What size bud is best to get best yield from ones extractor?

Would a) finely ground. B) roughly chopped c) pinched chunks d) fingernail size or larger?

We get our best yield at about a 10 mesh, because of packing density and uniformity. We hand grind to about 1/4" for bragging rights material.

We don't use coffee grinders, because they produce a lot of ultra fines, which are hard to filter out.

Thankyou fadedawg for the reply! Guess everyone else was too trashed...how about cure bro? Do you like it fresh and frozen slightly dry and sticky our well dried? Do you freeze your tubes once packed? I know all this must sound very noob, but its the only way I'm gonna learn...thanks for your time!

Depends on what I'm making and how. My favorite taste treat for vaporization is fresh frozen, but 99% of our extractions are dried material, because it is faster and easier to handle. I've done fresh frozen in a column and in a thermos, and now use a thermos for that purpose.

Dried means we pull all the fan leaves, cut the main stalk, and hang it upside down to dry in an cool dry place for 5 to 7 days, depending on the weather. When the small stems snap, and the buds are ready for jar curing, they are prime for extractions that taste and smell like the plant itself.

You can make a prettier extraction easier using drier material, but when the water leaves, so do the lighter mono and sesquiterpenes, so the product will taste more like the diterpene cannabinoids. Diterpene cannabinoids have a hashy taste instead of floral.

If you are making oils for oral ingestion, I would definitely go dry, because the yield is low as a percent of overall weight processed when the plant is still full of water. A 25% moisture content plant producing 25% oil return by weight, only returns 6.3% before drying.

Awesome, thats some good info! tried to rep again, wouldn't let me lol!..ill be aiming for a vapable product...i will double boil then let sit for a week..hopefully itll turn to some form of shatter, if not ill freeze and be happy with some form of putty, as this will be my first I'll probably just get goo! Haha..
It will be shit because I will be using all my leaf trim...

I find personally that the size of the grind doesn't matter so much if its all bud, you don't wanna finely grind it if there's a lot of leaf and stick because you're also be extracting chlorophyll and other things like it. To maximize your yield I'd say use stainless steel for your tubes and your screen. And use a quality flower! Often times people use leaf or trim with minimal trichomes and expect some great return. You've gotta start of with good quality flowers, and NOT OLD DRY FLOWERS EITHER lol
Pive used a homemade stainless kit and the Okies with the 150 micron mesh. Recently I did 30gs larf with 44g trim and got about 11g out of it, which is about a 14 percent return.

Hope this helps

I wasn't sure which extraction method you were referring to...???

For Ice Hash Bags- well-dried and Frozen trim with the large twigs and stems removed works best (IMO)
For BHO extractors, rough-chopped and well dried... don't have to freeze it... too fine and it may "blow out" through the filter..
ISO- dry chopped and not too powdery- again, like the man said- filtering out the plant matter is most important.

However- I do not agree that you can't use old bud--
Old dry weed that you don't smoke because it doesn't burn right or is harsh makes excellent hash-- and is much smarter than ditching it!!
We use our 'outdated' bud in Canna-butter, Ice Hash and BHO all the time and get an excellent high CBD product.. and since it is only the trichomes- it eliminates the harshness from the plant matter.
What better way to use it up???

I totally agree! Thanks for your help! Bho for me...queen bee extractor..i know I'll need too change....lets hope I can make it work