What’s the difference between Live Resin and Live Rosin?

The extraction/separation process. 

It’s important to note that trichomes which we extract, are shaped kind of like a mushroom, with a stalk and a head; and those trichome heads contain the most flavorful and cannabinoid-dense parts of the plant.

Live Rosin

Live Rosin is made by

• Taking fresh, flash-frozen plant material, putting it into different sized micron filter bags ranging from 25u-180u stacked on top of one another over a container
• Filling the container the bags are in with ice and water
• Hand-stirring the plant material with a paddle until we’re able agitate the trichomes off the stalk of the plant and filter out all other plant material
• Finally, Once we’ve filtered all the different sizes of trichome heads we’ll take the residual material (often referred to as bubble hash), let it dry, and then apply low pressure and heat until we’re able to extract the live rosin 

This is by far the most labor intensive extraction method, but in our humble opinion, Live Rosin is the epitome of Extracts, and that’s because it retains all the good stuff like cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids and no residual solvents like butane or propane. 

Live Resin

Live Resin is made by

• Chemical or what we call ‘solvent’ extractions (most commonly done with medical grade butane or propane)
• This process involves taking fresh frozen plants, and packing them into a column where medical grade N-butane is then “blasted” into the top of column to soak the fresh frozen material.
• Blasting the plants helps pull off all of the heads, stalks and other resin glands from the plant, resulting in a solution of butane, terpenes and cannabinoids.
• In our process we use extremely low temperatures throughout, and find that this filters out a lot of those waxes and lipids while still leaving some of the most tasty ones in your concentrate.

All of our hydrocarbon products are extracted with the same method but are put through different finishing processes based on the desired consistency (which also affects yields)

The term “Finishing process” refers to removing the butane or other chemicals from this solution.

Types of Live Resin Products/Finishing methods

We focus on Live Resin Sauce, Live Resin Sugar, and Live Resin Badder. As stated, each of these three consistencies are extracted with the same process but finished slightly differently. So what’s that process? 

The Live Badder finishing process is where the concentrate is whipped like a cake or brownie batter to evaporate all those residual chemicals and give you a blended wet and creamy texture. 

Our Live Resin Sauce and Sugar take a bit more time to create. With a similar concept as our live rosin Sauce, these extracts sit over time under pressure to allow crystals to form and terpenes to separate from the cannabinoid crystallizations. 

For our Live Sugar  finishing process we make micro crystals and never separate the terpenes out, which creates a wet-sand type texture.

For our Sauce finishing process, we create those big crystals that look like diamonds by allowing them to grow large under heat and pressure in a vacuum oven. Depending on the cultivar and batch these diamonds can take up to 8 weeks to grow, while some only take 4 weeks.