Breeding with intent
What do Lychee and the bastard poon have in common?
Id bet a million dollars no one in the Cannabis industry could answer this. I’d bet a billion someone who grows Cannabis legally for the pharmaceutical industry could though.
Let’s be honest. There are no Cannabis labs, only advertising agencies fronting as Cannabis labs.
No one really cares about delta-9-Thc and monoterpenes except marketing agents. But what about other compounds in the plant? We know they exist, some of them have aromas that stick in our memory for lifetimes.
Why are they ignored?
The real mad Marijuana scientists know this plant, and know it well. I’ve learnt it pretty well myself. I’ve slowly over the years learned the names of all the interesting compounds. I’ve learnt the importance of marker-assisted breeding in multiplying the biosynthesis of the most interesting compounds in Cannabis. And I’ve learned the importance of funding.
The world will never work the way Tesla wanted. No, I’m not talking about the role playing businessman. Nikola Tesla wanted energy to be free, the day it was made possible by man. But in this man-made world, things can not exist until they have been monetized. And in this world stepping on the monetization of others is as good as theft. The timing behind the official discovery of gravity waves is an example proving that funding and competitive spirit, not scientific data, confirmed the existence of the long proposed, well known waveform.
I can do without eco friendly jetpacks and gender neutral hover boards. Electric mind controlled rocket ships and solar powered cool touch flame throwers don’t excite me, but I need that cutting-edge weed and wake up excited about weed every day like it’s Christmas. One aspect of Cannabis I stay perpetually jizzmed is the smell. I like the pungent skunk smell.
Lots of people claim to like the skunk smell. Some even use the polecat as a mascot or namesake. But then they proceed to say some stupid shit, like:
It’s become increasingly more difficult to hold a conversation about weed over the past decade. I have developed a vomit reflex to the t-word.
Now, I can understand why people could assume pine strains smell like pinene or lemon strains smell like limonene (they don’t, more on that later), but skunk? Myrcene? These people are obvious smoking dispo weed.
Friends don’t let friends smoke dispo weed, and I don’t let people stain the character of my herb by telling strangers it smells like 99c Glade plug-ins.
My skunk doesn’t contain a drop of myrcene or any other bootleg Mexican air freshener bullshit. If it did you’d never know. Myrcene is weak. Skunk is not weak. Skunk strains smell like thiols. My skunk smells like a single thiol. My strain smells like propanethiol .
How do I know my Skunk strain smells like propanethiol? Do I work in a joint Pentagon-E.T. weed lab?
Yes… …they don’t know shit at the pentagon. That’s why they outsourced Zuck (we’re from neighboring stars.)
Skunk comes from dihydrosterculic acid.
Cyclopropane Fatty Acids are a subgroup of fatty acids that contain a cyclopropane group. The seed oil from lychee contains nearly 40% CPAs in the form of triglycerides. Sterculia foetida aka Skunk tree oil contains 65–80% cyclopropanionic acid, mostly sterculic.
Cyclopropanoic acid can be derived from alkenes, but the more common cyclopropanation pathways in Cannabis involve ring closure reactions of carbocations in terpenoids. Cyclopropane fatty acids are derived from the action of S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) on unsaturated fatty acids. The precursor to ethylene for example, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, is derived directly from SAM via nucleophilic displacement of the SMe2 group subsequent to condensation with pyridoxal phosphate.
Who do you trust the future of Cannabis to?
The bro?
Or the science?
To Be Continued…
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