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hey for all you hair press bud pressers out there, if you have some nice moist enough and easily manipulate-able material that can be formed into a long tight cone/ tube, you can press a gram at once in the hair press quite well. quite pleasing!
if it's chlorophyll that is making the keif rosin darker then why would the rosin from flowers which have a significantly higher amount of chlorophyll present not be much darker? my rosin from flowers has been very light. just throwing a wrench in those gears 
also a technique that I've found makes collection considerably easier is to use a separate smaller piece of parchment and press onto the rosin on other piece of paper while its pulled tight, and kinda roll as you pull away...it gets to a point where it globs off and I put it to the side while I keep collecting more globs...at which point I combine the globs and enjoy.
I've been getting a little less than 1 gram from about 7- .3 or so sized buds rolled into little balls...turn my girls hair straightener on to it's lowest setting and press on the edge of the granite counter top(smaller point=more force right?) the straightener ends up at about a 45degree angle with the folded part of the parchment on the bottom to collect all the goodness...I try to position it so the nug is directly over the corner of the counter top so is getting the brute of the force and I don't have to push on it to the point of bending and potentially breaking my chick's gear(I don't think she's like that too much hahaha)
I just wish I'd had known of this method 10 years ago...I don't even want to fuck with bho or even full melt bubble anymore(ok, I'm still down with the super good bubble, and depending on my level of stash may not decline some AAA grade bho lol)
also a technique that I've found makes collection considerably easier is to use a separate smaller piece of parchment and press onto the rosin on other piece of paper while its pulled tight, and kinda roll as you pull away...it gets to a point where it globs off and I put it to the side while I keep collecting more globs...at which point I combine the globs and enjoy.
I've been getting a little less than 1 gram from about 7- .3 or so sized buds rolled into little balls...turn my girls hair straightener on to it's lowest setting and press on the edge of the granite counter top(smaller point=more force right?) the straightener ends up at about a 45degree angle with the folded part of the parchment on the bottom to collect all the goodness...I try to position it so the nug is directly over the corner of the counter top so is getting the brute of the force and I don't have to push on it to the point of bending and potentially breaking my chick's gear(I don't think she's like that too much hahaha)
I just wish I'd had known of this method 10 years ago...I don't even want to fuck with bho or even full melt bubble anymore(ok, I'm still down with the super good bubble, and depending on my level of stash may not decline some AAA grade bho lol)
a bit under a gram from about 2.1 grams? i cant see that. say its .9 or so, that makes it 42%. even . 7 is 33%, not gonna happen very often.
So i worked for a while today, first off let me say collecting it was much easier a couple weeks ago when room temp was cooler. I tried a couple different temps and i like the lowest setting 290f or so. I tried squeezing for longer than i was and found that once it started sizzling if you tighten the vice more until you think the hair iron is going to disintegrate it really starts sizzling and the rosin runs out, i actually did it for 30 seconds or more till it quit sizzling. I also found that less is more with the surface area of the iron, the small ball yielded more than flatter rectangle packet. You want to make sure the entire packet is in the hot zone of the plates making sure the bottom of the packet is not sticking out of the heat zone. Doing it vertical you want to hold the iron closed when you remove from the vice so the packet doesn't fall into and absorb the hot rosin.
Well i am really uneducated with bho terms, I can tell the shattery/ brittle vs sticky, but have to say i am not sure what you are saying about wax.
The longer press is near to the same as the two presses because after it starts to sizzle i put a lot more pressure once the kief heats up. After pressing the ball, which was slightly larger than my thumb to begin with, was flat 1/32 or so thick. I am using some longer tumble kief today so comparing color will have to wait till next time. I am using some 220 lpi mesh not coffee filters with parchment. I can look at the color between the short tumble 3 min, and the long tumble 30 min, in a little bit when i collect it. I did notice that my 99.99% full melt pressed dry sift was darker and way more brittle, but i haven't done much of it to really tell.
