I've recently fallen down the rabbit hole of pressing rosin.
As a hobby grower, I have always been fascinated with making concentrates out of the leftover trim and even top quality bud. I've made oil and tincture with the Magic Butter machine and some very good bubble hash using a blender and more recently a small RV washing machine and a 4 bag 5 gallon bubble bag set. After washing the weed I always dry it and make excellent butter with final leftovers in the MBM. All was fine until my buddy lent me his Nugsmasher Mini and my world changed.
The next day I pressed up a storm. There's definitely a learning curve, but after about 4 hours I had almost 3 grams of rosin! I pressed most of the bud, kief and 3 different grades of bubble hash I had on hand, and If I knew then what I know now, I would have probably tripled the yield. But there's that learing curve and I still have a long way to go.
About 2 weeks ago one of my AK47 plants suddenly suffered bad heat stress coupled with nute burn. I tried emergency supercropping and changing out the water (DWC) but it didn't rebound and seemed to stop prodcing resin so I decided to chop it and try my hand at making fresh frozen live resin bubble hash with it and then pressing it into some yummy rosin. The plant had about 3 weeks to go but it still had massive buds. After removing all the stems and fan leaves, I put about 650 grams of fresh bud in the freezer. Tomorrow morning 1/8, I plan on washing most if not all of it.
I'll be using 220m work bag in the washing machine and a set of 220m, 120m, 72m and 25m bags in the bucket. I figure I'l do at least 3 washes and will need a 10lb bag of ice for each wash as I normally would.
What do I do differently when making bubble hash with fresh frozen bud vs dried bud? I'd love to hear some feedback.
As a hobby grower, I have always been fascinated with making concentrates out of the leftover trim and even top quality bud. I've made oil and tincture with the Magic Butter machine and some very good bubble hash using a blender and more recently a small RV washing machine and a 4 bag 5 gallon bubble bag set. After washing the weed I always dry it and make excellent butter with final leftovers in the MBM. All was fine until my buddy lent me his Nugsmasher Mini and my world changed.
The next day I pressed up a storm. There's definitely a learning curve, but after about 4 hours I had almost 3 grams of rosin! I pressed most of the bud, kief and 3 different grades of bubble hash I had on hand, and If I knew then what I know now, I would have probably tripled the yield. But there's that learing curve and I still have a long way to go.
About 2 weeks ago one of my AK47 plants suddenly suffered bad heat stress coupled with nute burn. I tried emergency supercropping and changing out the water (DWC) but it didn't rebound and seemed to stop prodcing resin so I decided to chop it and try my hand at making fresh frozen live resin bubble hash with it and then pressing it into some yummy rosin. The plant had about 3 weeks to go but it still had massive buds. After removing all the stems and fan leaves, I put about 650 grams of fresh bud in the freezer. Tomorrow morning 1/8, I plan on washing most if not all of it.
I'll be using 220m work bag in the washing machine and a set of 220m, 120m, 72m and 25m bags in the bucket. I figure I'l do at least 3 washes and will need a 10lb bag of ice for each wash as I normally would.
What do I do differently when making bubble hash with fresh frozen bud vs dried bud? I'd love to hear some feedback.
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