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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Beginner's Tutorial on Setting Up a Homemade Hash Washing Lab
The art of solventless extraction has captured the imagination of cannabis enthusiasts worldwide, offering a pure and natural way to create high-quality concentrates. Unlike chemical-based extraction methods, this traditional technique relies solely on water, ice, and mechanical agitation to separate valuable trichomes from plant material. The result? Clean, flavorful hash that preserves the plant's full spectrum of cannabinoids and terpenes.
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Solventless Tools You Never Thought You Needed
The mark of a true professional isn't just in following standard procedures, but in finding creative ways to optimize workflow, maintain pristine conditions, and maximize product quality. In a craft where precision and cleanliness are paramount, having the right tools—even unexpected ones—can make all the difference between mediocre results and premium-grade extracts. While most extractors know their way around a rosin press or washing vessel, there's a whole world of innovative tools and clever solutions that can elevate your operation from good to exceptional.
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The Homegrown Hashishin Following Your Own Path with Mo Buddy
We're excited to share this conversation with Mo Buddy from a recent episode of the Homegrown Hashishan Podcast here on our blog. Thanks to the team at Homegrown Hashishan for making it happen! The Homegrown Hashishin is the first podcast made specifically for single-source solventless home and hobby hash producers. This show is a celebration of craft hash making, and whether you're a seasoned solventless expert or just dipping your toes into the water
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Keeping Your Hash Clean 101: Gloves & Potential Contaminants
When it comes to producing premium solventless hash and rosin, cleanliness isn't just a preference—it's essential for product quality and integrity. While wearing gloves is a fundamental best practice in any extraction lab, even these protective barriers can introduce unexpected contaminants into your product. From microscopic lint to factory residues, understanding and managing glove-related contamination is crucial for maintaining the purity of your extracts.
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The Road to Cleaner Hash: The Extra Rinse Tek
At its core, this method builds on the well-known ice water extraction process, which is the gold standard of collecting loose resin. But, Extra Rinse Tek adds a crucial twist. Instead of stopping at the initial collection, we're taking things a step further with an additional refinement phase that puts quality control front and center. By separating the collection and cleaning processes, we're not just making hash—we're crafting some of the cleanest, most refined solventless concentrates possible.
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The History of the Temple Balls: Past to Present
In the world of cannabis products, no concentrate carries as much historical and cultural significance as Temple Balls. These carefully crafted solventless spheres, originating in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, represent one of humanity's oldest methods of cannabis preservation and refinement. A centuries-old tradition of collecting and processing cannabis resin into a concentrated solventless form, Temple Balls are rooted in mystical tradition and practical necessity. And, the art and science of Temple Balls continues to evolve to this day.
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How To Use A Temple Ball Roller to Press Bubble Hash
Temple balls are the most revered form of solventless cannabis concentrates, known for their rich flavor, connection to deeply rooted hash-making traditions, and magical ability to transform resin over time. These smooth, resinous spheres are crafted from meticulously processed bubble hash or loose resin, which is pressed and aged like a fine wine. The result is a highly sought-after product that not only delivers a superior solventless experience
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How To Cut Off The Handles on Brutes or Trash Cans Like A Pro
Brute trash cans have long been used as washing vessels in ice water extraction labs. Large bubble wash bags fit around the edges of the Brute, stacking inside the trash cans one on top of the other. But, the handles on either side of the trash can prevent the bags from fitting perfectly over the edge of the trash can.
All Brute cans with a product serial number starting with FG are food grade.
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DIY Cannabis Culture: How Home Growing, Hash-Making, and Rosin Fuel the Craft Cannabis Movement
The craft solventless movement is a powerful antidote to the corporatization of cannabis, encouraging individuals to return to the roots of the plant by cultivating, processing, and consuming it in its purest forms. Solventless cannabis production emphasizes quality, sustainability, and a personal connection with each step of the process. At the heart of this movement is a spirit of self-reliance
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Wet Sieving & Air Drying Bubble Hash Tutorial
When it comes to creating pure, potent, and flavorful cannabis concentrates, nothing beats Ice Water Extraction. Known for its ability to isolate trichome heads without the use of solvents, this method of washing hash produces loose resin from the cannabis plant, commonly called bubble hash. Named for the way it bubbles when heated, bubble hash is one of the most sought-after forms of sovlentless.
