The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
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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How To Make Live Rosin
✅ Updated 10/28/21 Live Rosin is a premium form of Hash Rosin with specific origins. Unlike traditional hash rosin, Live Rosin is extracted from bubble hash that’s been made with Fresh Frozen Cannabis. Live rosins have quickly moved from the fringes of solventless menus to now becoming the mainstay of hash rosins. And this is for good reason.
To understand the value of Live Rosin, we need to understand the meaning of Fresh Frozen and why it creates a truly exceptional solventless product. refers to cannabis material that’s been frozen immediately after harvest.
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Best Qualities for Bubble Wash Bags
✅ Updated 7/19/21Bubble Hash Wash Bags are sets of filter screens used to separate and collect trichome heads from cannabis plant material during the ice water extraction process. These bags are differentiated by micron filter size, with the larger microns letting more cannabis pass through and the smaller microns allowing less.
Bubble Hash Wash Bags are cylindrical with an open top, resembling a bucket. They’re constructed with a waterproof outer wall and a nylon filter screen at the base.
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Rosin Press Temperature Guide
Heat is one of the key ingredients that makes pressing rosin possible. While pressure is needed to amplify the flow of rosin between heated rosin plates, it’s the heat generated between your rosin plates that allow cannabis trichomes to liquefy in a way that we can isolate them for collection. An understanding of ideal temperature ranges, and the ability to control the temperature within those ranges during extraction, are must-haves in the extractor’s toolkit. The right amount of heat needed to press quality rosin
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What Is An ISO Holder Station & How To Use It
✅ Updated 11/23/21 Do you have a grimy rig or banger? ISO Holders, or ISO Cleaning Stations, make the routine ritual of cleaning of your quartz banger easy and convenient. ISO Holders keep isopropyl alcohol (ISO) and cotton swabs in a sleek and handy storage vessel, integrated together so your cleaning supplies remain at your fingertips. ISO Cleaning Stations make regular maintenance of your high quality quartz bangers virtually effortless after every dab.
High quality quartz nails are capable of offering some of the cleanest and most enjoyable dabs possible.
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Choosing The Right Size Rosin Bags for Your Rosin Press Plates
✅ Updated 11/23/21 selecting the correct size rosin filter bag for your rosin plates is key to getting the most yield from your cannabis starter material. Even, consistent heat distribution across the source material ensures a thorough and efficient extraction. Choosing a properly-fitted rosin bag to the perimeter of your rosin plates helps improve the even distribution of heat. It also minimizes the rosin’s exposure to heat
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How To Choose an LED Grow Light
Proper lighting is essential for growing healthy, robust, and heavy-yielding cannabis crops indoors. While HPS lights have dominated the indoor cultivation space for decades, LED lights advanced in leaps and bounds over the last couple years. Now, LED cannabis grow lights are the preferred choice among many, if not by now the majority, of both home hobbyists and commercial cultivators.
So what are LED lights, and how are they different from HPS grow lights? LED grow lights are composed of multiple light-emitting diodes
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Hot Pressing vs Cold Pressing Rosin
Heat is one of the key ingredients that makes pressing rosin possible. While pressure is also needed to promote the flow of rosin between heated rosin plates, it’s the high temperatures that allow cannabis trichomes to liquefy in a way that we can isolate them for collection. An understanding of ideal temperature ranges, and ability to control the temperature within those ranges during extraction, are must-haves in the extractor’s toolkit.
The right amount of heat needed to press quality rosin depends largely on the type of source material being pressed.
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Rosin Press Pressure Guide
✅ Updated 1/31/22 osin extraction is the art of literally squeezing trichomes out of cannabis material. It requires no solvents or other chemicals to create, and relies on a mechanical process composed of a trifecta of inputs: pressure, heat, and time.
What exactly is pressure? Pressure is defined as the amount of force applied to the surface of an object divided by the area of the object over which that force is distributed. Force can be measured in pounds, or tons, which is not the same as pressure. This is a key distinction to keep in mind.
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What Is a Bubble Hash Temple Ball?
✅ Updated 8/30/21 Temple Balls are objects of hash-making lore, originating long before modern methods of ice water extraction and bubble bags. The first temple balls were made from hand-collected cannabis trichomes (which is known as charas), or from dry sift made by separating trichomes from the plant using screens. Temple balls are the original solventless cannabis concentrate.
Temple balls give hash makers a way to store and preserve precious trichome heads for the long-term.
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Why Does Bubble Hash Have Different Colors?
✅ Updated 1/25/22 Color can give us insights into the characteristics and qualities of bubble hash. The age of the hash, drying method, source material, and other factors play into the appearance of bubble hash. The color of hash might give us some indicators, however color doesn’t always convey the entire story.
There is a general rule that the lighter the color, the higher the quality of bubble hash. More often than not this generalization will point you in the right direction. Color can be used as a guide
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How To Test Starter Material Before Washing Bubble Hash
✅ Updated 10/19/21
The flowers we want for ice water extraction produce high concentrations of both cannabinoids and terpenes within an abundance of terpenes covering the buds.
