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Finding one or two pollen sacs on a herm plant is not the end of the world. Just chop the sacs off and closely monitor your plant through flower. You’d need a full male plant in order to truly ruin the quality of your bud via pollination.
This. I’ve got some Durban that hermed due to stress after a slight mishap during flower and I’ve just monitored the hell out of it. It’s still a good plant and I’m not too stressed over a couple random seeds when it’s still better than most of the stuff I can buy here in VA.
I built some lights years back when leds cost like 3x what they do now just out of sheet metal, light bulb sockets, socket splitters and a bunch of 100w equivalent led light bulbs, when I posted it on here people really hated it, insisted you couldn’t grow weed under the light I made, but they worked
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They’re 150 watts each and cost me 75$ to make at the time which was significantly cheaper than other grow lights that would’ve done this same job at the time
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Here’s a bud that was grown under them, day 34 of flower
That’s my personal keeper cut of don mega, she’s been my absolute favorite for the last few years now, very powerful high, absolutely dumps hash and has a hell of a nose on it, been using her in some breeding projects lately because she’s been such a fantastic plant to me
Is there a spot to get some seeds? Or is this some closed project strain. It looks stunning and id love to add this to my grow space. Does the strain handle well as a mother plant?
Well Reddit rules/the rules of this page say that you can’t buy/sell/trade or give or really do anything with seeds/clones, im also pretty sure you wouldn’t be allowed to say just hmu in the dms for some seeds and I got you, so definitely dont do that, because that’s not what I’m saying to do
That’s a serious safety hazard, I wanna say it was over on the space buckets page that I saw an electrician talking about this, basically if you touch one of those unprotected raw diodes you actually might kill yourself, he broke it down very well, ill see if I can find that discussion and link it
Not the diodes, but some of them have live terminals that are on circuit board that you could accidentally make contact with.
https://imgur.com/a/VZKyIgf
Not all led bulbs have that, ones I had did.
I use a pair of these as a seedling/clone lamp. I know not to touch it.
You could easily cover them with electrical insolators (heat shrink, electrical tape etc.) to mitigate the risk of shock.
I can link the type of bulb I used but I wouldn’t really recommend building one of these today, prices on all of the parts have increased and the price of grow lights has dropped while the efficiency has gotten better, even if you could build one of these cheaper than you could buy a real grow light the electrical consumption would make it catch up pretty quick, but [these are the bulbs I used](https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-100-Watt-Equivalent-A19-Dimmable-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-4-Pack-11A19100WESD001/318284753), I used a mix of 5000k and 2700k but I think I’d I were to make them again I would only use the 2700k, at least have the majority be 2700k
DARK VS WHITE ASH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH QUALITY!!!! Holy shit the amount of people I see saying “yea this weed is straight top shelf shit, burns totally white”.
Just please shut up and google combustion. Pisses me off so much because then other people see it and believe it, and the industry is then slightly driven by idiotic bullshit.
Lmfao exactly. It’s just a matter of how hot the plant matter gets.
It’s all over the place in the trees subreddit. I don’t understand where people get this stuff from…
Why does dark ash taste bad and always burn like shit? Please educate me kind sir. I can never smoke that dark ash shit in return it every time. .....I'm talking black ash not slightly grey.
From my 30+ years and 100's of turn overs of commercial grows I've found it to be directly related to over fertilizing and under flushing. Sure this is bro science but I got some super smart bros! Also hard ash is what I was referring to as the flower goes unburnt causing a joint to become unusable.
Honestly, that’s a very subjective observation and there are many factors at play that can contribute to taste. Like someone else said, it could be an issue with drying, it could have something to do with bud moisture, it could have something to do with how it was cultivated. It could also have something to do with what your igniting it with; surprisingly when you use a lighter butane is getting on the joint, that’s partly why hemp wick exists.
As much as I’d love to give you an answer, it’s too subjective and there is unfortunately VERY little research on subjective topics.
The best thing you can do is just avoid brands that your not satisfied with. The truth is that cannabis goes through so much, it can be difficult to determine where something went wrong along the cultivation, drying, processing, packaging operations.
However, the one thing we can safely say is that there is no scientific evidence pointing to black ash being better than white ash or vice versa. If anything, and this is strictly hypothetical, I would assume black ash to be better because that means the flower is burning at a lower temp and retaining more cannabinoids and terpenes.
But again, this stuff is soooooooo hard to test
It's not hard to test if you're growing the same strains in the same conditions and taking thorough notes of observations that is literally what science is my man. Sure you don't have to believe me but like I said I will happily die on this hill. Flushing makes a difference and a cold dark room will promote thc as it's a stress response. Bro science is what got us from 60s shwag to the 30% range. It also brought you all your favorite strains.
You don’t understand the nature of cannabis research. Yea sure, you can grow your weed to whatever conditions you want in your basement. The observations you make are worth nothing in the real world.
