DJ, Teacher, Consultant, MC, Event producer, Host, and owner of @EssentialXtrax the first licensed hash company in the US. I coined the term Solventless.
Denver, CO
Joined January 2010
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Nikka T retweeted
Want Some of This?
If you’re joining us for #Ganjier live service & assessment training, you’re in luck!
Happy to announce that returning for another season of immersive, hands-on education at our #Humboldt wilderness campus: @ExtractArtist @SelectSwami & cultivator Jesse Hill.
Nikka T retweeted
hair straightener rosin. 💇
♨️: before hair straightner rosin went viral, @Nikka__T was already experimenting w/ pressing melt between 2010–2014. flat iron, parchment, heat + pressure, no solvents. the blueprint was forming years before the timeline caught up.
💇: early 2015 phil salazar was already testing a nug in his wife’s hair straightener, golden sap bleeding onto parchment. in march 12 he broke it down on @bcbubbleman’s hashchurch, then it went viral. the birth of rosin tech.
🧻 parchment & pressure: the workflow was simple. fold the bud in parchment, clamp w/ a straightener, apply hand pressure, scrape the result. no gauges, no tonnage. just feel. temps debated. press times tested. everyone learning in real time.
🧪 solventless as signal: after years of open blasting headlines, “solventless” carried weight. rosin felt cleaner, safer, more controllable. the optics mattered as much as the outcome. flower rosin became the people’s concentrate.
🌎 : youtube university: tutorials broke down heat ranges, quick presses vs long holds, tighter packs, directional folds. comments filled w/ yield reports & tweaks. a national lab run by comment sections. from small towns to legal states, everyone tried it.
🧊: flower rosin to hash rosin: early presses used nugs. soon heady’s realized sift & bubble hash pressed cleaner & stronger. the conversation moved from “does it work?” to “how do we refine it?” technique began separating hobby from craft.
🛠️ straightener limits exposed: tiny plates, uneven heat, shaky pressure. the scene outgrew the flat iron fast. heated plates, retrofitted shop presses, hydraulics, & filter bags took over. by 2016, it was hack to hardware.
🏭: brands founded in 2015 like @Rosintechlabss & rosin technologies began selling purpose built presses. what started as bathroom counter experiments became a product category. solventless now had its own economy.
🔥 the era that democratized rosin dabs: the hair straightener wave proved you didn’t need a lab to innovate. a viral clip, a beauty appliance, & parchment paper launched modern rosin culture. from kitchens to commercial plates, the squeeze changed everything.
- @nuggnotes🪴
Sure Fire Selections: First Pick Flame 🎯
🌲 2017 norcal small batch pressure: @surefireselect came up in northern ca’s craft lane, where standards are unforgiving. limited runs, quality over quantity, & a selector mindset built for a scene that spots mids instantly, with 5–6 years of breeding, hunting, & selecting behind the rise.
🧬 hunters before hype: the brand is built on elite pheno hunting & tight curation. loud terps, real bag appeal, & genetics meant to win rooms & conversations, not spreadsheets.
🍋 sherbanger focus: momentum shifted to sherbanger lines, especially lemon up × sherbanger #1. f1 energy, bx discipline, & repeated hunts to isolate real keepers, with the lineup showing sureberry (sunset sherb × headbanger #1), bred by @Bostonroot19056, blueberry gas.
💰🏁 guz (#19) sets the tone: the wave started with a verified 50k cut sale. (lemon up × sherbanger #1) × (z × animal cookies bx2) #19 went to cereal box legend @B_Eazyllc, who named it guz. after that, it became the headline, called “weed of the year” & “most disrespectful” in 2025 talk. genetics trade like assets.
🦒 sibling rivalry, 23 + 15: guz’s sister (23) kept pressure on. same family, different expression: (lemon up × sherbanger f1) × giraffe (zkittlez × animal cookies bx2). 15 is another sister from the same lane. there are other sisters in the lineup too. the approach mirrors the gelato model, where multiple keepers can emerge from the same cross. in pheno hunting, dominance isn’t guaranteed, it’s proven run by run.
