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KMKbuzz4-2-0

Alright friends, since I have seen a resurrection of the terms "dro" and hydro" it must be time for me to rant about this again. For those of you who already got this locked down feel free to just hum the tune from Johnny B. Goode and sing "Go Jonny! Go! Go!" the whole time.

Using the terms "dro" or "hydro" is like wearing a big sign that says I am uneducated about what to call my weed. Let me lay some teaching on ya!
Dro and Hydro simply indicate the method of cultivation used to produce the cannabis you are talking about. They don't indicate potency, strain, or anything in relation to overall quality. Why? Because it just means the pot was grown hydroponically using nutrient solutions and no soil. The idea that hydroponically grown weed is good weed just comes from the fact that since it is a more complicated way to grow the grower is usually more experienced and trying to produce higher quality cannabis. It's not the method of cultivation that makes the plant more potent, its the amount of care given to the plant combined with good genetics. Usually somebody who takes the time to set up a hydroponic system isn't going to be growing any old bagseed and they are going to be paying very close attention to the plants to prevent unwanted pollination.

If you wanted to you could grow some crappy weed in a hydroponic system. It could be what most would consider schwagg but since it was grown hydroponically its still "hydro". Got it? While hyrdroponics does offer a little better control of the plants nutrients and such, it still is the genetics and grower's input that determines if the plant is going to yield high grade buds or schwagg.
The method of cultivation alone has little effect on the overall quality or potency of the bud.
Calling your bag hydro/dro isn't really telling anything useful about your pot unless you were asked "how was it grown?"

HELP ME - If you would like to help educate our fellow tokers on this issue then join Team SMOKE POT (Stoner's Movement Of Killing Erroneous Perceptions Or Terms).

Peace.......and no dro....no dro....noooooo dro.

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Every time you say "dro" or call your weed "hydro" when you aren't positive it was hydroponically grown you're killing the stoner community. Killing it. Bastard.Team SMOKE POT Captain - Join and help fight the good fight!

 

Jake

I'll join the team, dude

Wear are the badges?

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KMKbuzz4-2-0

Well I was planning on these super cool solid gold badges with a pot leaf on them and our names engraved down the center leaf blade...but then the place that was making them said they don't accept monopoly money( )...so I guess we'll have to go with the plastic ones that you get out of $.25 machines at grocery stores. I can scratch your name in and fill it with resin tho!

Buzzby

If you are being formal, you're probably right. As you stated, hydroponic marijuana is almost always of high quality. Informally, "dro" or "hydro" indicates high quality marijuana and everyone knows that - so it really is telling something useful about the pot: "this is the good shit!"

Personally, unless I see it growing myself, I don't put a lot of faith in someone's provenance for a bad of weed. Every dealer in the world has "the good shit!" (or says so ) and will tell you anything that he thinks will get you to buy some. Dealers tell their customers that any really good weed is "dro" because that makes it more attractive. The customers pass that labeling on to their friends. Unless you've seen it on the plant, you can't know how it was grown.

Once I've seen it, smelled it, and had a test toke, I decide whether it's worth the price. It doesn't matter what variety it really is, where it was really grown, who grew it, or the technology he used to do it.

So, "dro" and "hydro" have two meanings, depending on the context. One is a growing technique. The other is high quality weed.

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KMKbuzz4-2-0

Thats pretty much exactly what I'm trying to stop. I don't see why it has to have two meanings, there are plenty of ways to say your weed is potent that won't be confused with a method of cultivation. Will most people be able to tell which meaning is being used? I sure hope so, but I have watched the two get mixed up way to much. A kid who's new to smoking asks his dealer what kind of weed he's buying, the dealer responds "man its dro!", the kid asks what that means and the dealer tells him it means it was hydroponically grown. The kid then puts the idea of hydroponically grown weed, or "dro" on a pedestal.

Maybe I've heard "Man I only smoke dro!" too many times, maybe its because when I started growing I was all about organic, maybe I'm just picky about growing terms being cultivation related, either way its my pet-peeve and I'd like to see dro die.

 

dench

u cant change what people say by posting on this forum you can only try educate them

KMKbuzz4-2-0

Gee if thats how you feel...did you even read my first post?
I believe I said "Let me lay some teaching on ya!" and proceeded to explain the whole situation. How un-useful

Sorry I guess I should have said "Let me lay some education on ya!" Does that work a little better for you?

Buzzby

Good luck getting stoners to be formal about the way they use language!

KMKbuzz4-2-0

Thanks...greatly appreciated...and thats what I'm trying to do...make everything completely formal, give me a break.

On a more productive note I don't think the issue really is being formal, I think its just having a more thorough education about what the words you're using really mean. I'm not trying to make every stoner speak formally with proper grammar and correct punctuation, I just don't like people relating overall quality to the method of cultivation and thats what is so common. Formally or not I just don't see the need for it.

chadwick

great info, i was already aware that hydro/dro means almost nothing about the overal quality of the weed but many of my friends think growing hydroponicly will make your weed 3 times better but i never kew how to explain that to them, now i do know

and were do i sign up for team SMOKE POT