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Snipe¤Star

thanks for the responses!

 

Researcher

Another factor to consider it the scenario in which you smoke th herb: a bad scene with lots of paranoid people will make for a bad trip; whereas a good scenario with nice music, relaxed, or alone makes the herb sensation better. So, in addition to genetics, cultivation method, there is also the facotr of 'scenario'!

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Hey, it's just a daym plant!

Buzzby

Nonsense! Over on the Gardenscure.com site they told me that all trichomes start out clear and all trichomes eventually turn milky and then tan if the plant isn't harvested before that happens. Picking harvest time is a balance between potency and how much of the THC degrades into CBC and CBD: a clear, pure THC high, or a mixed high of greater potency. All buds are picked when they're mature and fully developed, unless the grower wants to sacrifice quality. Indica buds do tend to be denser than Sativa buds.

Sativas go through a longer flowering cycle than Indicas, but they both appear to be equally mature when they're ready to harvest.

Some varieties have been bred to be purple. That has nothing to do with quality or potency. Weed that has been stressed during growth will sometimes turn purple, which might indicate lower quality.

While it touches on growing topics, I'd say it's mostly about visually identifying quality weed and what differences in appearance really indicate.

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Snipe¤Star

quick question:

fact or myth: the stems from buds that have been grown hydroponically are hollow.

Trocisp

They can, but so can non-hydroponic.


At least, that's my understanding.

 

KingTubby

Yeah, I don't think there is any correlation between hollow stems and hydroponics. A lot of good quality bud does have a hollow stem, but I'm pretty sure this is a result of the breeding process. I could be completely wrong, though.

But about quality...
Smell: Rich, skunky, and the sense that you just walked into a forest of pine trees are all good indicators of some high quality bud.

Look: Big buds are wonderful, but anything from mid-sized to large can be good quality. Look for a distinctive shimmer, crystals are good. Don't be fooled by the rainbow, though. Pretty little tendrils of color are attractive, and are often indicative of some good stuff, but they aren't always a one way ticket to THC town.

Feel: Light and airy, but not brittle or skimpy. Go for stickiness too.

Hope that helped!

Source:
Smoking with Style: Weed Etiquette, Weed Measurements, Deseeding Weed

Snipe¤Star

ok to clarify about the topic- i dont need to be told how to identify different qualities... ive been around it for quite a while..

the purpose of this thread was to find out where the different types of qualities come from and what causes them, i.e. being improperly harvested results in shwag or mid grade, etc.

i dont need to be told how to tell quality though, ive pretty much seen the whole spectrum.

Darque Pervert

Two factors:
1 - Strain quality.
2 - The largest factor affecting weed quality is the care taken when growing & harvesting.

More often than not #2 will have a far bigger impact in the quality of a sack than #1

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Snipe¤Star

goood enough

chadwick

i was not stating that some buds grow seedless, i was trying to say that some strains are more susceptible to going hermaphrodite during growing, trainwreck being one of them i believe it usually goes hermi around 45-50 days into flowering and if not watched carefully by and experienced grower it can be seeded by the male pollen sack that has grown on a female plant


and on the purple subject, purple is only cosmetic, the reason it has become known as better is because people liked the color and started breeding if for better quality, you can still find purple strains that are no better than regs, like the sack of purple regs i picked up last week, not the greatest but purple