This is about 30 minutes into a potentially 30 hour process.
The oven is set to 200f, and you put the Rosin (or any concentrate of your choice is my understanding) in a mason jar and let her rip until all of the CO2 bubbles stop forming. This turns the crystalline thc-a into the liquidy thc.
From there I’m going to do a few carts a few different ways, I have liquidizers to flavor and help thin if needed, but in theory I should be able to put the decarbed rosin liquid right into a cartridge and go.
It’s “Live” rosin because I froze my cannabis immediately after harvest. The “Fresh Frozen” cannabis was than put through a bubble wash machine to get Bubble Hash. From there the Bubble Hash was dried and cured and then pressed into rosin. And from Rosin to here now.
It’s also worth noting that during growing the process already naturally starts to happen, it’s the “ambering” of the trichomes. So if you smoke something that’s naturally more aged you get different effects than decarbing THC-A straight (ie clear milky trichomes). Leads to more creative high over THC laden couch lock. It’s also why the same processes can lead to variety of products, it’s just naturally in varied mixed states of THC-A and THC.
What you’re describing can also only happen with freeze dried, you basically need to minimize temp, or light exposure or it’s still gonna happen.