The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
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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How To Make MCT Oil Rosin Capsules
When hash heads get together to talk about rosin, it’s unlikely that rosin capsules will be the first topic of conversation. Rosin is known for its ability to capture the purest essence of the cannabis plant, offering an accurate representation of each particular cultivar’s unique terpene profile, maintaining an unmatched level of potency and purity within all categories of cannabis concentrates. How could we fit all of this sensory magic into an edible capsule?
Although rosin is generally vaporized and inhaled for the cleanest and most satisfying type of dab you could hope to find
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Best Ways to Dry Bubble Hash
✅ Updated 1/13/21
When pressing rosin, ensuring the ideal moisture content in our starting material is pivotal to the quality and yield of solventless cannabis extract. We know that in the case of pressing flower, a raw flower plucked from a live plant is unworkable between the plates. The popping and hissing of moisture as it rapidly escapes the wet bud is a clear signal that conditions are unfit to extract rosin (and never to be repeated!).
Just as drying cannabis flowers for rosin extraction is essential, so is properly drying bubble hash for the same purpose.
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How to Make Vape Cartridges with Your Rosin
✅ Updated 6/21/21Vape cartridges are known to be one of the easiest and most popular ways to enjoy cannabis. Their convenience, cleanliness, discreetness, potency, and flavor combine for a truly unique and satisfying cannabis experience. It’s no surprise that vape cartridges are one of the highest-selling product categories at dispensaries. But what if you could make your own rosin vape cartridges at home?
Making your own cannabis vape cartridges from rosin provides a great alternative to the traditional dabbing experience
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Cold Curing vs Warm Curing Rosin
✅ Updated 8/14/21 Curing rosin involves subjecting rosin to various temperatures within a sealed glass jar over time. The specific way in which rosin is cured has an impact on the flavor, potency, and consistency of the final product. How much heat (if any) is used, the length of time rosin remains pressurized inside the glass jar, how stirring/agitation is applied, and how long the rosin is left to cure before long-term storage all plays into the overall quality of the dab.
Extractors generally choose one of two main ways to cure rosin: cold curing or warm curing.
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How To Make THCA Rosin
✅ Updated 10/24/21 THCA is the acid form of the THC molecule and has been gaining in popularity as an isolated cannabinoid. Due to its nearly unbeatable purity, it’s useful in calculating precise dosages in the formulation of cannabis edibles and tinctures. THCA can also be used in making diamonds and sauce, the unrivaled form of rosin for many people in terms of potency and flavor. We’ll review that and more in this quick guide on how to make THCA rosin.
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Live Resin (BHO) vs Live Rosin (WPFF) & What's the Difference?
✅ Updated 11/22/21Live rosin and live resin, two words that look and sound nearly the same, but represent distinctly contrasting cannabis concentrates. To add to the confusion, the term “resin” by itself has multiple meanings in cannabis.
It turns out that there’s more than a subtle difference between these two types of cannabis concentrates. So what’s the difference between live rosin and live resin? Why are they both called “live”, and which one is better?
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How to Calculate Platen PSI
✅ Updated 3/4/21 Pressing high grade rosin requires exerting just the right amount of pressure onto cannabis source material. Too much pressure and you risk equipment failure and reduced oil flow efficiency. Too little pressure and you end up overcompensating with excessive temperatures and diminished terpenes.
Achieving the right level of pressure during solventless extraction allows cannabis to unlock that unique expression of cannabinoid and terpene-rich oil we know and love as rosin.
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How To Double Bag Your Rosin Bags
Rosin bag blowouts are one of the most frustrating and costly occurrences for rosin extractors, so a lot of time and energy goes into preventing these gut-wrenching disappointments at the press. Using high quality rosin bags is a great start to preventing blowouts. Other techniques, such as double bagging, help your rosin bags perform at their highest level while subject to heat and pressure during extraction.
So why should you consider double bagging your rosin bags?
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Washing Fresh Frozen or Cured Flowers for Bubble Hash: The Pros and Cons
The end of the flowering cycle is an exciting time in the cannabis garden, especially if you’re planning to make some bubble hash with your bounty. Harvesting cannabis at its peak trichome development and terpene production allows the hash maker to harness the fullest potential of the plant. But there’s a decision to be made after the plants have been harvested.
How should I prepare the cannabis for ice water extraction?
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Average Rosin Yields from Various Cannabis Material
✅ Updated 10/19/21 o matter what cannabis material you’re using to press rosin, the quality of the cannabis you start with determines the quality of rosin you end with. The number one most important ingredient to achieving premium quality rosin with top yields is exceptional source material.
