The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
Preserving Terpenes from Harvest to Dab Rig
Solventless concentrates are known both for their richness in terpenes and their fidelity to the plant’s distinct terpene profile. Preserving these terpenes requires care and intentionality at each stage of the product life cycle from farm to dab rig. In this article we’ll cover critical steps relevant at each stage of the process that you can take to “preserve the terps” and produce a concentrate that faithfully reflects the flavor and aroma of the source flower.
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How To Properly Maintain and Clean Your Harvest Right Freeze Dryer
It's the new year and a great opportunity to take inventory of everything that you have in preparation for the coming months of production. It’s also wise to make sure all your equipment is clean. Of all the equipment you have in your extraction lab, a freeze dryer for drying bubble hash is likely one of the most valuable. Keeping up with cleaning and maintenance of your Harvest Right freeze dryer is key to setting yourself up for success.
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Step by Step Guide on How to Make Solventless Edibles
Solventless edibles are made by infusing a food or beverage with an extract like rosin or bubble hash. Extractors can use the regular methods to create the solventless extracts, then the extracts need to be decarboxylated, which means heated in order to activate the THC and other cannabinoids. Gummies, tinctures, capsules, and chocolates are common forms of edibles made with solventless extracts. Rather than cooking solventless extracts directly into the edibles recipe
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Every Type of Quartz Banger Nail & How To Use Them
A quartz banger is used to vaporize cannabis extracts, also known as "dabs," in a dab rig. The best nails are typically made of quartz, which is heated to a high temperature using a torch. The nail, sometimes called a bowl or “banger”, slides into the stem of a dab rig and can be interchanged for alternative types of nails. This means that a single dab rig can deliver different dabbing experiences based on the type of nail that’s used with it.
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Mythbusting Indica and Sativa Distinction
The dichotomy between sativas and indicas is the most prominent division in cannabis. Promoted for decades as the best way to differentiate between various cultivars, sativa vs indica is familiar to most people who have smoked a variety of strains of cannabis.
Cannabis indica plants are generally shorter and bushier, with wider leaves, and a higher THC content than cannabis sativa plants. Cannabis sativa plants are typically taller and thinner, with narrow leaves, and they have a lower THC content.
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The Ultimate Guide on How To Make Hash Holes
Looking for a different way to smoke your favorite solventless concentrates? Hash holes may be just the thing you’ve been waiting for. A clever combination of cannabis flowers and solventless extracts, hash holes deliver a new experience with a couple of old friends. It’s like hitting a joint and taking a dab at the same time. It’s the best of both worlds.
Hash holes might look like regular pre rolls from the outside, but it’s what’s inside that really makes the difference.
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Hand Washing Tools From Paddles To Whisks, What Works Best
Want to create the best bubble hash around? Many hash makers will argue that hand washing is the way to go. Automating the process with a repurposed washing machine means less manual labor and greater scalability, but mixing by hand gives hash makers exceptional control and versatility.
Both hand washing and machine washing lean on the basic mechanics. Just the right amount of stirring and churning helps to separate trichome heads
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The Press Club x Frenchy Cannoli's Annual Birthday Fundraiser: 2022 Origins Council
Frenchy Cannoli was an absolute legend in cannabis. There will never be another one quite like him.
Born in Nice, France, throughout his life he gained intimate knowledge of the plant and shared his experiences freely, contributing to hash makers in unique and invaluable ways. Frenchy was able to take his insights into trichome science and merge that with the traditional
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The Difference Between Solvent vs. Solventless vs. Solvent-free Extractions
Cannabis extracts are potent concentrations of the compounds that cannabis is most known for. These extracts take on a variety of forms like wax, shatter, bubble, rosin, crumble, and sugar among others. Extractors have several techniques to choose from, and the extraction method that they use determines the nature of the final product.
Solvent, solventless, and solvent-free are terms to describe broad categories of cannabis concentrates.
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What Is And How to Make 6 Star Full Melt Hash
6 Star hash refers to loose resin of the highest possible quality. This is premium quality solventless, and it’s actually quite hard to come by. You’re not going to find true 6 Star hash in dispensaries. A lot of things have to go right in order to create the best of the best, and only one thing has to go wrong in order to destroy it.
At the same time, the only job of the hash maker is to not mess up what the cannabis plant has already produced. 6 Star hash is the result of flawless isolation, collection, and preservation of top-quality
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No Ice Tech: The Future of Solventless
Ice water extraction is the art of removing trichomes from the cannabis flowers on which they grow using only cold water and a set of nylon sieves called bubble wash bags. Trichomes are tiny appendages that contain high concentrations of therapeutic compounds like cannabinoids and terpenes that cannabis is known for. The heads of these trichomes are the best of the best, and the ultimate prize of solventless extractors and hash makers.
