The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
How to Use Gravity to Drain Water from a Bubble Hash Washing Vessel
Washing hash involves two main stages, agitating cannabis and ice water together, then running that water through a series of sieving bags called bubble wash bags. Agitation happens inside a mixing vessel, which could be an automatic washing machine, or a simple bucket or barrel that allows hash makers to mix cannabis and ice water with a paddle by hand. Washing machines come with a drain already installed, although it’s a good idea to change out the drainage hose if it’s a corrugated hose.
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Top 10 Tips on How To Prepare Your Harvest for Fresh Frozen
Here at The Press Club, we love using fresh frozen cannabis to wash bubble hash. It’s tough to beat the explosive flavor, unmistakable aroma, and stunning clarity of loose resin that’s collected from cannabis harvested with fresh frozen preparations. Fresh frozen captures the most vibrant and unique qualities of the ripe cannabis flower, preserving terpenes and slowing down the process of oxidation to levels that dried and cured buds can’t match.
While correctly harvesting cannabis for fresh frozen starting material isn’t the only trick to producing
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Hash Wash Labeling: First vs Second Wash and Microns Collected
Hash makers collect loose resin multiple times, and from multiple wash bags, throughout the course of washing a single batch of cannabis material. The loose resin, or bubble hash, is gathered throughout the process in increments rather than collected in aggregate at the very end. This allows hash makers to differentiate between resin collected from the first wash all the way to the last wash, and from each individual sieving bag.
The two primary phases of washing hash are mixing/agitation, and sieving.
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How Does Terpene Volatility Affect Hash Rosin?
Bubble hash and rosin are two solventless cannabis concentrates both capable of chaning texture and consistency in rapid, sometimes unpredictable ways. This propensity for transformation is possible thanks to the volatile nature of high quality hash. So what is volatility, and how does it affect hash?
Volatility can be defined as the tendency of a substance to evaporate at normal temperatures. Terpenes are the most volatile compounds in hash, and it’s largely the terpene content that determines how volatile a specific run of hash will be. Terpenes are hydrocarbon compounds
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Gravity Drainage vs Hash Pump for Washing Bubble Hash
A hash pump is a specialized pump that moves trichome-infused water from one vessel to another during the ice water extraction. Hash pumps automate the movement of water from the mixing vessel into the collection vessel, which otherwise needs to happen with the force of gravity. In labs with certain constraints that make using gravity suboptimal, hash pumps are a great alternative to moving water efficiently. And most importantly, in a way that doesn’t damage trichomes in the process.
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Guide To Various Forms of Solventless Cannabis Concentrates
Solventless cannabis concentrates are made by isolating, accumulating, and condensing cannabis trichomes into a pure and potent form, all without the use of chemical solvents like butane, CO2, or ethanol which are commonly used in other processing methods. Solventless techniques allow extractors to capture the most therapeutic compounds made in cannabis, namely the THC and terpene-rich resin that’s located within a flowering plant’s trichomes.
While high quality extracts can also be created with the help of solvents, for example
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How To Use a Washing Machine to Make Bubble Hash
Compact, portable washing machines like the kind designed for small apartments and RVs are great for washing hash. Although they’re made to wash small loads of laundry, they can also do a great job of mixing together cannabis and ice water for making bubble hash. Especially for extractors running high volumes of material, washing machines are the way to go. Machines automate the mixing process that would otherwise be done by hand, adding efficiency and scalability to your operation.
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How To Clean Your Washing Machine after Making Bubble Hash
Washing machines are a great way to automate the all-important mixing phase of ice water extraction or washing bubble hash. Washing hash involves mixing together ice water and cannabis, then sieving the mixture through a series of filters called bubble wash bags. Using a washing machine for mixing enhances the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of output, and is often the best choice for processors working through a high volume of material.
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Breeding to Collect Trichomes
The term “Hash plant” has been around for decades. Most notably the term showed up in the Seed Bank Catalogue in the 1980’s and 90’s as a plant that was selected for its hash-like flavor. In this article I will be referencing the term “Hash plant” as a plant that was selected because of the overall quality and yield of the hash that was derived from the sieving process and not that the plant's chemical profile tastes like hash in flower form.
With more people growing and selectively crossing plants, we are starting to see some very unique expressions coming out of some of these contemporary cannabis lines.
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Dry Sifting Screen Lines Per Inch (LPI) To Micron Conversion
Solventless extraction relies on mechanical separation to isolate resin glands from cannabis material. Dry sifting, pressing rosin, and washing bubble hash are different types of solventless extraction that requires extractors to sieve a trichome-rich starting material with some form of nylon mesh filter. Depending on what type of extraction you’re doing, the sieves are slightly different in form but virtually the same in function.
For washing bubble hash, these sieves are called bubble wash bags. Bubble wash bags look like regular open-top bags with a mesh filter sewn into the bottom of the bag.
