Start a small grow. If you can that is. If not, talk to people who do grow. Avoid the dispensary.
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Buy a press then listen to thrash metal. Automatically makes you good at rosin. I swear.
WE HEARD YOU LIKE METAL, DAWG SO WE GOT YOU A ROSIN PRESS SO YOU CAN PRESS METAL AND LISTEN TO METAL WHILE YOU CONTROL THE METAL WITH METAL DAWG
But really…These guys have it right. Flower rosin is largely unfulfilling and for 65/ A HALF GRAM a crack habit would be more cost effective. I’m not sure of the laws in your state but if there is any sort of caregiver programs, find one who won’t fleece you, get a little bit and just play around with it. Expecting perfection in the beginning stages of any form of extraction is foolhardy and will essentially disappoint you into quitting. Keep your expectations tempered and expect it to be more like climbing up a mountain rather than a plug and play thing. Yeah it’s not instant gratification but once you finally nail it you feel extremely accomplished. Just remember the general ‘ladder’ of rosin quality. Bottom is flower, next rung up is keef (think what’s in your grinder), dry sift (I consider these two different since sift is usually targeted vs keef is just ‘holy shit look at all this stuff in the grinder!’), then finally toward the top you have air dried bubble hash which will come out dark but taste good and then finally the ‘rosinporn’ you’re usually used to seeing online is fresh frozen freeze dried bubble hash.
Don’t let those dispos get you the fuck down, you got this
Rosin is also my little niche` if you will. Not just redditing the shit out of you with advice I wouldn’t follow myself.
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It generally isn’t economically viable to extract from retail purchased weed. Even buying bulk it’s hard.
Grow your own.
If you are looking at $50 for 3.5g or $65 for .5g of Rosin, do you really think you are going to get .5g of comparable extract from the flower?
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I wish I could. It is still illegal here and my girlfriend is a teacher and I work with the government and financial institutions frequently and they sometimes require a background check. Plus I am divorced, but still have 50% custody of my daughter and god forbid her mother find out and use that against me.
I know it is an abysmally small chance of it becoming an issue with just a couple plants, but my girlfriend isn’t comfortable with it in our situation and I am going to respect that.
Not to mention that I just kill pretty much every single plant I have ever tried to grow.
We are also the “very democrat heavy” state that our democrat governor just vetoed what was essentially only a recriminalization bill. Hell, even every single recreational bill they have attempted in the past 5 years still didn’t allow growing, even for medical patients. So in other words there is no caregiver program or anything remotely resembling that.
If I am using a solvent extraction then I would hope to end up ahead. But that is still fairly irrelevant because not even considering the cost my selection and options are complete trash. Currently there is around 5 decent concentrate options in the entire state and it is usually only 2 or 3 different options. And those are all RSO with one option of shatter. There is no dispensary in the state that currently has any rosin available.
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Wait you want to extract at home but not grow?
I think your ex would flip out more at you extracting over growing, if she knows what you’re extracting, if she doesn’t probably still a risk.
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a 1 gal vacuum chamber would be a good investment for you
or a lil mason jar if your going the micro batch route 
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That’s actually the refill for my soldering iron…travels in my glove compartment these days. Pretty sure there’s a full size can under the passenger seat at the moment.
Might be sufficient to extract 3-4g. Won’t yield but 1/2g if you’re feeding the tube the bunk you have access to.
If you can afford an oz of input at a time, you can graduate to the more standard starting point.
EtOH is considerably safer to play with (and here in OR is not a felony as homemade BHO is).
Plenty of info on how to get the job done either way here.
a wee open blast into a pie plate outdoors will give you something to compare your qwet to.
Then you can figure out your path forward…
edit: neglected to agree with @Pupparoo. you won’t like the yield or extract from flower rosin. you feel the need to explore squish (works great if you feed it trichomes ONLY), my first rosin press (a temp controlled hair straightener) cost me $20 new.
my second (Jack) cost less than $200.
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if you’re playing that game, I suggest you go visit somewhere legal every now and then…
or stick with the EtOH/hair straightener route(s)
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Its not illegal for me to extract, but growing would be. That’s the main distinction. She can have an issue with it all she wants, but a court can’t do anything about me extracting or using otherwise it would be discrimination unless it could be proven it was a determinant to my daughter’s wellbeing because I have a medical card and do legitimately use it medically.
I was trying to avoid butane, but have not completely ruled it out. I won’t open blast though so if I do end up going to route I would build a closed loop system. I would probably be running batches between an 1/4 - 2 ounces. I would be running CBD too and with that I would likely be running at least a half ounce if not an ounce or more at a time.
I do have a press but looking to do more than that because CBD doesn’t press very well and I want to be able to extract everything that is left after pressing THC bud.
I am going to look into closed loop systems again because from what everyone is saying it seems like that is my best best for what I am looking for.
The amounts you’re talking about, open blasting isn’t as dangerous as you think.
An oz of material is gonna be 300 ml can of butane. Trying to blast and 1/8 and scrape it all up your transfer losses will be insane as well, it’s hard to work with tiny bit and not lose a ton relative to your starting amount.
bho is kinda not an option for you realistically.
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I actually thought it took quite a bit more butane than that.
That’s about a 6:1 ratio if I’m not mistaken.
I used to open blast a ton, I made some decent shatter back in the day with a 1.5x6 tri clamp spool, some end caps and a pie plate.
You need an oz though to make it even worth while though imo.
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Are you specifically looking for a good smokable product? Legal hemp derived D9 gummys might be a good solution for you depending how you are about edibles. I believe you could obtain those cheap enough and keep on the legal aspect of all this. You also said RSO is obtainable. I must say if the price is right a little RSO can go a long way. Not to mention huffing anything is not exactly a good approach to anything “medical” or not and eating your meds is usually a healthier approach to obtaining the results you desire.
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No, I said I really don’t care if it is smokeable. I have a rosin press for smokeable rosin. I am looking to just full extract the left over rosin pucks and hemp since it doesn’t press very well. It will just be used for edibles and topicals.
And the RSO is $50 for 0.5g so not cheap at all.
I can almost certainly say that it’s highly illegal to extract with butane in your home in most states. It’s a literal bomb if mishandled. I’d almost say you’ll get more time off you get caught extracting
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Then you soak all the pucks in ethonal to extract the remains
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That was essentially my initial plan. I was just trying to figure out the best way to destroy/lose a little terps as possible.
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I’m going to say that your response sounds a little drunk, and the only reason is because all the best parts of cannabis are the terpenes…
If you haven’t figured that out yet then you honestly need to do a little bit more experimentation