🧬 focused library: @surefireselect’ strongest work is built on a Sherbanger F1 male they selected. @Bostonroot19056 bred the Sherbanger F1s & released them exclusively to surefire & one other North Bay grower
🤝 collab lane: collabs include @thetenco_, @let_ryan_live, & rose gardens, plus movement through the norcal network with @B_Eazyllc, @elusive, & the wider hunt ecosystem.
🏗️ a small batch grower who bet on breeding, hunting, & selecting years ago when most weren’t. @surefireselect sacrificed flower paydays to invest in the work & the brand. now 2026 is loading: zkittlez × 21 (zbx1) coming soon, @northbaygardens × surefire select.
- @nuggnotes🪴
Nikka T retweeted
soilgrown: the hair straightener origin of hash rosin
🎙️ hash church context: Phil “Soilgrown” Salazar was explaining this on @bcbubbleman’s hash church in 2015, with other hashmakers like @CubanGrower on the panel listening in.
🧊 low on melts: “i like melts, i like to dab.” when he started getting low on melts, he began messing with his “no melts,” looking for something he could still dab.
📜 it came down to parchment: soilgrown frames the whole thing through parchment, saying “in the parchment… it all comes down to,” like the paper was where the results showed up.
💇🧩 he flashes back to an earlier session where he overpressed bubble hash using his wife’s hair curler. that is when he noticed the oils separating from the rest of the hash. at the time, he did not think much of it. he says he folded it back together & dabbed it as pressed hash, “some 3 star dabbing.”
🧠 once soilgrown got low again, that old separation came to mind. he “broke out the flattener,” started flattening hash, saw rosin coming out, & says that is where he would collect it.
👤 tracing the influence: @BCBubbleman asked why a hair tool, he credits @ExtractArtist, saying he saw him use a hair straightener to press hash.
🛠️ he explains he did not have a hair iron at the time, so he grabbed his lady’s straightener or curler, & it worked really well.
🌿later, sitting with his father-in-law, he pressed a bud between the straightener & squeezed as hard as he could, expecting nothing. to his surprise, he saw oils around the flattened bud, scraped them up, did it a couple times, & they dabbed it.
😳 he says there was “no residue,” & he was shocked. soilgrown sums it up as luck plus running out of no melts, and ends on “now it’s time to start washing,” still playing around and learning.
📸 nikka t time capsule: video documentation from 2010 shows early solventless dabs on titanium hardware, a stark contrast to today’s tech. soilgrown credits @ExtractArtist for the idea to use a hair straightener to press hash.
note: the 2010 photo is not rosin, it’s melt. it was showing the quality of melt they were making the rosin out of at the time.
- @nuggnotes🪴
She’s a Brick…House: How Mexico Built America’s Weed Habit 🇲🇽
🧱 What Is Brick Weed? Sun-grown, dried weed was bulk-packed: pressed, & often gas-soaked to mask the smell Slang included: Schwag, Dirt weed, Headache weed, Brown frown, Reggie/Regs, Ditch weed, Bobby Brown, Boogity brown, Stress, & Caracas.
⚠️ Brittle & Brown: Hydraulic compression wrecked the plant—trichomes crushed, terps gone. What hit the U.S. was dry, brown-green, packed with seeds & stems. Tested at just 5–10% THC, it tasted harsh—but it MOVED.
🚚 Smuggling Never Slept: As demand grew, cartels adapted—using trap cars w hidden compartments, semi-trucks, cargo, & Pacific boat runs. Bricks moved deep via trucks, trains, tunnels, & fruit crates, flooding through CA, TX, & AZ with loads in the 1000’s of pounds. 60% of U.S.-Mexico border traffic occurred through the San Ysidro border.
🇲🇽 Why Mexico?
1.Proximity to U.S.
