The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
📌 The Press Club x Frenchy Cannoli Collaboration
There are only a sparse few figures in modern times who made an impact on the art of hashish and solventless cannabis extraction as the late and great Frenchy Cannoli. His passion for cannabis, knowledge of traditional sieving methods, and willingness to share with an open heart will forever echo within the cannabis community. Madame Cannoli and Frenchy’s apprentice, Belle, along with others who worked with him closely, are committed to carrying on his mission. We’re honored to join their efforts through an official partnership with the Lost Art of Hashishin workshops.
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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.
📌 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 Terroir and Why Is it Important for Solventless Concentrates?
Terroir applies specifically to wine, but let’s think bigger. Consider the definition of terroir, which is the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate. Plug in cannabis for wine, and it still makes sense, right?
Cannabis that’s grown outdoors is exposed to such a vast interconnected web of environmental factors.
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How To Properly Lollipop Your Cannabis Plants for Maximum Resin Yield
Lollipopping is a specific way to trim cannabis plants, allowing the plant to focus on the winners and avoid diverting valuable energy to the underperformers. What are the winners and underperformers? Winners get all the best light from indoor lights, while underperformers literally sit underneath these top bud sites and get less light.
Bud sites toward the top of the plant are the winners, which receive the most direct light.
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How to Make Healing Topicals From Rosin Chips
Rosin chips refers to the hash or cannabis flower that remains inside the press bags after extraction. These flattened pucks of squished hash or buds still contain therapeutic compounds, and although there’s less medicine to extract than the first time around, they are worth reusing. Not for pressing, but for another type of extraction: making healing topicals. With base oil and some heat, we can extract cannabinoids from these rosin chips to create a canna-rich salve.
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How Much Does THC Content Really Matter?
THC content has always been the standard measurement of cannabis potency. Scan any cannabis product label, and chances are your eyes go first to the THC percentage before anything else. We’ve been trained to put THC on a pedestal, above all other markers of potency and quality. In turn, both growers, hash makers, and solventless extractors have optimized for the highest THC content possible. As the free market goes, you have to give people what they want.
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How to Test The Quality of Your Hash
Ice water extraction is the gold standard for making the best hash, a process that lets hash makers collect the trichome heads of the cannabis plant and leave all other plant material behind. Anything besides resin heads is considered contamination, which would include trichome stalks, minuscule plant particles, chlorophyll, and foreign objects like dirt or insect parts.
Trichome heads contain the highest concentrations of the most desirable therapeutic compounds that cannabis produces, which is what makes them so very valuable to solventless extraction artists.
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Introducing The Press Club x Byrd Extracts Temple Ball Roller - What Is It & How To Use It
The exact science behind what’s happening within a Temple Ball remains mostly unknown, yet there are certainly chemical processes taking place, a natural interaction between the various components of cannabis trichomes and the resin they produce.
Looking like an ordinary ball of resin, rolled together with no more thought than a child would roll a ball of play-doh
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How To Properly Prepare Your Whole Plant Fresh Frozen Material for Washing Hash
Whole Plant Fresh Frozen, or WPFF, refers to cannabis plant material that’s covered in resin and frozen immediately after harvesting, and in preparation for ice water extraction. Hash makers wash this WPFF to collect loose resin and make it into pressed hash (Temple Balls) or rosin. Whole Plant Fresh Frozen is regarded as the premium starting material for making hash. Freezing the cannabis immediately after harvest minimizes terpene loss and helps preserve the freshness that’s found in the living cannabis plant.
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Top Tips To Consider When Setting Up and Running Your Hash Lab
Setting up your lab for washing hash is crucial to producing top quality and consistent loose resin. A clean and controlled environment plays a role in preserving the purity of the hash by preventing contaminants from getting into your hash. Maintaining temperature conditions is essential to keep the hash intact and easy to handle throughout the process ensuring its quality doesn't deteriorate. This uniformity in conditions leads to a process that consistently delivers a high-quality product.
