So I’ve been making carts from shatter and crumble for years. I would winterize, decarb under vacuum while purging ethanol, decarb hot and long under vacuum to preserve color. Didn’t care if I stripped terps. Reintroduce 5-6% hemp or cannabis terps.
People loved those carts
Started buying live resin from a friend. I explained what I was going to do, requested fairly low terp live which he sent.
I have a vacuum pressure vessel which I decarb the live resin in. Add the live resin, pull vacuum (don’t have nitrogen yet), decarb and fill carts. Did two batches, neither was fully 100% decarbed, but mostly decarbed. The batch of gdp has enough thca it will slightly recrystallize at a low temp of like 69’f, melts down with higher ambient temps of 85’f+
I’ve sold quite a few and I’ve started getting reports of them being harsh and having more throat burn and irritation then the shatter carts. I found one of my old shatter carts and I have to say they’re right. They were much smoother with no throat irritation. They still get you high, just more harsh and not as smooth as the shatter carts.
So now my question is what gives? How do I smooth out this live resin? I have a new batch ready to process for carts. I sat the shatter carts and a live cart in the sun, let them get hot, they had very similar viscosity. Is it the thca? Is it because the live resin isn’t fully decarbed?
Here’s photos of the live before, and filled carts. One is cloudier, that’s the gdp that wasn’t decarbed as much
I’d say its terp content. Most of my extract cannot be carted with its as extracted thca to terp ratio without nose burn. Gotta spin off some of the HTE to get the proportions right…
That terp tickle sucks! There’s a few companies here in Oregon that are regularly guilty of having too terpy of carts. Great terps, just way too high of concentrations.
I use the LD3. In the beginning…we found the LD3…So that’s what ive used. We originally found the tubes with fritted filter in 50ml size…so it was an easy choice.
Yes I used the ld3 from eBay and bought the tubes from Ypsilanti
Then bought some paper tubes(.2micronz) a hundred pack from Amazon, and the terps didn’t flow