Assuming you start with quality cannabis, the variables of time, temperature, and pressure are adjusted to deliver the highest levels of purity, potency and yield. So what rate of returns should you be looking for when pressing rosin?
The answer depends on which type of cannabis source material you’re using.
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How To Wash Bubble Hash
✅ Updated 2/15/21 Properly made full melt bubble hash is the most sought-after starting material that rosin extractors can hope to find. Bubble hash itself is a solventless (chemical-free) extract, composed of isolated trichome heads for a pure and highly concentrated form of cannabis.
Remember the golden rule: the quality of your rosin depends primarily on the quality of your starting material. To make the best of the best, you need to start with material that’s above the rest. 6 Star bubble hash is good enough to be dabbed by itself, but using it as source material for rosin takes the experience to the next level.
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Can You Really Press Rosin with a Hair Straightener?
One of the greatest perks about our favorite cannabis concentrate is that you can easily create it right from the comfort of your own home. One of the most popular entry points into cannabis extraction is pressing rosin with a basic hair straightener. But can you really press quality rosin with a hair straightener?
Pressing rosin is a mechanical process with three main inputs at play: heat, pressure, and time. A hair straighter gives you control over all three of these variables, meaning you can create quality rosin within a modest budget.
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Flower Rosin vs Hash Rosin
Hash rosin has been exploding in popularity among cannabis consumers, hobbyist extractors, and commercial rosin brands alike. Most of the rosin currently being sold in cannabis dispensaries is pressed from ice water hash, reflecting consumers’ preference for an ultra-refined product. It seems that solventless extractors have mostly abandoned the idea of pressing rosin from whole cannabis flowers, favoring the purity and potency of hash rosin over the more all-inclusive and motley array of oils in flower rosin. But does flower rosin still have its place in the solventless game?
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How To Jar Tech Rosin
✅ Updated 8/17/21 A good cure can take your solventless cannabis extract to the next level. While rosin is ready to consume immediately after production, the curing process transforms color, texture, consistency, flavor, and even potency in unique and sometimes unexpected ways. Curing is a matter of personal preference and there are no absolutes. The main variables to consider when curing rosin are air exchange (oxygen), temperature, pressure, and time.
Air exchange is controlled through opening or closing of the container and stirring/agitation. Temperature can be controlled via heat treatments with an oven, hot plate, or rosin plates.
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How To Find the Best Flower for Pressing Rosin
Pressing cannabis flower is the easiest and most straightforward method of solventless extraction. Creating premium rosin requires high quality flower at its source, so knowing how to find the best cannabis flower for pressing rosin is essential.
We can think about how to find the best cannabis flower for pressing rosin by considering both the quality and condition of the flower and its source. What should you look for in cannabis flowers to make them worthy of a press, and where will you source them?
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How Bubble Hash Is Rated
✅ Updated 5/19/23 Bubble hash, or bubble for short, is quickly becoming the most popular starting material for rosin production, and for good reason. Bubble hash is a solventless cannabis extract that contains higher percentages of cannabinoids and terpenes than unprocessed cannabis flowers, translating into a uniquely flavorful, pure, and potent rosin. Because bubble hash contains only trace amounts of unwanted compounds and plant particles, extractors generally achieve higher yields with bubble hash (also known as ice wax and full melt) than with dried and cured cannabis flowers.
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Guide To Trichomes and Solventless Extraction
An understanding of trichomes is vital for rosin extractors. Trichomes carry the highest concentration of compounds that extractors target and cannabis connoisseurs seek, namely cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids. The abundance and quality of trichomes in cannabis starting material has a direct impact on the quality and yield of the rosin.
What exactly are trichomes? Trichomes are the fine, hair-like outgrowths that cover the surface of cannabis stalks, leaves, and flowers.
They appear like tiny shining crystals and give dried flowers that classic sugary look that’s characteristic
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How To Build Your Own Rosin Press
You don’t have to be a welder, a mechanic, or even feel comfortable swinging a hammer to build a high-quality in-home solventless extraction system. Pictures of industrial hydraulic shop presses being used to extract rosin might seem a bit daunting but building a homemade rosin press is easier than you might think.
Believe it or not, these commercial grade presses are not only economical, but they don’t take up a lot of room at the house or apartment.
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What Is The Best Parchment Paper for Rosin Pressing?
✅ Updated 2/23/21 Next to rolling paper for cannabis flowers, parchment paper may be the most popular type of paper in the cannabis industry (with paper money being a close runner up). But what exactly is parchment paper, and why is it in such high demand?
Parchment paper is a cellulose-based paper that’s been treated and coated to make it non-stick and resistant to high heat. The main “non-sticky” factor comes from a thin layer of silicone that’s applied to the paper during manufacturing.
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