The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
Rosin Press Pressure Guide
✅ Updated 1/31/22 osin extraction is the art of literally squeezing trichomes out of cannabis material. It requires no solvents or other chemicals to create, and relies on a mechanical process composed of a trifecta of inputs: pressure, heat, and time.
What exactly is pressure? Pressure is defined as the amount of force applied to the surface of an object divided by the area of the object over which that force is distributed. Force can be measured in pounds, or tons, which is not the same as pressure. This is a key distinction to keep in mind.
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What Is a Bubble Hash Temple Ball?
✅ Updated 8/30/21 Temple Balls are objects of hash-making lore, originating long before modern methods of ice water extraction and bubble bags. The first temple balls were made from hand-collected cannabis trichomes (which is known as charas), or from dry sift made by separating trichomes from the plant using screens. Temple balls are the original solventless cannabis concentrate.
Temple balls give hash makers a way to store and preserve precious trichome heads for the long-term.
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Why Does Bubble Hash Have Different Colors?
✅ Updated 1/25/22 Color can give us insights into the characteristics and qualities of bubble hash. The age of the hash, drying method, source material, and other factors play into the appearance of bubble hash. The color of hash might give us some indicators, however color doesn’t always convey the entire story.
There is a general rule that the lighter the color, the higher the quality of bubble hash. More often than not this generalization will point you in the right direction. Color can be used as a guide
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Tips for Cleaning Your Dab Rig and Banger
✅ Updated 1/18/22 Regular use of your rig leaves residual oil buildup, it’s all part of the game. Taking the perfect dab is only possible when you’re using a clean rig and banger, so staying on top of regular maintenance and cleaning pays dividends.
Even premium rosin and bubble hash leaves a little something extra behind after vaporizing in the bowl. Much of this is the waxy encasing of the trichome heads, which are resilient to the temperatures used for dabbing. They remain in a puddle or thin oil smear along the bottom and sides of the bowl
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How To Dab Rosin
✅ Updated 1/12/22 There’s nothing quite as satisfying as taking the perfect dab of high quality terpene-rich rosin or bubble hash. There are many different ways to enjoy solventless cannabis concentrates, but nothing can match dabbing in its effectiveness and total sensory experience. There’s also a ritual of taking dabs that can be satisfying in itself. Setting out and preparing your equipment, heating the nail, scooping up a nice dab, dropping into the bowl, and watching that terp pearl spin while the magic happens. It is a truly unique and enjoyable experience!
If you’re new to dabbing or just looking for some quick tips
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Lipids, Fats, and Waxes in Rosin
✅ Updated 1/4/22 Lipids are a diverse group of compounds found in both plant and animal cells, providing long-term energy storage and protective insulation. Lipids are hydrocarbons composed of only two elements: hydrogen and carbon. They’re also hydrophobic, which means they are insoluble in water. Fats, oils, waxes, phospholipids, and steroids are all various types of lipids.
The cannabis plant produces a variety of lipids, which make their way into rosin. Their presence comes through in the flavor
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Top 5 Rosin Pressing Tips For Flower
✅ Updated 8/15/21 Hours of experimentation lead to lots of valuable insights when you’re pressing flower rosin. We’ve captured a few of our favorites here. The quality of rosin you collect is determined primarily by the quality of the flower you’re pressing. Given that your press is dialed-in, any shortcomings in your rosin can most likely be traced back to shortcomings in your flower. The importance of excellent material can’t be understated if your goal is truly connoisseur rosin.
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3 Reasons Why You Need A Pre Press Mold
Pre-pressing cannabis material prior to rosin extraction provides multiple benefits to extractors. Pre-pressing is a simple and effective way to prepare flower, dry sift, or bubble within a filter bag to create consistent and even rosin flow from the material during extraction.
The process of pre-pressing cannabis is straightforward. Using specially-designed rectangular aluminum molds (or cylindrical molds if you’re pressing Bottle Tech), loaded filter bags are hand-pressed within a mold just before extraction. After the filter bag is filled with material, use your fingers to compact the material inside the bag tightly and evenly.
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Why Is Pheno-Hunting Important for Rosin?
✅ Updated 12/28/20 The search for an ideal specimen of any given cannabis cultivar, or strain, is known as Pheno-hunting. The term “Pheno-hunting” comes from the word phenotype, which is the set of observable characteristics of an individual plant. These characteristics, such as bud structure, trichome production, terpene content, etc. are the result of the unique interaction between environment and genetics. While individual plants of a particular cultivar each carry the same basic genetic code, those genetics
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Best Ways To Use Rosin
While dabbing might be the preferred and predominant way that most rosineers enjoy rosin, it’s not the only way to use our favorite solventless cannabis concentrate. Medicating with cannabis rosin isn’t limited to dropping globs, and there are several ways to get creative with your consumption.
If it’s time to shake up your routine, consider a few of the best ways to use rosin and give them a try. Whether you like to smoke it or eat it, you can find some great ways to take an old friend for a new spin.
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Which Cannabis Strains Are Best for Washing Bubble Hash?
