The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
How to Use an Ultrasonic Cleaner To Keep Your Bangers Clean
A quartz banger is a specialized bowl used with a dab rig to vaporize cannabis concentrates. Made of high-quality quartz, bangers are designed to withstand high temperatures while offering excellent heat retention and distribution. This setup allows your solventless cannabis concentrates to vaporize evenly, and delivers smooth, silky, and flavorful dabs with each session.
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Defoliating Cannabis Plants Before Harvest for Solventless Processing
Defoliation before fall harvest is one of the final steps outdoor growers take for optimizing plant health and yield. By removing excess leaves, cultivators can redirect energy toward resin production. When done correctly, defoliation enhances airflow, reduces humidity around the buds, and allows more light to penetrate the canopy. This method both improves the overall quality of the cannabis and also helps prevent issues like mildew and botrytis, which can devastate a crop late in the growing season
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The Homegrown Hashishin Selecting For Solventless CBD with Secret Asian
The Homegrown Hashishin is the first podcast made specifically for single-source solventless home and hobby hash producers. This show is a celebration of craft hash making, and whether you're a seasoned solventless expert or just dipping your toes into the water, there’s always something to learn. Hosted by two passionate home hash makers, Sonoma Sungrown and Don't Worry Be Hashy
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The Homegrown Hashishin Podcast The Magic Of Post Processing with The Bryantist
Today, we're excited to welcome a special guest—a Hashish educator from California, the Bryantist. We're thrilled to have him on the show. How's it going, Bryantist? Thanks for joining us so early!
The Bryantist: Yeah, thanks for having me. I’m happy to be here. I'm up in Ukiah, California, just going about my day, working from my van. It’s always an adventure out here in Mendocino.
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What Are Mother Plants & Why They Are Important To Solventless
Push your winners, drop your losers! In the world of solventless extraction, consistency producing high-quality concentrates is key—especially when you're trying to replicate the same high-performing genetics that deliver optimal rein. Once growers discover a cultivar that checks all the boxes—potent yields, rich terpene profiles, and strong resistance to pests or diseases—it makes sense to preserve that specific plant’s genetics.
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The Best Butane Torches for Dabbing and How To Use Them
A smooth, silky dab is very hard to beat, which makes dabbing the most popular method for consuming solventless concentrates. When you take a dab, you're vaporizing a small amount of cannabis concentrate by applying intense heat to a surface, typically a quartz banger, and then inhaling the vapor through a dab rig. It’s a straightforward process, but using the right tools is crucial for an optimal experience.
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Solventless Extraction Color Guide to Rosin
Rosin is a standout form of cannabis concentrate, prized for its purity, potency, and lack of chemical solvents in the extraction process. Whether made from flower, hash, or kief, rosin is extracted with heat and pressure to squeeze the oily resin from the cannabis plant. One of the first things we notice when evaluating rosin is its color. Ranging from pale white or golden hues to deep amber or even dark brown, color plays a significant role in shaping perceptions about the product's quality.
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Why You Should Use Food Grade Cellophone Instead of Plastic For Storing & Aging Temple Balls
The ideal environment for storing and aging bubble hash facilitates a sort of chemical digestion, a natural process in which the terpene-rich hash eliminates undesirable components like trichome membranes and other plant matter. The best qualities of the resin are locked in, while the less desirable qualities are faded out. This enhances flavor and creates a more mellow smoke.
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What Type of Ice is Best for Washing Bubble Hash?
Since the early days when hashishins began making solventless cannabis concentrates using the ice water extraction method, ice cubes have been an integral part of the process. Hash makers add ice cubes to a mixture of water and cannabis material to keep the temperatures near-freezing inside the washing vessel. The colder the water, the better (up to a point).
So why do hash makers use ice cold water for washing hash?
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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 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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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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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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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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Single Source vs. Commercial Living Soil - The Whys & Why Nots
Living soil epitomizes the cleanest, most sustainable, and purest way to grow cannabis. Living soil is the most natural and holistic substrate available, abundant in organic elements, minerals from the earth, and various compounds that allow microorganisms to thrive. Inside living soil is an entire universe of all kinds of minute life forms.
This fertile environment, bustling with microbes, holds immense potential for enhancing cannabis cultivation. Within living soil, cannabis roots can efficiently uptake essential nutrients vital not only for robust growth but also for yielding
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Why Press Your Resin By Frenchy Cannoli
When I decided to approach the legal side of cannabis as a California registered patient a few years back, my first step was to educate myself on the legality of my decision before anything. I also wanted to know the history of the movement that gave me such an amazing gift as an expression of my reconnaissance, and respect. But most importantly, I was looking for the science, if any, behind everything I had experienced with local associations while traveling in producing countries
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What Are Charas & How To Make Charas Like A Pro
Charas is the oldest form of cannabis concentrate - the original solventless. Not only is it the oldest, it’s the simplest to produce, requiring only the flowering cannabis plant and a pair of human hands. Making charas involves a very intimate experience with cannabis, in which the hash maker literally rubs fresh resin right from the trichomes onto their hands. The resin accumulates into a blackish layer across the palms and fingers, then peels off like a second skin.
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How To Make Solventless Pectin Gummies
Pectin is a plant-based gelling agent, commonly used in jams, jellies, and fruit preserves. It’s similar to gelatin, but unlike gelatin, pectin is vegan and found naturally in just about every fruit and vegetable. Typically made from apples (apple pectin) or citrus peels (citrus pectin), pectin is a great choice as thickener and stabilizer for making solventless gummies. When heated with sugar and acid, pectin forms a kind of mesh that traps liquid and then sets as it cools.
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