The Ultimate Rosin Pressing Resource
📌 What's the Problem with Cheap Rosin Bags & Bubble Bags on Amazon?
It may be tempting to save a few dollars by purchasing the most inexpensive rosin filter bags and bubble wash bags online. Dozens of companies have sprung up in recent years, opportunistically jumping on the solventless bandwagon with their ability to quickly manufacture low-quality products in hopes of appealing to undiscerning buyers. While their cut-rate bags might fit into even the slimmest budgets, they can quickly become counterproductive and even detrimental to your output.
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📌What Is the Purpose of Using Different Micron Bubble Wash Bags for Ice Water Extraction?
Wash bags are the central piece of gear used in the ice water extraction process, a solventless method of making bubble hash. Wash bags are nylon bags that fit inside of a bucket and stack one inside of the other, secured along the top rim of the bucket. Wash bags are made in various sizes to accommodate different amounts of cannabis material.
Hash Contaminants & How To Keep Trichomes Clean
Sometimes, contamination in the form of bugs, dust, sand, and even pesticides can get caught in the sieving bags along with the resin. And contamination in the bags can easily lead to contamination in the final product. Therefore, the goal is to minimize all contaminants on the starting material as much as possible before starting the Ice Water Extraction process.
While there will always be some level of contamination, even if it’s extremely limited, there are things that hash makers can do to keep trichomes clean during the growth, harvesting, and preparation phases leading up to extraction.
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What is Toll Processing & Split Processing in Solventless & What's Right For Me?
Partnerships and collaborations are powerful in any industry, but they’re especially meaningful in solventless cannabis extraction. A strategic partnership enables cannabis businesses to create unique synergy and deliver more value to the market than either party could offer independently.
As collaborators find creative ways to combine their complementary expertise, new opportunities emerge for both businesses.
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2023 The Press Club and the Northern California Rosin Championship
The Northern California Rosin Championship, or NCRC, is a competition by rosin makers for rosin makers. A select batch of hand-picked extractors wash and press the same material, with winners in multiple categories chosen by a panel of judges. And this year's event, the second annual NCRC, was one for the history books.
What an epic weekend getting together and celebrating with old and new friends in the community at the beautiful Yokayo Ranch in Ukiah, Mendocino County.
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What is Korean Natural Farming (KNF) & Why It's Important To Solventless Rosin & Hash
Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is a farming/gardening protocol that was organized and popularized by Master Cho Han Kyu. This production method uses local and onsite fermentations of plants, fruits, and fish, as well as the culturing of microorganisms to regenerate land into a healthy and productive living soil. KNF is a very affordable and regenerative production method that reduces input costs for farms and home gardeners while helping to maximize yield potentials and quality.
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Top 5 Tips For Getting Started With Your Harvest Right Freeze Dryer
Harvest Right Freeze Dryer is a brand of home freeze-drying equipment designed to preserve food and other perishable items by removing moisture through a process called freeze-drying. Freeze-drying involves freezing the item and then gradually reducing the surrounding pressure to allow frozen water to sublimate directly from a solid to a gas, without passing through the liquid phase. While these freeze dryers are designed to preserve food, they are also perfect for drying loose resin.
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Ultimate Guide To Making Frenchy Cannoli Traditional Temple Balls
Frenchy Cannoli, a legendary figure among hashishins worldwide, emerged as an unparalleled hash maker renowned for his expertise and pioneering techniques. Born in France, he later adopted California as his home, where he devoted his life to mastering the art of hashish production. Frenchy's journey began as an apprentice under traditional Moroccan hashish masters, where he learned the age-old techniques of hand-rolling and sieving to extract the resinous trichomes from cannabis plants.
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Top 5 Key Benefits from Cold Water Recirculation for Ice Water Extraction
Continuous recirculation for ice water extraction refers to the process of continually moving the ice-cold water through the cannabis material while agitating it. Instead of agitating the mixture for a fixed duration and then disposing of the water, continuous recirculation involves maintaining a steady flow of water through the extraction vessel, then through the sieving bags and into a collection vessel, throughout the agitation process.
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Boiling Points of Common Terpenes in Cannabis
Terpenes are a large and diverse class of organic compounds that are naturally produced by various plants, including cannabis, pine trees, citrus fruits, and many others. They are responsible for the distinctive aromas and flavors found in these plants. Terpenes are responsible for that dank, musky, gassy, and fruity funk that screams at us through the cracked lid of a mason jar. They are what we know and love about cannabis, and we can recognize them from a mile away.
