Pretentious potheads

[Capt. Stickyfingers]

Thanks for pointing out that good strains come from people who have been breeding for longer than i've been on this earth. I'm talking about people who are stuck in there ways, unable to see what other people bring to the table, being young, when someone claims something opposite to what i see as true, i will go off and prove either point and attempt to back it up with proven truth, as with the experience i have, i can always be wrong. The few local growers who were willing to share insight and garden with me have given me tips that were straight wrong, and when i went on to tell them this, they told me to fuck off because they've been doing it for years with excellent results...

Yep my OP says the whole older generation of growers has no idea what they are doing. read homie.

I did read, "homie". Half didn't make any sense.

Don't get me wrong experience is directly correlated with dank buds, but if someone grows the same mediocre buds that get you stoned for 10 years, they think their shit stinks more than others...

Same mediocre buds that get you stoned for 10 years....Wtf are you getting at?

To add to this, brought an old hookup some of his genetics I grew under dual spectrum, took me til harvest to get him to put some blue in the bloom room.

Wow, "homie". What an idiot, flowering without a mh in the mix..Good thing your buddy has you to help him out. Lmao.

 

[po'thead]

I don't want any more than a couple amber trichs. Amber trichs = degraded thc. That seems to be the trend with young people that are ill informed. I hear some people say 50% amber trichs is good. lmao. Once I start seeing amber it gets the chop. There are idiots of all ages, some older people are indeed lost in the hippie folklore ways of growing pot.

Fortunately for myself, I'm not one of the ill informed. I'd never let my trichomes go to 50%, I typically wait until all the heads are milky and by that point I have a few amber ones here and there.

 

[Kite High]

sats...20% cloudy 80% clear...indies 40% cloudy 60% clear...NEVER AMBER...amber = bad...but then again I like to get high...not sleepy and dumb...jus sayin

 

[WaxxyNuggets]

I did read, "homie". Half didn't make any sense.


Same mediocre buds that get you stoned for 10 years....Wtf are you getting at?





Wow, "homie". What an idiot, flowering without a mh in the mix..Good thing your buddy has you to help him out. Lmao.

I'll leave with my tail between my legs, didn't want a bash fest man? Someone hasn't had their dabs yet this morning? sorry my grammar isn't on par with the rest of the world. Guess i'm the only one in an area that has a flood of overfed premature crap coming from growers twice their age.

 

[Capt. Stickyfingers]

I'll leave with my tail between my legs, didn't want a bash fest man? Someone hasn't had their dabs yet this morning? sorry my grammar isn't on par with the rest of the world. Guess i'm the only one in an area that has a flood of overfed premature crap coming from growers twice their age.

Don't take it personal, there's idiots of all ages out there. You singled out an age group that most great growers are in, and I thought it was silly. Then you called me homie and patted yourself on the back for telling your friend about a dual spectrum hood, and basically acted like he was a fucking moron (and singled out his age group) because he didn't have one. But it's all good man.

 

[WaxxyNuggets]

Cool cool i try not to, its the internet man "homie" was possible worst possible word choice, and probably grouped me with the very growers we are talking about. I just felt wrongfully bashed for saying that in my experience, older growers are harder to change in their ways.

The uvb was just an example in saying it took a full flower cycle for a buddy of mine to buy into it for bag appeal, his MTF responded wonderfully to it and he called bs up until the comparison, no matter how much information on the matter i presented to him. Just need to hang out with less pretentious potheads of all ages.

Peace Capt, T&T is not my usual forum and thought id chime in, no hard feelings.

 

[Hepheastus420]

I like old timers. We wouldn't be around if it wasn't for them. We'd have extremely less potent marijuana. I'm getting a poop load of info on grows from the older generation here. They're just so helpful..well until they start pooping in their diapers.

 

[Growman3001]

I have been dealing with a bunch of "young growers" and been getting ok stuff. Went to a grower in his 60's who has been doing it for 30 plus years and guess what, he has the best bud... Sometimes you dont need to over think the process...

Ok now that I posted this, I am a pot head and a ganja smoker, hooray...

 

[Balzac89]

hahaha 60 percent lol not much gets above 25. 60 is impossible

 

[Growman3001]

hahaha 60 percent lol not much gets above 25. 60 is impossible

Best I can find is 20 percent, if you can find higher, I wanna know plz...

 

[Balzac89]

Certain Chem strains are above 20

 

[Oscar Zeta Acosta]

Admittedly I am a pretentious pothead. In fact all my posts were made while I was sporting a pencil mustache, monocle and tophat I'll have you know.

 

[cph]

This is some good info on THC levels. Found it somewhere out in the interwebs

And FUCK snobby smokers, my shit is just as good as yours!!

How Accurate are the Lab Numbers?

