Honestly if it’s live resin I’d definitely centrifuge it. Separate the terps from the THCA and then decarb the raw THCA with no lid on it so the co2 can be released completely. And when I say co2 I mean natural co2 derived from the plant. Not the bho. Hope this helps. Once your THCA is decarbed re introduce your terps.
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i decarb in another vessel, and pour into jars to let cool, leave the lid cracked and then seal them
that would be my ideal sop but I’m working with what the investor has already put into the lab, sadly he won’t spring for a centrifuge at the moment even though it would help in multiple areas of production and post processing 
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Has anyone centrifuged hash rosin with success? Im thinking about buying a LS550. I ran a centrifuge with my friend who has bee hives on his land and it was really neat. Most hash rosin is cold cured/badder so my main concern is if badder can be centrifuged. I know the THCA will be like sand but I’m scared the terp layer would be opaque or too waxy… not sure 
I’m curious because I really don’t want to decarb in sealed jars anymore or use a diamond miner/vaccum pump. I’d much rather just decarb my THCA on a mag stir at 250-300F and then add the terps back in. Because that would 100% ensure that my rosin wouldn’t crash back out into diamonds in the carts. 
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Tons of times. Play with it. But the carts you want aren’t separated. I don’t think it’ll work the way you want it to though.
Solventless diamond cart (not the ol jam cart thing).
At this point I can even make rosin work in traditional carts with smaller intake holes. Tested it on a shit ton of disposables the last few weeks.
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That looks great! Look at that terp layer🤯 yeah I mean the sealed decarb is the easiest way I just feel like it would be much more efficient if I could decarb the THCA by itself at a much higher temp on a open beaker to release all of the co2 and ensure atleast 80-90% of my THCA is decarbed. Why exactly do you think this wouldn’t work out? I kinda figured it wouldn’t work out either just because of the consistency?
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Thank you very much! I appreciate that a lot!
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Taste burnt even if I where to decarb at a lower temp?
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I mean if you were thinking about 'fuging the terps out and adding it to some sort of cart mix it would likely turn out too potent. Decarb should not have an effect on the end taste very much when you make it with fire FF
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Not necessarily a cart mix… I wouldn’t add the terps to dist or anything like that. I’d just reintroduce the terps back into the decarbed thca.
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Why take it out though if you’re just going to put it back?
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Because my terps wouldn’t ever be exposed to heat during the decarb aside from the temp it reaches when it comes off the press.
And because with a sealed mason jar decarb it’s damn near impossible to release the co2 bubbles without taking the lid off or using a mag stir. I decarb some mac1 90-120u for 6-7 hours at probably 185 internal temp… and there was hardly any bubbles rising so I pulled it but as soon as I took the lid off and poured it into my cf50 it foamed up with a lot of co2 being released. I know you can use a diamond miner and release the pressure every hour or so but I still don’t think that would get all the co2 out correct me if I’m wrong tho definitely have open ears.
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If you’re going to take it out why not use cleaner THCa than what comes from rosin when you put it back in?
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I’m on the same level there with that line of thought
If you’re asking me overexposure to environment is worse than heat any day of the week. You’re gonna take that nice THCA blankey away from it?
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Really not a bad idea, if the THCA from bho diamonds are solvent free maybe? Just wouldn’t want to ruin the whole SHO idea. I feel like some solvents get trapped in diamonds but only with rookie work.
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If it’s a powder you can’t have trapped anything. Kinda along the lines of my other thread honestly. I’d argue similarly rosin sauce is what makes rosin rosin. The fatty THCa is a byproduct in a sense. A wonderful byproduct, but irrelevant to the profile and potentially detrimental to end product.
What if the THCa was grown with enzymes. Wouldn’t that be solventless by true definition if we want to be extra heady. 
Not trying to be a prick.
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Yeah I guess the decarb would boil out all the solvents anyway if they where to exist. especially if it’s at 250F for hours🧐 and I could still have the hashinene terpene profile to add to it…. Interesting
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Did anyone ever decide what was making some decarbed isolate turn opaque after decarboxylation? I think I’m going to have to send some of this in for testing if no one came to any conclusions.
I know it’s not terps, and though I haven’t completed testing at this point I’d say with a fair amount of certainty decarboxylation has completed as no more bubbles form at 250°F even with minor agitation.
I’m going to put it under vacuum and see if it could be micro bubbles. Does anyone have a picture of poorly winterized distillate for comparison?
Edit: Vacuum, cbg at 10%, cbd at 10%, and hte at 10% all did nothing, even when all of them were combined, because fuck it, the solution continuously turned back into an opaque gel.
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Its 99% of the time the fatty fat fats, unfortunately not all isolate is isolated
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