I'm playing around with ways to get better rosin yields from flowers. Just bought a 23mm pollen press and I'm not sure if it increases yield rate, but it certainly allows you to process a much larger bud for less overall pressing. Thoughts?
Just now I tried something else new this morning in rosin tech experimentation (new for me anyway). I've got some dry crumply buds that produce a lot broken leaf contamination and not much rosin. So I just put one over a tea kettle steam for a couple seconds and the bud went completely soft. Then compressed it in the pollen press. Put it in parchment paper and squeezed out 4 times at 300F (normally I don't squeeze more than 3X, but it was coming out easy).
The amount of rosin taken was about 4X what I had been getting and completely clean, no broken leaf. It was a bit on the gooey side but I bet it sets up as it dries out...we'll see.
I think this might be an easy way to process bunches of popcorn and trim without using a screen or having to remove small stems, but haven't tried it yet. I really did not feel like I had to press nearly as hard, it was flowing out well. Anyway, give it a try and post your thoughts. I'm high as fuck right now from one little dab so it doesn't hurt the quality from what I can tell.