How Do You Store a Bulk Extract Order? Portioning Into 1 Gram Jars

Buying extract in bulk is cheaper per gram and worse in every other way until you portion it. A 25 gram bag gets opened fifty times, takes up moisture every time, and eventually nobody remembers which batch it was. Breaking it down into sealed 1 gram jars on the day it arrives fixes all of that in about twenty minutes.

What you need

• Your bulk extract. We portion Kanna Extract MT5 BLOOM this way, and the method is the same for any fine extract powder.
• 2 oz clear glass jars with black lids. Oversized for a gram on purpose, which makes filling and scooping out far easier.
• A digital pocket scale reading to 0.01 g. Volume measuring does not work on extract powder.
• Food safe silica gel desiccant packets, one per jar.
• Printable label stickers and a fine permanent marker.
• Powder free nitrile gloves, a small funnel or a folded square of parchment, and a soft brush.

Set up before you open the bag

Fine extract powder is static and it goes everywhere. Work on a smooth non-porous surface, not a towel. Close the windows and turn off any fan. Lay out all your jars with lids off in a row, labels already written, before the bulk bag is open. Weigh one empty jar and note the tare so you are not re-taring fifty times.

Put on gloves. This is about keeping skin oils and moisture out of the powder more than protecting your hands.

The fill

1. Place a jar on the scale and press tare.
2. Fold a 4 inch square of parchment in half to make a crease, tip a small mound of powder into the crease, and pour it into the jar through the funnel. The crease controls the pour far better than a spoon.
3. Fill to 1.00 g. Go slightly under, then add a few milligrams at a time. Overshooting means scooping back out, which is where spills happen.
4. Drop in one desiccant packet. Add it after weighing, not before, or the packet weight lands in your gram.
5. Cap it, hand tight, and set it aside. Do not leave a row of open filled jars sitting out.

Work in batches of ten. Brush spilled powder back toward the bag with the soft brush between batches, not with your glove.

Labeling, which is the whole point

Every jar gets the same four things:

• The product name, written out, not abbreviated.
• The stated potency, for example 5% total alkaloids.
• The batch, lot or report number from the bulk bag or packing slip.
• The date you portioned it.

That batch number is the part people skip and the part that matters most. It is what ties the jar in your hand to a specific certificate of analysis on our Lab Results page. Without it, a jar six months from now is an unidentified white powder.

Reconciling the weight

Weigh the bulk bag before you start and after you finish. The difference should equal the number of jars you filled, within a few hundredths of a gram. If you filled 20 jars and the bag only lost 19.2 g, something is off, usually a mis-tared jar. If it lost 21 g, you spilled. Either way you want to know while you still remember what happened.

Storage

Portioned jars go somewhere cool, dark and dry. A cupboard, not a windowsill, and not the refrigerator, because cold glass pulls condensation the moment you open it in a warm room. Keep the jars together in one box with a copy of the certificate of analysis in the box. Open one jar at a time and keep the rest sealed.

Mistakes we have made

• Portioning on a cloth surface. Half a gram disappeared into the weave.
• Labeling after filling. Four jars, one powder, no idea which was which.
• Using jars too small to get a scoop into. A 2 oz jar for 1 gram looks absurd and works perfectly.
• Skipping the desiccant on a humid day and finding a caked jar two weeks later.

Cautions

• If you are portioning kanna extract: kanna should not be combined with SSRI, SNRI or MAOI medications. Speak with a physician first.
• Fine powders are easy to inhale accidentally. Work slowly and do not blow dust off a surface.
• Keep labeled jars away from food and out of unlabeled containers.
• For adults 21 and over.

Disclaimer. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Traditional use of a botanical does not establish that it will produce any particular result. Keep out of reach of children.