Not all cannabis cultivars make good candidates for hash production. Strains that produce lots of terpenes and high levels of THC don’t always have the characteristics to make great starter material for ice water extraction.
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Tips for Cleaning Your Dab Rig and Banger
✅ Updated 1/18/22 Regular use of your rig leaves residual oil buildup, it’s all part of the game. Taking the perfect dab is only possible when you’re using a clean rig and banger, so staying on top of regular maintenance and cleaning pays dividends.
Even premium rosin and bubble hash leaves a little something extra behind after vaporizing in the bowl. Much of this is the waxy encasing of the trichome heads, which are resilient to the temperatures used for dabbing. They remain in a puddle or thin oil smear along the bottom and sides of the bowl
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How To Dab Rosin
✅ Updated 1/12/22 There’s nothing quite as satisfying as taking the perfect dab of high quality terpene-rich rosin or bubble hash. There are many different ways to enjoy solventless cannabis concentrates, but nothing can match dabbing in its effectiveness and total sensory experience. There’s also a ritual of taking dabs that can be satisfying in itself. Setting out and preparing your equipment, heating the nail, scooping up a nice dab, dropping into the bowl, and watching that terp pearl spin while the magic happens. It is a truly unique and enjoyable experience!
If you’re new to dabbing or just looking for some quick tips
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Lipids, Fats, and Waxes in Rosin
✅ Updated 1/4/22 Lipids are a diverse group of compounds found in both plant and animal cells, providing long-term energy storage and protective insulation. Lipids are hydrocarbons composed of only two elements: hydrogen and carbon. They’re also hydrophobic, which means they are insoluble in water. Fats, oils, waxes, phospholipids, and steroids are all various types of lipids.
The cannabis plant produces a variety of lipids, which make their way into rosin. Their presence comes through in the flavor
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Top 5 Rosin Pressing Tips For Flower
✅ Updated 8/15/21 Hours of experimentation lead to lots of valuable insights when you’re pressing flower rosin. We’ve captured a few of our favorites here. The quality of rosin you collect is determined primarily by the quality of the flower you’re pressing. Given that your press is dialed-in, any shortcomings in your rosin can most likely be traced back to shortcomings in your flower. The importance of excellent material can’t be understated if your goal is truly connoisseur rosin.
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3 Reasons Why You Need A Pre Press Mold
Pre-pressing cannabis material prior to rosin extraction provides multiple benefits to extractors. Pre-pressing is a simple and effective way to prepare flower, dry sift, or bubble within a filter bag to create consistent and even rosin flow from the material during extraction.
The process of pre-pressing cannabis is straightforward. Using specially-designed rectangular aluminum molds (or cylindrical molds if you’re pressing Bottle Tech), loaded filter bags are hand-pressed within a mold just before extraction. After the filter bag is filled with material, use your fingers to compact the material inside the bag tightly and evenly.
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How To Press Bubble Hash Rosin Starter Guide
✅ Updated 6/29/21 Bubble hash rosin is rosin that’s extracted from bubble hash. Bubble hash is a form of solventless cannabis concentrate, composed of trichome heads that are separated from the rest of the plant using ice cold water and agitation.
In its earliest days, rosin was created by squishing dried and cured whole cannabis flowers between heated plates, like a hair straightener or a t-shirt press. Flower rosin is still incredibly popular today! However, as solventless techniques quickly advanced, more efficient and effective equipment was developed and different cannabis material was being pressed. Then, people started experimenting with pressing bubble hash
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How To Press Flower Rosin Starter Guide
✅ Updated 6/29/21 Solventless cannabis concentrates like flower rosin are one of the most popular ways to enjoy cannabis and its therapeutic effects. Not only is rosin incredibly pure and potent, lacking any chemical additives or solvents used for processing, but it’s easy to make at home. With a few grams of quality cannabis flowers, a press, some basic gear, and knowledge of the process, you can get started pressing exceptional flower rosin today!
The following guide was designed to help you navigate your initial setup, purchase the basic equipment needed
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Why Is Pheno-Hunting Important for Rosin?
✅ Updated 12/28/20 The search for an ideal specimen of any given cannabis cultivar, or strain, is known as Pheno-hunting. The term “Pheno-hunting” comes from the word phenotype, which is the set of observable characteristics of an individual plant. These characteristics, such as bud structure, trichome production, terpene content, etc. are the result of the unique interaction between environment and genetics. While individual plants of a particular cultivar each carry the same basic genetic code, those genetics
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Best Ways To Use Rosin
While dabbing might be the preferred and predominant way that most rosineers enjoy rosin, it’s not the only way to use our favorite solventless cannabis concentrate. Medicating with cannabis rosin isn’t limited to dropping globs, and there are several ways to get creative with your consumption.
If it’s time to shake up your routine, consider a few of the best ways to use rosin and give them a try. Whether you like to smoke it or eat it, you can find some great ways to take an old friend for a new spin.
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