The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
The Ultimate Photo Guide to Hash & Rosin Consistencies 2023
Rosin and hash are top tier solventless concentrates that consumers can enjoy in their most basic forms. But with additional processing, these cannabis extracts can also create many other exciting products. Rosin, the solventless dabs made from pressing loose resin, or hash, takes on a wide array of consistencies depending on how extractors process it following extraction. Likewise, the unadulterated trichome heads themselves, which hash makers collect using Ice Water Extraction, can form the basis of several cannabis creations.
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Top 5 Key Considerations on How To Choose A Solventless System
Building out a quality ice water extraction system represents a significant capital expense. When it comes to investments, few things in your operation will deliver the returns that a hash washing set up is capable of delivering. But getting it right requires some key considerations.
The process of collecting loose resin has gone through several iterations over the decades. And the equipment that hash makers use to build out their labs have kept up. In fact, sometimes the equipment itself drives the innovations in hash making.
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Cannabis Flower 101: How To Tell Good Flower From Bad Flower For Washing
Not all high quality cannabis flowers produce exceptional bubble hash. Even with the best equipment, process, and a knowledgeable artist’s touch, cannabis that may deliver a superior smoke can still lead to disappointment in the hash maker’s lab. Sourcing material that has qualities specifically suited to ice water extraction is essential to finishing with loose resin that’s worth the while. Otherwise, good flower goes to waste while money and time slip down the drain.
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Post Harvest 101: How To Prepare Your Farm For Your Next Grow
Preparation is the key to success. Every aspect of running a thriving cannabis operation, from procuring supplies to managing a team, building an extraction lab, or ramping up for harvest season benefits from careful planning and proper preparation. With the time for harvest quickly approaching outdoor grows, this is a great time to review how growers can prepare the farm for the next growing season, even before this year's crop is chopped.
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How To Rinse & Clean Your Indoor & Outdoor Grow Buds For Contaminants Before Hash Washing
Over the course of a grow cycle, whether indoors or outdoors, tiny pieces of debris make their way onto the sticky trichomes of your cannabis flowers. It seems like no matter how hard you try to keep a clean environment, resin grabs and holds contaminants like flies to honey. While it’s much easier to control an indoor environment than the outdoors, some unwanted particles of various compositions undoubtedly dirty your precious resin in any type of grow.
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How Does A Closed Loop Recirculation System Work?
As the name suggests, a closed loop recirculation system is a configuration that lets hash makers recirculate and thereby reuse water during the Ice Water Extraction process of collecting loose resin, or bubble hash. The traditional approach to Ice Water Extraction does not involve recirculating water through the system, rather extractors dispose of the drainage water after it’s mixed with starting material and passes through the sieving bags.
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Hash Contaminants & How To Keep Trichomes Clean
Sometimes, contamination in the form of bugs, dust, sand, and even pesticides can get caught in the sieving bags along with the resin. And contamination in the bags can easily lead to contamination in the final product. Therefore, the goal is to minimize all contaminants on the starting material as much as possible before starting the Ice Water Extraction process.
While there will always be some level of contamination, even if it’s extremely limited, there are things that hash makers can do to keep trichomes clean during the growth, harvesting, and preparation phases leading up to extraction.
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What is Toll Processing & Split Processing in Solventless & What's Right For Me?
Partnerships and collaborations are powerful in any industry, but they’re especially meaningful in solventless cannabis extraction. A strategic partnership enables cannabis businesses to create unique synergy and deliver more value to the market than either party could offer independently.
As collaborators find creative ways to combine their complementary expertise, new opportunities emerge for both businesses.
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2023 The Press Club and the Northern California Rosin Championship
The Northern California Rosin Championship, or NCRC, is a competition by rosin makers for rosin makers. A select batch of hand-picked extractors wash and press the same material, with winners in multiple categories chosen by a panel of judges. And this year's event, the second annual NCRC, was one for the history books.
What an epic weekend getting together and celebrating with old and new friends in the community at the beautiful Yokayo Ranch in Ukiah, Mendocino County.
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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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