What is Live Resin, Really?

We get asked this a lot – what’s live resin, really? Many people are familiar with distillate THC oil, which is blended in most edibles, vapes, and other oil-based products. So why is live resin special? What makes it different? To make a long story short, there are two key words: fresh frozen.

Of course, there is a lot more that goes into the live resin process. First of all, live resin is strain-specific. Regular THC oil is made from a conglomerate of biomass (typically dried shake and trim), so it can come from anything. With fresh frozen flower, though, you know exactly what you’re getting. For example, if you buy Blue Dream true live resin, that means you’re buying an extraction derived specifically from Blue Dream flower. Unfortunately, some people get away with calling something “live resin” when it’s really a cocktail mixture of distillate, diamonds, and/or live terpenes. This is why you should read the ingredients on each package, so you know what you’re buying. If the package says words like “distillate” or “live terpenes”, you’re not buying live resin.

The live resin process is special because the product is flash frozen as soon as it reaches its peak trichome maturity in the harvest. This preserves the delicate terpenes up to 40% more than when biomass or cured flower are used. The live resin process also prevents quality degradation while keeping the natural aroma and flavor profile of the strain, whereas these components are burned off in regular THC oil processes. Flash freezing flower eliminates the risk of mold or mildew that can gather in drying biomass processes.

Now to get extra technical, there are other important parts of the live resin process for you to know. Live resin also uses a chemical solvent extraction method under sub-zero temperatures through specialized equipment (basically, don’t try this at home). It’s a closed loop system keeping the solvent extremely cold. The extractor technicians then separate the solvent from isolated cannabinoids and terpenes. After that, it’s placed in a specialized vacuum and gently warmed. Since it’s such a low temperature, it safely evaporates and removes the remaining chemical solvents without losing the sensitive terpene profile. Hence, the live resin product actually tastes like the strain of flower it comes from!

Now you may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with Holiday? Aren’t you just another Oklahoma brand? Au contraire, my fellow smoker! Holiday’s whole goal is to offer premium, medicinal, and excellent quality cannabis experiences to our patients. That’s why we work closely with our source producers and extractors to ensure quality-is-as-quality-does. Although we’ve frequently heard the phrase, “I want the highest THC for the lowest cost possible,” we don’t cater to that misinformation. Too many companies have gotten in trouble for adding unnecessary materials to their product or testing samples for higher numbers. They’re trying to “say” they’re offering higher THC to patients, but it’s really a farce. So instead, what you see is what you get with us.

Also, Holiday’s main source extractors use a specific process, which increases the terps in our products. The technicians implement a quicker freeze, which not only provides higher terpenes in the live resin, it offers a better taste, effect, and viscous rate. Their high-grade system utilizes a more advanced sifting process to provide less fat, waxes, and lipids in the final product. This is one of the many reasons Holiday’s live resin disposables taste so smooth and clean.

Have I lost you in the trenches of information, yet? I hope not because this type of information can help you when it comes to buying live resin. My goal is to not only help you learn more Holiday information, I want you to know more about any live resin product. Since cannabis can help people in a variety of ways, it works best if you know how to find what works for you.

Two other reasons Holiday’s 2g Premium Live Resin Disposables stand out are (a) our specially-designed BOLD hardware is primed for live resin, and (b) we prioritize consistency. Our disposable hardware includes adjusted voltage for different temperatures. With different temperatures, you can change the taste, aroma, and smoothness of the live resin hit. PLUS, we even have an on/off button! Have you bought a disposable and wanted to keep the battery charged when you’re not using it? Or have you ever been worried about someone pulling on the unit, who you didn’t want to smoke it? The on/off button helps with all of that.

Another advantage of our BOLD hardware is the large and clear window. We’re not like Forrest Gump’s mother with this one – we want to make sure you DO know what you’re going to get. The window lets you see the quality of Holiday’s source. True live resin often has an amber appearance (with a variety of shades, depending on the strain and fresh frozen timeline) and a thick viscous texture. If you buy a supposed “live resin” product that flows like water, it’s not true live resin. That typically means the source has been diluted with other mixtures, meaning it’s not the fresh material you want to smoke.

What’s another way Holiday’s hardware is consistent? The fact that BOLD's aperture is primed for live resin is amazing because it means you can sip ours like tea. If a cartridge’s aperture isn’t compatible with live resin, you’re forced to pull it too hard. You don’t want to have to suck your device like a clogged straw. When you can lightly sip a vape, like our disposable, a little bit can go a long way. Not to mention, our units have a 2g coil for the 2g cartridge, so it smokes smoothly all the way through the entire vape without clogging or causing a gross burning taste.

As you can see, we aim for complete consistency. Holiday isn’t about fancy gadgets or lights on our devices; we focus on a premium smoking experience. Since we stay with our reliable BOLD hardware rather than hopping on the distracting gadget train, we have more than a 99.7% consistency rate through tens of thousands of sold devices with a very satisfied and loyal customer base! And for the cherry on top, we color code our devices to make it easy to remember what kind of strain you’re smoking – burnt orange for hybrid, yellow for sativa, and white for indica.

All in all, it’s important to us that you can take a Holiday, any time of day. Now that you know more about live resin, it’s time to find the product and strain that works best for you. Want to find Holiday’s Premium 2g Live Resin Disposables near you in Oklahoma? Check our easy locator [HOME | Holiday] by typing in your zip code to see which store carries our products nearby. And if you want our product in a store that doesn’t already sell Holiday (who wouldn’t want to carry us, am I right?), simply ask them to buy Holiday’s products on Leaflink. You can also contact me, Mary Lane Porter, directly at marylane@holidayoklahoma.com so I can reach out to your favorite store.

Until next time, I hope you find a better kind of break!