The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
What is Korean Natural Farming (KNF) & Why It's Important To Solventless Rosin & Hash
Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is a farming/gardening protocol that was organized and popularized by Master Cho Han Kyu. This production method uses local and onsite fermentations of plants, fruits, and fish, as well as the culturing of microorganisms to regenerate land into a healthy and productive living soil. KNF is a very affordable and regenerative production method that reduces input costs for farms and home gardeners while helping to maximize yield potentials and quality.
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Top 5 Tips For Getting Started With Your Harvest Right Freeze Dryer
Harvest Right Freeze Dryer is a brand of home freeze-drying equipment designed to preserve food and other perishable items by removing moisture through a process called freeze-drying. Freeze-drying involves freezing the item and then gradually reducing the surrounding pressure to allow frozen water to sublimate directly from a solid to a gas, without passing through the liquid phase. While these freeze dryers are designed to preserve food, they are also perfect for drying loose resin.
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Ultimate Guide To Making Frenchy Cannoli Traditional Temple Balls
Frenchy Cannoli, a legendary figure among hashishins worldwide, emerged as an unparalleled hash maker renowned for his expertise and pioneering techniques. Born in France, he later adopted California as his home, where he devoted his life to mastering the art of hashish production. Frenchy's journey began as an apprentice under traditional Moroccan hashish masters, where he learned the age-old techniques of hand-rolling and sieving to extract the resinous trichomes from cannabis plants.
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Top 5 Key Benefits from Cold Water Recirculation for Ice Water Extraction
Continuous recirculation for ice water extraction refers to the process of continually moving the ice-cold water through the cannabis material while agitating it. Instead of agitating the mixture for a fixed duration and then disposing of the water, continuous recirculation involves maintaining a steady flow of water through the extraction vessel, then through the sieving bags and into a collection vessel, throughout the agitation process.
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Boiling Points of Common Terpenes in Cannabis
Terpenes are a large and diverse class of organic compounds that are naturally produced by various plants, including cannabis, pine trees, citrus fruits, and many others. They are responsible for the distinctive aromas and flavors found in these plants. Terpenes are responsible for that dank, musky, gassy, and fruity funk that screams at us through the cracked lid of a mason jar. They are what we know and love about cannabis, and we can recognize them from a mile away.
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How To Make Hash Wraps
A hash wrap is a thin, flat sheet of hash that resembles a rolling paper. In fact, hash wraps are made to replace traditional rolling papers. Instead of rolling your flower using a hemp or other plant-based fiber, why not use hash instead? Hash wraps will take your joints or cannagars to the next level!
Not only are hash wraps fun to make, and also gratifying (if not a bit tricky at first) to roll with, the smoke they deliver puts regular rolling papers to shame.
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How To Make A Bubble Wash Bag Cleaning Station
Bubble wash bags are the main tools hash makers use for sieving cannabis trichomes in bubble hash production. After agitating trichome-rich cannabis material together with ice water, hash makers run the mixture through a series of nylon bubble wash bags, consisting of various sizes of filtering screens. Each bubble wash bag collects a different grade of resin, allowing extractors to separate the best from the rest.
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Introducing The Press Club Rosin Press
Since 2017, The Press Club has specialized in making high-quality gear for solventless extraction artists, helping to bring pure and potent cannabis concentrates to consumers. With humble beginnings pressing rosin at home, spending painstaking hours of trial and error while blowing out low-quality rosin bags, we decided to make our own. Over time, we developed a proprietary stitching that made our rosin bags nearly indestructible. We knew we were onto something, and saw an opportunity to share what we had created with the community.
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What is White Labeling In The Cannabis Industry?
As the cannabis industry continues its explosive growth in the US, white labeling is becoming more common in the solventless sector. White labeling means using a third party to manufacture your products, and then rebranding them as your own. Essentially, you take a product that is already developed and produced by another company and sell it under your own brand name, logo, and packaging.
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What is Kryo Kief & Is It A New Solventless Method?
Solventless extraction methods provide hash makers and extractors with natural, unadulterated, and time-tested processes to isolate cannabis trichomes and the therapeutic resin contained within. Unlike other extraction methods that rely on chemicals like butane or CO2, solventless extraction methods like ice water extraction for making hash, or heated pressing plates for making rosin, don’t require any hazardous solvents during production.
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Did You Know? The 2023 Emerald Cup Winners Use The Press Club
One of the largest and most prestigious cannabis events in the world, The Emerald Cup is an annual cannabis competition and festival held in iconic California.The competition is named after the region where it originated, the Emerald Triangle, which encompasses Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties in Northern California.