When it comes to finding the best cannabis strains for washing bubble hash, it all comes down to the trichomes. Trichomes are the tiny translucent appendages that glisten like grains of sugar on cannabis flowers, and they hold the key to the plant’s therapeutic benefits. The art of ice water extraction involves isolating, collecting, and preserving these miniscule globes.
Some strains produce trichome heads that are better fit for ice water extraction than others.
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How To Make Moon Rocks with Rosin
Moon Rocks are a cannabis confection so unique they appear to originate out of this world. Part cannabis flower and part cannabis concentrate, Moon Rocks present one of the most interesting and exciting ways to consume cannabis. Show up to any gathering with a jar of Moon Rocks and you and your novelty nugs will be the center of attention.
What makes Moon Rocks so special? Moon rocks are cannabis flowers covered in oil and frosted with a layer of trichomes.
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What Is Nucleation in Rosin?
Have you ever seen clear, smooth, oily rosin transform into a seemingly sugar-filled, clumpy, and inconsistent substance? This change in appearance is due to nucleation, and it’s a relatively common occurrence in rosin. But what is nucleation, and how does it impact the quality of your rosin? Read on to find out.
What is nucleation? Nucleation is simply a phase change in which crystalline formations occur in a liquid.
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How to Rehydrate Dry Cannabis Flower For Rosin Pressing
✅ Updated 6/10/21 Effectively extracting quality rosin from cannabis flowers isn’t possible without the correct moisture content and humidity levels. Flowers grown in an ideal environment from good genetics can’t fully transform into exceptional rosin if they’re too dry during extraction.
Excessive dryness in cannabis flowers causes decreased rosin yields, as bone-dry bud reabsorbs much of the rosin as it flows through the rosin bag. This reabsorption rate is significantly lower in flowers that contain the right amount of moisture, giving every extractor good reason to maintain correct moisture in their starting material.
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How To Take Notes To Improve Your Rosin Production
The mechanics of pressing rosin are straightforward. With the application of heat and pressure, solventless extractors release the oils contained within cannabis to create a pure and potent form of concentrate known as rosin. Although the overall approach to pressing rosin is simple, many variables exist in the actual process, any of which can have a direct impact on the quantity and quality of your rosin yield.
Over time and with experience, extractors gain a better understanding of how to control variables such as time, temperature, and pressure when pressing rosin.
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How Much Cannabis Do I Need To Make Bubble Hash
✅ Updated 6/10/21 Home Growers with a couple of cannabis plants often ask how much material they need to accumulate for a successful run of hash. It’s common to see people washing a pound or more of cannabis and pulling ounces of hash, but do you really need that much material to make your own bubble hash? What if you only have a small amount of starting material to work with?
Preparing all the equipment and going through the labor-intensive process of ice water extraction takes a good amount of time and energy, so most bubble hash extractors won’t wash anything under a quarter pound (4 ounces) per run.
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Caged vs Uncaged Rosin Press Plates
✅ Updated 6/21/21
One of the advantages to building your own rosin press is that it gives you the flexibility to customize an extraction setup that best fits your needs. By designing and assembling your own unique configuration, you can choose the tonnage capacity and plate size to match your expected levels of production. Another important consideration is whether you’ll install a caged or an uncaged rosin plate kit onto your press.
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Hand Washing vs Machine Washing Bubble Hash
✅ Updated 6/28/21 Washing hash is the process of stirring and churning an ice water and cannabis mixture to release the plant’s trichome heads from the rest of the plant material. Turbulence and agitation in the water allow the plant’s trichomes (carriers of the therapeutic ingredients in cannabis) to separate in the icy slurry. Then, by filtering this mixture through a series of screens, or bubble bags, we can collect the trichomes which become our hash.
Agitating the ice water and cannabis mixture for hash extraction can be done by hand or in a washing machine.
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Guide To Pressing Rosin for the Outdoor Grower
After a successful growing season and bountiful harvest, outdoor cannabis growers sometimes find themselves overflowing in an abundance of flowers. While it’s hard to complain about too much cannabis, dozens of mason jars sitting around the house can get a little cumbersome.
Pressing rosin is a great way to put surplus flowers to work, expand your cannabis horizons, and learn a new type of cannabis craft: solventless extraction.
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How To Press Bottle Tech
Bottle Tech refers to a specific style of filling rosin bags and loading them into the press, so that the material takes the shape of a vertical cylinder rather than a flat rectangle. With a fundamental change in the shape of source material, bottle Tech gives the extractor greater control over bag pressure for more consistent results.
Why use Bottle Tech to Press Rosin? If you’re pressing flower, especially if you work with the same cultivars on a regular basis, Bottle Tech allows you to more accurately dial-in your pressure application for repeatable and predictable results.
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How To Correctly Clean Bubble Wash Bags
✅ Updated 10/29/22 Investing in quality bubble bags makes the ice water extraction process easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. The rewards of washing hash with quality supplies become evident in the final product. Once you've made that investment in bubble bags, it's important to know how to maintain them.
Bubble bags are not meant to last forever, but they're not one-and-done disposable products either.
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