Definitely looks like salad to me. Could also be called “Mixed Greens,” as we have labeled it in the lab. We usually send that stuff to the fuge(s) for THCa production for various other products we make for a number of different brands (both in-house and white labeled).
As a processor in Oregon, I can absolutely attest that strain blending is something that can be done in a number of ways, for a number of reasons, and we practice this regularly, though with much more intention and finesse. I cannot explain why these processors have chosen to do what they did, but I can say that multiple small batches cannot be legally tested as one unless they have been homogenized.
You can call something anything you want when it is sent out the door (legally), though, and they may have renamed the single batch as it went out the door to reflect only individual inputs, not the homogenous mixture. We generally rename our blends, but the COA for our products show both the new name as well as the strains that went into it (with the exception being that we haven’t come up with a good name before we have had it tested. In that case, we have the strains listed that compose the (homogenous) product). We also use a better testing lab. Haha.
If you’re gonna blend, at least be creative about it! We wil often have single strain batches (multiple runs) of up to 600 kilos of biomass. Too hard for the sales team to try and push 50 kilos of single strain extract in a reasonable period of time, so creative and intentional blending becomes the name of the game. Alternatively, if we have some smaller batches (less than 2 kilos), it makes sense to bolster that batch’s weight with a complimentary flavor profile to not let testing costs be passed back to the retail consumer.
Bluemosa Muffin, Apple Jack Herer, Champagne Mojito, Gary Berry, Tropicana Banana, (Wingardium) Lemimosa, and Thunderclapple Fritter are just a few of the ones we put out in the last few months. If pollen chuckers get to make up names for F1 phenos, we should get to have fun naming things too! Haha.
@brocman, welcome to the community! The COA provided is incomplete, and I would be curious to see the rest of it. Sorry you are feeling swindled by processors in the rec market here. I assure you that we conduct outselves with integerity and transperency, and not everyone is trying to lie to you just to make a quick buck. The COA has some wonky stuff going on with the classification, and it writing over itself is odd, too. Concentrates (in Oregon) are either solventless or extracted with ethanol. Extracts are produced with hydrocarbons. One does not generally mix the two, and if that is done for any reason, it is considered a combined category.
The low potency and very high percentage of D9 leads me to believe that this was either very old material that had been stored poorly and/or they somehow cooked it during incubation/purge. Which one or both it is, I cannot say. Whether they are misrepresenting their actual product(s) or not, I cannot say either. I understand completely why you are suspect of their products.
Anyway, my apologies for the long response, but I wanted to clarify some things to ensure our name isn’t dragged through the mud along with Rip City Dabs.
