Cannabis Extracts and Concentrates - Page 3

How to make homemade dry sift?

Dry sift or kief is the result of mechanically removing the resin glands from the plant by sieving them with screens of different sizes, without any kind of solvent.

The first thing we should know before trying to make the best possible dry sieved trichome separation is what types of trichomes we can find. As the plant ripens, trichomes segregate higher amounts of cannabinoids and terpenes. The three types of trichomes found have several features in common; they have a gland where cannabinoids and terpenes are segregated, a group of cells that attach the gland to the stalk, and the stalk itself, which joins the gland to the plant tissue. Let's make a brief description of each of them.

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What is a marijuana extraction or concentrate?

Although there is some controversy regarding the use of the term "extraction" when applying this concept to solventless concentrates - since some people claim that it should be called "separation" when no solvents are used - broadly speaking a cannabis concentrate is a product derived from removing resin glands - trichomes - from the green matter. These kind of cannabis-based substances have been manufactured and used for the past centuries, achieving stronger effects than the dried buds and also being very much easier to carry and trade than weed.

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This article was published in March 2015, when very few people knew about this extraction method. Before yelling at us in the comments section for pressing flowers with hair straighteners...please keep that in mind! ;)

What is Rosin Hash?

Recently, a solventless separation technique is attracting more and more followers for both the easiness and low cost of the method and the quality of the final product. We are talking about Rosin hash, a concentrate obtained from separating the resin from the green matter through heat and pressure.

We'll make a demonstration of this technique so you can see how easy it is, and the excellent results that we can obtain if we do it correctly, a top-grade concentrate, 100% dabable and with a taste pretty similar to BHO .

How to make Rosin Hash

To make this cannabis concentrate we need the following materials:

• A few buds
• Slick Sheet or parchment paper
• A hair straightener
• A razor blade, needle or something similar

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