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How To Set Up a Water Drainage System for Washing Bubble Hash
Solventless extractors use lots of water for washing bubble hash, the process of mixing together ice water and cannabis to isolate trichome heads for collection. Water is the key factor that makes it all possible. A drainage system for washing bubble hash controls the flow of runoff water that’s used in ice water extraction.
Water plays a part in both mixing and rinsing, so lots of clean, cold water is required. Once water comes into contact with the cannabis material
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What Causes Green Bubble Hash?
Although vibrant hues of green are often associated with high quality cannabis, it’s actually not a good look for bubble hash. Bubble hash is composed of cannabis trichome heads, the bulbous resin glands that give cannabis flowers that crystalline, sugary look. These heads range in color from clear to amber, but never green.
Trichome heads appear clear in their early weeks of development, turn milky as they approach ripeness, then finally become amber as the resin inside reaches full maturity.
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What is Pressing Rosin 101
Rosin is one of the purest and most potent forms of cannabis extracts available. Made through the concentration of trichomes and the oily resin they produce, rosin can take on a variety of appearances. Some rosin looks creamy and buttery, but it can appear runny and sappy too. Some rosin even looks like diamonds. It’s a versatile cannabis concentrate that gives extractors a lot of freedom in how they want to process it.
Unlike other cannabis extracts, rosin isn’t made with any solvents
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Cultivating Cannabis Specifically for Resin Production
There are many different methods and techniques used in the cultivation of cannabis. Environmental factors, nutrition, water quality, light intensity, medium selection (soil, coco, rockwool, etc), pest management all play a roll in the health and wellbeing of your plants. When starting your garden having a plan and setting a schedule will help achieve the desired outcome. Are you planning on growing the biggest, densest nugs possible? Are you after killer bag appeal? Do you intend to wash your harvest and produce world class resin?
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How To Build A Cold Room for Washing Bubble Hash
A cold environment is essential for washing hash. Loose resin is nearly impossible to work with in warm temperatures, as it becomes a greasy mess that’s difficult to sieve through mesh wash bags. Creating a dedicated cold room for working with hash is the best option for serious extractors. Cold rooms should house all the equipment you need to wash hash, in a clean and well-organized space.
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Top 5 Common Mistakes When Pressing Flower Rosin
Pressing dried and cured cannabis flowers is a great way to get started in the world of solventless extractions. With a few buds, rosin filter bags, and a simple press (even a hair straightener will work), you can make dabs quickly and easily at home. Although pressing bubble hash yields a higher quality rosin overall, squishing flowers can still yield some impressive results.
Cannabis flowers are accessible, relatively low cost, and don’t require multiple steps of processing before squishing. Flowers can give new extractors a feel for pressing rosin.
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Using A Drill To Wash Bubble Hash?
The mixing together of ice water and cannabis is probably the most consequential of the steps involved in the ice water extraction process of washing bubble hash. While sieving and drying are also imperative to the process, properly mixing at the outset is the number one prerequisite for success. Agitating ice cold water and cannabis together causes trichome heads to separate from their stalks, liberating the minuscule resin globes from the rest of the material.
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How To Identify Cannabis Strains for Solventless Bubble Hash Production
Identifying strains that are best suited for ice water extraction helps extractors minimize wasted time and resources spent washing material that doesn’t yield desirable results. No matter how perfect the equipment, environment, and process, some cannabis cultivars just don’t dump loads of high quality resin. It all boils down to the trichomes, and that’s where extractors can make the most meaningful assessment of the plant’s potential for solventless bubble hash production.
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Cannabis Nutrient Selection and Its Relation To Resin Color, Quality, and Clarity
Nutrient selection plays a large roll in the health of your plants, whether you choose organic or synthetic, it can affect the quality, color and clarity of the trichomes. Carefully testing and selecting the right products for your individual fertilizer requirements is crucial for a positive outcome when harvest time rolls around,
Cannabis plants are comprised of the environmental and nutritional factors they are exposed to throughout their lifetime. As the roots absorb nutrients up into the plant
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Tips To Minimize Filter Bag Slippage Hydroplaning While Pressing Rosin
Rosin bag slippage is an issue that most extractors have had to deal with at one time or another. As press plates apply pressure to the starting material during extraction, the rosin bag should remain perfectly fixed in position. But sometimes, as pressure increases and rosin begins to flow, the rosin bag and material drift out of place. This slippage can create various problems like reduced yields and torn parchment paper.
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What Is Zombie Bubble Hash?
Somewhere between the living and the dead, the world of zombies exists in an enigmatic limbo. While much less dramatic than the creatures popularized in contemporary culture, zombie bubble hash is definitely worth the attention of discerning cannabis connoisseurs. But how can hash be a little bit living and a little bit dead?
Bubble hash, or ice water hash as it’s also called, is made with a solventless extraction method that involves mixing ice, water, and cannabis. Agitating cannabis and ice water together knocks trichomes free from the plant material on which they grow.
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