[Weird]

[Weird]

[MedResearcher]

The gooey stuff is sort of a pain to work with.

So far my theory is that its mostly genetic based. Some cultivars press more oily, some more shatter, some a sticky mess in between.

Pressed stuff that was 18 months old and got shatter with 1 cultivar, and goo with a second. Same with fresher 4 month old stuff.

I have noticed the tail ends of the press are a little more on the sticky side though.

Only press I have had butter up on me, was a kief run. It seemed really shattery at first, couple days later it was all butter.


Was discussing putting the rosin in a vac oven to try to get it more stable/shatter consistency. Saw in an Elysian Research video, they were developing some sort of a tempering process, so the rosin can be handled. Sounds nice, but it sort of made it look more like bubble hash. Hopefully they release the tempering technique to the public.

Might upload some pics, we have been making some pretty nice puddles. Usually make a good 40-70 gram puddle before stopping.

Mr^^

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Here is a picture which kinda illustrates that you can't tell much looking at photos of dabs if the photographer didn't use spectroscopy gear. The material at lower right is from a different strain, the other five are all off of the same plant.


bag-o-pressed bud


action shot


money shot, this is what pressed out of the stuff that we sifted the dry sift out of, 9% return on this, 50% on the sift.


We started with 100g of dry, untrimmed lower buds, which returned 10g of sift and 5g of rosin and the 9% from the remaining material is 8g for a total of 13g from 100 of starting material. When trimmed, the starting material yields about 60% bud by weight & 40% trim.
The rosin from the sift is top shelf material, so flavorful that the taste lingers in your mouth a while & its about as strong as any dabs I ever smoked before too, has somewhere between a soft shatter or pull n snap texture. I haven't tried the leftovers yet.

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Originally Posted by MedResearcher

The gooey stuff is sort of a pain to work with.

So far my theory is that its mostly genetic based. Some cultivars press more oily, some more shatter, some a sticky mess in between.

Pressed stuff that was 18 months old and got shatter with 1 cultivar, and goo with a second. Same with fresher 4 month old stuff.

I have noticed the tail ends of the press are a little more on the sticky side though.

Only press I have had butter up on me, was a kief run. It seemed really shattery at first, couple days later it was all butter.


Was discussing putting the rosin in a vac oven to try to get it more stable/shatter consistency. Saw in an Elysian Research video, they were developing some sort of a tempering process, so the rosin can be handled. Sounds nice, but it sort of made it look more like bubble hash. Hopefully they release the tempering technique to the public.

Might upload some pics, we have been making some pretty nice puddles. Usually make a good 40-70 gram puddle before stopping.

Mr^^

I've wondered before if dabs can be tempered like chocolate, warm it up & throw in some seed crystals when it comes down to about 15ºF above room temp.

[Gr33nSanta]

I just spent an hour taking pictures and editing and I made a mistake and accidentally deleted everything but the picture of the press lol.


I dont have the energy to start over so here I ll post an older picture this is flower rosin made with CBD therapy.

Thanks everyone for sharing this is awesome. I ll start over with the pictures tomorrow morning.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment....1&d=1488071082

https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment....1&d=1488071082

[Gr33nSanta]

be patient, I think I have around 30 pics to upload, I recovered the ones I thought I lost and took some more.

first pic is cbd therapy, flower rosin

second pic is CBDQ7, (Skylotus X (BCD X ( Pennwise X Senora Ampero)

third pic a nice little led setup

4th pic plant on the right is some crazy cross with spacebomb im looking forward too, forgot what the other one is

5th spacebomb, low yielding variety that I have not grown since I own a press so I can not wait.

[Gr33nSanta]

1st spacebomb again

2nd a dirty puck of flower rosin, ready to be wrapped up for cleaning

[Gr33nSanta]

prepping for flower rosin

[Gr33nSanta]

here is a good example of a strain that is almost not worth pressing, (1st and 3rd pic, 2nd pic is how I fold it prepping for second press)

4th and 5th pictures are from a strain that yields ok, so far I think my cbd therapy yields the most. the strain pressed here is Memory Loss.