THCa

[Plantis Deorum]

Um, I have never seen weed that gets stronger after harvest. This is a myth perpetuated by seed sellers and some growers who cant make good seeds or grow good weed. Now weed harvested way too early might get better when heated but I doubt it, I try not to harvest weed to early myself. When peeps first started spouting about curing improving weed I cured and kept weed for years trying it every now and then, nada did not get better than fresh. The best kept potency for 2 and a half years without any special care. CBD weed that is not hemp came about cause of seed makers not being able to keep the potency of there weed up to standards, ouhh we'll just call it CBD weed ha ha. If you breed by numbers THCA can most likely be bred to increase without making THC9 higher but at what cost? I am not trying to argue just putting out there an opposing view by someone with much experience with growing good pot. Any numbers used to describe weed is suspect to me. Some real THC9 weed.

I never suggested that it gets stronger, so not sure how you inferred that from my post. THCa degrades into THC as it loses it's carboxyl group (the acid) at a rate of approx 87%. CBD doesn't come from THC or THCa at all, it's precursor is CBDa.

Regarding the bud in your pic, have you ever had it tested? If so, take a close look at the COA, and unless it's been curing for several months, it's going to be mostly THCa.

Here's a good example of a full COA from potent cannabis, take a look halfway down the first page to see the various cannabinoid %'s and you'll see that it's mostly THCa, because it was likely tested right after it was dried, so they could get it in stores quick:

https://ny-keystonestatetesting.grow.labware.cloud/COA?guid=7AF76603-6C39-4044-9741-88F5E77582F5

 

[cannapotimus]

It's probably because the "A" in THCA stands for acid.

That’s exactly what it was, and what made us read more and learn about it. That was almost 15 years ago when I was just learning to grow.

 

[decrepit digits]

So zero heat is now used to test weed? so the gov is using outdated numbers and practices to say .3% why have they not changed to the new way of testing? And new test numbers can not be compared to old test numbers, no way to actually know what the old tests would now test at. From your explanation of conversion older weed does not need heat to to be active, with time alone all the thca will convert to thc9 so no need to decarb.

 

[cannapotimus]

Wow. Thank you. I was feeling like I was the only one with this thought. I just don't want further misinformation being spread around. Cannabis has too much of that already

It’s crazy some of the stuff people are lecturing about with such confidence. It would be really convincing for people who don’t know any better.

 

[cannapotimus]

So zero heat is now used to test weed? so the gov is using outdated numbers and practices to say .3% why have they not changed to the new way of testing? And new test numbers can not be compared to old test numbers, no way to actually know what the old tests would now test at. From your explanation of conversion older weed does not need heat to to be active, with time alone all the thca will convert to thc9 so no need to decarb.

No thca and thc both degrade to cbn.

 

[PapaSlick76]

No thca and thc both degrade to cbn.

Now we're on a roll!

 

[decrepit digits]

Had to go research, yes it can be tested without heat but total THC post decarb must be reported too. I also learned the old GC testing was not accurate and missed 30-40 % of THC9 in a sample. So all old test results are actually higher than reported.

 

[decrepit digits]

Had to go research, yes it can be tested without heat but total THC post decarb must be reported too. I also learned the old GC testing was not accurate and missed 30-40 % of THC9 in a sample. So all old test results are actually higher than reported.

Hemp or thca bud should come with three percentages thca, thc9, and thc9 after decarb. So actually there is only hemp and marijuana still. But hemp that contains .3 percent thcp or another potent thc would get you high and still be considered hemp as they do not test for variations of thc as far as I can determine. Now they have found there are flavoalkaloids in the leaves and alkaloids in other plants have effects so these also may play a role in getting high.