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How To Properly Package & Store Fresh Frozen Cannabis For Future Processing
Fresh frozen is a means of preserving the terpenes and cannabinoids in cannabis by freezing the flowers immediately after harvest. Freezing the resin slows the breakdown of these therapeutic compounds produced within the trichomes of the flowers. This breakdown is a natural process that occurs at a faster rate while drying and curing. But with fresh frozen, there is no drying or curing involved. Fresh frozen cannabis is premium source material for making concentrates like bubble hash and live resin
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What is Grafting & How To Do It Properly
Grafting is a technique used in plant cultivation to join two plants together so that they grow as one. The upper part of the plant, called the scion, is joined to the root system of the lower plant, called the rootstock. The scion provides the predominant characteristics of the desired crop, while the rootstock provides the root system and support.
A common practice in commercial agriculture, grafting is used to produce fruit trees and ornamental plants with desired characteristics. It is also used by home gardeners to produce unique and interesting plants
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The Tragedy of Unjust Cannabis Laws in Singapore and Beyond
Here in Northern California, we’re living in a cannabis bubble. Ideal growing conditions, a robust and vibrant culture, bleeding-edge innovations, and world-class genetics help make this region truly hallowed grounds for cannabis connoisseurs. While these advantages are rare on the world stage, sometimes we take them for granted. But sobering stories of people being executed for breaking cannabis laws put things back into stark perspective.
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What is Piatella and How to Make Piatella
Piatella is making waves in a major way. You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve seen the memes. This is next-level solventless and it’s blowing peoples’ minds, and rightfully so. The potency and flavor of this artfully-crafted solventless cannabis concentrate is truly legendary. So what is Piatella, and where does it come from?
In northeastern Spain, the region of Catalonia is known for its lively beach resorts of Costa Brava as well as the Pyrenees Mountains. Cannabis culture has deep roots in the regional capital, Barcelona, where connoisseurs have been producing and consuming hash in high esteem for decades.
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Whipping Rosin: Hand vs Drill Which Is Better?
Whipping rosin is the process of rapidly stirring rosin using quick, circular movements similar to whisking eggs. Whipping can change both the appearance and the consistency of rosin following a cold cure, making it a popular post-production process and the final step before the rosin is ready for consumers. While whipping isn’t necessary to prepare rosin for consumption, it does offer conspicuous benefits. But not without some potential downsides.
During the cold curing process, extractors seal freshly-pressed rosin into glass jars at cool temperatures
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The Difference Between Air Drying and Freeze Drying Bubble Hash
Ice water extraction is the most effective and efficient way to collect loose resin from cannabis for making bubble hash or hash rosin. Hash makers mix ice water and trichome-rich cannabis material together to knock the trichome heads free, and then isolate those heads using a set of sieving screens, also called bubble wash bags. The trichome heads, or resin, is soaking wet when extractors collect it from the sieves. In this saturated state, it’s unworkable and prime for harboring microbial growth like mold and mildew.
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Pressing Rosin with Clear Tek and Vacuum Bag Tek
Nowhere else in cannabis can you find the rapid pace of innovation that exists in the world of solventless extraction. It’s truly awesome to see so many new techniques, or teks, coming to light, thanks to the dedicated work and experimentation of hash and rosin makers. A great example of this type of innovation is Vacuum Bag Tek.
Vacuum Bag Tek is a way to remove air pockets from loose resin that’s packed inside rosin bags prior to pressing.
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Streaming Premiere of Frenchy Dreams of Hashish Documentary & 2023 #hashporn Contest
Frenchy Dreams of Hashish is a film that celebrates the cannabis plant, the farmer, and the hash-maker. It’s a unique look into both culture and industry, showcasing master hashishin Frenchy Cannoli’s lifelong pursuit of perfect hashish, while highlighting the ethos of sustainable, sun-grown cannabis. Starting with a simple walk in Barcelona with a camera, this journey eventually became an incredibly authentic documentary and a compelling tribute to Frenchy’s life’s work. Focusing through the lens of Northern California, the film addresses the importance of craft, quality, and perseverance in all cannabis-producing regions of the world.
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Basics to Growing Outdoor Cannabis For Solventless Extraction 101
Spring is here, and it’s time to start thinking about getting plants into the ground! Growing cannabis outdoors can be a great way to produce high-quality buds while enjoying the benefits of fresh air and sunshine. However, outdoor cultivation requires careful planning and attention to environmental factors. In this article, we’ll look at the basics of growing cannabis outdoors, including climate considerations, strain selection, soil and nutrient requirements, planting and care, and harvesting and curing.
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Task Specialization vs Cross-training in Your Solventless Lab
From material intake to jarring and packaging, a solventless manufacturing operation has a lot of moving parts. In order to keep these parts working in sync, it is important to be intentional in how you assign tasks and delegate responsibilities. One particular area to consider is striking a healthy balance between task specialization and cross training of employees. Properly utilizing your employees diverse work histories and skill sets is critical to maximizing your success.
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