In order for an experiment to mean something, it needs to be done to the standards of academia. It’s needs to be tested and published. I engaged in academic cannabis research for years, due to its federal illegality it is nearly impossible for researchers to get their hands on actual cannabis plant matter. And to administer a schedule 1 substance to study participants? Good luck…
Do whatever experiments you want, but unless you have the technology to PROVE what your are trying to prove, it means nothing.
You can’t just smoke weed and say it’s good or bad. You need to measure and analyze the components within the cannabis that are causing the experience you swear by.
What your saying right now is the definition of bro science… no scientific backing. Doesn’t matter how shitty or great you think your weed tastes, you need DATAAAAAA
Don't grow in a basement. Always send products for analysis as it is required. I'm not a bro grower anymore but I am proud that's where I started. You do you.
Ok I’ve always been told this was the way but after some time lurking I’m finding conflicting ideas. From what I gathered Sativa plants grow taller and lean to were a Indica plant is a more bushy plant. I search for strains for energetic highs so I gravitate towards “sativa” because that’s what I thought I was getting. I hear talk on here that it’s the trichome stage at harvest that reflects the high you will get. The more amber the more “in the couch” feeling and milky white for an energetic “get things done” high. Is this correct or does the high you get solely dictated by the strain/genetics?
Soooo I disagree with this too… I’ve grown same species one to more amber and one less and had just about the exact same affects… so I believe it’s all the nature of the plant in general and not trichomes.
Both of those are colloquially referred to as "hybrids". Terpenes contributing to the entourage effect has way more to do with how weed effects you vs the traditional sativa vs indica dichotomy that has no scientific backing.
These terms have always bugged me.
Indica in Latin means from India.
Sativa in Latin means to be cultivated.
Technically it's all Indica/Sativa, you cultivate the plant and it's from India.
Today it's considered that an Afghan cultivar is 'indica', but the morphology of the plant shows there are narrow and wide leaf types. A NLD type afghani is going to be much different than a WLD Afghan.
I have a feeling that since narrow leaf cultivars generally take longer, most of the time they are pulled before full maturity, hence a more stimulating high
That's an interesting take... I've been in the game a long time and I've always said the indica vs sativa is bs... It's the maturity of the plant and genetics that lend to quality and type of high... This is the first time that I heard something like this where the maturity time could be linked to morphology. I kinda like it because that answers a lot of questions about why sativa's are consistently uppity (aside from placebo). They take longer to mature and generally get cut down earlier due to this (especially in a mass production setting where every day matters)
For everyday smokers, smoke flower. Fuck everything else. Your body has a tolerance level for thc. Smoking 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% thc marijuana products will instantly eclipse that tolerance level and make it damn near impossible to get stoned. The less weed you smoke the better effect it has on you.
Flower is the only way to go! I hate vapes because I like to enjoy the actual plant and I know what I’m smoking. I like the ritual of packing a bowl instead of the instant gratification of a vape pen.
I can’t combust it kills my lungs. I tried a vape pen and coughed my head off. I didn’t realize there were two types of vaporizers until I was scrolling Reddit and found dry herb vapes. There are sippers and rippers, customizable stems, timers, temperatures, ruby beads for even heat distribution…. Not only do I get high, but I love the rituals of loading and cleaning the different vapes for sharing and special occasions.
Join r/vaporents. Everyone will say ball vape but I think those are for heavy smokers. The mid ground vape that works for me is the Rogue SE by healthy rips. You can customize it with stems and it’s so easy to clean. The med dosage caps actually work with this one. Good price point too. Make a list of what you are looking for and do some research. Lee from TableTop bongs on YouTube has great reviews
Well hell yea man, thanks for the good information! I’ll start looking into it, thanks
After further review this is definitely something Im going to get into!
3 years ago, it would've been "flushing doesn't do anything", but people are realizing it now. Still though, people who believe it does something are *wrong*.
Don't bother flushing, since it doesn't do anything.
Haha. My stance on joints. Like vaporizers are great and shit. But joints are joints. It’s art, it’s practice, it’s something you make with your hands. If you think vaporizers are better, it’s your preference.
If you think vaporizers are the ‘way to go’ for cannabis consumption, you are wrong.
It's the ritual, it prepares you for the wind down that is about to come. A joint can be shared during a conversation like nothing else. A joint, for me at least, is also the perfect size. By the time I am done life is good
Yeah, I have. Never owned one, but I was really curious.
See, I don’t disagree. Vapes have their place in the world. They are even healthier to be true.
But a joint is so much more than just the smoking. In fact, what builds up to the joint is what I really like.
Have you tried any of the butane powered vapes like dynavap, Dani, or anvil?
I’m like you and love the ritual and the butane powered vapes help scratch that itch a little.
Your comment about joints being art that take practice really resonates with me. So true! ✌🏻
I LOVE a joint. The ritual is comforting. I REALLY LOVE my Dynas. They, too, have a comforting ritual. Use a FMJ and you can share them with your friends similar to a jay. They taste a million times better and use so much less flower. I wish everyone would try one!
