I’m trying to figure out the functional difference between making Ethanol THC Distillate to put into pens, and just using the THC Diamonds for the pens.
Does that Ethanol THC Distillate have qualities that make it better for carts than THC Diamonds?
What about adding the terp sauce back into the carts like I see some people recommending, wouldn’t it have fats/lipids/etc. in it that would not be desirable in carts?
Distillate is a viscous oil at room temp, diamonds are a solid. There is a thread here where someone decarbed diamonds into an off yellow oil, which in theory could be used for carts. If you have ever had a real hte sauce pen you’ll notice that toward the end the little diamonds cake up and you’ll never smoke them. Also what’s the point of diamonds if you intend to liquify it?
Super wasteful to put diamonds in a cart IMO. Diamonds are more costly because you’re going so ridiculously far out of your way to keep it THCa. If you need it decarbed to THC anyway, no point in not using a more efficient method like distillation to get there at a fraction (no pun intended) of the cost
Love the fraction double use. Lol
More often then not when making diamonds you run so cold that fats lipids dont get picked up. So therefore the hte would have minimal if any fats or lipids.
pens made with diamonds, and HTE added back vs pens made with hot dog water & trueterpenes for taste?
edit: not knocking anyone’s distilate…but that stuff used to be for only the worst of material…
Might as well just run propane and put the sap in a pen.
Pulling diamonds and seperating terps. To melt diamonds and add back terps is counterintuitive
While we are on this, @lefties.cannabis and I are trying to figure out a way flavor distillate pens with new Washington state regulations. “Cannabis derived terpenes” only. Lefties wants to (or already has started to) use HTE to flavor his pens. I was under the impression that the HTE sauce will eventually crystalize and clog.
Anyone have experience doing this?
All about ratios. You can go 30:70 to 50:50 depending on your hte color and viscosity, and you’ll get some nucleation but not enough to stop a decent cart like a good ccell with an appropriate apature. After a crash cycle the thca should reduce significantly to a level where it shouldn’t be a huge issue, but on those strains that just won’t crash you may have a problem using the hte layer. I have one of these at home, if I remember I’ll try to snap a photo of the little shards floating around the bottom of the c cell.
I was actually thinking to start with 10%. I am planning to pick up samples for testing tomorrow
Better off using the terp sauce, after making sure there isn’t going to be anymore THCA crashing out. Keep in mind this isn’t as simple as you think. Centrifugal force is your friend in this scenario.
If it flows, it goes. I just find that real terps are a little slow flowing at lower ratios.
Here’s a couple month old sample someone gave me. I’m not sure of the ratio. It’s sat on my dresser since I got it. Note the small crystal bits that formed.
You know damn well that pun was intended and well said I might add!
Would it not be less work taking an isolate and decarbing and reintroduce terpenes. Also wouldn’t it be more cost efficient. Wouldn’t it be more wasteful to turn crude to disty and lose terps and cannabinoids. You can get a HTE using crc. You just have to get the cannabinoids to drop in the powder. Then run butane to pick up the cannabinoids in your crc and that’ll spit out isolate. Take isolate put in pressure cooker and decarb
