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Begin by choosing a rosin filter bag with a micron screen size that’s right for you. Choosing the right micron screen size will help determine the quality and yield of your rosin. The lower the micron screen size, the finer the filter is. Therefore, the lower the micron filter size, the lower your yield will be, but the higher its quality.
You can also safely and inexpensively make rosin at home in a few minutes with some ordinary household tools, mainly, a hair straightener. Another variant that has an influence is the drying of the plant material, the drier it is the more return, but also of poorer quality. Pressing pressure is also important, with a pressure of 10 tons there is more return than with 2 tons with the same raw material. How To Make Rosin Using The Helix Rosin Press Photography by Connor Fyfe Step 1 | Preparing Your Micron Screen:
If you’re hot pressing, you will get a larger yield, and while the terpenes will be less rich, you’ll still have a high terpene preservation rate. For a hot press, set the temperature between 190°F – 220°F and press for 45 seconds to three minutes. Hot-pressed rosin is normally more of an oily consistency. Apply firm pressure for 3-7 seconds; you should hear a sizzle before releasing pressure, which indicates oil has melted off the cannabis Insert your filter bag full of cannabis flower, kief, or hash into the PurePressure pre-press mold. Close the lid, then push down on the top with all your weight. Take off the lid, and remove the filter bag. The cannabis flower, kief, or hash in the filter bag should now be flattened down and compact. If you like to smoke, the best thing to smoke rosin is bongs or crystal pipes, a good rosin dab will lift anyone’s spirits. Once the temperature has been reached, we introduce the prepared envelope with the bud and the filter between the plates of the press, taking care not to burn ourselves.
Manual—the most inexpensive type of rosin press, you have to use your hands and hold the pressure to get press rosin. Position the hair straightener around the cannabis material in the parchment paper, making sure all material is between the hot irons Pneumatic—these use compressed air to press rosin; they are usually expensive and can take up a lot of space. but can press a lot of rosin over a long period of time. When rosin is still hot it is difficult to remove it from the paper, so we recommend putting it in the freezer for a few minutes, this is the way to stabilize the rosin. Once it has cooled down it is easy to remove it with the help of a dab or similar, with the tip we separate a little bit of rosin carefully, it is the most difficult part, because then that rosin that you have in the tip of the dab helps you to remove the rest more easily.Electric—easy to use and small, these presses plug into the wall and rely on electric power to press rosin. As with other extraction techniques, the return of the rosin depends on several factors. The first one is the quality of the raw material, if it is a bud with little resin it is impossible to achieve a great weight with our concentrate. The second factor is the temperature during the pressing process, the higher the temperature, the higher the return, but of poorer quality. Pressing your own rosin is extremely easy. Follow these simple steps to learn how. What You’ll Need: When pressing hash or kief into rosin, we recommend using a method called directional flow, or directional fold, which is a way of folding parchment paper when making rosin to get a clean, consistent press.
The amount of cannabis, kief, or hash you put into this bag depends on how much rosin you want to make. Using the Helix Pro, you can press up to 15 grams of flower, and 50+ grams of kief and bubble hash. Photography by Connor Fyfe Step 4 | Preparing The Rosin Press: We have also seen people gluing one part of the paper with rosin with other areas of the paper, so that as they are glued and removed, the extraction will come off and adhere to the part with more rosin.Use your rosin collection tool to scrape the rosin off the parchment paper, and store it as you please. Photography by Connor Fyfe Photography by Connor Fyfe Step 9 | Finished Product: Hydraulic—technically also a manual press, these use a hydraulic system operated by a hand, foot, or electric pump to press rosin. The process is similar, but changes raw material, pressure time, filters and temperature. In this case instead of dried buds we need Bubble hash made with the Fresh Frozen method, in other words, made with fresh frozen vegetable matter. Normally, with a cured, well cultivated and resinous flower, there is usually a rosin return between 12% and 22% of the total weight of the flower. With kief you can get a return between 40% and 60%, it is a good way to clean the dry hash. The highest return on rosin is achieved by making live rosin, up to 80%, but of course, think that in this case the raw material is already a quality concentrate. When pressing rosin, you’ll get a lot less rosin compared to how much cannabis you started with, but each dab of rosin will be much more potent.
BHO can give you a little more return and power than Rosin, but the danger of working with gas is a point against it. Purging BHO is a rather delicate subject and difficult to carry out correctly, since the balance between cleaning all the gas without removing the terpenes is not easy to achieve. The time it takes from when you make the BHO extraction until it can be consumed is much longer than that of the rosin. There are pneumatic presses that facilitate the process of extracting rosin, as they work with a compressor that is just a push of a button, without the need for any extra effort. Rosin technique is quite simple, you just have to heat the heat plates of the press until they reach a temperature of about 194º F (90º C). While they are heating up, we take a dry bud and introduce it into the filter, measuring between 73 and 190 microns, we take a piece of rosin paper and wrap everything up in a kind of envelope. Electric rosin presses are also very comfortable, as are the pneumatic ones. They do not require any effort, but they are not as powerful and are quite expensive. Vaporizing rosin or smoking it in a dab offers you a very clean effect, then it will depend on the genetics used so that the potency is relaxing or stimulating, but it is certainly a much clearer and cleaner effect than rolling a rosin joint with tobacco.This is the most common way to make homemade rosin with flowers or buds, but there are other methods to achieve different textures and qualities, such as Live rosin There are dozens of models of presses for making rosin, with different sizes, shapes and powers. You might think that the more tons of pressure the press can apply, the better, but this is not always the case, as 10 tons is more than enough.