The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
📌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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📌 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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2023 Solventless Holiday Gift Guide
The holiday season is upon us, and it’s time to start thinking about gifts for those special people in our lives. Specifically, those special solventless aficionados we know and love! While a few grams of the finest cold cure rosin would always be welcome, how about something a little more creative? Something novel, something practical, and maybe something in between. Whatever direction you want to go, The Press Club has you covered!
Let’s take a look at some of our favorite gift items for the 2023 Holiday Season, and maybe something on this list will be just what you’re looking to give this year.
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How To Run A Profitable Solventless Lab Guide 101
The end of a calendar year marks an opportune time to review the previous year’s financials and plan the year ahead. As we approach the end of 2023, now is your chance to assess your lab’s profitability and put some strategies in place to make 2024 your most profitable year yet. It’s not just about creating the highest-quality products, although that’s always a worthy goal. How you structure your operation, the best practices you put in place, and the little things your team does (or doesn’t do) day in and day out ultimately determine the viability of your business.
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How To Tell if Your Cannabis Seeds Are Good or Bad
Breeders work hard to create optimal cannabis cultivars for growers and solventless extractors. The true value of their work is contained within the seeds, which carry the healing powers of the cannabis plant. Farmers and extraction artists bring it forth. Starting with high quality seeds is a vital first step.
When we talk about the importance of using good seeds, we’re addressing the physical condition of the seeds, not the genetics they hold. Fortunately, visual inspection can give us clues as to the viability of cannabis seeds
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The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Colas
Colas are the flowering regions of a cannabis plant, the parts that are harvested for smoking or processing for concentrates. These budding sites are where the most densely-packed plant matter grows, and also where all the magic happens. Cannabis colas are not your average flower. While they might appear to be relatively basic structures, colas are actually composed of several different parts. Look closely and they are anything but boring. And the more you look, the more you will see.
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What to Do with Trim, Leaves & Stems From Harvest
It’s harvest time, and all your hard work in the garden is finally paying off. As busy as this season always gets, it’s important to thoughtfully plan how to maximize the fruits of your labor. Any part of the cannabis plant that bears resin contains value. Properly assessing that value, plus the methods that make the most sense to capture it, is key. Wasting your farm’s bounty not only hurts your bottom line, but it diminishes the high value of the medicine you’ve cultivated. Using all parts of the cannabis plant honors its power to heal.
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The Ultimate Photo Guide to Hash & Rosin Consistencies 2023
Rosin and hash are top tier solventless concentrates that consumers can enjoy in their most basic forms. But with additional processing, these cannabis extracts can also create many other exciting products. Rosin, the solventless dabs made from pressing loose resin, or hash, takes on a wide array of consistencies depending on how extractors process it following extraction. Likewise, the unadulterated trichome heads themselves, which hash makers collect using Ice Water Extraction, can form the basis of several cannabis creations.
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Top 5 Key Considerations on How To Choose A Solventless System
Building out a quality ice water extraction system represents a significant capital expense. When it comes to investments, few things in your operation will deliver the returns that a hash washing set up is capable of delivering. But getting it right requires some key considerations.
The process of collecting loose resin has gone through several iterations over the decades. And the equipment that hash makers use to build out their labs have kept up. In fact, sometimes the equipment itself drives the innovations in hash making.
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Cannabis Flower 101: How To Tell Good Flower From Bad Flower For Washing
Not all high quality cannabis flowers produce exceptional bubble hash. Even with the best equipment, process, and a knowledgeable artist’s touch, cannabis that may deliver a superior smoke can still lead to disappointment in the hash maker’s lab. Sourcing material that has qualities specifically suited to ice water extraction is essential to finishing with loose resin that’s worth the while. Otherwise, good flower goes to waste while money and time slip down the drain.
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Post Harvest 101: How To Prepare Your Farm For Your Next Grow
Preparation is the key to success. Every aspect of running a thriving cannabis operation, from procuring supplies to managing a team, building an extraction lab, or ramping up for harvest season benefits from careful planning and proper preparation. With the time for harvest quickly approaching outdoor grows, this is a great time to review how growers can prepare the farm for the next growing season, even before this year's crop is chopped.
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How To Rinse & Clean Your Indoor & Outdoor Grow Buds For Contaminants Before Hash Washing
Over the course of a grow cycle, whether indoors or outdoors, tiny pieces of debris make their way onto the sticky trichomes of your cannabis flowers. It seems like no matter how hard you try to keep a clean environment, resin grabs and holds contaminants like flies to honey. While it’s much easier to control an indoor environment than the outdoors, some unwanted particles of various compositions undoubtedly dirty your precious resin in any type of grow.
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How Does A Closed Loop Recirculation System Work?
As the name suggests, a closed loop recirculation system is a configuration that lets hash makers recirculate and thereby reuse water during the Ice Water Extraction process of collecting loose resin, or bubble hash. The traditional approach to Ice Water Extraction does not involve recirculating water through the system, rather extractors dispose of the drainage water after it’s mixed with starting material and passes through the sieving bags.
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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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