Worked through a few jars of flower, and still really liking the press. Got in the more granular scale, so was able to so a quick test this AM on what kind of return I'm getting. Also thought I'd toss up a blurb on a cold pre-press idea I've been playing with.
Saw at least one video and one vendor product while I was researching involving a "cold press" to help out with doing the press. In a bit of sativa induced creativity, I came up with an idea that so far is working pretty well for my own little pre-press.
Pieces involved are one of the small mouth ball jar lid rings, two of the lids, and the parchment paper being used to press.
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I take one of the lids and put it in the ring upside down from normal
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Then I press the parchment paper down into the ring and load with flower. In this case I'm using about 2 grams of bud
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Fold the other side of parchment over, press into ring using the other lid.
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Then I clamp it all good and tight and hold for 10 seconds or so using a hand clamp
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Result is a nice little easy to work with puck in the parchment, ready to press. I finding I can flip on the heaters and then sit at the desk and put together half a dozen or so packets and have them ready to go when the press warms up.
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Making the ready to press "pucks" really helps with getting a workflow going. Makes it feel like it goes much quicker and easier when doing larger batches. I think there may also be some benefit in keeping the temperature more consistent between presses since the packets are ready to go so less delay than prepping little bits of weed between each press. You can feed one packet into the press after another, and they're a good size for the 4 inch plates on the press.
As for a quick yield test, I did presses this morning on five packets. Each was 2 grams (+/- .05g) to start. Was a mix of a couple nice top buds working down to the stuff left in the bottom of the jar. You can see a big difference in the yield between the high and low end due to this. Basically, good heavily frosty top buds will give good return, while lightly frosted popcorn and leftover not so much. For the five presses, I averaged about .20 gram per press from the 2 grams put in, so around a 10% return.
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Can't wait to see how the Grilled Cheese currently curing presses out.
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