you what happened long before you ever put flame to it.
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