If you’ve ever been curious about concentrates, you’re not alone. Though small, these bad boys are potent. Concentrates are pretty much the cannabis plant, with just the terpenes and cannabinoids. It’s basically everything people want in the plant. It’s something that people with higher tolerances go towards since less is more with it.
Concentrates that have different consistencies and methods of extraction that offer various components. Crumble, Shatter, sauce, live resin, and budder are all different kinds, but they utilize various methods of extraction, and there are different ways to do this. Concentrates get made with solvents involved, or without solvents. Here are some of the most common methods of cannabis extraction for concentrates.
BHO
This stands for butane has oil, since butane issued to create this. Many concentrates get made with this, and there are different extraction methods including closed loop, open blasting, and is something that helps load up your plant and then gets a butane blast. Open blasting is basically where plant material gets loaded, then butane blasts this. It’s dangerous, but it offers a very high potency.
Usually, closed-loop systems are used, since this makes sure that it doesn’t get dangerous or hurt others. This kind of extraction also may be used to strip the other compounds, leaving just terpenes and cannabinoids. Typically, people use this too since less leftovers.
DME
Dimethyl ether extraction is another popular one, and it’s favored due to the fast time for evaporation. It changes your atoms, so it is the same molecular weight, but is different. It’s like using liquid ethanol, which makes it manageable, but it’s also a bit more polar, which means that you’re getting higher cannabinoids and terpenes than a typical BHO extraction.
Supercritical CO2
This is another popular one, since it uses CO2, which is another naturally happening solvent. It’s something that’s natural, and it’s something that has a decades-old method for extraction, commonly used in perfumes and also the making of essential oils.
This is called this because it serrates each different part from one and the other, using a solvent, the solvent is something that’s exposed to critical pressure and temperatures, and the structures end up fluctuating from different states. It breaks down structures, helping to separate and fraction them. the quality of this is dependent on where it gets derived, and many concentrates also indicate the material starting, and these are typically seen in live resin, trim run and nug run
Trim rum is where the concentrates are done as a trim from the harvested plant, specifically the kief and sugar leaves. They’re not big, but the small ones. They’re used more than fan leaves cause of the trichomes, and it is less concentrated and less potent. It’s good for distillate products.
Nug run is concentrates made from nugs that are grown to be extracted. Some like to use the buds that are smaller or mids. This may also involve whole colas and the plant itself. This is usually considered better in quality than the trim versions, and it’s made for those with specific profiles.
Live Resin
Finally, these is plant concentrates made from those that are flash-frozen, and this preserves the terpenes. Then, it’s cured and dried with a major effect on these terpenes, and it is something that’s good if you don’t want a solvent, but also are willing to have a concentrate with much lower levels.
Again, this is all up to you, and there are tons of variants of concentrates for you to choose from, and those that are great to use too.
