Large scale cannabis oil blending troubles

Hello all,

Do any of you have difficulties hitting your concentration target when blending large scale? We’ve been mixing 10kg worth of oil in a batch, using an emulsifier and shaker but find we’re always higher than our target concentration (30mg/g is more like 35mg/g).

Any suggestions would be appreciated :slight_smile:

What type of product are you making?

Full spectrum oil. And the legal limit is 30mg/g. We even reworked our other oil, blending one that was at 24mg/g and another at 34mg/g, to give us a product at 35mg/g! How is that even possible?!

Vaporization of lower boiling point compounds during preparation perhaps?

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The distillate was purchased from another LP, and we diluted it to a working concentration, and then to a bottling concentration.

We have a theory that it could be over saturated, and that upon making bottling concentration that the THC/CBD’s are coming out of solution. But there are no particulates present

This is a bit far fetched of an idea, but maybe you’re losing enough of your diluent to transfer loss that it is affecting your overall potency. Like a mm film of diluent that never mixes with the cannabinoids, which can happen in improperly sized mixing equipment.