Maybe TMI but I hadn’t showered since yesterday and couldn’t help but notice myself smelling my armpits and likening them to the complex surface structures of cannabis when being stored in warm humid environments.
I’d imagine the populations of bacteria are different, but my thought was how it doesn’t really take much time for bacterial populations under the “right” circumstances to start producing noticable amounts of what I’m assuming to be volatile organic sulphur compounds being produced via microbial action.
@Dirt_Wizard I was listening to a podcast or something like that on YouTube and the host was speaking of terpene analysis and quantification across harvesting drying and curing. As volatiles are dissipated, it was difficult to think they were still able to be produced after a plant has been harvested. The host mentioned their findings for their unique experiment showing an increase in humulene, and that it was an interesting finding.
Keeping on the moistness idea, perhaps if the flowers are dried too much they lose the moist humid rich environment these bacteria need to survive/thrive, and thus is driving off additional VOC’s by way of microbial action during drying and curing. Perhaps partly why sticky dank buds usually smoke better than overly dried old flowers too? Because they’re still hosting this bacteria that’s actively producing new mVOC’s? This is all so fascinating. Much love
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