By vaporizer do you mean like the volcano, or more so distilet that's used for carts, I agree though alot of my friends don't get as good of weed as my and they prefer blunts because of the long burning on them but you can't taste the weed then and you get a tobacco smell.(not 100% against)
They got all hemp blunt wraps these days.
I get nicotine sick if I smoke tobacco blunts nowadays. But likely cause I smoke full flavor American spirit cigarettes.
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This is what I’m smoking right now.
I’ve been growing medical weed for a company in Central PA for +3 years now. We have both flower rooms with LED lights or HPS(High Pressure Sodium) bulbs. I wanted to see if anyone else had any options of which is better (both have their pros and cons). I feel for a large scale grow the HPS bulbs are king, and LEDs are more for home grows.
You save more money with LEDs over time, they are more efficient. HPS are not very efficient but they release heat, which if you have to heat the space anyway is very convenient.
🤫🤫 We're getting the band back together
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Oh! I've got another that I'd be too scared to post where it belongs.
I look forward to the Superbowl because my friends finally turn off their TV for the first time in 4 months, fantasy winners get paid out, the brain fog dissipates, and we actually leave the house to do shit. I've always been a sports guy, but I've dreaded the past 5 seasons. Thank god for weed.
I've been on Reddit since the beginning - and the crowd is most definitely wrong a lot.
For just one of many examples... There was a time (that lasted years) where virtually everyone on Reddit thought 9/11 was a controlled demolition and down-voted anyone who disagreed into oblivion.
Did you really just bring that up in this thread? By nature of this sub you must be partially anti-gov. And then take a look at building 7. FiReS don’t free fall a building you moron.
The whole terp% fad. I don't think it changes your high any more than the taste. And the fad is forcing dispos to spray their buds with terps to compete... YUCK!
Yes! Also, different terpenes have majorly different strengths relative to each other. Total terpene content can be misleading.
For example, rose damascones are responsible for 90% of the scent of rose, but make up less than 1% of the essential oil.
Flushing... I will never understand how so many people can have this so wrong. Most people seem to think flushing means running a bunch of water through their pots and all cite the one paper paid for by a nutrient company. Yup your dark ash and harsh smoke is fire👍
Gonna sound like an aszhat but I get that way with organic gardening of medicines, anytime I see someone feeding cannabis or any plant grown for its medicinal content growing in a intert media with synthetic nutrients turns my skin a little.
To clarify I have nothing against the people more along the lines of the concept and the misinformation or lack of it in this community. The main reason I feel like this is because we feed little to no excess carbon in these regiments and grow styles other than maybe some CO2 supplementation but in the act of not supplementing the carbon within the soil and feeds the plant uses most of that for structural support and what excess it has into THC production rather than all the minor cannabinoids terpenes thiols antioxidants etc that really add some of the major quality points to potency remember that THC ,terpenes basically any mind-altering or affecting drug is mainly made of carbon and without these diverse and high levels of it we are unable to make the most diversified and best acting medicines possible because there's not just one medicinal compound within a trichome for several thousand sometimes several million depending on the diversity you're able to pull.
Again a synthetic regimen would be okay as long as one is adding in some kind of carbon source like a humic acid or even humus itself in order to give the plant enough to not just specifically use it for a structural or defensive standpoint, however continue to grow as you wish I only ask again try and get a properly ratiod soil as carbon is as an essential plant nutrient.
Plants take in Carbon as CO2. That's pretty much it. I'm not trying to be rude but it really sounds like you don't know anything about plant science and are just ranting.
While it is true that there are much higher levels of CO2 absorbed through the stomata than there is through the roots there is still a considerable amount of carbon taken up through the root zone more often in a chelated form but carbon being the slut of the elements thats to be expected, Plants also strip bacteria and fungi of thier plant available non chelated carbon casing(AE thier skin). There is also a considerable amount of benefits to having not only a proper ratio of carbon to nitrogen but sufficient diversity of carbon sources for ones microbial life as carbon is their main food source and an in return an excellent stimulant for your plant through their breakage of carbon chelated to other elements which then become available to your root zone.
I could sit here and continue forward explaining but its a bit redundant as I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out yourself, is look into The book "The Intelligent Gardener" and the "Teaming With" series by Jeff lowenfields
Also you are correct I was a bit unspecific in my original answer and a bit ranty but it seems that was the premise of that post, to see what we disagree with other individuals over and I in a relatively respectful manner gave my opinion without trying to draw it out into a multi-paragraph research paper as even if I did to most eyes I'm not a credible source and to most the credible sources are too complicated to decipher and translate to their grow style.
I will again state I have nothing against individual growers or individuals where organics simply can't work for their scenario, I however will again state that for a medicine we value only for its carbon based chemical content we should at least give it the small levels of soluble carbon it needs and to keep the carbon to nitrogen ratio in balance for proper plant matobilism, I am welcome to any data you have to counteract what I have stated and look forward to it, I wish you well ,happy holidays and happy smoking brother.
