California dabbers are in for an annual hash treat that will make them sing, “Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches.”
San Francisco’s solventless royalty, Fire King, recently debuted some coveted Mega Peaches live rosin, bred by Staefli Farms and grown by Neukom Family Farms from Humboldt County.
According to Jordan Watts, head hashmaker and rosin technician at Fire King, the loud, savory, sour-peach aroma of the final Mega Peaches live rosin will smack you in the face.
“It’s going to translate 100% into flavor, and that flavor lasts for a long time afterwards,” Watts said.
Here’s how it came together. Breeder Staefli Farms made Mega Peaches from Moroccan Peaches and Ilmonic. Neokom then regeneratively grew Mega Peaches outdoors in the same living soil that the farm uses to produce its famous actual-fruit peaches.
They hand-leafed, harvested and froze those buds, and sent about 100 pounds to Fire King. Making solventless since 2010, Fire King used reverse-osmosis-filtered snowmelt from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, chilled down to near-freezing, as well as two shapes of ice for the washing stage.
Watts said that the resulting cold-water extract was like “mining platinum-white gold.”
Next came a blast chiller and a freeze-drying stage that yielded a “perfectly white, reflective sheet,” according to Watts, of what looked like “salt and cookie dough completely congealed to itself.”
Fire King keeps the fresh-frozen bubble hash in this form until it’s time to heat-press it. Coming out of the heat press, Watts said that it was “bright neon yellow first, and completely translucent.”
Next, they waited for the terpenes and cannabinoids to separate, then agitated them and cold-cured the hash for three to six weeks, depending on the strain.
Watts described the high as a “true hybrid high with a lofty, old-school head feel, like, ‘Oops, I left my keys in the freezer,’ and, at the same time, the full-body melt of an LA Connie, Affi or an OG.”
Watts dabbed his on a Dr. Dabber Switch2 with as little water in it as possible. He recommends keeping the Mega Peaches live rosin in a cold, dark room, ideally refrigerated in a zip-close bag to preserve the terpenes as he hashed them.
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This article was originally published in the May 2026 issue of California Leaf.
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