The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
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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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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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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Pressing Rosin with Clear Tek and Vacuum Bag Tek
Nowhere else in cannabis can you find the rapid pace of innovation that exists in the world of solventless extraction. It’s truly awesome to see so many new techniques, or teks, coming to light, thanks to the dedicated work and experimentation of hash and rosin makers. A great example of this type of innovation is Vacuum Bag Tek.
Vacuum Bag Tek is a way to remove air pockets from loose resin that’s packed inside rosin bags prior to pressing.
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Task Specialization vs Cross-training in Your Solventless Lab
From material intake to jarring and packaging, a solventless manufacturing operation has a lot of moving parts. In order to keep these parts working in sync, it is important to be intentional in how you assign tasks and delegate responsibilities. One particular area to consider is striking a healthy balance between task specialization and cross training of employees. Properly utilizing your employees diverse work histories and skill sets is critical to maximizing your success.
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Genotype vs. Phenotype: What’s the Difference & Why It's Important To Solventless
Plant genetics play a significant role in the success or failure of solventless extractions. The genetic makeup of a cannabis plant dictates its uniqueness as a specific cultivar, making some cultivars more desirable for solventless production than others. Genetics determine the quality and quantity of resin that a plant will produce, which are both top considerations for extractors. What Is a Genotype?
The cannabis plant genotype refers to the genetic makeup or DNA sequence of an individual cannabis plant.
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Guide to Carb Caps and How To Use Them
Carb caps are round, hollow, often globe-shaped coverings that fit on top of the banger, or bowl, of a dab rig. They take on different shapes but are normally bulbous or somewhat cylindrical with a little hat on top. As their name implies, these accessories cap off the open top of bangers while the user takes dabs. They sit loosely onto the top edge of the bowl so that they’re able to swivel around during use.
The design typically includes a small hole or series of holes, which allows the user to control the amount of air that is allowed to flow through the banger.
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What Are Terp Pearls, Terp Pillars, and Hollow Pillars and How To Use Them
Terp pearls are small, often spherical pieces of heat-resistant material that are used in conjunction with a dabbing nail or banger to enhance the dabbing experience. They are commonly made of quartz and come in a variety of sizes and shapes from round, pearl-like orbs to cylindrical pillars and more. But what is the purpose of these little dabbing accessories?
When heated along with the concentrate, the terp pearls create dispersion in the banger
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The Relationship Between Plant Genetics & Extraction Methodology
Specific extraction methods are capable of showcasing a cannabis cultivar’s unique qualities to various degrees. Some extraction methodologies can target only specific components of a cultivar’s genetic expression, creating a final product that lacks a holistic representation of the starting material. Other methodologies capture the essence of the particular plant genetics in its entirety, amplifying the traits of the starting material in aggregate rather than selecting specific elements to exhibit.
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How To Use Pressurized Water To Clean Contamination from Bubble Hash
Even the best washes are susceptible to contaminants, tiny pieces of plant material that slip through the wash bags along with resin heads. While hash makers can force this green chlorophyll through most of the sieves with pressurized water, leaving only the trichomes in the bags for collection, this isn’t so easy when it comes down to the 45 and 25 micron bags. Water by itself often won’t push the contaminants through the minuscule pores in these bags.
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Cultivar vs Strain: What’s the Difference & Why It’s Important
“What’s the best strain?” is a common question in the world of cannabis. The term “strain” has long been used to denote a specific variety of cannabis that includes unique traits that set it apart from other varieties. Certain varieties of cannabis produce a lot of resin, others not quite as much. Some varieties grow big, chunky flowers, while others grow more wispy buds. One of the best ways to tell different varieties of cannabis apart is by the way they smell, which is a signal of the specific terpene profile they exhibit.
