Author: Michelle Janikian

Rosin Tech Takes Home Best Booth at Emerald Cup 2017

The Emerald Cup is an annual festival and competition held at the Sonoma County fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. Named for the Emerald Triangle, which consists of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties in Northern California, it’s held after the fall cannabis harvest. About 80% of contest entries hail from the region and the weekend long event celebrates all things California cannabis culture. The Emerald Cup was started back in 2003 by Tim Blake who wanted to celebrate the incredible weed grown in Mendocino county. However, back then, cannabis was still in a legal gray area prosecuted heavily by the...

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Rosin Abroad: Check Out the Countries Where Concentrates Are Becoming Popular

Rosin and other types of extracts were hard to find outside of the West Coast of the U.S. until recently. Sure, you could buy old-school black hash almost anywhere on the globe, but now “710” culture is taking the world by storm. Take our neighbors to the south, Mexico, for example. Cannabis flower is still illegal to grow and consume, even though the country passed its first medical cannabis laws last year. But that hasn’t stopped the “cultura dab” from growing. In Mexico, there are events where cannabis enthusiasts can get together and learn about new trends, like ExpoWeed...

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Want to Sell Your Extract? What You Need to Know About California Law

Since January 1st, California’s adult use market is open for business and the “green rush” is in full swing. But how hard is it to enter the legal cannabis industry as a business owner? There’s certainly a few steps involved, but we’ve broken them down to help make your dream a reality. If you make great, flavorful rosin that you’d like to sell, you’ll want to apply for a Type 6 license in California for “non-volatile” extract production. If you’re looking into producing shatter, or Butane Hash Oil (BHO), you’re going to need to apply for a different license...

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How To Make Rosin

1. Getting Started – Prep work To make rosin, you can use dry flowers/trim, dry sift/kief, or bubble hash. Regardless of your starting material, the process is the same – apply pressure and heat to create an organic, solvent free cannabis oil. In addition to your plant material, you’ll need parchment paper, micron filter bags, a collection tool, and your rosin press. Rosin Tech Filter Bags When pressing whole flowers, filter bags are optional, but for any other material you need to use a micron filter bag. The smaller the micron rating number, the tighter the filter and the...

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Rosin Tech Major Keys: How To Choose Your Filter Bags

So, you’ve got some flower you want to press?  Or is it hash?  Or Dry Sift Kief?  Don’t worry, with a wide range of micron sizes Rosin Tech has filter bags for all your extraction needs.  Choosing the right filter bag is actually quite simple and will help increase yields as well as quality. Let’s start with the basics.  The lower the micron size (i.e. 25u,) the smaller the holes in the bag which will allow less plant material through. The higher the micron (i.e. 220u,) the larger the holes in the bag, which can allow more plant material...

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