Anybody know ROSIN?

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Hi all, I’ve recently pressed about 500 grams of 140 micro kief into… 24 grams of rosin. HOLY shit that was a lot of work and I’d like to hear: What I’m doing right. What I’m doing wrong. How I can improve and finally… HOW THE BLOODCLOT can I package this for sale into 1 gram glass jars.

  1. I’m stuffing my kief (140u) into 75 micro bags. Most are 2x6 but some are 3x6".
  2. I have a 20 ton bottle jack (without pressure gauge) with heat plates.
  3. I’m loading 8-10 grams of kief into the 2x6 and close to 25g into the 3x6
  4. Heat plates are set to 69c/156f degrees
  5. I’m pressing lightly for 45 seconds and then slowly increasing pressure until 2:30.
  6. My kief/dry sift is a couple months post harvest.
  7. I’m only using a single bag. Not blowing out at all. Should I be double bagging? Why?
    Here’s the various results:
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So I roll that all together to get a nicely colored 8gram putty.

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For some reason, my follow up day of squishing comes out much darker and oilier. I end up with slightly higher yield.

I roll all this up. It’s SOOOOOO sticky I can’t touch it with gloves. I’m not sure how to handle this without making a mess. I add it to a glass jar and stir as much as possible. Seems to lighten the color a bit.

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  1. What am I supposed to do to ‘cure’ the rosin? Why?
  2. How do I package it into individual 1gram concentrate glass jars for sale?
  3. What else do I need to do to it?
  4. How can you handle it with it being so sticky?
  5. I don’t seem to be yielding much. How can I get my rosin to ‘flow’ out of the parchment paper?
  6. PLEASE can someone give me a full walkthrough of how to package, press (time and pressure - remember I don’t have a gauge), collect, handle, cure and package for sale?

Thanks so much. I just went through ALL my sift :frowning:

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Not me @zyzyx but @blackthumbbetty knows a few things :wink:

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Unfortunately, rosin gets partially decarbed. THC is just liquidy/stickier than THCA, so it won’t ever really shatter up or anything.

You can air purge it a couple days.

Be careful whipping it. It does make it lovely looking, but you can lose some terps.

Freezing it a bit, just a few minutes, could help it be more manageable for packaging, but it can become brittle and fly everywhere, if you’re not careful. Lots of people just use parchment to package.

I don’t make rosin, myself.

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Smoke it in a Dab Rig. I can’t tell once strain apart from another as it tastes the same. Now I see the hype about the Dab Rig. I could actually taste a difference but I don’t have a lot of kief nor a strain with a lot of juice as I call it.

You need a dab mat and dab tool. They have them on Amazon.com

I haven’t bought this kit but you will get the ide. Go to Youtube and look for Dabbing Grandma.

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@Bogleg presses. He will be able to provide more info than I will.
Lower temps definitely help with getting it unstuck from things.

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Chill a silpat which is a rubber baking mat. Put your wax paper on it and scrape off.the chill from the mat works wonders.

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Yeah, I’ve got the removal down but not sure how to get it into individual 1gram jars for sale.

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Small pieces at a time.

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They have those rubber containers. The ones I have seen for sale was 1 gram in parchment paper.

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I have some of those containers… they work well.

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I have two as well. One for kief since my weed isn’t filled will resin.