Rosin Technique....Easy DIY Solventless

[Hogni]

Sorry, my mistake, you are right of course
But...Iudex non calculat.

 

[MegaMan2k]

Anyone els get this sometimes when squishing in bags (160 micron for flowers) ?

Its really horrible makes the rosin taste like crap / so much coughing from the dabs,
And its almost impossible to seperate it when collecting,

All that comes to my mind would be using too much pressure, however i only went to 6.5 tons on this squish..

 

[Hogni]

THC-A isolate? If wishes come true .....but it's looking strange.
Temp? Duration? PSI?

 

[Hackerman]

Sure looks like isolate. Or, could it be some kind of residue from the bag? What kind of bag is that? Has it ever happened before? Can you repeat it?

Pretty neat if it is isolate. Yeah, what he said... temp, duration, psi?

 

[MegaMan2k]

Sadly im pretty sure its some kind of bleach from the bag or the paper, most likely the bag,

It usually only happens when i go to way too high pressure for too long time,
But at 6.5 tons its a first,

Im using Rosin Evolution bags 160 micron, any thoughts on these?

 

[Hogni]

Would be more strange than beeing isolate, esp. you are telling about too much pressure (?) and too much heat (?) which could speak for isolate.
Where should otherwise the crystallization come from? What of/in your bags/parchment should crystallize? Still missing the numbers you have worked with.

 

[gunmetalshark]

I am also using rosin evolution bags but i’ve never encountered something like this..too much pressure and the rosin will bleed through the parchment at some point, but your outcome looks like u pressing coke out ur flowers lool

And yes, number would help...how long is long...?

Do ur bags blowout i guess..when u talk about too much pressure?

 

[MegaMan2k]

Hmm, I get what your both saying, and i would tend to agree,

pressure: ~6.5 ton
Press time was ~2 minutes,
Temp : 200F
Paper used : Black Lable, (35 Lb version)

Just did another squish where i stayed at 5 ton / 200f ,
And this whiteness seem to be showing up again,

However i have now asked 4 different people and everyone is telling me its THC-a!


Picture of puck after folding it over and squishing it a second time ;

 

[invertedisdead]

Looks kinda like one I squished recently that had a bunch of white flake. I agree with the other posters that it's probably THCA, but the only thing holding me up is the comments of it making the rosin taste bad and harsh. THCA is relatively flavorless and smooth in my experience.

My camera has a hard time picking up the little crystals without being in direct light

 

[gunmetalshark]

Does that only happen on second squishes...?
Your times/temps looks perf. fine, most of the time I am squishing for about 2-3 minutes at 215°F
but only once, then ill save the pucks for budder

edit. only had the chance to try THCa once but I also remember it being pretty flavorless and not harsch at
all

 

[Hogni]

Yep, these harshness isn't usual. Did you try it pure? 6.5 ton on what size of the puck? Used temp and duration of squishing seemed to be ok. So only a too high pressure could be responsible.
BTW I don't know for sure but I guess it would make sense to decarboxylate the THC-A (?) at lower temps (~180F) for more about 45 minutes before vaping for an optimal conversion to THC-delta. The short time of low heated squishing and now for vaping might not be long and hot enough to do the job completely.

 

[MegaMan2k]

Since everyone tends to agree on this THC-A explanation,

I might have been biased on the taste of the "white stuff" at first, because i didnt know what to make of it,

I should try and dab its own to see whats really up

 

[FlyingLow]

Megaman, what temp did you squish at?

 

[Baron23]

Since everyone tends to agree on this THC-A explanation,

I might have been biased on the taste of the "white stuff" at first, because i didnt know what to make of it,

I should try and dab its own to see whats really up

I don't know if its THC-A or not, quite honestly. But in my med legal state, they are selling (and I have bought) almost pure, crystalized THC-A. Its -A because it doesn't get decarbed in the manf process.

I mix it with flower mostly, but if by itself its a slight chem taste but not too darn harsh.

You do not need to decarb it in advance if its THC-A. It will decarb upon vaping/dabbing...just like the THC-A in our BHO and flower.

Cheers

 

[anasrzi]

Perhaps this isn't possible to get thru the filter bag but could it be from the flowers themselves? Have you tried other flowers at all?

Sure is strange, certainly looks like thcA but clearly doesn't act like it.

