Critique my Rosin Technique?

Hi all, I’ve recently pressed about 500 grams of 140 micro kief into… 24 grams of rosin. HOLY shit that was a lot of work and I’d like to hear: What I’m doing right. What I’m doing wrong. How I can improve and finally… HOW THE BLOODCLOT can I package this for sale into 1 gram glass jars.

1. I’m stuffing my kief (140u) into 75 micro bags. Most are 2x6 but some are 3x6".
2. I have a 20 ton bottle jack (without pressure gauge) with heat plates.
3. I’m loading 8-10 grams of kief into the 2x6 and close to 25g into the 3x6
4. Heat plates are set to 69c/156f degrees
5. I’m pressing lightly for 45 seconds and then slowly increasing pressure until 2:30.
6. My kief/dry sift is a couple months post harvest.
7. I’m only using a single bag. Not blowing out at all. Should I be double bagging? Why?
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So I roll that all together to get a nicely colored 8gram putty.

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For some reason, my follow up day of squishing comes out much darker and oilier. I end up with slightly higher yield.
I roll all this up. It’s SOOOOOO sticky I can’t touch it with gloves. I’m not sure how to handle this without making a mess. I add it to a glass jar and stir as much as possible. Seems to lighten the color a bit.

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1. What am I supposed to do to ‘cure’ the rosin? Why?
2. How do I package it into individual 1gram concentrate glass jars for sale?
3. What else do I need to do to it?
4. How can you handle it with it being so sticky?
5. I don’t seem to be yielding much. How can I get my rosin to ‘flow’ out of the parchment paper?
6. PLEASE can someone give me a full walkthrough of how to package, press (time and pressure - remember I don’t have a gauge), collect, handle, cure and package for sale?

Thanks so much. I just went through ALL my sift

Am I missing something? 500g of Keif only yielded 24g of rosin? That’s not even 5% return.

Shit looks great to me man.

Mr_Fixit said:

Am I missing something? 500g of Keif only yielded 24g of rosin? That’s not even 5% return.

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That's what I"M saying. SOOOOO much work for a little return. I don't think my heats up high enough.

Sade said:

Shit looks great to me man.

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Thanks dude. I want to get better though

Wow, thats pretty low return. I usually average 15-low 20% with flower. Your kief might have a lot of contaminate if you are getting that low of a return.
You def dont need to double bag, that will just lower your return even more. Your technique sounds fine, its most likely your starting material that is the issue.

waterproof808 said:

Wow, thats pretty low return. I usually average 15-low 20% with flower. Your kief might have a lot of contaminate if you are getting that low of a return.
You def dont need to double bag, that will just lower your return even more. Your technique sounds fine, its most likely your starting material that is the issue.

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It could be low humidity. This was pressed recently and the harvest was done in January and early February so it’s possible it’s just too dried out to really yield much

I'm wondering the same thing in regards to working with it. My rosin came out like a sappy melted candy texture, and it sticks to everything. I'm thinking of freezing it for a few minutes to work with it.