I know 9.8/10 of the local buds at dispensaries around me use PGR’s (Plant Growth Regulators)
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I know Kelp (nutrient) is a natural PGR,
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But ,
These corporate nute-pumpers aren’t using that most likely…
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Leading me to the questions…
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Any significant health concerns over PGR’s?
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What are the more commonly used PGRs?
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Are they worse than GmOs?
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What is your opinion?
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I think you’re right and it’s poisonous especially when concentrated in extracts. But flower too in my experience. My lungs are very sensitive to it. It’s a huge problem that nobody is looking at. There’s too much to gain by using it for the big grows and it’s not required to be tested for
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I don’t know the brands they use these days but yes PGRs are poisonous and potentially cancerous. I see people posting those rock hard buds on ig all the time and want to tell them but at the same time don’t want to upset anyone.
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It’s just the same equation that “hormonal chickens” harvested within two weeks ^^ We are not massively extincted to have massively opted for this kind of food, but damages are real on global health.
At a planet scale, most of our hardest poisoning don’t come from our co² taxes; but from simply the food. The more you’re green-washed on your old car that run perfect and produce less pollution to be maintained … the less you think about something you do in average 1095 times a year ^^
It’s a bit abusive ^^, but yes if being absolute over practical is the goal.
On the quality of the final product mostly, so indirectly yes.
It’s not so about the PGRs (if we ignore the awful buds) but about the type of growth that it permit : hardcore schedule, grown too fast, opportunity to push more in EC (with the cheapest nutes you find ^^)
Just like chicken, you’re eating wind. It’s not the fact to eat it once that is dangerous, it’s to base entirely your alimentation on bland food. Vicious subject anyway, or most of agro-industry big heads will be in jail lol
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In the absolute, GMOs are the fastest lanes to make an hybrid. The danger is very not the same.
We are more talking about an unknown (by nature) DNA you’re ingesting, that can promote mutations (we mutate all fucking days, worry happen when our DNA is/become weak).
Generally GMOs are created under the excuse of difficult cultivation, and mostly used in the most productive countries. Just like hemp in indoor ^^ Can’t resist to taunt lol
So in fact the most dangerous in the GMOs is the manner to grow them, generally more extreme than usual in term of sanitary limits (its the real point).
I can become quite violent if one stoner present me innocently a PGR bud to sample. Serious.
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What does this mean?
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In my limited experience and from what I’ve read light is the biggest factor in how tight buds are. I’ve flowered with a 65watt, 100watt, 200watt, and 740watt and theirs a huge difference between the 65, real fluffy, and 200, average dispo bud tight, and 740, rock hard.
I’m running organic and from what I’ve read PGRs, also known as plant hormones aka phytohormones, are organic and come from plants.
I haven’t done a whole lot of reading so if I’m mistaken or don’t have the full story please school me. Theirs so many aspects to this endlessly fascinating plants I’m in the dark to, haven’t been doin this as long as most of yall have
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It mean the big difference of value in term of nutritive qualities, and fuck tons traces of antibiotic, hormones etc … to sustain such a fast cycle.
A chicken “naturally” killed is the difference between a bud harvested at maturity peaks and a bud harvested with a flowering time divided by two from this point. You can cheat a bit the smoke, but not doing miracles if you don’t let the plants mature in regard of its DNA.
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Yea but chickens haven’t been given hormones for close to 70 years, so I’m confused by whats being said.
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I don’t make any link with the “70 years” parameter buddy, you mean our lifespan ?
You’re the chicken already buddy, managing your health is simply balancing the shit and the good ^^
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My concern is the obvious one…
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Cannabis being manufactured in a similar way as cigarettes;
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This technically “harmless” plant
Is a catalyst
For future health concerns;
Only
Out of greed and ignorance of the corporate suits.
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Add this
Add that
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What do you have?
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Spice
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We are beyond already with the reconstructed weeds (weed washed chemically to become a blank page + sprays, the THCa trick also), and the totally constructed weed in vape pen (terps, cannbinoids etc …) made from the trash lol
Just like the tabacco industry. You can buy expensice fat Cohiba or their cheap cigarillos. The last is made from the trash of the first ^^
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The most common PGRs used for cannabis cultivation are:
- Paclobutrazol
- Daminozide (Alar)
- Chlormequat Chloride
Paclobutrazol impacts a plant cell’s ability to elongate, which in cannabis means cells pack much tighter and denser on the flower. It also hinders the development of key terpenes on the plant, and reduces the ability of the plant to produce THC.
When buds which contains paclobutrazol are smoked, it breaks down into nitrosamines — the most carcinogenic compound found in cigarettes. Studies say paclobutrazol can negatively impact fertility, as well as cause liver damage.
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A good buddy of mine went to the ER last night with Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome and the doctors told him he can never touch weed again. This guy was smoking Illinois dispensary prerolls morning, noon, and night. I am inclined to believe that the commercial weed is at least 50% to blame, including the PGRs, whatever sketchy stuff they use for pests, high EC drain to waste, all that shit. That and this dude’s heavy use and general mistreatment of his body (terrible diet, cigarettes, bad sleep hygiene, alcohol, the usual suspects). And yet, despite all of those qualifiers I just listed, he will become a simple statistic/anecdote to justify further regulations and general fuckery around a damn plant. It’s a shame.
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It’s true. They will be using this poisonous weed as the standard for all cannabis testing. I remember when there were real standards to growing medicinal plants. High quality nutrients and a week of flushing. Limited spraying and a real concern for the patients. This was after Prop 215 late 90’s
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