The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
Tips and Tricks To Take The Best Dabs
When you take a dab, you're vaporizing cannabis concentrates at precise temperatures to capture the full spectrum of the flavors, effects, and benefits that this amazing plant has to offer. This method of consuming cannabis has gained immense popularity among connoisseurs who appreciate its ability to deliver pure, potent, and flavorful experiences. Specifically, it’s become the main way that hash heads enjoy smoking solventless.
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How To Store Bubble Hash for Maximum Terpene and Quality Preservation
Proper storage of bubble hash is critical for maintaining its premium quality, preserving its terpene profile, and ensuring a superior consumption experience. When stored incorrectly, this prized concentrate can quickly degrade, losing its distinctive aroma, flavor, and potency. Exposure to environmental factors like heat, light, and moisture can lead to oxidation, causing your hash to darken and lose its cherished characteristics.
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Tips for Air Drying Bubble Hash in a Wine Cooler or Mini Fridge
How you dry your hash can make or break the quality of the final product. While freeze dryers have become increasingly popular, many processors still rely on air drying methods. And you can still make fire hash with the air drying method! One particularly effective approach involves using a wine cooler or mini fridge, which provides an ideal controlled environment for drying bubble hash while maintaining its precious terpene content and overall quality.
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Top 10 Tips For Making The Best Hash in 2025
Quality hash is the pinnacle of solventless cannabis artistry. As the solventless market evolves and matures, consumers increasingly demand clean, potent concentrates that preserve the plant's full spectrum of compounds. Premium hash commands top dollar not only for its superior effects but for the expertise required in its creation. While basic hash can be made with minimal effort, producing true six-star full melt hash demands meticulous attention to detail at every step.
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Single Bag / Double Bag / Triple Bag Presses & What Microns & Why
Rosin press bag layering, or wrapping your cannabis material in multiple bags, can increase both the quality of your rosin and the effectiveness of the extraction. By strategically wrapping loose resin in two or sometimes three rosin bags, extractors can significantly enhance the structural integrity of their starting material and improve the overall filtration process during rosin pressing.
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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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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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