The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
10th Annual Dab-a-Doo San Francisco with Mila Jansen
Dab-A-Doo is a cannabis competition exclusively for concentrates, hosted in various locations worldwide. The first Dab-a-Doo event was held as a 69th birthday party for Mila Jansen in 2013, and since its beginnings, it has grown to become a beloved gathering of hash heads. The most recent Dab-a-Doo was just hosted in San Francisco, and the Hash Queen herself was in attendance.
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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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Defoliating Cannabis Plants Before Harvest for Solventless Processing
Defoliation before fall harvest is one of the final steps outdoor growers take for optimizing plant health and yield. By removing excess leaves, cultivators can redirect energy toward resin production. When done correctly, defoliation enhances airflow, reduces humidity around the buds, and allows more light to penetrate the canopy. This method both improves the overall quality of the cannabis and also helps prevent issues like mildew and botrytis, which can devastate a crop late in the growing season
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The Homegrown Hashishin Selecting For Solventless CBD with Secret Asian
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, there’s always something to learn. Hosted by two passionate home hash makers, Sonoma Sungrown and Don't Worry Be Hashy
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Introducing the Homegrown Hashishin Podcast
Earlier this year at The Press Club we found our new favorite podcast, and everyone here has listened to all the episodes at least once (and a few of them multiple times). Now we are beyond stoked to announce our partnership with one of the most exciting and informative podcasts in the solventless world, The Homegrown Hashishin podcast. They have been producing some absolutely fire content with exceptional guest speakers and gaining impressive momentum
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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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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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Solventless Extraction Color Guide to Rosin
Rosin is a standout form of cannabis concentrate, prized for its purity, potency, and lack of chemical solvents in the extraction process. Whether made from flower, hash, or kief, rosin is extracted with heat and pressure to squeeze the oily resin from the cannabis plant. One of the first things we notice when evaluating rosin is its color. Ranging from pale white or golden hues to deep amber or even dark brown, color plays a significant role in shaping perceptions about the product's quality.
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Highlights from The 2024 Emerald Cup in Oakland California
The Emerald Cup shines as a long-standing cannabis contest globally, with a tradition of excellence and authentic grass roots culture. Since 2004 at the first-ever Emerald Cup in the Mendocino County mountains, cannabis enthusiasts have been gathering to honor sun grown cannabis and the lifestyle that stems from it. Over the last 20 years, the Emerald Cup has blossomed into a rich and diverse festival drawing in thousands of visitors ranging from passionate aficionados, to growers, to extraction artists from all over the world.
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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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Wet Dabs vs Dry Dabs Which One Is Better?
There’s something for everyone in the world of solventless cannabis concentrates. There are a variety of different ways to enjoy a flavorful and therapeutic cannabis experience, it all depends on what you prefer. While dabs are definitely not the only way to consume solventless concentrates, they are the most popular. Although dab rigs operate on the same principles, there are options when it comes to set up and use. Those options include wet dabs and dry dabs.
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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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The Battle of Quartz: What's the Difference Between USA vs. China Made Quartz?
The best bangers are made with quartz, that’s no question. Consistently capable of withstanding the temperatures required for dabbing rosin, quartz is a smooth and non-porous surface that’s shock-absorbent, heat-resistant, durable, and easy to clean. It doesn’t oxidize or turn brittle over time. Quartz doesn’t retain heat as long as other materials like titanium, allowing the banger to reach optimal temperatures for dabbing quickly after heating.
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What Is Terroir and Why Is it Important for Solventless Concentrates?
Terroir applies specifically to wine, but let’s think bigger. Consider the definition of terroir, which is the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate. Plug in cannabis for wine, and it still makes sense, right?
Cannabis that’s grown outdoors is exposed to such a vast interconnected web of environmental factors.
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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 Much Does THC Content Really Matter?
THC content has always been the standard measurement of cannabis potency. Scan any cannabis product label, and chances are your eyes go first to the THC percentage before anything else. We’ve been trained to put THC on a pedestal, above all other markers of potency and quality. In turn, both growers, hash makers, and solventless extractors have optimized for the highest THC content possible. As the free market goes, you have to give people what they want.
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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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