I’m working on a thca product line for Devin the dude, I previously operated cbd flower company at the cusp of all the d8 and other cbd derived cannabinoids, however I’m trying to get up to speed on thca products.
My initial thought was that companies were just using hemp derived d9 conversion liters for these pens but when I look at coas they’re all hitting for thca. Is there some tech for making a liquid thca without decarbing to d9 or are these companies just freaking the labs ?
Interested to hear how companies are producing these pens to be compliant without fudging labs.
There’s also a tech where you deprotonate THCa with a base which supposedly makes it crystal resistant. You would be able to make a much more potent product this way. But I don’t think this is how most THCa vapes are formulated.
I’m hearing people are actually using Thca isolate and dissolving in terps and low viscosity cannabnoids and heating at 90 degrees to get it to melt down but keeping Thca from decarbing, seems like it would crash out after a while this way but first inclination is you’re right all the labs are being freaked to Thca haha so if/when dea takes down these businesses they’re all fucked? Or they just play dumb and slap on the wrist ? Just seems so rampant and well funded of an industry to be playing these games
I know the product we’re using to fill is a low temp thca blend mixed with D8. Some companies use crystalline resistant CBD. But as others pointed out most companies are probably just using D9 or maybe D9 mixed with some HTE or something.
If you go even remotely too high on the THCA % though it definitely starts to crash out. Anywhere from just a cloudy opaque look to actually seeing crystalline structures forming.
If anyone else has a better solution (that isn’t honeygold trying to sell a “thca ditillate” for 4k a liter I’m all ears.
What’s the top end on Thca you can introduce? I use to use cbt in my cbd vapes, I’d like to avoid D8 so we don’t have to limit sales to half the country. Our main market will be in Texas so I guess it’s not the end of the world but ideally we don’t have to have a ton of skus and i personally not a fan of d8.
Also are you having to homogenize the Thca into the solution to dissolve or is low temp mixing suitable ? Seeing alot of these -o cannabnoids and they seem to be in the lower viscosity side, coas im seeing hitting thcv too. Guessing these terp liquidizers are being tossed in also but ideally we could avoid. The highest Thca labs I saw without huge amounts of d8 were around 65%