What Are Live Resin Terpenes?

Curious about live resin terpenes and what makes them a cut above the rest?

You’ve come to the right place.

Live resin is a cannabis concentrate made from fresh, frozen cannabis plants rather than the traditional dried and cured buds.

The freezing is done to preserve compounds inside the cannabis plant, like live resin terpenes, cannabinoids, and flavonoids. This process preserves the plant’s full aromatic profile, leading to a more flavorful product with more potent and unique effects.

Many describe live resin as feeling like a fuller high and tastier experience.

Live resin terpenes, also known as live terpenes, go beyond ordinary terpenes extracted from dried cannabis plants.

Terpenes are highly sensitive to heat, light, and oxygen, which can degrade their quality during the typical drying, curing, and packaging processes of cannabis plants. This gradual degradation affects the plant’s aromatic and chemical profile, which inevitably impacts the effects that you feel.

Live resin terpenes are harvested from cannabis plants that are immediately flash-frozen at their peak freshness. This method preserves the plant’s compounds, including cannabinoids like THC and CBD, and maintains the exact terpene profile present at the time of harvest.

This can be important since terpenes have a large role in the way cannabis tastes and makes you feel. And, since live resin terpenes are fresher, you can expect your live resin products to better replicate the effects, smell and taste of the bud at the time it was harvested.

Live terpenes work just like regular terpenes but with extra freshness and potency. Produced in the plant’s trichomes, where THC and CBD are also created, these volatile compounds evaporate easily, releasing their unique aromas into the air.

But terpenes offer more than just enticing scents. They interact with your endocannabinoid system, binding to CB1 and CB2 receptors, influencing mood, stress, pain, and inflammation. Working alongside THC and CBD, terpenes enhance your high, creating the entourage effect—a synergy that amplifies the overall experience.

So, when you enjoy live resin terpenes, you’re experiencing fresher terpenes that provide a more potent, pure, and balanced high, true to the plant’s essence.

The live resin terpene extraction starts with flash-freezing fresh cannabis plants immediately after harvest, which is typically done using liquid nitrogen or dry ice. This keeps the terpenes at peak freshness.

The frozen plant material is then finely ground and combined with solvents like butane, propane, or ethanol under high pressure and low temperatures.

This careful balance of pressure and temperature dissolves the cannabinoids and terpenes from the plant, forming a rich liquid solution. The solution is then meticulously filtered and purged to remove any remaining solvents and impurities, resulting in a highly potent and pure extract.

A terpene and cannabinoid blend retaining the full spectrum of the plant’s essence is the final result.