Looks like a pretty normal yield without weighting it . The humidity of the product you are pressing has a LOT to do with yield. Under ideal condition 25% ish would be about the best you can hope for. Also can be very strain specific. Not sure if you were doing this but when i pull the parchment paper from the press it goes right into the freezer for about 3-5 minuets makes it so much easier to get off the parchment paper. I try to get the biggest puck i can to fit in between the plates. Looks tasty!
What i really like about the rosin ( when my lungs can handle it) is you get that good taste on just about every draw. What temps are you running and time is your favorite @gwheelsThe trick is humidity and great material. Dialing in the temp too for what you like.
For 1.5 grams at a really good press you would get .3 grams of rosin. That is at 20% return.
You just have to dick around with it and see what works. But put the 1.5 grams in a jar with a boveda and it will press more. Save the pucks after you press and when you get a bunch infuse them in butter or coconut oil for edibles.
The more you press rosin the more you will figure out how to get good yield at lower temps for the tasty stuff and then turn it up and get the black grunt. People buy that shit for 35 a gram and think its GREAT.
That first press of rosin is AMAZING! if the temp is lower and you give it time to squeeze. Terpy wonderful high strength concentrate. Rosin and Hash are the best there are in my opinion.
I am right there with you on temps. I have only been pressing for 2 minuets . I did go 3 min on a previous press and it was SOME kind of tacky. I had a hard time collecting it. I thought it was because i pressed to long but i see that you do that time frame a lot so maybe that was not the problem.
I do the freezer part . Man that is good tip on transferring to the silicone container. I always struggled on that part.
right now I’m loading the bottom of my bowl with pot ashes as I do not have a kit.
How much you yield is totally strain and pheno dependant.You can have resin caked nugs not yield much..its just the luck of the draw
Try to keep temp down so you dont get darker resin as well.Old flower will be oxidized,and make for darker rosin.
Try it at 2 min 15 seconds and see how much more you get.
i just did. It was some weaker green and I packed 2+ G into that puck. 210 for 122 seconds and same amount.
Shatter is pressed correct?
Rosin is pressed and shatter is a different extraction process like butane and others as well.
I looked it up and @stiickygreen is correct. The difference between live rein and other extracted products is the live resin is extracted from living plants that were flash frozen then processed with all of those chemicals like butane etc. @gwheels have you tried pressing a green plant?
and hash..wow that is my new new favorite thing !