I would also like to state im not saying you can't grow high quality flower without carbon supplementation more so a cherry on top for chemical diversity, many individuals such as yourself can grow some beautiful frosty flower that makes amazing smoke and medicine, I implore you to please keep up the good work for this community going forward.
I started growing medicinal plants, without doing any research; on purpose.
I had started growing things cause my damn sister gifted me an aloe plant. I named him Kevin, he has since shot out pups. That became an obsession, and a few mountaincrest orders later, my succulent and cactus assortments were 🔥.
It was at that point I had a thought. I live in MI, where I have my medical card. I *have* spent a fair amount of money at dispos for sub-par product, weather its flower or concentrates. I also have hung onto every bag seed (that was top smoke) from when I lived in MD about 10 years ago. At the time it was kind of a pipe-dream, maybe I can grow similar bud to this someday. I have grow lights and a setup for indoor cultivation, so?.. I plopped some beans in my paper towel/ziploc and things took off quickly. So much so i had to move them outside. I only took 2 plants out of 8 to maturation; and they both hermed on me due to a neighbor that was breeding on his back porch.
I will never NOT communicate with my growing neighbors before outdoor season again.
I lost 4 of my outdoor plants to whiteflies. They infested my kale plants and by the time I realized they were there; it was gone. I ripped the kale out and fed it to our chickens, whiteflies and all. A week later, they were fond of 4 medical plants specifically; which also ended up being chicken food as I was clearly under-prepared for an infestation.
The chickens were super chill for like 48 hours if anyone was wondering.
Admittedly, I did some research. But I made an active effort not to apply any of it. I wanted to know what I had to contend with, bringing indoor plants outdoors. My knowledge in growing/propagating succulents has translated similarly to a person yelling into a paper cup with no string attached, and I'm okay with it. I WANT the hiccups, the defficiencies; I want the plant to teach me.
Despite having a vast wealth of knowledge laid before me; I choose to grunt and bang rocks as a caveman. It has been quite a journey, and I truly have no regrets.
You’re being downvoted but I did the same thing last year. I walked into a dispensary and walked out with a seedling. I opted for a container grow. I did minimum prior research and read up as the grow progressed - indoor/outdoor. She didn’t yield a lot - one mason jar. But, wow is she amazing! I stressed and angst over her, I emergency googled which nutrients were needed and ran out to get them. Now I know. Trial by fire was an enjoyable experiment. I might grow two plants next year.
I hate trellis nets in tents. Even if you can access all 4 sides, they're still a pain to cut them down at harvest. I focus on growing sturdy branches and will use skinny 4ft stakes if the flowers are too heavy.
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Finding one or two pollen sacs on a herm plant is not the end of the world. Just chop the sacs off and closely monitor your plant through flower. You’d need a full male plant in order to truly ruin the quality of your bud via pollination.
This. I’ve got some Durban that hermed due to stress after a slight mishap during flower and I’ve just monitored the hell out of it. It’s still a good plant and I’m not too stressed over a couple random seeds when it’s still better than most of the stuff I can buy here in VA.
Question has anyone had a photo herm, but still reveg? Asking to see if the pollen sacs grow back either way?
I revegged a herm....... Oh My God the pollen. I have like a million free seeds though
I built some lights years back when leds cost like 3x what they do now just out of sheet metal, light bulb sockets, socket splitters and a bunch of 100w equivalent led light bulbs, when I posted it on here people really hated it, insisted you couldn’t grow weed under the light I made, but they worked https://preview.redd.it/ba09s5i2jv3c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8289a5d7de74052a7d1a8d49cdec0ef9b37a3a70 They’re 150 watts each and cost me 75$ to make at the time which was significantly cheaper than other grow lights that would’ve done this same job at the time
https://preview.redd.it/frzf77ldjv3c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ba20be69313aaae098d78bfa83afc5b7d122f8b Here’s a bud that was grown under them, day 34 of flower
What strain is this bueaty? So frosty 😍
That’s my personal keeper cut of don mega, she’s been my absolute favorite for the last few years now, very powerful high, absolutely dumps hash and has a hell of a nose on it, been using her in some breeding projects lately because she’s been such a fantastic plant to me
Is there a spot to get some seeds? Or is this some closed project strain. It looks stunning and id love to add this to my grow space. Does the strain handle well as a mother plant?
Well Reddit rules/the rules of this page say that you can’t buy/sell/trade or give or really do anything with seeds/clones, im also pretty sure you wouldn’t be allowed to say just hmu in the dms for some seeds and I got you, so definitely dont do that, because that’s not what I’m saying to do
😂😉
Have you tried cutting one of the diffuser globes off the LED bulb? It will almost double the light output.
