All things being equal, right? Starving the plant of essential elements will definitely impact the smell etc. Yields will suffer leading to less harvest and subsequently less biomass that you can extract. Less THC synthesis, and terpenes etc. Iām still not 100% on how they can f-up the process though. Let me get a sample of the same kind of weed I grow, literally a clone of it, but they botched the grow and produced flavorless odorless weed.
In all of this I seem to have forgotten to say this about harvest timeā¦
[quote="shag, post:4, ] For me it is when the bud swell stops the red hairs recede and the calyx/ovule swells up, for me, it is not at all about the trichomes
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Good call!
I reckon that shoulda been my statementā¦LOL
They are very worthy of attention, I guess I am saying I am lazy, but I have a dam good idea what they look like without even looking at em.
But that may have to come with experience.
If I had your equipment I may just say it is all about the trichomesā¦
But I would need a reason to first.
And I bet I would find a way to find one eventuallyā¦
Then I/you can justify getting a a better scope and better pictures.
I am very jealous by the way, I love that shit!
I keep fiddling with software settings on the microscope (exposure/ISO, sharpness, and contrast) to see how they impact the final image. I believe that higher resolutions and any added sharpness are pure software adulterations that should be handled in post processing and not on the chip inside the microscope. This one was max-sharpness and left some artifacts. Iām not in love with it and will get some time to try another EDF image, but I liked it enough to bump the thread. Happy Thursday to all!
Like you walked onto an alien landscape super cool, Iām obsessed at this point. Definitely securing a Microscope soon, curious if any one here has recommendations one one in particular. Not afraid to spend where it counts but not sure what im looking for spec wise. And what is this software you speak up for the image stacking???
Most of the time you get software with your sensor chip. Unless itās a super cheap one from off-brand-china. Mine is an amscope, so it has lab software that can do EDF and HDR images or composite images that span a large area.
What a thread. I read through a portion of it, and itās definitely interesting.
Iād always thought the entire trichome color harvesting thing was a little weird. It just doesnāt work for all situations. I remember prioritizing it when I was new to growing where sometimes Iād never get them to go amber whatsoever. I was taking hybrids far too long and theyād just never change.
Iām always kind of weary about the change in effects of the high given the change in trichomes. I think whatās important is that if there is a change, itās not very significant. Iāve harvested early and late and honestly could never really tell a difference. I do have a plant I could take early at this point and I think I may simply because Iām not dying to have more flower on hand.
I think what draws me to these threads the most is the search for that elusive slow creep high psychedelic high. Iād only ever really encountered it back in the 2010ās with imported Mexican brick weed. The only reason I believe it exists outside of those really intense first times you get baked is because a friend bought a brick a few years after weād been smoking other stuff and made some iso hash that had the qualities. I remember dabbing it and writing it off as non-effective then out of nowhere dying laughing and experiencing the psychedelic vision changes. Itās more akin to psilocybin in ways instead of the modern high THC stuff out there. Hell, even the 90+% dabs donāt have it. I feel like that trait has been bred out in favor of a higher THC level to stick on the label.
I donāt know what it is, to this day Iāve never found it. Iāve grown terribly long flowering Thai stick out to like 6 months of flowering, not a single amber trichome and it didnāt have it. I feel like even the strongest stuff my buddy feeds me from the dispensaries donāt have that effect. Heād given me some terribly strong stuff that I one hit a huge bowl with, and despite greening out which is terribly rare for me, there wasnāt anything really psychedelic about it other than my vision waning. Chasing high THC levels for labels wonāt ever find what it used to be.
If I ever find a plant that can reproduce those effects, Iāll never get rid of it. Itās something like a life quest for me at this point. Iām still in a prohibition state so itās not the easiest to do. I feel like Iāve been looking for that trait in a plant since the day I started growing. Iām going to have to go to fuckinā Mexico.
@Purple
I personally think this high you discuss has to do with THC to CBD ratios.
If you find something very very low in CBD and high in THC and maybe high in THC-V that may be the ticket.
I see you have been hanging with @Upstate
That is probably a good road to travel for this kinda search.
I know what you mean!! You are like many many others (including me) with an experience from 10-20 (or more) years ago which cannot be replicated now. Is it our individual conditioning? Is it the available genetics?
For what itās worth, Iād have attributed it to being a novice smoker if I hadnāt had that experience with the buddy making hash oil. That was well into when I was growing and had been for a while. That means my tolerance was established but that shit still knocked me on my ass.
Iām experimenting with the cobb/bricking right now. Iāve got quite a bit of flower in ābricksā. One of the earliest ones I did is starting to take on the brown coloring on the center of the brick which is kind of promising. I just donāt know which variables made the bud have that effect. I feel like some sort of fermentation could contribute but Iām unsure in which ways or how much.
Being in a prohibition state limits what I can do. I have to be careful ordering seeds or having a lot of plants. Iād love to have a cut that did what I wanted but sometimes I think Iām kind of chasing my tail. Thereās a lot of threads out there about people trying to find the same thing and it doesnāt seem like thereās many people finding a clear definitive answer. I donāt think it has anything to do with overall strength but rather composition. Having only found that kind of feeling from shit brick weed makes me wonder if it had to do with their processing. Iāve never once felt anything similar from anything that wasnāt bricked and thereās quite a few accounts of people experiencing similar things from weed bricked from regions other than Mexico.
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Happy Thursday to all!
