The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
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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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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Solventless-Infused Cocktails and Mocktails for Holiday Gatherings
Picture this: it’s a holiday gathering. There’s laughter, lights twinkling, maybe even a hint of gingerbread in the air. Glasses are clinking, but instead of everyone reaching for the usual wine or eggnog, you’re handing out something better. It’s your solventless-infused cocktails, and they’re the (6)stars of the party - see what we did there 😉
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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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How to Use an Ultrasonic Cleaner To Keep Your Bangers Clean
A quartz banger is a specialized bowl used with a dab rig to vaporize cannabis concentrates. Made of high-quality quartz, bangers are designed to withstand high temperatures while offering excellent heat retention and distribution. This setup allows your solventless cannabis concentrates to vaporize evenly, and delivers smooth, silky, and flavorful dabs with each session.
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Top Harvesting Tips for Solventless in 2024
Harvesting your cannabis flowers is one of the most critical stages in solventless cannabis concentrate production, with a direct impact on both resin yield and final extraction quality. Whether you're an outdoor grower dealing with unpredictable weather or an indoor grower with dialed-in precision, implementing the right pre-harvest and post-harvest strategies can make a significant difference in the solventless extracts that come from your plants.
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What Are Mother Plants & Why They Are Important To Solventless
Push your winners, drop your losers! In the world of solventless extraction, consistency producing high-quality concentrates is key—especially when you're trying to replicate the same high-performing genetics that deliver optimal rein. Once growers discover a cultivar that checks all the boxes—potent yields, rich terpene profiles, and strong resistance to pests or diseases—it makes sense to preserve that specific plant’s genetics.
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The Best Butane Torches for Dabbing and How To Use Them
A smooth, silky dab is very hard to beat, which makes dabbing the most popular method for consuming solventless concentrates. When you take a dab, you're vaporizing a small amount of cannabis concentrate by applying intense heat to a surface, typically a quartz banger, and then inhaling the vapor through a dab rig. It’s a straightforward process, but using the right tools is crucial for an optimal experience.
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How To Properly Lollipop Your Cannabis Plants for Maximum Resin Yield
Lollipopping is a specific way to trim cannabis plants, allowing the plant to focus on the winners and avoid diverting valuable energy to the underperformers. What are the winners and underperformers? Winners get all the best light from indoor lights, while underperformers literally sit underneath these top bud sites and get less light.
Bud sites toward the top of the plant are the winners, which receive the most direct light.
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How to Make Healing Topicals From Rosin Chips
Rosin chips refers to the hash or cannabis flower that remains inside the press bags after extraction. These flattened pucks of squished hash or buds still contain therapeutic compounds, and although there’s less medicine to extract than the first time around, they are worth reusing. Not for pressing, but for another type of extraction: making healing topicals. With base oil and some heat, we can extract cannabinoids from these rosin chips to create a canna-rich salve.
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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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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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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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Step-By-Step Tutorial On How To Collect The Terpenes From A Freeze Dryer
Loose resin isn’t the only solventless concentrate you can pull from your freeze dryer. With just a few basic supplies and a straightforward process, you can collect solventless terpenes from the freeze dryer after the drying cycle is complete. Let’s take a look at the tools and techniques you need to collect terpenes from your freeze dryer.
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How To Dab Bubble Hash the Right Way
Most solventless extraction artists use loose resin, or bubble hash, to make rosin for dabbing. Although it’s not as common to dab bubble hash as it is to dab rosin, the finest quality hash is actually great for dabbing. If you know the right techniques, loose resin can actually rival rosin dabs.
Can’t you just dab bubble hash the same way you dab rosin? Yes you can, but there are certain ways you can improve bubble hash dabs.
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How To Make Tincture Using Bubble Hash or Rosin
Tinctures offer an alternative way to ingest cannabis without smoking or vaping. Dabbing is the most popular way to enjoy rosin, while smoking is common for high-quality bubble hash. But both bubble hash and rosin can also make great sources for creating potent tinctures. Tinctures themselves have something in common with our favorite solventless cannabis products: they’re straightforward to make with minimal equipment right from home.
What Is a Tincture?
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How to Decarb Cannabis
Decarbing cannabis involves the process of decarboxylation, which is a naturally occurring chemical reaction made possible with heat over time. Decarboxylation impacts cannabis by converting its beneficial compounds from their acidic form into a non-acidic form (e.g. from THC-A to THC). This transformation unlocks the full extent of the cannabinoids’ therapeutic value, most especially in regards to psychoactivity. Decarbing cannabis lets us enjoy the effects we most fondly associate with cannabis consumption.
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How To Build The Ultimate Bubble Hash Washing Room
Creating the ideal environment for Ice Water Extraction requires thoughtfulness and planning. A well-designed Bubble Hash Wash Room makes the process smooth and efficient for the extractor while preserving the most valued qualities of cannabis trichomes. As the saying goes, most of our success is made in the preparation.
The intention put into designing your extraction space will shine through in your final product. With the right equipment in the right environment, ice water extraction can feel less like a chore and more like a labor of love.
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The Ultimate Guide To Dry Sift
Dry Sift Hash is one of the simplest forms of hash to create. It requires minimal equipment and processing input, yet it has the potential to stand beside Bubble Hash as a quality solventless source material for rosin. But just because making Dry Sift Hash is simple, that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily easy. Especially if superior quality is your aim.
Sifting dried and cured cannabis material allows us to separate and isolate trichome heads from their stalks
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