How Accurate are the Labs' Numbers?
@@@When a dispensary displays the cannabinoid content of buds or other products they're selling, there is a misleading implication of pinpoint accuracy. The weak link here, according to sources we trust, is the use of questionable standards. A chemical "standard" is utilized as a benchmark, to which an unknown sample is compared, so that a precise content of a given component can be ascertained. An inaccurate standard will skew results.
@@ Commercially available cannabinoid standards are not necessarily reliable, we were surprised to learn. If a testing lab bases its calculations on THC or CBD in methanol purchased from a chemical supply house, and the amount present is less than claimed, a serious over-estimation of cannabinoid potency results.@
@@ CBD can be crystallized, so it is practical for a lab to create its own 100% pure CBD reference standard. With THC, being a tarry, viscous liquid that sticks to glassware and everything else, it is much more difficult to create an accurate standard.@
@@ Sampling is also a weak link. From a pound of buds typically delivered by a grower in a turkey bag, the dispensary chooses a few --say, two grams' worth-- to send to the lab. Since location on the plant is a factor in cannabinoid production, if two of the three sample buds are from cola tops, they won't provide a true average for the plant as a whole.@
@@ European researchers question the likelihood of growers producing buds containing more than 30% THC by weight. We know that state-of-the-art hashish from the best genetics tops out around 50-60% THC (Clarke 1998; Mehmedic, Chandra et al. 2010), which should be comparable to the highest calculated THC content in a trichome. Now, look at photomicrograph of a whole bud. What percentage of a bud do you think is composed of the glandular trichome heads themselves?@
@@ Let's just say 33% by weight, which may even be a high estimate. [Also present in the trichome are terpenoids, flavonoids, water, squalene, and waxy ballast from the cell walls.] Then 33% of 60% THC in a trichome head should be 20% THC. In fact, that would seem to be a very good benchmark. GW Pharmaceuticals, after years of selective genetic breeding, and advanced research on optimizing cultivation and environmental control techniques produces material with a consistent THC yield in this range (Potter 2004). Documented THC levels above 20% are quite rare, even for sinsemilla (Mehmedic, Chandra et al. 2010). We are not saying "impossible," but "quite rare."
@@ Although high numbers might be a selling point from the dispensary's point of view, and a 25% THC bud or product might seem much more desirable than 15% THC, the patient would get the same medical effect from the latter by taking an extra vaporizer inhalation or nibble of a cookie (assuming the proper accompanying terpenoids are present). Adjusting intake to achieve the desired effect is what titration is all about.@
@@ The pharmacological importance of terpenoids has been stressed by some perspicacious researchers (McPartland and Russo 2001; Fischedick, Hazekamp et al. 2010). Patients who abandon a suitable strain for one with higher THC and/or CBD content may not be getting more relief for their money if the terpenoid profile is significantly different.
@@ There is solid science available in the literature on Cannabis components and their proper analysis. Some relevant reading@here.@Top​

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[dirtsurfr]

My best comes from out in the back yard, water some cheep nutes and dirt treatment.

 

[Sapphire420]

Love this topic!

I guess I'm kind of an older smoker - I'm 46, been smokin for over 30 years, and only 2 years ago got my MMJ recommendation here in Cali - which is when I learned about different strain names and different effects from sativa and indica...

I live in the Bay Area of Cali - near SF. When I first started smoking, we only had brown, super-seedy weed that we called "Columbian." Then we started getting hooked up with Humbolt-grown green buds, which we called sinsemilla. LOL Over the years as I grew older and lots of my friends stopped toking (WTF, right?? lol) it sometimes got stressful worrying about where I was gonna get my weed!

So a few years ago I'm getting bags of weed from a 23 year old, and then her boyfriend's friend started growing and she started selling me what smelled like home grown. I would buy an ounce, and by the time I came to the end of it, it seemed the quality improved, but I was totally feeling like an old lady that is stuck buying home grown from some kids. She mentioned once it was called Trainwreck - first specific strain name I ever heard!

We've had legal MMJ here in cali for many years, so I have no idea why I waited so long to go "legit," but I finally did so out of frustration. What an eye-opener! So many strains, you can actually choose weed based on the effects of the smoke, etc...

We're growing now since the weed at the dispensaries tends to be pricey (I understand they have to pay employees, electric, etc.), but I am SOOO thankful it's there when I need it!! We call it the pot store.

AAAAAnyway.... To me, weed is weed... I get that we all try to get the highest percentage of THC and it's great to know if you are about to smoke sativa or indica - but up until 2 years ago I quite literally had no idea about all this fancy stuff, and I just smoked weed and I got high.

I guess I could understand someone being pretentious about it if they had never smoked back when it when you scored a fucking bag of weed, but honestly, refusing to toke up with people in a social situation because you don't have enough information about the buds or it's not up to snuff is ridiculous!!

Let's laugh at them some more! Hahahaha....

 

[Sapphire420]

PS - I'm calling myself on being a big ol' hypocrite -

We grow outside, so have a limited time to grow all our weed for the whole year... We're growing 12 different strains, a combo of S/I & blends because I don't want to get "strain drain!" Hahahaha.... But I'd still never refuse to smoke with someone!

 

[dirtsurfr]

I got Hendiu Skunk, Double Purple, Romulain Kush, U2 Kush,Purple Nepaul and Royal Kush this year...