Choosing a rosin press

Oh wow, so I put it in glass tin and left to sit in room temp and it buttered up! I usually leave it in fridge. It turned into butter/crumble, my favorite consistancy for rosin. It is the easiest to serve and clean and just yummy. Was reading on presscl and other sources that it can nucleate during cure which nucleation is my favorite.

So the Super Shark that was shook for most of its readily available kief, I had 16gs of it just sitting around. Had no clue what I was going to do with it because it was already not that strong for a heavy user like me to enjoy as is in whole form.

I gave it away to family along with a couple samples of whole flower from the same two plants and they said it was “pretty good.”

I am flattered! Those were experimental soil grows of strains not well selected to please like what I plan to grow soon. Plants werent as happy as can be. So making decent weed aint hard, is it? haha.

I had a lot of set backs and not got to harvest a lot but I am perpetuating and going crazy and soon it will just be routine.

This might as well be considered my first harvest, the other first ones were partnered and the weed did not turn out like this. Or I culled early for inspection reasons.

Thinking about picking up my first press. Any good Black Friday deals out there?

So on my second round of harvest. This time I got a lot to press. This time Im properly following the pinned how to dry/cure method in harvest section. Im getting to the part where it reads 65rh or less for 12-24hrs so you put into jars and press right then and there.

But the weed might need to cure to sweat and redistribute moisture if its not breaking down like you would to smoke a bowl. What if you press it before it can sweat and even out moisture? But it reads 65rh or a little less?

the real mccoy said:

Thinking about picking up my first press. Any good Black Friday deals out there?

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Did you end up buying one? This thread is a nice example of what it took to get me to choose mine but mentions cheaper options and what to expect. So far 15% yield is the highest I got but that was enough to get me on board.

This was nice it sugar up and smells awesome but tastes like crap despite the bud smelling and tasting good. Max rh 64 but only 7% yield. That question I asked ended up being something possibly related. If you press buds with flex still that isnt quite ready for smoking. Is that why?

Is it strain related or something I did? It squishes fast and recently thought to myself when it does that and you hear cracking sounds to stop applying pressure.

Its so tight its just applying force against itself. Thought that was self explanitory. Also possibly related to yield. Can buds be too wet/mushy to yield properly? If it doesnt break down to smoke and smoke is that effecting anything at the press?

medidedicated said:

This was nice it sugar up and smells awesome but tastes like crap despite the bud smelling and tasting good. Max rh 64 but only 7% yield. That question I asked ended up being something possibly related. If you press buds with flex still that isnt quite ready for smoking. Is that why?

Is it strain related or something I did? It squishes fast and recently thought to myself when it does that and you hear cracking sounds to stop applying pressure.

Its so tight its just applying force against itself. Thought that was self explanitory. Also possibly related to yield. Can buds be too wet/mushy to yield properly? If it doesnt break down to smoke and smoke is that effecting anything at the press?

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I didnt recall seeing anything about that in there. I read as much as I can and it like most sources say rh is the main reason for poor yield aside from low frost. Just to make sure to wait til 64rh to press so aint too wet. I guess its just strain related.

I did press weed on the hydrated side before that was flexy. Idk but dang its harder to make home grown press. I was seemingly pressing any store bought weed and got 15%. 54rh bag test.

Bag test 60rh. Weed is more dried out but still low yield. I tried preheating longer and pressing slower. No avail. Not sure whats up with that. Ita frosty. Mixed with larf buds. Maybe the prime buds will yield more.

Pressing this way made the rosin scrape off the paper instead of collect normal. When that happens I think the plant and resin got cooked.

All I know is I am popping more genetics to hunt through. About to vape it and sure it still tastes like burnt hair slightly.

Its not contamination because I had two autos from same breeder and same in house auto (I think) and they both have this drier sheet taste. I think so because I had the best gg4.

People around here that sold gg4 it was always the same distinguishable cut. I think its joesy but only recently learned about that on RIU and thought it had to be that. Everyone has compliments to you if you had that distinguishable gg4.

I had a few knock offs or phenos I guess as a consumer. but anyways, it was only barely like gg4 if you knew what to look for but it was accompanied by this drier sheet taste.

So now I have chemdog auto by same breeder that said crossed with in house auto. So in my words they have this auto that they said is their rival against lo ryder.

Result is this watered down gg4 and chemdog though never had the true chemdawg. Now this kongs krush has this burnt hair taste but its not as bad as actual burnt hair, but its blah.

When it scrapes off the paper like that from pressing too long and hard it some times gets this green tint. Like it pulled plant matter with it. Not necissarily from too hot of temps, just pressing too long.

Ive been vaping hash for over a year. All day everyday. Before that it used to be a few dabs a day end of day. Like a treat. I know some look at me like Im just sucking the joy out of it all but quite the opposite.

Best medication expirience ever in ten years. Just needed it to be affordable. Im not going through pounds of weed in soft form. Thats what they call it now, hard and soft. Kinda funny and wierd, you know what truly is referred to that.