Cold water makes the trichomes brittle enough to cleanly break free from the cannabis material, while also remaining in-tact as effective carriers of the valuable oil contained inside.
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Croptober Series Part 4: How To Properly Store Your Cannabis Harvest
Cannabis flowers have varying shelf lives and this is often associated with the phenolic compounds that the cannabis plant produces. Cannabis produces a variety of Volatile Organic Compounds such as terpenes, flavonoids, ketones, esters and others. It is known that monoterpenes, alcohols and thiols are compounds that the cannabis plant produces that are recognizable at room temperature. That means that these aromatic compounds are lost from the plant at room temperatures.
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Croptober Series Part 3: How To Cure Your Cannabis Crop
Curing is the post drying process where you break down the plants, trim up the buds and place them into brown paper bags and then glass jars. After the buds have been trimmed up they may still be a little bit too wet to put into a glass jar. This is where the brown paper bags come in handy. You can place the buds into the brown paper bag and roll the top up and put a paper clip or a binder clip on the top of it to keep it from opening. Staples also will work and so will tape if that is all you have. But you will want to open and close it periodically
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Croptober Series Part 2: How To Dry Your Cannabis Crop
Drying your plants is what is going to make or break all your hard work for the season. This step is critical to the success of your finished product and is often the most overlooked and underrated part of the entire growing process. As a commercial farmer I have worked for and seen numerous farms that all make the same mistakes. They all get their grows set up and then they try to grow as much canopy space as they legally can. But they don’t put the same energy into setting up a proper dry room that can adequately hold their entire harvest and dry it in a reasonable time period.
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Croptober Series Part 1: How To Harvest Your Cannabis Crop
October is a monumental month in outdoor cannabis gardens. Endearingly termed "Croptober" in the cannabis community, it's the time of year that growers can finally reap the rewards of their months of hard work. As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, the resin produced by most cultivars grown here in North America is perfect for the picking. It's a season of joy and celebration and bounty.
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Top 5 Ways To Properly Dry Cannabis Flower Post Harvest
The purpose of drying cannabis flowers after harvest is to prepare those flowers for either smoking or storage. Wet flowers can’t be smoked, and if they’re stored while they contain excessive moisture, they quickly invite mold growth. Drying cannabis flowers allows the chlorophyll inside the plant to degrade, making for a smoother smoke. It also enables cannabinoids like THC to convert from their non-psychoactive and acidic form (THC-A), into its psychoactive form. After cannabis flowers are dry they’re ready for a cure and then longer-term storage in sealed glass jars.
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How To Build The Ultimate Indoor Grow Room Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 of Building Out A Home Grow! In this article I’m going to cover a few more topics that will help you get growing. So now that you have your grow space measured out and how much lighting your circuits can handle, it's time to decide what type of grow method you are going to use. Let's take a look at the two major growing methods and then we can dive deeper into their offshoots in another article.
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How To Take Cuttings To Clone Cannabis Plants
Cannabis cuttings, or clones, are pieces taken from a mature plant and then grown into a new plant. Taking cuttings is the most efficient way that a grower can propagate a desirable cultivar. When growers remove sections of branches from a cannabis plant and then place those cuttings in the right environment, those cuttings will form roots and eventually grow into mature plants. Knowing how to take cuttings is a powerful skill for any grower, and offers distinct advantages over growing from seeds.
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How To Calculate THC Content in Homemade Edibles and Tinctures
Homemade edibles offer an effective way to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the cannabis plant. Eating cannabis provides an alternative to smoking or dabbing, and can be an even more reliable way to medicate. However, if you don’t know the cannabinoid content of your edibles or tinctures, it can be difficult to anticipate and control each dose, making the experience less reliable (and potentially less enjoyable!).
So how can you calculate the THC content in homemade edibles and tinctures?
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What Is Living Soil?
Living soil is a growing medium that’s rich with organic matter, earth minerals, and other compounds that create a perfect ecosystem for microscopic life. Living soil is teeming with microbes which can be incredibly beneficial to growing cannabis. Living soil allows cannabis roots to absorb all the nutrients that the plant requires in order to not only thrive, but to produce the highest quality resin.
Living soil isn’t just any old “dirt”. It’s characterized by rich biodiversity and microbial activity.
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What's the Difference: Home vs. Pharmaceutical Harvest Right Freeze Dryers & What We Recommend For Drying Bubble Hash
Freeze drying utilizes the process of sublimation to remove moisture from wet objects. Most commonly used for drying and preserving food, freeze dryers also work great for drying loose resin, or bubble hash. While it’s possible to allow wet hash to air dry loose resin through the process of evaporation, sublimation inside a freeze dryer speeds up the process, reducing oxidation and preserving more terpenes.
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