rosin

MadMoonMan · Post by **MadMoonMan** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:41 pm

oh poopy.. wow that was close a photon just passed nearby

relatively speaking of course.

Not that I have anything against passing photons as long as they don't interrupt any of MY microscopic chemical bondings.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:22 am

good luck managing that

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon May 04, 2015 3:58 pm

a formerly noted member here
has a thread about this at opengrow recently

https://www.opengrow.com/topic/49764-ro ... msearch__1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

user_1138 · Post by **user_1138** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:12 pm

Jesús Malverde wrote:I still prefer smoking flower or hash best. When flower is 20%+ THC, the potential upsides are actually pretty limited to offset the hassle. Is Everclear really *better* than a good whisky or gin or whatever you fancy that is less than half as strong? My answer is no.

Yeah, I like smoking also, but there are many upsides that keep me using concentrates. Less byproduct, "purer" effect, less cleanup, ect...

[notices the look of "yeah; I know," then reaches in the back pocket and hands over wrinkly white paper to the squinty eyes staring at him]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921171/

Its also easy and fun. Trying new things can lead to great discovery and disappointment, but it never leads to boredom. Just my .02 cents.

Post by **Jesús Malverde** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:15 pm

OK, but this strikes me in a similar way that papers on the feasibility of using bioengineered yeast to produce THC do: simply, why? In either case you already have incredibly efficient and long tested methodologies in place. What's the point of using GM yeast when a seed, some sun and dirt will produce a plant with 20% plus of the desired product (an amazing result in terms of botanical medicines), and why try to stuff cannabis into the big pharma paradigm by taking a product that is known to be safe and efficacious using simple and inexpensive traditional dosing methods and turn it into a highly engineered product with extremely high entry barriers to produce? It's Marinol--which never made any sense as a therapeutic when compared to say a low tech joint or brownie--all over again. It just has the appearance of an attempt to cynically monetize an easily grown and cheaply available botanical medicine with a lot of high tech mumbo jumbo as its rationalization. Of course how else is a pharma company supposed to monetize medical botanicals except to repackage and re-market them in a form they can patent and extract rents from since the actual medicinal constituents cannot be patented? Put some simple powdered decarbed cannabis flower of a known strength in a gelatin capsule or just make cannabutter cookies, you can do it all at home yourself from seed to dose for almost no investment.

Post by **Jesús Malverde** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:27 pm

I bought a half gram of "crumble" at the local cannabis store which had been assayed out at 90%+ THC just out of curiosity. I was reluctant because I can buy flower at the same store that is analytically tested to be ~30% for about one sixth the price by weight, which makes the high concentrate uncompetitive economically to me. Smoking it in a glass pipe was remarkably harsh--just like smoking what we used to call "honey oil", which was essentially the same thing but 30-40 years ago as far as I can tell. So next, I try vaporizing it. This does work a lot better and I can tolerate the vapor, but the high seems "flat" or uninteresting or something to me compared to good flower. Still strikes me as overpriced, overthought, overprocessed and overhyped compared to flower. But it obviously appeals to others, so I guess it has virtues beyond my limited ability to perceive.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:33 pm

a friend broke out this vape/pipe for concentrates
it had a battery and a "nail" and a glass dome
you swabbed your concentrate into the nails bowl
then put the glass dome over it

worked brilliantly!

things was little biger than any old pipe
the glass dome was less than an inch in diameter

i asked what it cost him,
he said 40 bucks

his concentrate was 'dab'

oily and sticky

his container was this flexable plastic that the dab didnt stick to

was a trick setup

Lrus007 · Post by **Lrus007** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:46 am

so i made a vice press with a taken apart hair straightener.
you use the 2 heated plates. mount them on 2 vice jaw pads.
i am sure it's on utube taking apart the plates and mounting on a vice.
a friend told me how so i got parts all together and built one last week.
i got around to trying it. so put a gram or so of tight rolled buds in parchment paper.
then pressed with heated plates on low in my vice. i did 6 separate presses.
here are 2 photo's after pressed on the parchment papers. my 1st 2 presses.

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i scraped one off last night after pressing was pretty damn good.
so today i scraped the other 5 off. a pretty good pile from them.

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is very stoney and lasts over a hour. now i guess i need a vap pen.
thanks for looking
Lrus007

Roots · Post by **Roots** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 6:31 am

Try eating the stuff, I just ate two big dabs worth and got a crazy body high going right now.

I'm a fan of rosin...properly made BHO is better but if you want something quick and easy that you can dab, rosin does the trick...I havn't smoked BHO in months because I don't trust other people making it and I got better things to do than make oil.

deran · Post by **deran** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:38 pm

...properly made BHO is better ...

so true !

you de-vape most of the terpens while pressing, due to heat

but the hottest shit is DEXSO , the only real solvent :

http://www.dexso.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

too bad, google hasnt the numbers for dexso, but let me tell you, an extractor was blasted with butan first, afterwards it got blown a second time trough, with the same material, and the result was an 70% THC extract. Also its extractin cbd and cbn and cbg and others way better than butane, with other words bho is just a selective extracion, far from full extraction

butan is inefficient and unhealthy / dirty

get your dme !