Harvest and Processing of Cannabis

Cutting the plant does not finish the job. Fresh flowers are 75 to 78 % water, and the way that water leaves them decides mould, aroma and potency. This category follows the path after harvest: drying, the maturing period in a closed jar that growers call curing, storage, and separating the resin from the plant material.

• Mechanical Separation of Cannabis Resin – Methods, Potency and Legal Status

  Sifting, water separation and pressing remove resin from plant material without a solvent – which changes the potency of the product and determines which of the two German prohibitions applies.

• Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) – Solvent Choice, Purity Grades and Recovery

  What decides the quality of Rick Simpson Oil is not the washing step but which solvent is used and how much of it stays in the finished product.