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The Homegrown Hashishin Podcast The Magic Of Post Processing with The Bryantist
Today, we're excited to welcome a special guest—a Hashish educator from California, the Bryantist. We're thrilled to have him on the show. How's it going, Bryantist? Thanks for joining us so early!
The Bryantist: Yeah, thanks for having me. I’m happy to be here. I'm up in Ukiah, California, just going about my day, working from my van. It’s always an adventure out here in Mendocino.
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Why You Should Use Food Grade Cellophone Instead of Plastic For Storing & Aging Temple Balls
The ideal environment for storing and aging bubble hash facilitates a sort of chemical digestion, a natural process in which the terpene-rich hash eliminates undesirable components like trichome membranes and other plant matter. The best qualities of the resin are locked in, while the less desirable qualities are faded out. This enhances flavor and creates a more mellow smoke.
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What Type of Ice is Best for Washing Bubble Hash?
Since the early days when hashishins began making solventless cannabis concentrates using the ice water extraction method, ice cubes have been an integral part of the process. Hash makers add ice cubes to a mixture of water and cannabis material to keep the temperatures near-freezing inside the washing vessel. The colder the water, the better (up to a point).
So why do hash makers use ice cold water for washing hash?
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How to Test The Quality of Your Hash
Ice water extraction is the gold standard for making the best hash, a process that lets hash makers collect the trichome heads of the cannabis plant and leave all other plant material behind. Anything besides resin heads is considered contamination, which would include trichome stalks, minuscule plant particles, chlorophyll, and foreign objects like dirt or insect parts.
Trichome heads contain the highest concentrations of the most desirable therapeutic compounds that cannabis produces, which is what makes them so very valuable to solventless extraction artists.
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Introducing The Press Club x Byrd Extracts Temple Ball Roller - What Is It & How To Use It
The exact science behind what’s happening within a Temple Ball remains mostly unknown, yet there are certainly chemical processes taking place, a natural interaction between the various components of cannabis trichomes and the resin they produce.
Looking like an ordinary ball of resin, rolled together with no more thought than a child would roll a ball of play-doh
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How To Properly Prepare Your Whole Plant Fresh Frozen Material for Washing Hash
Whole Plant Fresh Frozen, or WPFF, refers to cannabis plant material that’s covered in resin and frozen immediately after harvesting, and in preparation for ice water extraction. Hash makers wash this WPFF to collect loose resin and make it into pressed hash (Temple Balls) or rosin. Whole Plant Fresh Frozen is regarded as the premium starting material for making hash. Freezing the cannabis immediately after harvest minimizes terpene loss and helps preserve the freshness that’s found in the living cannabis plant.
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Top Tips To Consider When Setting Up and Running Your Hash Lab
Setting up your lab for washing hash is crucial to producing top quality and consistent loose resin. A clean and controlled environment plays a role in preserving the purity of the hash by preventing contaminants from getting into your hash. Maintaining temperature conditions is essential to keep the hash intact and easy to handle throughout the process ensuring its quality doesn't deteriorate. This uniformity in conditions leads to a process that consistently delivers a high-quality product.
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How To Modify a 20-Gallon Washing Machine for Washing Bubble Hash
20-gallon Bubble Magic Washing Machines are ideal for hash makers who need more than a mini washer, but don’t quite have the budget for a full commercial-grade set up. A 20-gallon machine is a perfect in-between for labs that aim for greater solventless output before investing in a large-scale build. Although the Bubble Magic 20-gallon is technically ready to use right out of the box, there is one modification specifically that can make a world of a difference: changing out the drainage hose.
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How To Create An Integrated Water Collection Vessel
Washing hash involves a lot of water. From the mixing vessel, through the sieving bags, and then out for drainage, water flows throughout the process. A slapdash setup can lead to water sloshing around everywhere, potentially ending up in the floor creating operational hazards and an overall sloppy environment. This is not what we want in the lab.
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