Lovely posts there, NG mate. You're gonna have to swap NG to OG Bro.
Some questions....
- How exactly are you doing your dry sift?
- do you get a better yield pressing the kief compared to just pressing the unsifted trim?
- How long can you store the Rosin before it loses its potency?
- what's your preferred method(s) of consumption?
- Are you getting more wrecked than you would do from joints?
- If so, does that fuck up your tolerance... like...... can you get stoned as normal the day after a heavy sesh?
- When it comes to using actual bud... fresh or dry.....and..... cured or uncured?
- You said 70° for fire and 90° for yield... are you saying there's a noticeable difference in kick when you go cooler?
Man I gotta save up and get me a press... thanks for taking the time to show us how you use yours.... that was excellent!
Bring on the Moonrocks!
Hey brother!
Im glad you approved, there was a lot to get through!!
1. Ok so my dry sift is done as follows.
HARDWARE: As for the screens, these are screens that i made. I watched a bubblemans world video and noted the lines per square inch to micron.
WORK SCREEN > This is the one at the top you can see, the one the material is dropped onto and 'worked' on.
This is 250micron or 80 Lines per inch
165 micron is 100 LPI
149micron is 110 LPI
75 micron is 200 LPI
METHOD:
1.When i dry my plants i leave sugar leaves on, i only remove large fan leaves.
2.When i dry trim, i put all the sugar leaf into a ziplock and then into the freezer to preserve the trich heads. The colder the environment the better
3.Lay the screens ontop of one another on a glass or metal or marble surface. Something smooth and clean.
4.Depending on the size of the screen, drop your material from a height > Youre trynig to break the heads off the leaves and buds and get them to fall down the screen.
5.A common rule of thumb is to agitate the material gently for about 10 seconds for the first run... picking up and dropping, carding (carding is a term used to scoop up the material and drop it back down, or to further clean the hash on the 165 micron screen by spreading it about gently.) <This is where cold temp is important or all of your heads will gum up and stick together with heat)
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HOWEVER, due to time constraints, i tend to agitate the material for around 4 minutes a time, whatever run it is... and ensuring im not SCRAPING OR PUSHING the matter into the holes.
6.When your happy you have worked it enough, pick it up and store it back in the ziplock and i normally put it back in the freezer and run it two more times on another occasion. Yield does diminish if you are dry sifting effectively, but the potency of the material stays the same, youre just going over what you missed after all.
2. I have only pressed sugar leaf once and the yield was poop. The density of the trichomes doesn't seem to be there for doing it this way. It is a far better return ini quality and quantity if you press 5g of kief over 5g of sugarleaf... I also think this is why autos don't yield as much on the press, unless they are bred with some sort of hashplant. But I have had amazing results with barneys glue gelato auto>. massive plant, super potent, amazing mango and pineapple terps and 22% yield off the press for flower rosin. Which gives the big boys like gorilla glue or the white a run for their money! Mephisto have some great strains for pressing aswell, but barneys yield is mega.
3. I keep my rosin in the fridge. Normally it's left to 'butter up' overnight and it does stabilise and become easier to work with. This is when it goes lovely and shiny, iits like the first stage of the hash cure i think. I then jar it up if i have loads. This batch is nearly 3 weeks old now and in the fridge i cant see it going off.
4. My preferred method is taking a low temp dab. Heat up your dab rig banger or nail for about 1:15 with a butane blowtorch. Then leave it to cool for around 35-40 seconds ( this just takes practice to refine what type of temp you want your dab, and is subjective because its down to your preference...
5. Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes. This is super high quality dank ass shit. In the UK cannabis concentrates is a class B now i think! < fucking idiots.
6. Tolerance is a slippery slope bro... I only dab on a sunday or saturday night or to celebrate something... It is far to strong for me to swap joints
for dabs... the high off a dab for me can last around 4-5 hours if its good stuff. So i think if you respect it, it is incredible. However because the THC content is almost 3fold to flower, i personally think that prolonged use of it could cause some shit to happen to your brain, even if its just short term memory loss etc, it would effect you. As for the next day, when i dab i have joints aswell so its a mix. So it's never like I cant get high enough or anything like that and i don't rely on dabs to get me to where i want to be as i smoke more flower.
7. I have found that bud dried to about 80% of what you normally would works great. Ensure the strain is optimum for pressing, because you only get a decent return if your method is right and your flower is CAKED in THC. Cured bud does work well aswell, i find the best is in mason jars with the 62 BOVEDA humidity packs you told me to use from my first grow.
8. Yeah a massive difference. You compromise on the yield for quality at a lower temperature. Some people press flower at 110 celsius! Assisted presses work better because they can put more pressure on the material and at a lower temp give you a better yield than a hand crank press like mine would give. I have ordered a DULYTEK rosin press so hope to be making the moonrocks on that. Check them out, theyre fab!
TBH the taste of rosin pressed at 75 degrees is immense << but it is not only temperature which affects quality. The size of micron bag you use also plays a big role in what you are letting drip onto the parchment.
I hope this begins to answer some of your questions bro!
Peace