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How To Modify a 20-Gallon Washing Machine for Washing Bubble Hash
20-gallon Bubble Magic Washing Machines are ideal for hash makers who need more than a mini washer, but don’t quite have the budget for a full commercial-grade set up. A 20-gallon machine is a perfect in-between for labs that aim for greater solventless output before investing in a large-scale build. Although the Bubble Magic 20-gallon is technically ready to use right out of the box, there is one modification specifically that can make a world of a difference: changing out the drainage hose.
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How To Create An Integrated Water Collection Vessel
Washing hash involves a lot of water. From the mixing vessel, through the sieving bags, and then out for drainage, water flows throughout the process. A slapdash setup can lead to water sloshing around everywhere, potentially ending up in the floor creating operational hazards and an overall sloppy environment. This is not what we want in the lab.
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Top 10 Reasons for Using a False Bottom While Washing
What is a false bottom on a washing vessel for ice water extraction? A false bottom is a flat, stainless steel insert that fits into the bottom of a washing vessel. With a circumference matching that of the washing vessel, false bottoms look like either grated or swiss cheese steel plates. False bottoms contain many small holes which keep ice from settling against the very bottom of the washing vessel, while allowing trichomes to fall through for collection later.
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Step-By-Step Tutorial On How To Collect The Terpenes From A Freeze Dryer
Loose resin isn’t the only solventless concentrate you can pull from your freeze dryer. With just a few basic supplies and a straightforward process, you can collect solventless terpenes from the freeze dryer after the drying cycle is complete. Let’s take a look at the tools and techniques you need to collect terpenes from your freeze dryer.
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How To Properly Soak & Germinate Seeds In Water
Germination is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed, the process through which the outer shell of the seed cracks and the plant radicle and plumule emerges. Germination is the first sign of life from a seed, and it’s good news for the cannabis grower, signaling that the genetics contained within have a good shot at showing their true colors. Germination is the very first phase of plant growth, and it’s an important step to get right. Properly germinating cannabis seeds gives the plant the highest chances of success.
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Can You Really Cure Rosin With An Ultrasonic Cleaner?
Ultrasonic cleaning is the process of using sound waves to agitate and clean a variety of items. As high-frequency sound waves (ranging from 20-40 kilohertz) pass through a fluid, they create vibrations that form micro-bubbles inside the fluid. The constant vibration of these tiny bubbles causes contaminants to separate out and rise to the surface, where they are destroyed.
Ultrasonic cleaners can clean many different types of objects, like industrial parts, jewelry, scientific samples, firearm components, electronic equipment and many more.
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How To Dab Bubble Hash the Right Way
Most solventless extraction artists use loose resin, or bubble hash, to make rosin for dabbing. Although it’s not as common to dab bubble hash as it is to dab rosin, the finest quality hash is actually great for dabbing. If you know the right techniques, loose resin can actually rival rosin dabs.
Can’t you just dab bubble hash the same way you dab rosin? Yes you can, but there are certain ways you can improve bubble hash dabs.
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The United States DEA Moves To Reclassify Cannabis
At long last, the United States Federal Government is changing its tune on cannabis! For decades, the DEA has waged a futile “war on drugs”, with cannabis as the standout target. As a Schedule 1 drug, cannabis was grouped with heroin as a drug with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. With the wave of scientific studies over the last two decades that have demonstrated the medicinal value of cannabis, this classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug didn’t have legs to stand on.
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Washing Hash: Ice vs Iceless Water Extraction
Ice water extraction is the method of removing trichomes from the cannabis flowers on which they grow to produce a solventless extract called bubble hash. Ice Water extraction, or washing hash, involves using cold water and a set of nylon sieves, called bubble wash bags. Hash makers mix together cold water and cannabis material to remove the trichomes from the material, then filter out the trichomes using the sieving bags.
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Introducing The Press Club’s 5G and 32G Stainless Steel Vessels
A washing vessel is the central piece of equipment in the ice water extraction process for making hash. Mixing together ice-cold water and cannabis material, hash makers isolate the trichome heads which contain the prized ingredients for solventless concentrates. Everything starts with the loose resin, and washing vessels are where the magic happens.
With seamless construction using top-quality, food-safe stainless steel, The Press Club’s advanced design facilitates fluid transfer and optimizes the efficiency and integrity of your hash-making process.
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