CBD Isolate Powder + Distillate = Good/Bad?

CannaBusiness
#1

I plan on making some cart samples for myself soon as I enjoy dabbing CBD Isolate. I didn’t know what else to mix it with to put into a cart that would last me a little while, so I ended up going towards the distillate route.

The question I had was, does anyone have experience doing this in a way that’s enjoyable to them? I just planned on doing 10% Botanical Terpenes (for the taste), 10% CBD Isolate, 80% Distillate. Im worried that the CBD Isolate would crystallize too much in the cart for it to even pull, so im sticking around 10% but if im wrong please do correct me.

In the end, I just want this to be actually “useable” and not just a waste of my time trying to make my on-the-go CBD Isolate/Distillate Cart. Thank you!

#2

I make 4:1 CBD:THC spiking isolate to distillate and have no problems with crystallization.

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#3

Do you also get little crystals that do form at the bottom / around the walls of the cartidge?

#4

Ours is strictly for edibles but there is no crystallization over multiple weeks of storage.

#5

10% CBD isolate and 80% THC disty? That’s not enough CBD to crash out, so you’re fine.

If you’re talking 10% CBD isolate and 80% CBD disty you’re almost definitely going to see crystallization in your carts.

10% terps is probably too much. I like 5-6%

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#6

For the Isolate to crash out within the cart, would it do any “harm” to the cart? As in clog it / make it unuseable? In the past I’ve ran into this problem where my isolate has crashed out inside of a cart, but to the point where the cart was essentially clogged.

Im trying to figure out the ratio of CBD Isolate : THC Distillate , that would keep it from crashing out.

#7

Just try 1:1 and go up and down from there. If you have 5 empty carts you can r&d enough ratios to figure it out

Is you goal here to vape CBD or THC?

#8

Mainly THC, I just want to add the CBD Isolate so it has little diamonds forming in the cartidge

#9

You want the carts to have crystals in them? Or you want to add CBD to a cart and not have it crystalize?

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#10

My bad im not being clear with what I want, yes I do want the crystals to form in the cartidge.

#11

The crystals won’t move into the cartridge wick, then all the people will be mad about all the weed they paid for but didn’t get.

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#12

Is it exposed to air at all?

#13

Yep. We don’t backfill our media bottles.

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#14

And zero terpene content in it as well correct? Im confused what could be causing the cbd not to crash

#15

No terps.

It’s a decent spectrum of noids ~90% TAC in the starting distillate. I just mix in the isolate and leave in a 90 C oven until it melts, toss it in the overhead mixer for an hour to homogenize, pour and cap.

#16

And to confirm you’re using 99.9% isolate? I would love to explore this further; if there is something at play that is counteracting crashing that could be huge. Any chance you ever got a COA for the final solution or for the distillate?

#17

I operate licensed in Mass, and we are required to use MDAR licensed isolate. I do recall the labs for the mix came back with a small amount of CBDA if that could be stabilizing it.