If you test the living plant for terpenes at 2 weeks flowering, 4, weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, you will see changes in the terpene profile and %'s.
The same if you dry the harvested plant for 2 weeks, test it, then box and cure it for a few months then test it again, then remove the dry sift resin and test it. At each stage the results are different, once all the terpenes are present in the flowers the more volatile mono-terpenes can be easily lost by age, heat, handling. Processing also allows the terpenes to be altered into other terpenes or breakdown artifacts.
All that said if you test dry flowers terpenes and the same clone dry sifted test the resin terpenes they are very similar, the dry sift has lost addition mono-terpenes but it is just resin so the terpenes are higher then in the bud.
The two terpene analysis below, the first is Skunk #1 bud, the second Skunk #1 dry sifted resin.
-SamS
The same if you dry the harvested plant for 2 weeks, test it, then box and cure it for a few months then test it again, then remove the dry sift resin and test it. At each stage the results are different, once all the terpenes are present in the flowers the more volatile mono-terpenes can be easily lost by age, heat, handling. Processing also allows the terpenes to be altered into other terpenes or breakdown artifacts.
All that said if you test dry flowers terpenes and the same clone dry sifted test the resin terpenes they are very similar, the dry sift has lost addition mono-terpenes but it is just resin so the terpenes are higher then in the bud.
The two terpene analysis below, the first is Skunk #1 bud, the second Skunk #1 dry sifted resin.
-SamS
The dramatic loss of limonene with slight increase of myrcene is a bummer!
SamS, is there any profile change in dry sift? It doesn't seem like there should be, but I am getting used to being surprised by the results of careful testing!
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