The Pollinator

Marijuana Horticulture

by Jorge Cervantes

Mila is a good friend, and she has carried the hash torch for countless connoisseurs. She has spent much of her life learning and teaching how to extract more resin from cannabis. She invented and popularized the Pollinator, a motorized cylindrical shaped sieve to separate resin powder from leaf and buds. Mia has many ongoing experiments with hash and cannabis, one of which includes teaching the doctors in Kazakhstan to grow medical cannabis.

The Pollinator consists of a drum that turns inside a box. Cold, dried cannabis is placed inside the drum that is made from 150 micron screen. A motor turns the drum, and resin glands fall through the 150 micron screen as the cannabis tumbles inside. Resin is collected below the drum.

Highest quality resin falls through the screen first. Progressively lower quality resin falls through the mesh the longer the drum turns. More green matter and other adulterants fall through the screen when the Pollinator turns for longer periods of time.

First you must prepare the dry cannabis. Put it in an airtight bag, and place the bag in the freezer for two hours. This will make the cannabis hard and brittle, which makes the sieving process much more efficient and productive.

Let the drum turn for two to five minutes. Use a short range kitchen timer to make sure not to let the drum run too long. As the drum turns, the purest resin falls onto the bottom of the box underneath the drum.