2.Recycled Prohibition-era smuggling routes
3.Minimal U.S. supply (harsh laws + crackdowns)
4.Perfect grow climate = year-round harvests
📈 Built for Scale: Massive outdoor grows, cheap labor, cartel control—Mexico ran the weed trade like an industry. In the 1970s–80s, it supplied up to 95% of the U.S. market, with wholesale prices at the border as low as $30–$40 per kilogram.
💸 Cheap & Plentiful: At its peak, an ounce of brick sold for just $60—about $500 in today’s money. By the 2000s, prices rose amid rising domestic sinsemilla & Colombian imports, reaching $1,000–$1,500 per pound in the Northeast. Still, for millions, price > quality. Bricks fed the bowl.
🔁 Always in Stock: Mexico’s climate allowed continuous harvests. While U.S. growers battled seasons, Mexican cartels kept shelves full, operating like corporate distributors.
📉 The Fall Begins: By the mid-2000s, brick weed’s grip had slipped to 30–40% of the market. As states like Ca & Colorado legalized, seizures plummeted 98% from 2014 to 2023—from 2.4M to just 61K pounds annually.
Today, it’s under 5% of the market, lingering in non-legal states for $20–$40 an oz.
🌀 Full-Circle Irony Now?: Top-shelf Cali indoor gets smuggled into Mexico for wealthy buyers. The old supplier has become the customer—while the brick fades into cannabis folklore.
- nugg|notes🪴
Nikka T retweeted
the american hash story 🇺🇸
📜 hasheesh eaters & candy:
1857, Fitz Hugh Ludlow drops The Hasheesh Eater & New York’s Gunjah Wallah Co. sells hasheesh candy. america’s 1st hash moment came long before prohibition.
🌍 1960s return wave:
hippies bring back red lebanese hash, afghani black & nepal temple balls. the Brotherhood of Eternal Love scales up, importing tons of afghan & nepalese hash to fund a psychedelic mission.
📰 1973 exposure:
senate hearings crack open the brotherhood & exposes major pipelines. in ’74 High Times launches & keeps hash alive w/ smuggler lore, cup coverage & sticky centerfolds.
🌿 late 70s–80s pivot:
afghan indica hits US rooms. sinsemilla gets stronger, imports get riskier. growers start dry-sifting trim & pressing kief bricks early home hash instead of foreign blocks.
💧 if it don’t bubble, it ain’t worth the trouble:
1980s california, Skunkman Sam (Sadu Sam) cracks cold-water separation. his ’87 mailer teaches heads to stir bud in ice water, let glands sink, strain the rest the physics behind the wash.
🌀 90s innovations:
Mila’s Pollinator & Ice-O-Lator bags hit amsterdam. mid 90s Adam Dunn laminates bubblegum hash into thin “hash wraps.” then @BCBubbleman’s multi-bag Bubble Bags hit forums.
in ’98 Robert C. Clarke publishes Hashish! mapping moroccan, afghan, indian & nepalese tech, tying trichome heads to mesh sizes & giving makers shared numbers like 150µ, 120µ & 73µ. “full melt” enters the vocabulary.
⭐ 2000s melt race:
Matt Rize & others chase full melt, dialing microns & melt grades. early 2010s, Fatty J & Milton Bubbly in oakland help lock in the 1–6 star scale that becomes standard in US hash circles. Frenchy Cannoli brings old-world temple-ball craft to california bubble.
🔥 comphashon & soilgrown:
2006, ICmag user Chadwick Basstardo posts “cannabis rosin,” heating hash so oil sweats out & naming the idea. @ExtractArtist coins solventless in ~2010.
2015, Phil “Soilgrown” Salazar presses hash in a hair straightener, dabs the sap & rosin tech explodes solventless oil from heat & pressure that every garage can make.
🏛️ today’s solventless era:
live rosin, hash holes & hash bars sit on 150 yrs of american hash evolution. from hasheesh candy to bubble bags to flat irons, each era turned imported bricks into homegrown craft.
