Yes and no…I shouldn’t have said THC has nothing to do as is incorrect. With a true THC distillate you would get a higher yield from a higher THC stock material by weight…
In other forms of extraction cannabinoids, terpenes, oils, waxes, lipids, proteins, and other plant material play a major role in an extraction process…THC is one part.
Extraction Efficiency plays the biggest role! You can give the same exact product to two different extractors and you will get two very different products containing different THC lvl and yields…
Here’s some info on Cannabis Extraction, quality, yield…
It’s definitely a numbers game, right? So I perform the best extraction I can manage to produce the best quality, then I select the highest yielding plant, in terms of extract. When you join the two together is when the $$$ magic happens. Best extraction + best yield =
Looking around at the menus of some local dispensaries the only two I see listed testing over 30% are Kitchen Sink (GMO x Sundae Driver) at 35% THC and Chocolate OG (Chocolate Rain x True OG) at 31.1% TAC, 29% THC.
@romanoweed Not the actual act. Topping will make a plant bushier. It will allow lower branches to catch up to the top of the plant. More light to the lower bud sites will promote more dry weight. Other factors like stressing it could trigger unknown results, possibly a small increase in THC. This is all still a grey area of study though. No concrete evidence yet.
Ive read a few times that giving up to 48 hours of darkness before harvest has been shown to increase resin and Trichome production.
Ive also read that Epsom and Sulfur will increase peoduction.
She will also increase trichomes if she feels like she can not get pollen to make seeds. Well I mean thats the reason she makes it to begin with. To catch stray pollen so she can pass her genetics on. But possibly triggering her to beleive she wont be able to early on somehow might increase trichs and resin ? Idk amd as Ive just found out. You need good genetics.
what i ve seen was once a multiple topped plant, i guess like 8 times or so, the smell was very unlike other ganja ive smelt, that means there are stess reponses , not necessarly positive ones. As the effect i found to be slightl weak.
So, in this case it didnt really work, but i guess everything must be done right, and further study would be needed.
You heard that sucessful people that achieved very speial goals had often not the easyest live. Its probably similar in plants. But that does NOT mean the more stress the better. What im interested if i can develop a tactic, where i dont make it the plants too easy, wich simply brings out the best in the plant. Not like torture.
I did a Stemesplit Experiment and it made her looking weak, with less smell (didnt smoke it) . Again, torture is contraproductive, but is “making it not to easy” a good tactic.?
Like per example giving nutrients next to the rootball, so it must spread Roots. Tactics like these… Or probably a slight topping on sidebranches?
Anyway I’m used to greasy, oily plants. But these plants have a white powder substance on them. I’m like wtf is this. As the plant dries the stuff gets like a paste. But anyway I smoke it and the conclusion is, it’s definitely not thc. Well at least not any type of thc that I have smoked.
There is a huge difference in how this stuff smokes when compared to the oily bud. This pasty crap only has a buzz, when the oily plants have a real mind boggling, leg numbing high.
So no matter what numbers someone is putting on paper, that doesn’t show how well the bud smokes, or how high it will get a person. I don’t smoke by numbers. I leave that to the kids.
