The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
Advanced Dry Static Sifting 101
Rosin, bubble hash, and dry sift comprise the trifecta of solventless cannabis concentrates. Like its counterparts, dry sift delivers the unadulterated expression of what cannabis is all about: that sweet sweet resin. Packed inside the bulbous heads of sugar-like trichomes, this oily resin contains high concentrations of cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids, compounds which are responsible for the therapeutic value that people seek from cannabis. Dry sift is essentially just a concentration of the trichome heads, isolated and collected without the use of any solvents.
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Storing Hash & Rosin 101 & Terp Saver Neoprene Case
Like an intricate ice sculpture in the middle of the desert, high-quality hash won’t maintain its essence unless it’s diligently protected from the environment. And far from the desert, haphazard storage in regular room temperature can still be too harsh for hash. To preserve delicate terpenes, luscious texture, and powerhouse potency, lots of care and intention must go into the proper storage of hash and rosin.
The goal of storing hash and rosin is to keep your concentrate as fresh and vibrant for as long as possible.
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Mom, We're On The Front Page of SKUNK Magazine Winter 2023/2024 Issue!
Founded in 2005, SKUNK magazine has been a staple of cannabis news and culture for many years. Covering various aspects of the industry, SKUNK has been informing and entertaining cannabis enthusiasts since well before cannabis was as mainstream as it is today. A truly pioneering publication, SKUNK magazine continues to distribute cannabis news, politics, activism, and insights into the proliferation of cannabis culture.
From strain reviews and cultivation techniques to interviews with key figures in the cannabis community, the magazine covers a wide range of topics.
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Frenchy Cannoli's The Lost Art of the Hashishin Workshops 2024 Guide
Frenchy’s impact on the cannabis community helped shape an entire industry, specifically the hash-making game. He forever changed the way that hash is recognized and appreciated, inspiring countless individuals during his life. Even after his passing, he will undoubtedly inspire many more. Thanks to his primary apprentice, Cherry Blossom Belle, and others in his inner circle who learned directly from his expert-level skills, the traditional ways of making hash continue to emerge in this high-tech space.
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How To Process Hash Rosin Using The Centrifuge Technique
A centrifuge is a device that spins around an axis at high speeds in order to apply constant force on an object. This force, known as centrifugal force, is directed radially away from the axis of rotation, meaning that it moves outward from the center. Centrifuges, which are specialty pieces of equipment commonly used in scientific labs, work by spinning an object at high speeds within a container, causing fluids of different densities to separate out from the object. Less dense components are displaced and move to the center, while more dense components are spun to the outside
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How To Make Cold Cured Hash
Thanks to Marcos Dosal for this week's article on how to make cold cure hash. Marcos' years of experience with solventless extracts shines through in this tutorial, and we're grateful for his willingness to share with The Press Club community. Enjoy!
Material Requirements:Loose Resin - Choose resin that is relatively free of contaminants for best results. You do not need ‘full melt’ for this process to work, but the cleaner your input is, the better the end result will be. Greasier resin is more forgiving.
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Flavorants and the Science of Terpenes in Cannabis
As our understanding of the cannabis plant has evolved, new science around terpenes is emerging. And with it, a new category of beneficial compounds comes to light.
Terpenes are naturally occurring compounds found in a variety of plants, particularly conifers. But they’re also key components of the cannabis experience, major contributors to the alluring aroma of cannabis flowers. Solventless extractors go to great lengths to preserve terpenes throughout the entire extraction process, showcasing the full glory of the resin for the consumer.
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How To Properly Use A Freeze Dryer For Hash 101
Freeze drying, also known as lyophilization, is a low temperature dehydration process that involves freezing the loose resin and lowering pressure, removing the ice by sublimation. Sublimation is better than regular dehydration or air drying, because it does a better job of preserving terpenes and reducing oxidation.
While it’s possible to make excellent hash with the air drying method, freeze dryers offer indisputable advantages for extractors processing loose resin at scale.
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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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