– @NuggNotes 🪴
She’s a Brick…House: How Mexico Built America’s Weed Habit 🇲🇽
🧱 What Is Brick Weed? Sun-grown, dried weed was bulk-packed: pressed, & often gas-soaked to mask the smell Slang included: Schwag, Dirt weed, Headache weed, Brown frown, Reggie/Regs, Ditch weed, Bobby Brown, Boogity brown, Stress, & Caracas.
⚠️ Brittle & Brown: Hydraulic compression wrecked the plant—trichomes crushed, terps gone. What hit the U.S. was dry, brown-green, packed with seeds & stems. Tested at just 5–10% THC, it tasted harsh—but it MOVED.
🚚 Smuggling Never Slept: As demand grew, cartels adapted—using trap cars w hidden compartments, semi-trucks, cargo, & Pacific boat runs. Bricks moved deep via trucks, trains, tunnels, & fruit crates, flooding through CA, TX, & AZ with loads in the 1000’s of pounds. 60% of U.S.-Mexico border traffic occurred through the San Ysidro border.
🇲🇽 Why Mexico?
1.Proximity to U.S.
2.Recycled Prohibition-era smuggling routes
3.Minimal U.S. supply (harsh laws + crackdowns)
4.Perfect grow climate = year-round harvests
📈 Built for Scale: Massive outdoor grows, cheap labor, cartel control—Mexico ran the weed trade like an industry. In the 1970s–80s, it supplied up to 95% of the U.S. market, with wholesale prices at the border as low as $30–$40 per kilogram.
💸 Cheap & Plentiful: At its peak, an ounce of brick sold for just $60—about $500 in today’s money. By the 2000s, prices rose amid rising domestic sinsemilla & Colombian imports, reaching $1,000–$1,500 per pound in the Northeast. Still, for millions, price > quality. Bricks fed the bowl.
🔁 Always in Stock: Mexico’s climate allowed continuous harvests. While U.S. growers battled seasons, Mexican cartels kept shelves full, operating like corporate distributors.
📉 The Fall Begins: By the mid-2000s, brick weed’s grip had slipped to 30–40% of the market. As states like Ca & Colorado legalized, seizures plummeted 98% from 2014 to 2023—from 2.4M to just 61K pounds annually.
Today, it’s under 5% of the market, lingering in non-legal states for $20–$40 an oz.
🌀 Full-Circle Irony Now?: Top-shelf Cali indoor gets smuggled into Mexico for wealthy buyers. The old supplier has become the customer—while the brick fades into cannabis folklore.
- nugg|notes🪴
Nikka T retweeted
Nikka Time:
Nick Tanem - aka Nikka T @ExtractArtist - talks California roots, his solventless odyssey, life on the road as a globally sought-after DJ & competition judge + his role in the teaching & evolution of the #Ganjier Program. Good Pizzza Podcast
youtube.com/watch?v=e_mt2WiU…
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Stardawg Conductor bred by @GeneOM_Alchemy & seeds gifted by @ExtractArtist ( Nikka ) 1 pheno out of 7. Corey Stardawg x Conductor
Conductor = Bubba Diagonal x Fantasia x Plat. Tesla.
Fantasia = Kurple fantasy x Plat. Tesla
Plat. Tesla = Plat. Cookies x FLO x Face Off OG bx1
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Results are in from Elite Meet in St. Louis! Included @WaterBoyz710 & @ExtractArtist as Judges!
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Nikka T retweeted
@ExtractArtist Papaya cut should be the first one done outta the @homemadehashco green house 👀
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Back to School:
#Ganjier instructors @kevinjodrey420, @ExtractArtist, @SwamiSelect & Derek Gilman greet students from across the nation & the world (Brazil, UK, Netherlands) at our #Humboldt campus on the 1st day of canna assessment & service training. Ganjier.com
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New drops hittin shelves throughout New Jersey!!! Check out the Triple OG 2g buckets!!!
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EAST COAST SOUR DIESEL
ECSD BX dropping soon...
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Papaya (@ExtractArtist cut) & Papaya Pie going in the freezer! Smells like the fruit aisle and acetone🍋🟩🍑🌴🍍🥭