goodbye little auto plant, time to meet the press. It tastes like peaches and licorice. The rosin made a nice outline of the bud I was squashing, and don’t get me wrong… that shit hits you in the dome. Not as much flavor as the live rosin though.
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IME it leaves more on the nail than live resin too.
Peaches and licorice eh? 
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I agree I’ve noticed that also. Nice tasting combo .
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in addition, the rosin from the buds makes me cough more. I’ve noticed the plant-material-free rosin is so smooth it’s amazing. I think the freeze dried hash is ready for it’s debut.
looks like I can pummel it to dust with my finger tip.
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Do you run it through a sieve before bagging it up to squish? Seems to be standard practice. 
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I actually just dump that crud into the micron sack, then let it warm up so it’s not frozen when I smash it.
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Not sure if there is a difference or not, I’ve just always done it that way.
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heh heh I’ll try it eventually, just to see if there’s a difference. We never did that when buddy was showing me how to smash it for the first time. He just ejected it out of the freeze dryer and slammed it into the press as kernels. If I were pressing the shelf dried, I would definitely crush it down, and I did that with the coffee filter batches. I crushed that shit into powder, then fed it into the machine.
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Sorry if you mentioned it already how long do you mix in the buckets Or sit in the ice ect. if I remember correctly from your other thread you just rinse until all the green is gone? Then acceleration? 
oh yea if that machine cut me and was mine I would get the file out and round those edges… safety first 
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wow I noticed something about the buds I squished. The big bud I crushed is shiny with rosin, but the auto flower is not. I’ll go snap a photo, just a sec!
pretty sure this image has a meaning. As in, different buds will give you different yields.
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15min mix 30 sit, 15 mix 30 sit. I rinse any chlorophyll out of the bags by running water in and jiggling the bag around until the water coming out is the same color as the water going in.
hah hah yah the aluminum is fucking sharp on the edge of the plates. I would normally get some 600 grit and just give it a couple of passes to get the edge off. What I’m actually going to do, is keep my fingers out of there. lol! I used some alcohol and a rag on a stick to clean the shmoo off there after cutting myself. Now when I raise the temp to 74C it smells like live rosin hash. yum!
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wow there’s so much fun to be had! I’ve got some nutty ideas brewin’ just gimme a sec!
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That’s the stuff left behind after making rosin! It doesn’t dissolve well in alcohol and it’s kind of blobby when it does. Not like the hash it started out as. You can see plant fibers and crap in there too.
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hard to image through the alcohol without the phase contrast, but you can see it’s forming round spheres.
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Thoughts on if breaking up the buds finely before pressing would offer better yields? I have nothing to support this, but rather spitballing.
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yah, no idea, I was just doing that for shits and giggles. I wanted to try some of the rosin. I think they usually make it into a puck then put it in a bag. I just laid mine in the paper and smushed it.
I got 17.7 grams of freeze dried hash. From 618! in the 90 micron! I’ll check how that compares to before.
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hey! Well that’s… interesting. I got 35 grams out of 838 On the old thread using the same buds. Probably the missing quantity is in the 73 and 25 micron bags. Something like that. Plus error percentages.
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I got 8 grams less than I would have got before. I’ll go weigh the other bags of hash, brb. LOL found 2 grams in there so I’m still 6 grams short. That’s ok, it’s within error margins I’m still approximating. Never promised me a rose garden
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That is why I never promise returns when I wash/press for friends.
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I’m gonna measure a bunch of them and see what kind of variation there is in the batches using the same buds. These big bud ones are the entirety of the plant stuffed into the bags, not just lower buds. I wonder… what causes it? Is it random or is there a reason? We’ll see what happens!
Years ago I didn’t even know different plants would yield different quantities. Yikes! And it could vary by hundreds of percents in additional returns.
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