Micro-crystalline THCa in trichomes?

[cyclopath]

Totally agree. Also didn’t mean to orphan your comment…would absolutely like to engage some of the clever folks around here in exploring how our target actually exists as presented by the plant.

Hoping that pulling this into its own topic gets us there

Here is the experiment @moronnabis was referring to…

@Ralf

Here’s an illustrative example, which I haven’t done, but I will in the next few weeks:

• Place a pan with a thin layer of dry sift kief into a convection oven preheated to 180’F (average press temp) for 75 seconds (or a bit longer). Then, pull the pan out and see if the trichomes were dissolved, and you have a pan of mushy rosin.
• Place a pan with a thin layer of freeze-dried water hash into aa convection oven preheated to 180’F (average press temp) for 75 seconds (or a bit longer). Then, pull the pan out and see if the trichomes were dissolved, and you have a pan of mushy rosin.

My guess is you’re not going to see much dissolution of the trichomes, but they will just be shriveled and smaller than they were. If I’m wrong and the pan will be fill with rosin, why the heck is anyone pressing at all? Why isn’t everyone just putting the trichomes/heads into a 25 um bag and placing them in the oven?