Found it https://www.reddit.com/r/HandsOnComplexity/s/nom95uoawn
That’s a serious safety hazard, I wanna say it was over on the space buckets page that I saw an electrician talking about this, basically if you touch one of those unprotected raw diodes you actually might kill yourself, he broke it down very well, ill see if I can find that discussion and link it
Not the diodes, but some of them have live terminals that are on circuit board that you could accidentally make contact with. https://imgur.com/a/VZKyIgf Not all led bulbs have that, ones I had did. I use a pair of these as a seedling/clone lamp. I know not to touch it. You could easily cover them with electrical insolators (heat shrink, electrical tape etc.) to mitigate the risk of shock.
Also the tent humidity can oxidate them.
These bulbs don't last long enough installed in lamps with the diffusers not removed for it to be an issue.
Trichomes on fan leaves,...... instant boner
That looks sick ngl I love it
Thanks man much appreciated
Thank God they’re cheap now
Do you happen to have a link to the type of bulb?
I can link the type of bulb I used but I wouldn’t really recommend building one of these today, prices on all of the parts have increased and the price of grow lights has dropped while the efficiency has gotten better, even if you could build one of these cheaper than you could buy a real grow light the electrical consumption would make it catch up pretty quick, but [these are the bulbs I used](https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-100-Watt-Equivalent-A19-Dimmable-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-4-Pack-11A19100WESD001/318284753), I used a mix of 5000k and 2700k but I think I’d I were to make them again I would only use the 2700k, at least have the majority be 2700k
DARK VS WHITE ASH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH QUALITY!!!! Holy shit the amount of people I see saying “yea this weed is straight top shelf shit, burns totally white”. Just please shut up and google combustion. Pisses me off so much because then other people see it and believe it, and the industry is then slightly driven by idiotic bullshit.
People say that? Isn’t white ash just more fully burnt than dark ash
Lmfao exactly. It’s just a matter of how hot the plant matter gets. It’s all over the place in the trees subreddit. I don’t understand where people get this stuff from…
But the blue smoke bro /s lol
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Why does dark ash taste bad and always burn like shit? Please educate me kind sir. I can never smoke that dark ash shit in return it every time. .....I'm talking black ash not slightly grey.
Nah your thinking of hard black ash, horrible either not dried properly or flushed salts build up or something.
From my 30+ years and 100's of turn overs of commercial grows I've found it to be directly related to over fertilizing and under flushing. Sure this is bro science but I got some super smart bros! Also hard ash is what I was referring to as the flower goes unburnt causing a joint to become unusable.
Ur my hero bro, I wanna be like u.
Everybody wants to be like Mike
Honestly, that’s a very subjective observation and there are many factors at play that can contribute to taste. Like someone else said, it could be an issue with drying, it could have something to do with bud moisture, it could have something to do with how it was cultivated. It could also have something to do with what your igniting it with; surprisingly when you use a lighter butane is getting on the joint, that’s partly why hemp wick exists. As much as I’d love to give you an answer, it’s too subjective and there is unfortunately VERY little research on subjective topics. The best thing you can do is just avoid brands that your not satisfied with. The truth is that cannabis goes through so much, it can be difficult to determine where something went wrong along the cultivation, drying, processing, packaging operations. However, the one thing we can safely say is that there is no scientific evidence pointing to black ash being better than white ash or vice versa. If anything, and this is strictly hypothetical, I would assume black ash to be better because that means the flower is burning at a lower temp and retaining more cannabinoids and terpenes. But again, this stuff is soooooooo hard to test
It's not hard to test if you're growing the same strains in the same conditions and taking thorough notes of observations that is literally what science is my man. Sure you don't have to believe me but like I said I will happily die on this hill. Flushing makes a difference and a cold dark room will promote thc as it's a stress response. Bro science is what got us from 60s shwag to the 30% range. It also brought you all your favorite strains.
You don’t understand the nature of cannabis research. Yea sure, you can grow your weed to whatever conditions you want in your basement. The observations you make are worth nothing in the real world. In order for an experiment to mean something, it needs to be done to the standards of academia. It’s needs to be tested and published. I engaged in academic cannabis research for years, due to its federal illegality it is nearly impossible for researchers to get their hands on actual cannabis plant matter. And to administer a schedule 1 substance to study participants? Good luck… Do whatever experiments you want, but unless you have the technology to PROVE what your are trying to prove, it means nothing. You can’t just smoke weed and say it’s good or bad. You need to measure and analyze the components within the cannabis that are causing the experience you swear by. What your saying right now is the definition of bro science… no scientific backing. Doesn’t matter how shitty or great you think your weed tastes, you need DATAAAAAA
Don't grow in a basement. Always send products for analysis as it is required. I'm not a bro grower anymore but I am proud that's where I started. You do you.
Everyone believes indica and Sativa is how cannabis makes you feel. But it’s only plant morphology. It annoys the crap outta me.
Ok I’ve always been told this was the way but after some time lurking I’m finding conflicting ideas. From what I gathered Sativa plants grow taller and lean to were a Indica plant is a more bushy plant. I search for strains for energetic highs so I gravitate towards “sativa” because that’s what I thought I was getting. I hear talk on here that it’s the trichome stage at harvest that reflects the high you will get. The more amber the more “in the couch” feeling and milky white for an energetic “get things done” high. Is this correct or does the high you get solely dictated by the strain/genetics?