 

[invertedisdead]

Something different. Pressed out a bit of dry sift (with my fingers, not the Dabpress) and folded in some rosin to juice it up a bit... olde world hash with a new school spin.

May your spectrum be full!

 

[shredder]

Something different. Pressed out a bit of dry sift (with my fingers, not the Dabpress) and folded in some rosin to juice it up a bit... olde world hash with a new school spin.

May your spectrum be full!

How's it taste? Sounds delicious....

 

[invertedisdead]

How's it taste? Sounds delicious....

The sift is mixed from my friends garden which is very OG heavy. Heavy on the earthy fuel, some sweetness from other strains peppered in like the Purple Punch and Lemon Haze. Lots of body and mouth feel from the flavor on this one! Very ethereal high

 

[shredder]

The sift is mixed from my friends garden which is very OG heavy. Heavy on the earthy fuel, some sweetness from other strains peppered in like the Purple Punch and Lemon Haze. Lots of body and mouth feel from the flavor on this one! Very ethereal high

Not an OG fan, but it does sound worthy. I've been dabbing Colombian gold a lot lately. It's like biting into a fresh lime. The first couple of hits are almost overwhelming. Like a lime explosion in your mouth.

Back on topic, I squeezed two varieties yesterday. Blue dream and green crack. The sessions could not have been more different.

On the blue dream the bags kept expanding to outside the plates, so I had to keep the pressure down a bit and reset the puck often, and the rosin came out like a real light grease. I believe the bags expand because the buds are not real dense and I may not have squeezed the pucks in the pre press hard enough. Next time I'll try to get them harder.

The green crack pucks barely changed shape, and the rosin was almost dry. Blond and crumbly.

Even after pressing a lot over the last year, it's still hard to predict how the squeeze will go or how the rosin will look.

In general newer buds are ussually gooey and light in color and terpy, and more cured buds seem stiffer and less terpy, but smoother vaping. But there seems to be a ton of exceptions.

 

[MegaMan2k]

@shredder

Man i feel u, i just grew out some herb with the purpose of rosining, and some quick dried buds turned out JUST like i wanted it, but the slower dried and cured stuff just isnt the consistency im looking for,

sometimes rosining just confuses me! but damn its worth it in the end P..

 

[invertedisdead]

Jar tech

 

[MegaMan2k]

Are you stabelizing it?
there is this dude on IG, name : diet.funk, seems he is trying to stabilze the rosin by storing it in vacuum sealed jars at different temps(?) so that it works better in carts, is this the same thing you are doing?

I personally have no expeirence with the tec im just interrested

 

[Baron23]

Jar tech

The whole trick is getting the shit in the jar without getting all over everything else....a real challenge for me! haha

 

[invertedisdead]

Are you stabelizing it?
there is this dude on IG, name : diet.funk, seems he is trying to stabilze the rosin by storing it in vacuum sealed jars at different temps(?) so that it works better in carts, is this the same thing you are doing?

I personally have no expeirence with the tec im just interrested

I'm just messing around with it since I have a few flavors on hand. Those guys all use hash rosin, if I had more of that I would probably try and put it in a cart but this is flower rosin (Jungle Cake) so still not super clean. Just experimenting with how the flavor profile changes after some decarboxylation.

The whole trick is getting the shit in the jar without getting all over everything else....a real challenge for me! haha

I keep a few metal collection plates in the freezer to help collect sappy rosin. The rosin pretty much freezes on contact and it makes it a lot easier to collect. Once I have a mass of rosin I "roll" it on the cold parchment with the dabber into a little ball that I can more easily get into a jar.

I've been pressing at 200F lately though going for more of the cream, so my rosin has not been as sappy as my 220F presses.

 

[btka]

mixing (flower) rosin with terps to use in catridge:

what is your opinion about this technique?
does not seem to dewax, filter and so on but seems to work good...
also I have read that terpenes (or too much) is not healthy (what is your opinion about this?)

any recommondations where to buy good canna derived terps?

also watched vids regarding thc a diamonds (jar tech)...
where thc a is seperated from terps... as far as I understood thc a crystals will form on the ground of the jar and terp sauce (terps) will float on top of the diamonds...
could you fill the terps sauce in a cartridge (whats in the terps sauce mainly terps?)
could you use the terps (sauce) from this process instead of buying terps... and what could you do with remaining thc a diamonds...