HOW ARE LIVE RESIN DIAMONDS MADE?

Live resin itself is created through a solvent-based extraction process.

Live resin uses fresh frozen cannabis plants as starting material to lock in the strain’s terpene content. From there, those plants are washed through a hydrocarbon solvent mixture that uses butane, ethanol, or a combination of the two to pull trichomes from the plant.

The trichomes are then processed, and purged of solvents, to give us those flavorful live resin dabs and vapes.

If you let live resin sit for several weeks, the THCA diamonds will naturally separate from the semi-viscous terp sauce. To do so manually, you apply various degrees of heat and pressure to the mixture through a closed-loop extraction system.

This process is referred to as diamond mining or recrystallization. Different degrees of heat and pressure dictate the size of the THCA diamonds.

The most important thing here is making sure that the diamonds are properly purged of residual solvents so that they are safe to consume for the end user.