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How To Make Hash Wraps
A hash wrap is a thin, flat sheet of hash that resembles a rolling paper. In fact, hash wraps are made to replace traditional rolling papers. Instead of rolling your flower using a hemp or other plant-based fiber, why not use hash instead? Hash wraps will take your joints or cannagars to the next level!
Not only are hash wraps fun to make, and also gratifying (if not a bit tricky at first) to roll with, the smoke they deliver puts regular rolling papers to shame.
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How To Make A Bubble Wash Bag Cleaning Station
Bubble wash bags are the main tools hash makers use for sieving cannabis trichomes in bubble hash production. After agitating trichome-rich cannabis material together with ice water, hash makers run the mixture through a series of nylon bubble wash bags, consisting of various sizes of filtering screens. Each bubble wash bag collects a different grade of resin, allowing extractors to separate the best from the rest.
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Introducing The Press Club Rosin Press
Since 2017, The Press Club has specialized in making high-quality gear for solventless extraction artists, helping to bring pure and potent cannabis concentrates to consumers. With humble beginnings pressing rosin at home, spending painstaking hours of trial and error while blowing out low-quality rosin bags, we decided to make our own. Over time, we developed a proprietary stitching that made our rosin bags nearly indestructible. We knew we were onto something, and saw an opportunity to share what we had created with the community.
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What is White Labeling In The Cannabis Industry?
As the cannabis industry continues its explosive growth in the US, white labeling is becoming more common in the solventless sector. White labeling means using a third party to manufacture your products, and then rebranding them as your own. Essentially, you take a product that is already developed and produced by another company and sell it under your own brand name, logo, and packaging.
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What is Kryo Kief & Is It A New Solventless Method?
Solventless extraction methods provide hash makers and extractors with natural, unadulterated, and time-tested processes to isolate cannabis trichomes and the therapeutic resin contained within. Unlike other extraction methods that rely on chemicals like butane or CO2, solventless extraction methods like ice water extraction for making hash, or heated pressing plates for making rosin, don’t require any hazardous solvents during production.
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Did You Know? The 2023 Emerald Cup Winners Use The Press Club
One of the largest and most prestigious cannabis events in the world, The Emerald Cup is an annual cannabis competition and festival held in iconic California.The competition is named after the region where it originated, the Emerald Triangle, which encompasses Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties in Northern California.
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How To Properly Package & Store Fresh Frozen Cannabis For Future Processing
Fresh frozen is a means of preserving the terpenes and cannabinoids in cannabis by freezing the flowers immediately after harvest. Freezing the resin slows the breakdown of these therapeutic compounds produced within the trichomes of the flowers. This breakdown is a natural process that occurs at a faster rate while drying and curing. But with fresh frozen, there is no drying or curing involved. Fresh frozen cannabis is premium source material for making concentrates like bubble hash and live resin
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What is Grafting & How To Do It Properly
Grafting is a technique used in plant cultivation to join two plants together so that they grow as one. The upper part of the plant, called the scion, is joined to the root system of the lower plant, called the rootstock. The scion provides the predominant characteristics of the desired crop, while the rootstock provides the root system and support.
A common practice in commercial agriculture, grafting is used to produce fruit trees and ornamental plants with desired characteristics. It is also used by home gardeners to produce unique and interesting plants
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The Tragedy of Unjust Cannabis Laws in Singapore and Beyond
Here in Northern California, we’re living in a cannabis bubble. Ideal growing conditions, a robust and vibrant culture, bleeding-edge innovations, and world-class genetics help make this region truly hallowed grounds for cannabis connoisseurs. While these advantages are rare on the world stage, sometimes we take them for granted. But sobering stories of people being executed for breaking cannabis laws put things back into stark perspective.
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What is Piatella and How to Make Piatella
Piatella is making waves in a major way. You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve seen the memes. This is next-level solventless and it’s blowing peoples’ minds, and rightfully so. The potency and flavor of this artfully-crafted solventless cannabis concentrate is truly legendary. So what is Piatella, and where does it come from?
In northeastern Spain, the region of Catalonia is known for its lively beach resorts of Costa Brava as well as the Pyrenees Mountains. Cannabis culture has deep roots in the regional capital, Barcelona, where connoisseurs have been producing and consuming hash in high esteem for decades.
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Whipping Rosin: Hand vs Drill Which Is Better?
Whipping rosin is the process of rapidly stirring rosin using quick, circular movements similar to whisking eggs. Whipping can change both the appearance and the consistency of rosin following a cold cure, making it a popular post-production process and the final step before the rosin is ready for consumers. While whipping isn’t necessary to prepare rosin for consumption, it does offer conspicuous benefits. But not without some potential downsides.
During the cold curing process, extractors seal freshly-pressed rosin into glass jars at cool temperatures
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