Heisenberg Live Resin Sherbet Queen

Frozen plants, rather than dried ones, are the starting point for live resin, and this resin concentrate from Heisenberg carries the Sherbet Queen name.

Frozen at harvest instead of dried

For live resin, the plants are frozen as soon as they are harvested instead of being dried and cured first. The reason is terpenes: freezing early is meant to save more of the ones a fresh plant carries. Our live resin explainer follows the making of it from frozen plant to finished extract.

Rosin is a different thing again: heat and pressure squeeze it out of the starting material, and no solvent is used. Where the two part ways is the topic of our live resin vs live rosin piece.

Dark green buds under white trichomes

AllBud pictures Sherbet Queen’s buds as round and dark green, shaped like popcorn, with bright neon-green leaves, long and thin yellow-orange hairs, and a coat of chunky white trichomes. Trichomes are the plant’s resin glands.

Citrus, herbs and spicy earth

AllBud’s aroma notes for the strain run herbal, citrus, sour, spicy, earthy and fruity, and its write-up adds that the smell stays close to the taste, with spicy, earthy hints now and then.

Going slow with a fresh-frozen extract

Health Canada flags extracts as high in THC, and live resin is an extract; for first-timers and people who rarely use cannabis, its advice is to leave this class of product alone. Inhaled by smoking or vaping, cannabis takes hold in seconds to minutes, it adds, and its peak can arrive as late as 30 minutes in.