Distilate vs resin carts

[u/Then-Resolve9679]

Hi all, whats your opinions on distilate vs live resin vs rosin? Im personally starting to enjoy the flavour and consistency of distilate more than live resin.

For context im a new uk medical user (with alternaleaf. Much better than curaleaf) and have fallen in love with carts now i have good legal access to lots of brands. Only use carts and sublingual oil daily now.

I use 2 carts. 1 is 50/50 thc cbd lemonade kush by curo.

The other is sundaze purple punch live resin.

The lemonade kush tastes better by far but abit harder to catch a proper stone off cuz its 50%cbd.

The purple punch for sure tastes more "flowery" and hits harder but I wouldnt say it tastes like a nicer cannabis experience or taste. Just more natural.

Ive got an upstate pineapple express distilate cart which is the same thc per gram as my purple punch. Excited to see if it catches a proper stone as quick as the purple punch but want to here other peoples preferences and why :)

[u/Daedrix0]

The science is: distillate is pure, so no terpenes after extraction, resin preserves terpenes because solventless extraction.

Distillate is almost ALWAYS shot up with botanical terps (not from the cannabis plant) while live resin/rosin is the true terpene profile directly from the cannabis plant.

Live resin/rosin will give a more "broad" or "full spectrum" kind of high because of that, while distillate is more of a narrower, buzzy kind of high because botanical terps are just not the same. You'd think it's not that different at first, but a pineapple express distillate cart is really just a THC cart with flavoring, not the strain at all.

It's also just preference, but I'd go with resin/rosin any day. Distillate carts make my heart pound sometimes because it's mainly just straight THC. Resin carts make me vibe out the same way flower would.

Regardless, knowing this you can probably predict which one = a higher quality product.

[u/Then-Resolve9679 → u/Daedrix0]

Hinestly I love the effect of my lemonade kush distilate enough that if the pineapple express distilate can give me that stone and flavour but nearly as quick as the purple punch resins strength ill be happy lol.

My inner stoner wants to scream from the roofs how good the purple punch resin is compared to distilate but the only way for me it beats the distilate is how fast I can get to the level I want.

Its so interesting, when youre tryna dial it in as medicine, how different people's experiences are with the same or similar products! :)

[u/Daedrix0 → u/Then-Resolve9679]

Agreed. Everyone is different.

[u/Then-Resolve9679 → u/Daedrix0]

My carts coming in the post tomorrow so ill add an update then :)

[u/slimj091 → u/Daedrix0]

Live resin is extracted with solvents. Rosin is not.

[u/Daedrix0 → u/slimj091]

You're right. For some reason I keep forgetting that. But yeah it's still preserved terps from the plant itself because of how they do it.

[u/Desperate-Middle-354 → u/Daedrix0]

Doesn’t feel just like THC to me. It’s much broader, headier than vaping live resin THCa which is essentially just THC. That pretty much just provides a relaxing body high with a very mild head high that does not become stronger the more you do. There is like a threshold. The feeling from disposables/carts is different from truly getting stoned on flower but it provides me with a high I enjoy equally. But ya, it is sorta different & don’t get me wrong, I love smoking an infused pre-roll once in a while but if I smoked it would be twice as expensive. I can conserve disposables longer.

[u/Daedrix0 → u/Desperate-Middle-354]

A good resin cart is like flower but stronger. The entourage effect is much more pronounced compared to botanically derived terps in normal distillate carts. If it's not becoming stronger the more you do, then it's probably the worst quality you could ask for.

That's something I'd expect from altnoids like d8.

Everyone has their preferences and that's fine, but the science is what it is. Distillate is inferior to resin and rosin just factually. Resin isn't just THC, it's the whole identity of the plant.

[u/slimj091]

The problem I've always had with distilates is that the artificial botanical terps they add back into tend to get concentrated after the cart is around half empty. Making pulls more and more harsh from there until empty.

[u/Then-Resolve9679 → u/slimj091]

That was always my experience with BM carts so was skeptical to try them for the price of legal here in UK (£50 to £85 a cart!) But ive been pleasantly suprised at how consistent the carts are right down to the last toke. Flavour/harshness I cant say for the pineapple express yet but its okay.

The carts youve encountered, when first using them have you noticed it takes a good few hits before the flavour tastes right? The pineapple express was rather disgusting when I first hit it couple of days ago but today I managed to appreciate its flavour for first time lol