Hi everyone,
Longtime lurker with very few posts on here, usually the search button does me right but it isn’t this time. Have met and worked with some incredible heads on here and hoping for some more luck!
I am the products manager for a medium sized single source grow facility with an extraction lab. New goal from above is flavored carts/disposables.
The setup is that we currently run -80C BHO with minimal (1-3%by weight) clay filtration. Material is slow cured and hand trimmed then frozen, so its super cold and super clean and comes out in the low to mid 90%s THC. It is delicious and beautiful and we sell a ton as dabs just like it is. For carts we spin off the HTE and cook down the isolate then remix them together to make amazing tasting carts that are flying off the shelves. Each strain tastes unique and like the parent material, and many say it is the best true weed tasting cart on the market. We have a lot of material to use so cutting anything with hot dog water disty doesn’t make any sense - when we try out competitor’s carts it sure seems like they must be cutting with something that doesn’t taste very good!
For the new flavored sku’s, we will be starting very low on the added flavors and trying to pair added flavors with strain specific native terpenes to create an awesome vaping experience - rather than overpowering the flower flavor in the carts we want to compliment it.
My questions for the hive mind are this, is anyone else doing it this way? Do you have a recommendation for sourcing the best tasting and quality and healthiest options for flavors? Do you have a market tested flavor list by demand? I still smoke slow cured and properly aged flower joints so the flavored cart world is a bit foreign to me.
Super interested in experiences, opinions, and will be happy to throw down some coin for the right SOP.
Thank you and Much Love!
MAC