I listened to the podcast. Their products were better before they implemented the tier system. After the Tier system launched, they had an excuse to release sub par product instead of white labeling under another brand. Overall quality dropped dramatically. They also outsource their bud production so quality dropped even more.
Im in the R&D phase for solventless production and have been exploring lineages and strain families that normally are not used for solventless. I’ve found a few 4-5% washers in Hashplant crosses, Thai crosses, hazes, etc. The results are surprising, and I don’t see anyone else testing these lines for live hash rosin. The solventless crowd has genetic tunnel vision and they continue to squeeze flavor profiles from an overused and shallow gene pool. There is much much more potential out there if you have a drive to find something different.
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This is Genius Thai x Dragon Energy. 4.4% WPFF returns with a 90% press at 180F. It has one of the most impressive terpene profiles that I have ever experienced.
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Electeic Cowboy returning 4.8% WPFF with a beautiful lemon vanilla hand cream/solvent terp profile. Presses at 85%.
Both of these have unique (to rosin) terpene profiles and much much better highs than any cake/pie/punch hybrid.
My solventless processor/partner is well connected with the CO solventless crew and can get basically anything from over there. We are slowly phasing out the CO cuts for my Bodhi/Doc D/Stray/Cannavore selections because of overall quality and exclusivity. This is NOT at all something that I can take credit for. It’s the breeders who have worked these lines for years prioritizing terps and high above everything else. I just sift through seeds and shake test wash jars, lol.
Turns out that hunting genetics for terps/high first, wash traits second leads to a better end product. Rather than hunting genetics that are specifically bred for wash characteristics. It’s pretty well known that selecting and line breeding for single traits will always depress a gene pool. That is painfully evident by the bottleneck in the mainstream solventless market.