Types of Concentrates

 

Kief or Sift:

What is Kief?

Kief, also known as sift, is the most basic of the THC concentrates. It is a golden powder-like substance that is left behind after bud is finely grinded up and all that is left are the cannabis flower’s trichomes.

What does kief look like?

Kief has a green-goldish color.

How to Make Kief

If you own a grinder with a screen and small reservoir at the bottom, known as a kief catcher, you are probably familiar with this type of concentrate.

Hash:

What is Hash?

Hash is usually consider hard pressed kief or compressed resin made from the bud’s trichome. There is finger hash, bubble hash and hash from the grinder. Because hash is made strictly from trichomes, it breaks apart easy and extremely sticky.

What does hash look like?

Hash has a dark brown appearance.

How to Make Hash

To make hash, THC rich trichomes are separated from the cannabis plant and condensed with high temperature and pressure. It is highly potent.

Rosin :

What is Rosin?

Rosin is a sticky substance created when heat and compression meet a bud of cannabis flower. Unlike hash which is made with just trichomes, rosin is made with the entire cannabis bud.

What does rosin look like?

Rosin has a clear, yellow-golden color like shatter but stickier with more viscosity.

How to Make Rosin

It’s as easy as this:

1. Put a nug folded up inside a piece of parchment paper

2. Press it in between two hot plates of a hair straightener for 3-5 minutes or until rosin sticks to the parchment paper

3. After it cools down, use a dab tool to scrape it off and smoke.

Live Resin:

What is Live Resin?

Live resins is a sticky wax-like concentrates that has more intense terpene flavors and smells compared to other marijuana concentrates. The THC or CBD content can range from 80% to 90%, that high.

This is because live resins are created from entire plants that are cryogenically frozen right after harvest perservings all terpenes that usually lost during the drying and extraction process.

Weed Wax:

What is Weed Wax?

Weed wax is a common word that categorizes certain types of cannabis concentrates that have a sticky, wax like textures. As the name suggests, wax concentrates resemble the texture of candle wax.

However, wax is a very broad term when it comes to the actual types of wax available to dab or smoke. Wax is used to describe shatter, crumble, honeycomb, budder and more.

What does weed wax look like?

Shatter Wax:

What is Shatter Wax?

Shatter is a solid but sticky cannabis concentrate. It typically shatters into pieces when you go to pick up a dab.

Shatter is one of the most recognized concentrates, is easy to manipulate and is far less messy than other varieties of concentrates or extracts.

What does Shatter look like?

Shatter wax resembles a honey-colored glass shard or like a hard candy jolly rancher.

As recreational marijuana is legalized in some states of US people have become aware of the different types of concentrates. You can visit your nearby dispensaries in Dillon Colorado to look out for different types of concentrates.