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How To Properly Maintain and Clean Your Harvest Right Freeze Dryer
It's the new year and a great opportunity to take inventory of everything that you have in preparation for the coming months of production. It’s also wise to make sure all your equipment is clean. Of all the equipment you have in your extraction lab, a freeze dryer for drying bubble hash is likely one of the most valuable. Keeping up with cleaning and maintenance of your Harvest Right freeze dryer is key to setting yourself up for success.
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Every Type of Quartz Banger Nail & How To Use Them
A quartz banger is used to vaporize cannabis extracts, also known as "dabs," in a dab rig. The best nails are typically made of quartz, which is heated to a high temperature using a torch. The nail, sometimes called a bowl or “banger”, slides into the stem of a dab rig and can be interchanged for alternative types of nails. This means that a single dab rig can deliver different dabbing experiences based on the type of nail that’s used with it.
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The Ultimate Guide on How To Make Hash Holes
Looking for a different way to smoke your favorite solventless concentrates? Hash holes may be just the thing you’ve been waiting for. A clever combination of cannabis flowers and solventless extracts, hash holes deliver a new experience with a couple of old friends. It’s like hitting a joint and taking a dab at the same time. It’s the best of both worlds.
Hash holes might look like regular pre rolls from the outside, but it’s what’s inside that really makes the difference.
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Hand Washing Tools From Paddles To Whisks, What Works Best
Want to create the best bubble hash around? Many hash makers will argue that hand washing is the way to go. Automating the process with a repurposed washing machine means less manual labor and greater scalability, but mixing by hand gives hash makers exceptional control and versatility.
Both hand washing and machine washing lean on the basic mechanics. Just the right amount of stirring and churning helps to separate trichome heads
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What Is And How to Make 6 Star Full Melt Hash
6 Star hash refers to loose resin of the highest possible quality. This is premium quality solventless, and it’s actually quite hard to come by. You’re not going to find true 6 Star hash in dispensaries. A lot of things have to go right in order to create the best of the best, and only one thing has to go wrong in order to destroy it.
At the same time, the only job of the hash maker is to not mess up what the cannabis plant has already produced. 6 Star hash is the result of flawless isolation, collection, and preservation of top-quality
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No Ice Tech: The Future of Solventless
Ice water extraction is the art of removing trichomes from the cannabis flowers on which they grow using only cold water and a set of nylon sieves called bubble wash bags. Trichomes are tiny appendages that contain high concentrations of therapeutic compounds like cannabinoids and terpenes that cannabis is known for. The heads of these trichomes are the best of the best, and the ultimate prize of solventless extractors and hash makers.
Cold water makes the trichomes brittle enough to cleanly break free from the cannabis material, while also remaining in-tact as effective carriers of the valuable oil contained inside.
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How To Calculate THC Content in Homemade Edibles and Tinctures
Homemade edibles offer an effective way to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the cannabis plant. Eating cannabis provides an alternative to smoking or dabbing, and can be an even more reliable way to medicate. However, if you don’t know the cannabinoid content of your edibles or tinctures, it can be difficult to anticipate and control each dose, making the experience less reliable (and potentially less enjoyable!).
So how can you calculate the THC content in homemade edibles and tinctures?
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What Is Living Soil?
Living soil is a growing medium that’s rich with organic matter, earth minerals, and other compounds that create a perfect ecosystem for microscopic life. Living soil is teeming with microbes which can be incredibly beneficial to growing cannabis. Living soil allows cannabis roots to absorb all the nutrients that the plant requires in order to not only thrive, but to produce the highest quality resin.
Living soil isn’t just any old “dirt”. It’s characterized by rich biodiversity and microbial activity.
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What's the Difference: Home vs. Pharmaceutical Harvest Right Freeze Dryers & What We Recommend For Drying Bubble Hash
Freeze drying utilizes the process of sublimation to remove moisture from wet objects. Most commonly used for drying and preserving food, freeze dryers also work great for drying loose resin, or bubble hash. While it’s possible to allow wet hash to air dry loose resin through the process of evaporation, sublimation inside a freeze dryer speeds up the process, reducing oxidation and preserving more terpenes.
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