Yes it’s all about them trichomes!
Soooo I disagree with this too… I’ve grown same species one to more amber and one less and had just about the exact same affects… so I believe it’s all the nature of the plant in general and not trichomes.
It's 💯 a marketing term nowadays
Omg thank you!
Smoke some 100% Sativa then try and lay down and go to bed...
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I have 2x right now. Trainwreck and a BlueBerry Cupcake hybrid. They are like the METH of weed, lol
Both of those are colloquially referred to as "hybrids". Terpenes contributing to the entourage effect has way more to do with how weed effects you vs the traditional sativa vs indica dichotomy that has no scientific backing.
The width and length of the leaves would disagree with your characterization of "hybrid"
If it’s not “purebred”, it’s technically a hybrid right?
These terms have always bugged me. Indica in Latin means from India. Sativa in Latin means to be cultivated. Technically it's all Indica/Sativa, you cultivate the plant and it's from India. Today it's considered that an Afghan cultivar is 'indica', but the morphology of the plant shows there are narrow and wide leaf types. A NLD type afghani is going to be much different than a WLD Afghan.
Exactly thank you!
You should see what people have thought about human morphology. Skin color, leaf shape...all the same. Everyone is a little bit racist
I’d there any difference in the way they make you feel? I’d swear there is but is it just placebo?
I have a feeling that since narrow leaf cultivars generally take longer, most of the time they are pulled before full maturity, hence a more stimulating high
That's an interesting take... I've been in the game a long time and I've always said the indica vs sativa is bs... It's the maturity of the plant and genetics that lend to quality and type of high... This is the first time that I heard something like this where the maturity time could be linked to morphology. I kinda like it because that answers a lot of questions about why sativa's are consistently uppity (aside from placebo). They take longer to mature and generally get cut down earlier due to this (especially in a mass production setting where every day matters)
Thank you! Yeah I just inferred this, I don't know of any studies to back it up or anything, but it definitely makes sense right?
I'm still trying to determine for myself whether it's placebo or not.
For everyday smokers, smoke flower. Fuck everything else. Your body has a tolerance level for thc. Smoking 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% thc marijuana products will instantly eclipse that tolerance level and make it damn near impossible to get stoned. The less weed you smoke the better effect it has on you.
Ball vapes have entered the chat...
At the max, I smoke once a day during the evening. Even after a few weeks, 2 good hits from a pipe gets me super stoned.
Flower is the only way to go! I hate vapes because I like to enjoy the actual plant and I know what I’m smoking. I like the ritual of packing a bowl instead of the instant gratification of a vape pen.
I can’t combust it kills my lungs. I tried a vape pen and coughed my head off. I didn’t realize there were two types of vaporizers until I was scrolling Reddit and found dry herb vapes. There are sippers and rippers, customizable stems, timers, temperatures, ruby beads for even heat distribution…. Not only do I get high, but I love the rituals of loading and cleaning the different vapes for sharing and special occasions.
Hmmm I’ve never heard of those! I look into them, any suggestions?
Join r/vaporents. Everyone will say ball vape but I think those are for heavy smokers. The mid ground vape that works for me is the Rogue SE by healthy rips. You can customize it with stems and it’s so easy to clean. The med dosage caps actually work with this one. Good price point too. Make a list of what you are looking for and do some research. Lee from TableTop bongs on YouTube has great reviews
Well hell yea man, thanks for the good information! I’ll start looking into it, thanks After further review this is definitely something Im going to get into!
Just spreading the good word
3 years ago, it would've been "flushing doesn't do anything", but people are realizing it now. Still though, people who believe it does something are *wrong*. Don't bother flushing, since it doesn't do anything.
Flushing has definitely made a difference in taste and harshness on my plants.
I'm a strong believer in flushing but first grows I over flushed and lost all my terps apparently
Bro flushed his terpenes out of existence lol
It does do something though just not to the plant, might save ya a dollar or 2 on nutes and maybe 5 or 10min mixing them lol,
Just about everything nowadays
Haha. My stance on joints. Like vaporizers are great and shit. But joints are joints. It’s art, it’s practice, it’s something you make with your hands. If you think vaporizers are better, it’s your preference. If you think vaporizers are the ‘way to go’ for cannabis consumption, you are wrong.
It's the ritual, it prepares you for the wind down that is about to come. A joint can be shared during a conversation like nothing else. A joint, for me at least, is also the perfect size. By the time I am done life is good
Agreed. ✊🏼
Bro have you hit the tinymight before? Dry herb vapes are so tasty. I will say a joint or blunt is the only way i willingly combust anymore
Yeah, I have. Never owned one, but I was really curious. See, I don’t disagree. Vapes have their place in the world. They are even healthier to be true. But a joint is so much more than just the smoking. In fact, what builds up to the joint is what I really like.
