Chemical Extracions

What’s the difference between Live Resin and Live Rosin? The extraction/separation process. As we stated in our explanation a few posts back on “solventless”, it is important to note that trichomes which we extract, are shaped kind of like a mushroom, with a stalk and a head. Those bulbous heads contain the most flavorful and cannabinoid-dense parts of the plant. When we extract using ice and water only we are attempting to isolate those heads by gently separating them from the stalk without the membrane bursting and therefore allowing the ’juices’ to release. Chemical or what we call ‘solvent’ extractions (most commonly done with hydrocarbons like medical grade butane or propane) strip mostly everything off of the plant including the stalks and other resin glands, as well as other lipids and plant waxes. However in our process we use extremely low temperatures throughout, and find that this filters out a lot of those waxes and lipids while still leaving some of the most tasty ones in your concentrate. Hydrocarbon extractions typically yield much higher because all the material is pulled from the plants and in turn leads to higher yields. All of our hydrocarbon products are extracted with the same method but are put through different finishing processes based on the desired consistency (which also affects yields). We focus on Live Resin Sauce, Live Resin Sugar, and Live Resin Badder. As stated, each of these three consistencies are extracted with the same process but finished slightly differently. What’s that process? The basics are that fresh frozen plants are packed into a column. Medical grade N-butane is then “blasted” into the top of column to soak the fresh frozen material. This pulls off all of the heads, stalks and other resin glands from the plant, resulting in a solution of butane, terpenes and cannabinoids. The term “Finishing process” refers to removing the butane or other chemicals from this solution. The Live Badder finishing process is whipped like a cake or brownie batter to evaporate all those residual chemicals and give you that blended wet and creamy texture. Our Live Resin Sauce and Sugar take a bit more time to create. The same concept as our solventless Persy Sauce, these extracts sit over time under pressure to allow crystals to form and terpenes to separate from the cannabinoid crystallizations. For our Live Sugar during the finishing process we make micro crystals and never separate the terpenes out, which creates a wet-sand type texture. For our Sauce finishing process, we create those big crystals that look like diamonds by allowing them to grow large under heat and pressure in a vacuum oven. Depending on the cultivar and batch these diamonds can take up to 8 weeks to grow, while some only take 4 weeks. Live Resin? This refers to a plant that was extracted while still “alive”. How is this done? We will go more in depth when we discuss our harvesting process but we did briefly touch on it in our post about Water Hash if you want a refresher. Questions...Hit us up!