New extraction technique? Rosin tech?

[Ringodoggie]

OK, anyone want to show me this super folding technique? LOL

I have never had much luck with filters and bags but, I'm willing to keep trying. In all my cases, the filter/bag absorbed more rosin that I got on the parchment. LOL

 

[Patmando22]

I also press at 80c maybe a smidgen higher somtimes. Try just using a straw next to the plates and inhaling while pressing next time you would be surprised the flavor hit you get.

 

[Patmando22]

When using a filter i have to press around a quarter so that all the oil isn't trapped in the filter. In the pic i posted of the driping oil the oil is driping from a directional its a small pocket that is just right seized for the bag full of sift then the pocket is put in another fold of parchment to catch the oil

 

[Patmando22]

If you type solventless thca into YouTube a 40 min video comes up and he shows how to fold the parchment properly and he shows some other interesting rosin techs to.

 

[Patmando22]

The edges of the directional are accordion folded to keep oil from escaping in any direction but forward out of the plates

 

[EsterEssence]

Patmando22, Drip tech is what you are talking about we just tip the press over and let gravity take over with a frozen tile to catch the drips...

 

[Patmando22]

Nice is there any links you can post for drip tech

 

[Gr33nSanta]

OK, anyone want to show me this super folding technique? LOL

I have never had much luck with filters and bags but, I'm willing to keep trying. In all my cases, the filter/bag absorbed more rosin that I got on the parchment. LOL

if your flowers are not squirting lots it is generally but not necessarily a good indication that the genetic your grew was weak or that you need to put more lights over them!

I have some flowers that look super fire, super potent, and they really dont press well.

Anyway, I have never had luck with the filters and bags but I did not spend a lot of time trying.

What I prefer to do on my scale is to press my flowers in small bunch, not pre pressed or anything, after collecting all the "dirty" rosin from all the parchments I simply clean that puck of rosin with a coffee filter the same way I press hash.

That way you can press many many flowers but lose rosin to the filter only on the final stage when you finally clean it.

Also I rarely, I mean almost never now, have blowouts with coffee filters when I clean hash with 3 layers.

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

if your flowers are not squirting lots it is generally but not necessarily a good indication that the genetic your grew was weak or that you need to put more lights over them!

I have some flowers that look super fire, super potent, and they really dont press well.

In my experience, I see strain yields range from 11% or so to 30% or even more in extreme cases. Personally though, 10-25 is a range seen in one environment, same lighting. Certain genetics don't squish much out, its just the way it is. PGSus, a purple haze x godbud x g13, very pitiful squish yields on two phenos, around 10%. Green crack x stardawg, and stardawg crosses in general, usually always over 20% often over 25%.

 

[Ringodoggie]

OK, I need to press in bigger batches. My pucks are 2 grams max. What rosin is being produced in a press that small is being absorbed by the filter. At least a large part of it. Makes sense.

My plates are 4" in diameter so any larger size puck than 2 grams and it just squeezes out the side.

With about a 2 gram puck, the pressed chip comes out almost to the edge of the plates. Then, the rosin comes out and it almost instantly away from the hot plates. Not as cool as drip. But, at least it doesn't get all burned up.

I press mostly flowers. I have tried pressing dry sift but have not had much luck.

I have only pressed a half dozen different strains so I can't say how much it varies from strain to strain but I get a pretty consistent return on all the strains I tried so far.

I smoke mostly colas so I press popcorn and, rarely, trimmings. Sugar leaves and anything smaller than popcorn go into ice water for bubble hash.

With popcorn, I get a 10% to 15% return. With tops and better buds, about 20%. Seems about average from what I have read.

I usually use my rosin in edibles so it has not mattered that much if it was a little dirty. But lately, I have been nailing some dabs and the taste is so incredible. Plus, I actually get kind of a buzz from rosin. I smoke joints all day and never seem to get stoned. LOL

 

[Chrondiddle O]

I do pretty much the opposite to you man.
I press all my prime tops and sift/bubble all my lowers/trim...and then press it
my intake has been entirely rosin based for the past couple of years at least,but the odd time I vapourise flowers I find I get super stoned,more so than just dabbing rosin made from those flowers. I guess the body/receptors become accustomed to cannabinoids in a very specific ratio or format, and it only takes a small change in that format and you'll get high again.

edit to add: I gave up smoking tobacco 3 or so years back, using an e-cig. shortly afterwards I found that anything burnt and inhaled just tasted like a bonfire. I'd smoked weed in joints and bongs for 25 plus years and been able to taste the flower or nuances between strains via that method but no enjoyment could be found there anymore.

 

[Bjorn to farm.]

Made some rosin, sure is hard stuff to handle.

 

[Lapides]

Made some rosin, sure is hard stuff to handle.

Try keeping it in the fridge and only take it out when you're gonna do a few dabs.

Not only will it be easier to handle, but you'll impress your friends by looking extra snobby about your concentrates.

 

[Gr33nSanta]

Only rosin with too much moisture is hard to handle. When done properly it's just like shatter or almost.

 

[Mikell]

Some strains always push a sap (or at least to date). Harvest late, early, too dry, etc, always a terpy sap.

 

[packerfan79]

I rarely get shattery rosin from flowrrs. Always get shattery product from hash.

 

[Lapides]

Only rosin with too much moisture is hard to handle. When done properly it's just like shatter or almost.

This is not true.

I've had some Chem '91 sitting in jars for months with 55% humidity packs and squeezes the most frustrating-to-handle rosin ever and there is nothing wrong with my technique. I could maybe bump up the temps, but then I would most likely vape off the terps that are making it runny in the first place.

 

[Ringodoggie]

I rarely get shattery rosin from flowrrs. Always get shattery product from hash.

That has always been my experience. The result I get from flowers is a nice, sticky (but, not unmanageable) consistency. Collects easily with a glass rod and handles well using parchment but not your bare hands. Will stick to your bare hands when they are warm.

The result I get from pressing hash and dry sift is so shattery and so static sensitive that it's almost impossible to collect or deal with.

I believe that might be a result of the temperature being too high (about 220-240). Flowers do well about that temp but the hash and dry sift (I believe) would be much better at a lower temp. I'll be trying that next.

 

[Gr33nSanta]

I just made a batch of flower rosin and I got that impossible to handle texture and I thought I fucked up again by pressing too early. The flowers were dried but not cured and I assumed it was because I pressed too early again.

I apologize for the misinformation but in my experience so far the gooey texture were always due to my impatience.

So rephrase, in most case, when it's gooey and hard to handle it's because you fucked up!

BTW I am waiting for lab results on that batch of flower rosin from both the rosin and the white powder that was left behind in the filter. (I clean my flower rosin like I clean my hash) I post the results here.

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

So rephrase, in most case, when it's gooey and hard to handle it's because you fucked up!

That is completely not true. As Mikell mentioned, some stuff always presses runny. Stardawg crosses are typically all very runny, even after months in a jar(flowers pre-pressed). I have stuff that will drip off the razor blade, pressed weeks after harvest.