The longer press is near to the same as the two presses because after it starts to sizzle i put a lot more pressure once the kief heats up. After pressing the ball, which was slightly larger than my thumb to begin with, was flat 1/32 or so thick. I am using some longer tumble kief today so comparing color will have to wait till next time. I am using some 220 lpi mesh not coffee filters with parchment. I can look at the color between the short tumble 3 min, and the long tumble 30 min, in a little bit when i collect it. I did notice that my 99.99% full melt pressed dry sift was darker and way more brittle, but i haven't done much of it to really tell.
didn't scale it...was just comparing to roughly what 1g envelopes of bho are equivalent to....could have been more than 2g but there wasn't more than I could have stuffed into a swisher.
You will know what I'm talking about when you see it. If you hold it up to the light it's not translucent and when it's on the surface it will be a much lighter creamy color. It may not actually be waxes it could be nucleation which is a process that leads to shatter turning into "wax" due to agitation and moisture.
JointOperation
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seems like most of this stuff is being semi decarbed to get it out of the flowers...
is this the case? has anyone had any rosin lab tested to see what kind of terp profile.. thc and cbd profile we are getting from the SAME nugs ran on bHO or Bubblehash? ..
id really like to see that lol .
is this the case? has anyone had any rosin lab tested to see what kind of terp profile.. thc and cbd profile we are getting from the SAME nugs ran on bHO or Bubblehash? ..
id really like to see that lol .
why do you say lol?
seems inappropriate. anyway, those tests have been done, i saw soilgrown posted them on IG recently. go take a look maybe.
seems inappropriate. anyway, those tests have been done, i saw soilgrown posted them on IG recently. go take a look maybe.
I've seen a lot of other people's analytical like roji and the foundation extracts guy on instagram.
You can probably go see the pics right now on his instagram page. He did analytical of all 20 terpenes on some really good dry sift that was like 50%+ thc and then made rosin out of that and all the terpene levels went up with the rosin analytical and the thc was 70%+ and I do believe seeing very little thca so probably if there is de-carb then it's very little.
Decarboxilization (spelling?) Needs some time too it will happen at 70F in a room over a year or two or 90F over a month or two. With the drip tech the product is only exposed to the heat as long as it takes to x it the material and at 300F or less I'm sure 30-60 seconds will de-carb very little.
I remeber gw saying with making phoenix tears (rick simpson oil) he runs his water bath at 200F the entire recovery and I have heard people purging that product as high as 400F+ in the ovens.
It takes time. But even if it is getting a little decarb, I say sweet, it's more medicinal then! However as I said before I don't think this is the case, even with my longer presses as the terpene profile is monstrous and everyone I've turned it on to says it's psychedelic which would not be the case if it was decarb'ed too much or else they would be reporting that they couldn't get off the couch and slept 14 hours.
You can probably go see the pics right now on his instagram page. He did analytical of all 20 terpenes on some really good dry sift that was like 50%+ thc and then made rosin out of that and all the terpene levels went up with the rosin analytical and the thc was 70%+ and I do believe seeing very little thca so probably if there is de-carb then it's very little.
Decarboxilization (spelling?) Needs some time too it will happen at 70F in a room over a year or two or 90F over a month or two. With the drip tech the product is only exposed to the heat as long as it takes to x it the material and at 300F or less I'm sure 30-60 seconds will de-carb very little.
I remeber gw saying with making phoenix tears (rick simpson oil) he runs his water bath at 200F the entire recovery and I have heard people purging that product as high as 400F+ in the ovens.
It takes time. But even if it is getting a little decarb, I say sweet, it's more medicinal then! However as I said before I don't think this is the case, even with my longer presses as the terpene profile is monstrous and everyone I've turned it on to says it's psychedelic which would not be the case if it was decarb'ed too much or else they would be reporting that they couldn't get off the couch and slept 14 hours.
Ganjaganjakush
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NY girl found this at a garage sale for me. I like the square platform and I can litterly jump up and down on this thing..
The 10 ton is what i meant when i said porta power, the ram is separate from the pump so it will work. Try harbor freight maybe they have one cheaper, or used... harbor, 129 for a 4 ton 199, 10 ton.
Not sure I will be going back to sift, Pressed flowers all weekend and was a averaging 20% return only ww. More flavour and lighter axtract
are you pressing snakes yet? i am pressing hard hand rolled snakes of damp bud that are around 1-1.5 gram starting weight. long lo temp press, great yields. quick and easy!
