Ready to level up your joint game? A hash hole is the next-gen concentrate experience—a king-size paper loaded with premium rosin down the center so that as you burn it, a hole of hash forms in the ash. Let’s roll one together.

Video: Lindsay Maharry

What is a hash hole?

A hash hole—also called a donut or snake hole—is a large joint with cured rosin or live rosin tucked into the center. As you smoke, the hash burns slower than the flower, creating a hole in the ash and delivering a rich, layered flavor and a smooth, potent hit.

What you’ll need

• King-size rolling paper
• Filter tip or crutch
• About 1.5 g of fresh, sticky cannabis flower
• About 0.3 g of rosin or bubble hash
• Optional: rolling tray and cigar glue

How to roll a hash hole (step-by-step)

Follow these steps to create a perfect hash hole every time:

• Grind your flower by hand or with a coarse grinder—aim for broken-up buds, not fine powder.
• Lay out your paper with the gummed edge facing up and place your filter tip at one end.
• Shape your rosin or hash into an even “snake” and center it along the length of the paper.
• Sprinkle the ground flower evenly over the paper, fully covering the hash snake.
• Use your thumbs and forefingers to tuck and roll the paper into a firm cylinder, keeping the hash centered.
• Seal the joint by licking the gum strip or using a dab of cigar glue.
• Twist the open end closed, light up, and enjoy the hole as it forms in the ash.

Tips for a perfect hole

Use fresh, slightly moist flower so it burns at a similar rate to your rosin. If your hash is too soft to roll, chill it briefly in the fridge. And take slow, steady puffs—rushing can collapse the hole or make the joint canoe.

Final thoughts

Hash holes are more than a novelty—they’re a true celebration of solventless craft concentrates. With a little practice, you’ll be rolling perfect holes that impress every time.

Let’s visit the legendary Luma resin farm to learn about the best strains for making hash. Nestled in the wide and misty Petaluma Gap just north of San Francisco, Luma is an outdoor resin farm that specializes in growing fresh frozen material exclusively for hash production.

It’s planting day at Luma, whose collaborations with brands like Kalya, Rosin Tech, and Punch regularly sweep competitions around the globe. 

The goal? Create the highest quality trichomes possible.

How Luma grows for resin

To do this, Luma implements regenerative growing techniques to build high quality living soil, like cover crops, companion planting, no-till, and creating their own inputs using Jadam Fermentation. These techniques recycle nutrients back into the soil, which helps cultivate new microbial species, and create a rich, balanced environment for plants to thrive.

They select genetics based on what has proven to wash, aka the strain’s trichomes readily release into the ice water bath that separates them from the plant matter. 

Certain strains that are known to wash have reputations for being great hash plants. Their hashburger, for example, washes at 70%.

Each bed can produce up to 500lbs of fresh frozen material, which produces about 2500 grams of concentrate. 

Top strains grown at Luma

Today they’re filling them with some tried and true hash classics, like Lemon Limez, Strawguava, Forbidden Blue Print, Durban Lime, Pineapple Mojito, Grape Gas—and their award-winning Papaya. 

As a hash plant, Papaya shines, producing above-average yields for solventless extraction, while retaining the same deliciously bold terpene profile.  

That combination of strong returns and strong flavor makes it a top choice for solventless. Luma’s cut has been perfected over the years, a must try for all 710 enthusiasts. 

The timeline of hash harvest

Producing these strains for hash means the growers are held to a tighter timeline. Consumers want pale, milky rosin, not amber, so trichomes are harvested at 98% cloudy with only 1–2% amber. 

To hit that window, plants are fed to run out of nutrients early, triggering senescence—the stage when they cannibalize stored food to focus on growing their buds. Letting them finish fully, yet sooner, strips residuals and ensures the cleanest smoke possible. 

Check out the video to learn more about the selection and growing process of these special strains, as well as watch them harvest under a full moon and press them into their award-winning rosin for all of us to enjoy.

Let’s watch First Cut Farms turn loose dry sift into tight little temple balls using the old-world method made famous by Frenchy Cannoli. The whole process is built around heat and pressure and a real feel for resin. It starts with a glass bottle filled with boiling water and a pile of golden dry sift tucked between two turkey bags like a warm squish sandwich.

The hashmaker starts to roll the bottle over the bundle slowly and evenly, like he’s ironing it flat. The heat and weight work together to melt the trichome heads, binding the powder into a pliable sheet of hash. The more you roll, the deeper the transformation. The sheet goes from crumbly blonde to dark glossy brown as the oils activate.

Then it’s flipped and rolled and flipped again until the texture is just right—soft and shiny and warm to the touch.

Now comes the Frenchy part

The hash is spun into a spiral shape called a cannoli—a technique Frenchy Cannoli developed to create internal structure and density. From there, it’s pressed and shaped into a tight ball that seals itself with a resin shell, locking in freshness and setting the stage for the next phase.

The cure

The temple ball is wrapped in plastic and tucked away for three months or more. Some let it go a full year, as the resin inside starts to off-gas and morph. The cannabinoids and terpenes shift and recombine, creating whole new smells and flavors—including one rare compound called hashesene that only shows up in old-school hash.

What you get is a burn that’s smooth and flavorful, with smoke that dances between spicy, earthy, and sweet. It’s a process that takes patience, skill, and trust in the plant. But when done right, the results are timeless.

Temple ball hash is more than concentrate—it’s craft cannabis history in your hand.