With a centrifuge you can use tubes with a fritted disk which allows the separation of liquids from crystals(terpenes and THC).
https://www.vikinglabsupply.com/product/fritted-separation-tubes-50ml-35ml-15ml-/1348
https://www.vikinglabsupply.com/product/viking-glassworx-6-site-centrifuge-4-000rpm/927
They also have a heated centrifuge which I would wager goes quicker, but seems like it could lead to terpene evaporation.
Separation allows you to preserve the terpenes without decarboxylating them at all.
Do terps have an acidic base to burn off?
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It’s not entirely about taste. It improves color and viscosity with a higher balance of terpenes. You can also reduce the THC present to increase your terpene ratio by not reintroducing a portion of the D9-THC. Color often equates to marketability so it’s worth preserving a good gold or yellow color.
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Terpenes evaporate as low as 80°F for some of them. Why not evaporate none of them and get the most “live” experience you can?
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It’s a fun experiment for sure but at the end of the day I didn’t see enough of a change to deviate from my normal carting methods but as I’ve said before I’ll never stop someone from experimenting
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That starts to beg the question of how fresh or live or true the strain is when you start separating fractions and reintroducing them together. One could argue that the analytics of the end product differ between the two methods (centrifuging vs pressurized decarb) given all factors are accounted for.
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Okay but if you send 10 samples from the same batch to the same lab you will get 10 different results so that argument dosage really make sense, if you want to smoke the closest representative to the flower then just smoke the flower (which would also give you 10 different results if tested
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Distilled rosin reintroduction of terps
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Yoooo shoutout montana! Didn’t expect to see another one on here.
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You don’t appear to have fritted disks?
There’s a few people from Montana on here actually. Im only right across the panhandle, maybe 2 hours from the state idaho/Montana state line.
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what’s the method for decarbing the thca on its own to avoid jar tek for carts? temps, container, etc???
press the hte through a finer mesh bag, leaving the thca behind
160f straight on through with about 1/3 to a bit more than 1/4 headroom, usually with jar tek you goose it to like 225f a bit for the start just for it to get going and then keep it sub-decarb temps but keeping it at 160f and offgassing it frequently so pressure doesn’t build will get you where you want to be
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