It is all good! I extract from both fresh frozen and dry cured material using BHO. Both are delightful, but produce different product.
There is less oil per weight from fresh frozen, but about the same as dry cured if you account for the 75% weight reduction at curing.
It is very light in color and the taste profile is out of this world, with the turpeen flavor profiles darting this way and that like wild honey.
Our test panels uniformly rate it as the most tasty extraction by any process and the word "fresh" is most often used to describe it.
Interestingly, while quick wash alcohol extractions have on average been rated more floral and aromatic than BHO extractions, fresh BHO has been rated number one!
Interesting because fresh frozen QWET extractions were noticeably rated more bland and the least aromatic and tasty, as compared to the alkanes. Not bad, just least aromatic!
The significance of course is that cured alcohol extractions are otherwise uniformly rated by the panels as being more aromatic than the Alkane petroleum extractions.
I run most of my BHO extractions using cured material, simply because that is how I receive most of it. Most of my extractions are also from trim as opposed to bud.
Extracting using fresh is more process critical, but easy if you just paint by the numbers.
I have only done it using prime bud, but if you take both the fresh bud and butane to 0F, it locks up the water and produces a pristine product that you will fall in love with.
Cured BHO, on the other hand is still to die or commit mayhem and murder for, so we may be argueing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
To put it in perspective, sometimes when I savor either, my right leg just naturally jumps up and down like when you scratch a dog's good spot! Hee, hee, hee, snicker, snark, snort...............