But I only go through like 1.5 times more weed in wax form. Just more satisfying each use. Weed I would smoke a lot to just smoke sober. Needed the right strain to do it and its like bean hunting but with weed smoking.

Then my fav weed isnt available when needing to re up and left with stuff that dont do it. Same thing now but have to grow it to find out. I think aside from cigs my lung health is waaay better now without weed.

I might have to go back to smoking the way I did though until I live my dream. Hopefully I can still get rid of it for something else in exchange. Its hard to go back or back and forth.

No tolerance issues though other than weed lacking potency. Im always a dab away from cloud 9. Tolerance is undone easily though. Im hopeful of the dream because I did grow a plant that yielded 15% easily. Its got to be there. Then work on yielding more or faster.

Rosin is a little more though, like 1.5-2x as much weed youd typically smoke in a day so if it dont yield 15% I do feel like Im just throwing away weed. That would explain why $20 a g rosin on a lucky day is the best you can get still.

I think Im expirienced enough to know that if it dont yield immediately with the way you were pressing before, its just not good weed for it.

No one really knows, surely correct me if I am wrong but the guidelines of strains yielding rosin are pretty short.

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Thanks c2g. This is how they go down
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Wth is this rig lol

Oh yea I am geeked. My Space Cabinet weed might turn all to rosin after all. I need to try this on the kongs krush but I applied everything I know about pressing and heres what I got.

I notice lately pressing eighths are just barely enough. But with this batch of weed, they squish too quick into a disc instead of puck.

So I put 5gs chemdog auto into a micron bag and knew I was going to be delighted. Bigger surface area of the sides for first of all, a spectacular view. Second of all, it allows more rosin to eacape.

So I pressed just under two tons slowly but quickly 1 min 45 sec and walah. Not much but better than before and want to make more.

The space cab weed was pulled early and/or sativa leaning pheno has twig like structure. Smokes a little harsh but has a chance to cure. If that dont help then its either my wet trim/de-nug harvest process making nugs dry too fast (still in rh cure window) or the larfy twig structure.

Too much stem to calyx ratio. When holding bag up to the light the nugs look like skeletons which took me by surprised. A little embarrassed I already showed off that bag but whatever. I like the weed still but oof I think it would be cooler if it was rosin though less yield.

Nug smasher xp on the way (finally.. they took like 3 weeks to send the damn thing) should be a fun adventure and learning curve!

Idk if higher temps gave more yield but about to sample if its better tasting than low temp. Like I said about the strain being from same breeder and same genetics, last time and this time it taste like drier sheet.

Although tho only other possibility is the spray paint/clear coat and duct tape for light proofing a diy space cab box if its off gasing chemicals. Wont know till I try completely differrent genetics.

Edit heck yea it taste great, I think better than low temp press but its close to the same. Just less drier sheet taste while vaping but has this dank aftertaste. Pressing the rest tonight.

I did a low temp dab and little dab and it was great. Vaping rosin is different, the way you load and vape is different. Im used to doing large globs at high temp but if I have enough I mess around to see how to get max vapor.

Got to dispose of it before it turns black and stains like a mug. I get good buzzes trying to do low or medium temp dab and get less but consistent vapor consistancy and just keeps coming.

Last edit I just tried the low temp press batch and its just as good maybe better. I forget that doing large globs of live resin or rosin, the terps vape all at once and creates yet a different smell and often can stink. It makes me sneeze most the time if I smelll it while it first vapes.

Also I mentioned it is just a whole new uncharted smell/taste expirience that can be unpleasent but in my case the last rosin I got used to the taste and smell and eventually missed it. That and this could be yet even tastier than last strain. I really really like it.

Zooted from two small dabs and already dabbed store bought today so wow that means its strong.

Im going to forget to ask so Im asking now. Theres something I dont understand about all this. I know its related to lipids and fats but I should learn more about what that means if thats the part I dont get.

Why cant you dab kief? Even if it was finely sifted? Why does rosin burn after exposure to heat for too long and why dont bho do it?

Meaning bho dabs till its gone and has a larger window before it burns and stains but flower rosin is messy and takes more qtips to clean and burns black if you dont stop the heat in time.

I dont get what makes hash rosin better than flower rosin. I dont get why melting the trichomes makes it any more dabbable than when it was kief.

So I put 4 five gram bags at once but they didnt seem like they were squishing much at 1 ton or even 2 tons so I went to 3 tons and seems like it barely squished any out. Any advice?

I thought you increase pressure with surface area but never use more than 3 tons ever… Im confused.

shoot… What does it mean when youre losing pressure? Freakin out but hopefully someone knows why. I stacked 3 pucks amd repressed. But I think I saw that happening with the very last press.

I think I know why, the pucks were reconfiguring together amd maybe caused a loss of pressure. I just threw one puck in there and pressed to 2.5 tons and it stayed there. Maybe thats why. What a crappy session. I have no idea why 4 bottle neck bags caused it to press different, Not my first time doing 4 at once.