Hash breeders should breed for larger trichomes “Double D’s” @shag
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Mathematically perhaps, the thing is, I haven’t seen that happen in real life. Yet. Definitely seen the more trichomes = more hash though.
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I never heard breed for larger trichomes. I heard breed for the dry, sandy feeling trichomes if you want hash. Breed for the greasy trichomes if you want smoke.
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Gold! Thanks for that you might get me educated yet! @HolyAngel
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Greasy as sticky?
Ummm… never heard of that differentiation, but never is too late for learning something new.
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Greasy as in grease or oil like feeling. Not dry. Not sticky like glue, but greasy. TK for instance has really greasy trichomes.
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TK had a low trichome count and terrible hash yield.
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Yep exactly. Yet she smokes fantastically and is uber potent.
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lol! Personally… no, It’s in the trash. Bam! Didn’t make the cut against my uber strains. So many have fallen 
to the hash plant thunder dome. Any plant that doesn’t achieve at least 2percent is instantly garbage. It’s a really high bar, some might even consider insane.
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Yeah trash for hash definitely. One touch of her flowers and you should’ve already known she wouldn’t wash for anything. Don’t even need the microscope to know that lol
I’ve seen some nl5haze related things with really dry sandy trichomes that just fall off the flower. Certain SSDD’s can do the same. Tap a bud and just watch the trichomes fall off. Those are one’s I’d wash for yield. I’m sure you know better cultivars for that.
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Sam skunkface was the one that said to select for large heads, but ya’ll know what I think of that guy but it makes good sense to me.
Large heads and more of them per sq. centimeter would be a winning combination in my book.
But then again I am far from an expert on this topic. 
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Good paper on this here:
Cannabinoid Inheritance Relies on Complex Genetic Architecture - PMC.
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I did microscopic imaging of the buds I wash to make sure the trichome caps are stripped clean. The process seems to get them all!
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What I do, is predict the hash yield of the plant based on the microscopic image. I’m getting really good at it! Soon, I won’t have to even bloom the plant, I’ll be able to tell in veg if it’s even worthwhile. I flip through people’s macro images on OG here and I’m like …bad…bad…bad…good…bad…bad…bad… I find most aren’t good. The good ones are rare!
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indeed! But then I definitively didn’t get your question.
Maybe that’s why?
My turn: let’s go the @Mithridate way and throw a
Transgressive segregation!
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I like that 
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For hash lovers; big heads that drop on the first wash, trichome density, quality high.
Then looser buds can contribute to better and/or cleaner yield, because you won’t have to beat them up as hard to get the good stuff.
Flavor, texture, color is a matter of preference…
Plant vigor, bud size, plant structure etc I think is irrelevant if you’re hashing the room.
Seek to adapt your grow method to your plant, not your plants to your grow method.
You can yield about the same with any line, if you turn their “negatives” into their strongest point.
I’m not much of a gamer but have an example for this. Back when world of warcraft came out, people complained the warrior was the worst character, lacking in everything. One dude was like hell nah, warrior is the absolute strongest. Everyone insulted him. The guy then posted a video, showing that if you build it like this, and play it like that, you’re doing the most damage output out of all characters, and you’re basically invincible. Guy rag dolled every pvp room. Everyone was shocked.
Then for weeks blizzard nerfed the warrior more and more lol
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I am ignorant of what this means other than everybody ragged on the guy until he put the bell around the cats neck?
Hah np,
Blizzard is the game developer and “nerfed” means to reduce something power or effectiveness within a game, like an ability or certain combos
The point is “build it right, play it right” and chances are you can get much more than originally thought 
Bubba kush grows slow, stretches little. Wouldn’t make sense to grow it in vertical hydro where fast growing stretchy plants perform best.
But does bubba really yield like crap?
Put it on tables, keep canopy 1ft thick, a la scrog, small plants. since light penetration is not a concern, use 400 watters, spread em, if you’re feeling adventurous, use racks.
Then check yield per sqft or yield per watt and bubba yields quite good actually 
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The more I read here the more I realize idk shit ! Smh
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