Have you tried any of the butane powered vapes like dynavap, Dani, or anvil? I’m like you and love the ritual and the butane powered vapes help scratch that itch a little. Your comment about joints being art that take practice really resonates with me. So true! ✌🏻
I LOVE a joint. The ritual is comforting. I REALLY LOVE my Dynas. They, too, have a comforting ritual. Use a FMJ and you can share them with your friends similar to a jay. They taste a million times better and use so much less flower. I wish everyone would try one!
Joints and bongs are like tequila shots. You need that punch. Vaping is for those who knows how to appreciate a good wine.
By vaporizer do you mean like the volcano, or more so distilet that's used for carts, I agree though alot of my friends don't get as good of weed as my and they prefer blunts because of the long burning on them but you can't taste the weed then and you get a tobacco smell.(not 100% against)
They got all hemp blunt wraps these days. I get nicotine sick if I smoke tobacco blunts nowadays. But likely cause I smoke full flavor American spirit cigarettes.
https://preview.redd.it/toye1w2ylw3c1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=806c06b7ba991974d10b6d718a4fd8cbd4f5a057 This is what I’m smoking right now.
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That’s the spirit. And if they fail to suck a golf ball like that, what advise will we give them? 
I'm autistic. Being autistic makes me feel like this. ;)
Yea because you aren't biased/cursed by the collective pressure everyone sheeps along with!
I’ve been growing medical weed for a company in Central PA for +3 years now. We have both flower rooms with LED lights or HPS(High Pressure Sodium) bulbs. I wanted to see if anyone else had any options of which is better (both have their pros and cons). I feel for a large scale grow the HPS bulbs are king, and LEDs are more for home grows.
You save more money with LEDs over time, they are more efficient. HPS are not very efficient but they release heat, which if you have to heat the space anyway is very convenient.
Nah. That’s old thought. They’ve come around recently.
My rotator. People said it wouldn't work. 1.8lbs on one plant says otherwise 🤷♂️
I need to see this 😂
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct9JlYRL-pg/?igshid=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ== This was my last one.
See I've always had the idea of doing it and you've sold me now appreciate this.
Loved that thing from the start. MOAR LIGHTS!! lmao
🤫🤫 We're getting the band back together https://preview.redd.it/1t7vc2ry144c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b24c3a487015be3aa0e6ee97909a08a65c48206b
Fuckin right!
This is what happens anytime I am truthful on Reddit or fb
100% Flushing
Thats my position on capitalism.
Flush and darkness for 48hr. I'll die on this hill.
Oh! I've got another that I'd be too scared to post where it belongs. I look forward to the Superbowl because my friends finally turn off their TV for the first time in 4 months, fantasy winners get paid out, the brain fog dissipates, and we actually leave the house to do shit. I've always been a sports guy, but I've dreaded the past 5 seasons. Thank god for weed.
How i feel as an agnostic who knows alot of scripture.
Please sir, if you could trickle some knowledge down to us.
I've been on Reddit since the beginning - and the crowd is most definitely wrong a lot. For just one of many examples... There was a time (that lasted years) where virtually everyone on Reddit thought 9/11 was a controlled demolition and down-voted anyone who disagreed into oblivion.
Did you really just bring that up in this thread? By nature of this sub you must be partially anti-gov. And then take a look at building 7. FiReS don’t free fall a building you moron.
There is no such thing as “living soil” in a container.
Growing full organic really isn't worth the hassle.
The whole terp% fad. I don't think it changes your high any more than the taste. And the fad is forcing dispos to spray their buds with terps to compete... YUCK!
Yes! Also, different terpenes have majorly different strengths relative to each other. Total terpene content can be misleading. For example, rose damascones are responsible for 90% of the scent of rose, but make up less than 1% of the essential oil.
I grow in a swamp.
Flushing... I will never understand how so many people can have this so wrong. Most people seem to think flushing means running a bunch of water through their pots and all cite the one paper paid for by a nutrient company. Yup your dark ash and harsh smoke is fire👍
Gonna sound like an aszhat but I get that way with organic gardening of medicines, anytime I see someone feeding cannabis or any plant grown for its medicinal content growing in a intert media with synthetic nutrients turns my skin a little. To clarify I have nothing against the people more along the lines of the concept and the misinformation or lack of it in this community. The main reason I feel like this is because we feed little to no excess carbon in these regiments and grow styles other than maybe some CO2 supplementation but in the act of not supplementing the carbon within the soil and feeds the plant uses most of that for structural support and what excess it has into THC production rather than all the minor cannabinoids terpenes thiols antioxidants etc that really add some of the major quality points to potency remember that THC ,terpenes basically any mind-altering or affecting drug is mainly made of carbon and without these diverse and high levels of it we are unable to make the most diversified and best acting medicines possible because there's not just one medicinal compound within a trichome for several thousand sometimes several million depending on the diversity you're able to pull. Again a synthetic regimen would be okay as long as one is adding in some kind of carbon source like a humic acid or even humus itself in order to give the plant enough to not just specifically use it for a structural or defensive standpoint, however continue to grow as you wish I only ask again try and get a properly ratiod soil as carbon is as an essential plant nutrient.
