Small press would be just fine for small usage. Any of the cheap ones will do. I only press flower rosin its all I do so a couple pounds is a lot to press every few months. So 12 ton dabpress with gauge 4x7” plates. I do 4 pucks prepressed and chottle tech sleeved 5gs each so 20gs at once pressed. Thats been the proven way for me.
Pressing more can reduce yield for me so I wouldnt risk buying a 20 ton or whatever jusst so I can do 6 pucks at once. 4 pucks just seems to be the limit. Trying a 35g brick with a typical bubble hash prepress mold was a bad idea, very large drop in yield.
The dulytech and rosineer are about same price range and quality, one might be better than the other but only by a bit. Again for small amounts of use any of them will be fine. The extra tons makes pressing 20gs at once 4”x4” barely do-able. A 20 ton would feel less elbow grease trying to get to 7 tons or 6 tons.
So when youre pressing like one puck at a time and doing an oz or two which can make over a half oz flower rosin.. A 50$ clamp press can work. The small surface area makes half a ton enough pressure to press rosin, 1 ton can be a full press. I hit 1.2tons for my 3.5-5g presses and thats just to give it extra squeeze, to rule out not pressing hard enough when testing a pheno.
Really it doesnt matter how hard you press. The less tons just means youll hit that point your putting some sweat into it to just press one puck. When I press a pheno I know well I just adjust pressure based on how its coming out. If its blowing out, paper ripping a little, things like that so Il press like 600psi when I see that. It doesnt really effect yield.
When youre pressing large amounts you just got to do what you got to do. Its a minimal difference if you didnt press barely hard enough, I repress all pucks once to only get .7gs so it was minimal left benind. Very poor quality too not worth repressing. Everything is pretty consistent so I get the most yield I can get from it.
Hand trim wet and 60/60 dry 12 days de-nugged ready for when dry on dry herb shelf just gently transfer to scale and prepress. Then press it and leave rosin on parchment paper to dry and collect later last. Its about as fast as washing bubble and pressing that to rosin but you get more from flower rosin, and its not all impurities. Im huge on flower rosin, if I keep this up I could make a name for myself in it since no one wants to.
Its all about genetics and it needs to basically be a bx3 or f4-f5 or IBL and has to be bred the entire project based on flower rosin, not a one size fits all extract methods. Otherwise thats the best you got besides reviews of exact percentage of yield. Things breeder description should have. If its not bred for it and just so happens to be good for it thats fine but test it and post those numbers.
If its unstable like a f1 polyhybrid you get thousands of results from duds to average to outlier special. With a small grow of a few plants you could get all duds and some decent or average if youre lucky. Anything higher is lucky and this is 15-20% range. Something you dont even have to hunt for in a bx3, f4-f5 unless you want 25-30% but you have to have reason to believe its there.
There are only like less than 5 strains I found that are those and no IBL. Nothing specific to flower rosin or rosin in general, the first hash for the longest was bubble and bho. For rosins you have to take a chance but if those 5 arent it, you really are based on luck like the lottery. Be sure to report the strains that do well as thats all we have to go off of, and that can be misleading because it could be related to the persons grow.
If its just a basic grow with average leds, was it cmh or hps, was it outdoor, was it hydro or organics, any speacial lights like uv and etc? Does the plant require that therefor? Can you provide that? Otherwise it might never provide that outlier result in your setup. Theres a bit to it but yea I about went over most of it.
To the topic tho, thats what will raise your yield. The rest just depends on how much u want to press for ease of use. A guage is a must, there is no going “by feel” lol. There is but as long I been doing this, I cant imagine doing without the guage, Id have no clue. Id just stop when I see bud popping out the sides of press. There is a risk to not pressing hard enough or too hard on drysift or bubble.
It just would be hard to dial in and its not consistent so with large amounts like me thats a bad thing. For data running clones and breeding thats not a good thing. I didnt think the hash can lock up into material but it can in extreme cases, like my 35g brick. I have a sample do 20% but then did the brick and got like 12% or something, it was bad. So Id want to know I at least pressed 600psi.
Some bud is more spongy than others and press different, some get paper thin while some are just flexing out of place as soon as you lift the plates. Soo ya to whom it may concern. To the community within a community which is sparse. Wasnt no one talking about all this to me when I first started looking to learn. I had to learn the long way!
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