I agree totally. It all starts with the product. Rosin is just a clean extraction process. But I have pressed many others weed and they think they will get what I got. Wrong. You get out what you put in!
People get the idea that if "they can do it" I can do it, and if your not a work oriented type person willing to work till u drop sometimes, rarely will they see top shelf shit and more times than not I'm gonna guess people give up once they get a real taste for how much work and time it really takes to produce to shelf buds never mind the failures it takes to "get it"... I think that's the biggest thing people overlook, that it can, will and does go bad and always at a time when you can't have that happen..
I averaged 20+ hours a day for the first 3 years of doing this, growing second rate herb wasn't in no way an option so I put everything I had into it and still am... and granted although it's gotten easier and less time consuming just because I know what im doing for the most part now... there is still nothing easy about what we do... but of all things I keep at the forefront of my operation is that there will be no second rate herb grown in my garden... it's all as good as I can possibly produce or I'm not wasting my time, if and when I have a bad run which usually is a low yield rather than a shifty product, I won't give it to my patients, this has happened only a couple of times over my whole time doing this but it's as good as it gets or not at all, to me second rate is for people who want brick weed for cheap... not 1 hitter quitter that a pinner joint can take dowm 3-4 people who claim to be expert pot heads.... I love ruining those folk, especially when they're greedy and keep hitting the j/bowl like it's the last one on earth... and then just watching them get lost is great... it makes all the work worth it...