The lab
Wash was founded in 2024 in a converted equipment building outside Garberville. The lab is a working room — stainless steel extraction tanks, polished concrete, ice-water bath, wash bags hanging by micron size. No marketing set-dressing. Every lot you read about on the Releases page was washed here.
01 · The origin
Tomás and Jordan met at a 2022 solventless tradeshow in Humboldt. Tomás had been making bubble hash for fifteen years — first in Morocco with traditional hashmakers, then on his family’s farm in southern Humboldt. Jordan had spent six years inside a top California oil company running rosin lines and had quit when the company started cutting corners on cure cycles.
The two of them spent the next year washing test lots on weekends in Tomás’ family barn. By the end of 2023 they had a process worth labeling. The first commercial release shipped in March 2024 — Lot 24-A01, a Papaya Punch second wash that hit 7-star.
Two years and forty-seven lots later, the operation looks the same as it did at the start: two people, one room, one ceiling on how much they will release in a year.
The founding rule, unchanged since lot 24-A01
If the wash doesn’t hit 6-star, it doesn’t carry the Wash name. We never “move” lower-grade product to keep volume up.
02 · The hashmakers
Co-founder · Ice-water hash
Third-gen Humboldt grower family
Trained with traditional Moroccan hashmakers, 2008–2012. Returned to California 2013.
Tomás grew up on his family’s farm outside Whitethorn, southern Humboldt. After his grandfather’s death he spent four years in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco learning traditional sieve and pressing techniques from third-generation hashmakers. He returned to California in 2013 and spent ten years making ice-water hash on the family farm before co-founding Wash. His name goes on every ice-water hash lot the lab releases. He signs his hashmaker notes T.R.
tomas@wash.lab
Co-founder · Live rosin & cold cure
Former lab tech, top-3 CA oil company
Six years on commercial rosin lines, 2018–2023. UC Davis BS Plant Chemistry.
Jordan trained as a plant chemist at UC Davis and spent six years on the rosin and cold-cure lines at one of California’s largest concentrate companies. They left in 2023 over disagreements about cure cycles and quality control, and joined Tomás that summer. Jordan’s name goes on every live rosin and cold-cure lot Wash releases. They sign hashmaker notes J.B.
jordan@wash.lab
03 · The process rules
Every input is frozen within three hours of harvest at the source farm. We never wash cured flower. We never wash trim. We never wash mixed-strain.
The wash temperature is held at 4°C through every agitation cycle. Higher temperatures damage trichome heads. We use jacketed stainless tanks with continuous chiller flow.
Star ratings are assigned at freeze-dry completion. Below 6-star is sold off to extractors at cost or composted. We have never moved lower-grade product under the Wash mark.
04 · The first two years
2022 · Fall
Tomás and Jordan met at a panel on cold-cure cycles. The conversation that started in the parking lot went late into the night.
2023 · Q1–Q4
One Saturday a month. The first ten test lots were small — 50–100g washes from single-strain inputs Tomás’ family grew. By December they had a protocol worth labeling.
2024 · Q1
Converted equipment building outside Garberville. Two stainless tanks, one freeze-dryer, one rosin press. Lot 24-A01 — Papaya Punch second wash 90μ — shipped March 2024.
2024 · Q4
Wholesale only, no DTC. Boutique-only placement criteria. Wait-list opened the same quarter.
2025 · Q3
Lot 24-A04 reissued at 18 months aged. Serialized in batches of 44. The format becomes a quarterly fixture.
2026 · Q1
Current rotation: eight lots from four strains across ice-water hash, live rosin, fresh press, and Vault formats.
05 · For stockists
Wash is carried by dispensaries that take the documentation case into the buying conversation. We don’t pay for shelf placement. We don’t do promotional pricing. We don’t discount lots near the end of cure window.
In return, we ask three things of every stockist:
Email wholesale@wash.lab with your dispensary name, state license number, and the city you operate in. We’ll send back the wholesale brief, our current wait-list status, and the next available release window for new accounts.
Current wait-list · 9 retailers · opening Q4 2026
From Humboldt
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