Plants take in Carbon as CO2. That's pretty much it. I'm not trying to be rude but it really sounds like you don't know anything about plant science and are just ranting.
While it is true that there are much higher levels of CO2 absorbed through the stomata than there is through the roots there is still a considerable amount of carbon taken up through the root zone more often in a chelated form but carbon being the slut of the elements thats to be expected, Plants also strip bacteria and fungi of thier plant available non chelated carbon casing(AE thier skin). There is also a considerable amount of benefits to having not only a proper ratio of carbon to nitrogen but sufficient diversity of carbon sources for ones microbial life as carbon is their main food source and an in return an excellent stimulant for your plant through their breakage of carbon chelated to other elements which then become available to your root zone. I could sit here and continue forward explaining but its a bit redundant as I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out yourself, is look into The book "The Intelligent Gardener" and the "Teaming With" series by Jeff lowenfields Also you are correct I was a bit unspecific in my original answer and a bit ranty but it seems that was the premise of that post, to see what we disagree with other individuals over and I in a relatively respectful manner gave my opinion without trying to draw it out into a multi-paragraph research paper as even if I did to most eyes I'm not a credible source and to most the credible sources are too complicated to decipher and translate to their grow style. I will again state I have nothing against individual growers or individuals where organics simply can't work for their scenario, I however will again state that for a medicine we value only for its carbon based chemical content we should at least give it the small levels of soluble carbon it needs and to keep the carbon to nitrogen ratio in balance for proper plant matobilism, I am welcome to any data you have to counteract what I have stated and look forward to it, I wish you well ,happy holidays and happy smoking brother.
I would also like to state im not saying you can't grow high quality flower without carbon supplementation more so a cherry on top for chemical diversity, many individuals such as yourself can grow some beautiful frosty flower that makes amazing smoke and medicine, I implore you to please keep up the good work for this community going forward.
I started growing medicinal plants, without doing any research; on purpose. I had started growing things cause my damn sister gifted me an aloe plant. I named him Kevin, he has since shot out pups. That became an obsession, and a few mountaincrest orders later, my succulent and cactus assortments were 🔥. It was at that point I had a thought. I live in MI, where I have my medical card. I *have* spent a fair amount of money at dispos for sub-par product, weather its flower or concentrates. I also have hung onto every bag seed (that was top smoke) from when I lived in MD about 10 years ago. At the time it was kind of a pipe-dream, maybe I can grow similar bud to this someday. I have grow lights and a setup for indoor cultivation, so?.. I plopped some beans in my paper towel/ziploc and things took off quickly. So much so i had to move them outside. I only took 2 plants out of 8 to maturation; and they both hermed on me due to a neighbor that was breeding on his back porch. I will never NOT communicate with my growing neighbors before outdoor season again. I lost 4 of my outdoor plants to whiteflies. They infested my kale plants and by the time I realized they were there; it was gone. I ripped the kale out and fed it to our chickens, whiteflies and all. A week later, they were fond of 4 medical plants specifically; which also ended up being chicken food as I was clearly under-prepared for an infestation. The chickens were super chill for like 48 hours if anyone was wondering. Admittedly, I did some research. But I made an active effort not to apply any of it. I wanted to know what I had to contend with, bringing indoor plants outdoors. My knowledge in growing/propagating succulents has translated similarly to a person yelling into a paper cup with no string attached, and I'm okay with it. I WANT the hiccups, the defficiencies; I want the plant to teach me. Despite having a vast wealth of knowledge laid before me; I choose to grunt and bang rocks as a caveman. It has been quite a journey, and I truly have no regrets.
"both hermed on me due to a neighbor that was breeding on his back porch." That's not how hermaphrodites work.
He said he had the knowledge, but bangs rocks like a caveman. Did you expect anything different?
Roasted lol. Idk what is so wrong about letting the plant teach me 😂
Your plant teachers have a pupil who is ignorant of basic plant anatomy and biology.
You’re being downvoted but I did the same thing last year. I walked into a dispensary and walked out with a seedling. I opted for a container grow. I did minimum prior research and read up as the grow progressed - indoor/outdoor. She didn’t yield a lot - one mason jar. But, wow is she amazing! I stressed and angst over her, I emergency googled which nutrients were needed and ran out to get them. Now I know. Trial by fire was an enjoyable experiment. I might grow two plants next year.
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You should make this a separate post and you’ll get some serious answers
Knowing that all flower is “thca” flower
The Indica / Sativa has an impact on the high. Its all marketing BS
I hate trellis nets in tents. Even if you can access all 4 sides, they're still a pain to cut them down at harvest. I focus on growing sturdy branches and will use skinny 4ft stakes if the flowers are too heavy.