i ran some water over a pre pressed patty, shook it out and then squished it and there was definitely a difference for sure. cant tell yet as i had a rectal blowout on the rosin bag but it looks promising lol.
there was a bid difference in sound as well. definitely more bubbling when pressed.
Very interesting method. I suppose since most cannabinoids dissolve in water it couln't hurt, I mean people make hash with water. RSO can be made with water. So you've made yourself some Rick Simpson Patties. Im pretty sure that that most, but not all, water hash makers use a method that usually consists of initially putting your hash bag full of flower/trim, into a bucket of ice water, allowing you to breaking the trichs off their stem by making freezing the oils to a brittle solid, and smahing it to bits, Severing most if not all the stem of the trich from the plant material it grew on while very useful to water hash makers.. Since trich stem is way smaller than the trich itself, they break off really easily once turned brittle instead of sticky oily and crushed/smashed, and then go straight through the bag into the water to dissolve slowly after the process.
How about using the same idea ice crushing idea for pressing rosin? instead of putting it in a bucket of ice, put it in the actual freezer till its good and frozen, then grind or smash into powdered ice weed before pressing, I wonder if this would make oil more available through a patty bag. its hard to say cause you might separate the trichs momentarily, but then everything is melted and squeezed back together, and out a small hole in a bag, and everything, including the stem are squished out. It would be interesting though, to see if detached trichs give better yeild. I suppose it could be potential for some really nice resin, or it could be a totally useless waste of time..
When you say dried cured, I assume you keep it in glass jars, but do you regulate humidity with humidity packs or monitor RH or anything? With only 20%RH all the time, you might consider for a dollar a piece(or less), toss one 62% RH pack per jar in a after a couple weeks of initial curing (daily jar popping, etc) then once the plant sap has dried out to the optimal level it'd be worth keeping the RH the same all the time to keep it that way, rather than letting it dry out further and further every time you open your jar, and at a fast rate, once the optimal; level is reached, since that optimal level is so low, its easy to go below it, and then you get powdery shaky stuff instead of nice trimmed flowers. Small price to pay to not get dry crumbly flowers, which will not doubt happen in your climate.
Depending on size of jar, use a bigger pack for a bigger jar of course, but those >$1 packs will easily take on a full mason jar and then some, and keep it feeling like the day you trimmed it. Like a cigar straight out of a humidor, rather than a dry old swisher that crumbles in your fingers no matter how careful you are. With that kind of RH around all the time its only a matter of time before your flower will become like the dried out swisher assuming you open the jar even once after the controlled drying. Which if you didn't might could maybe cause mold in some case depending how dry, or undry you made it originally before sealing it off.
When it is this dry, this is also when decarboxylation occurs as well, which further degrades the quality of your medicine. I would venture to say that this method from the start should help you to get a significantly better yield with your press, with any of your medicine, and not limit you to just relatively freshly cut flower/trim. You can even throw some packs in a jar of real dry stuff and leave it for several days or a week, or more, and try then. Would probably help quite a bit even though decarboxylation has been happening for however long now since it first started feeling dry, but definitely worth a shot.
Happy pressing
