Weird high - fresh off plant

[sjd0103]

My best description is that the high is way too much in my head. All I can do is think and get anxious about my life. I've never experienced this before and it sux. It's from a single plant personal grow lowryder dwarf auto fem. She's got a TON of long white trichomes - completely gooey. Anyway, I snipped a bud and vaped, oven dried, and let some just sit out (all over a week). All techniques yield the same buzz effect.

Is this the strain, harvest time, curing issues, funky weed, fate? I'm letting the rest of the plant go until I see amber trichs.

All comments/suggestions welcome!

 

[youngblood]

It's probably the specific high you get from the strain, but it has happened to me once, when I harvested about 1 week early to get the type of high you're describing from a plant that, when matured, was supposed to give a real heavy stone. So, if you harvested too early, it could be that too.

 

[sjd0103]

It's probably the specific high you get from the strain, but it has happened to me once, when I harvested about 1 week early to get the type of high you're describing from a plant that, when matured, was supposed to give a real heavy stone. So, if you harvested too early, it could be that too.

Cool - are you saying that when it happened to you, you waited for it to mature (tric color?) and it did give you a real heavy stone?

 

[youngblood]

Yes, it did, but that may not be the case for your plant because I can't be sure of what the high from your plant is supposed to be like when matured. Feel me? The best thing to do to solve this mystery is to find out what strain you have (if you don't know already) and google some info about it.

 

[Tulane41]

I am by no means experienced, but I saw a video on youtube that said the amount of time the plant is left to "ripen" can effect the high. For instance, the longer it is left to ripen the more "indica like" stone you will get. The video suggests letting sativas ripen longer than indicas, because of their tendancy to cause the cerebral high. Indicas should be cut a little earlier because of their tendancy to cause the couchlock type stoned feeling. The reason being, if you have a plant that is predisposed to leaning a certain way on the cerebral vs stoned feeling, you don't want to push it too far. If so you will get paranoia/anxiety or couchlock, depending on the type of plant you're dealing with. What you got was a super heavy dose of sativa. I used to get it back in the day when I smoked that low grade shwag that probably wasn't cured or given time to harvest. You live and you learn.

Ripeness is measured by looking at the trichomes under a microscope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52J-q2RRro

 

[sjd0103]

I think my issue was all about curing. Last night I finally hit the bud that's been curing in a mason jar and it was spectacular! The rest of the plant comes down this week...Hoping it's as good!

 

[valhalla88]

Hey man congrats on growing your own stoney weed! For your first grow.
I just did the same thing and have to say it is a amazing feeling of satisfaction. I mean I simply am astonished ...and like you said right off the plant...I as well was picking some testers...bottoms...dried for about 4 days.
4-20 rolls round...I twisted up a pinner and me and my buddy were baked 5-6 hrs...I'm smoking some right now ...my favorite ever!

 

[Whitejack]

To explain it differently, fresh buds contain a very, very high level of THC and low levels of other cannabinoids (CBD, CBG, etc.) THC accounts for a head high, Cannabinoids account for the body stone. Your goal is to obtain a balance of these by harvesting the plan within a specific window of time. While genetics also have a part in this, all plants produce the same basic chemicals. They just mature at different times. YOU control the high of your plant.

Clear trichomes are pure THC. Once THC has been exposed to light(heat) and air during flowering, it breaks down into other cannabinoids and the trichomes become cloudy/amber. A plant harvested at peak will contain equal (or close to it) levels of both THC and Cannabinoids. Plants harvested early will produce a jittery head high because of high levels of THC. Plants harvested late will cause a couch-lock high because of high levels of Cannabinoids.

 

[valhalla88]

yep what he said...it's true...but have you ever seen a trich head that was so dark it looked black...some of my trichs are red... dark, dark red,
almost black ...whats up with that? = rep whitejack

 

[sjd0103]

To explain it differently, fresh buds contain a very, very high level of THC and low levels of other cannabinoids (CBD, CBG, etc.) THC accounts for a head high, Cannabinoids account for the body stone. Your goal is to obtain a balance of these by harvesting the plan within a specific window of time. While genetics also have a part in this, all plants produce the same basic chemicals. They just mature at different times. YOU control the high of your plant.

Clear trichomes are pure THC. Once THC has been exposed to light(heat) and air during flowering, it breaks down into other cannabinoids and the trichomes become cloudy/amber. A plant harvested at peak will contain equal (or close to it) levels of both THC and Cannabinoids. Plants harvested early will produce a jittery head high because of high levels of THC. Plants harvested late will cause a couch-lock high because of high levels of Cannabinoids.

Thank you for that! Makes sense! Never thought I'd complain about my high .