COGrown
Well-Known Member
The different cannabinoids and terpenes have a heavy influence on the actual perceived potency of a strain vs. the thc potency of a strain, but the other grain of salt to take with testing numbers is that if you take off a primo head bud and snip off all the sugar leaves and send that off to get tested you will get optimal results, but not necessarily results that are reflective of the whole harvest. Furthermore, in retail there's lots of shady techniques that get involved in between the harvest and when the actual customer gets the bud in the stores. Often buds will be tumbled by the shops or growers before sales to remove a good deal of the exterior trich heads, which will be then made into concentrates/extracts/etc to be sold as well. This is a technique that was started by the Dutch, but I have heard first hand that it takes place in quite a few prominent denver dispensaries.ahhh, so it's a panic attack?
I've seen that a bunch, and had one attack myself, on some sensi-star that I grew back in the early 2000s, I eneded up spending 600 dollars are multiple medical tests to make sure my heart wasn't bad... stress tests, echocardiogram, etc...
What it was, was too strong of coffee first, then I had a single bongload of that sensi-star and my heart skipped a couple beats, so I freaked out, and ended up well... in green fever I guess...
not fun, I quit smoking for almost a yr, and lost that strain, it was the strongest herb I've smoked to date, but not at all pleasant to smoke.
I'm not too sure about all these THC tests, I smoked some Chiquita banana @32.3% THC, and it didn't even come close to half of my strains.. We need to figure this out, I mean, we know it's all the other cannabinoids involved too...
Especially considering some of my strains are from clones, for example the bluedream, my BD smoked WAY stronger than that 32% Chiquita banana... And BD is supposed to be in the low 20s.. I just wonder which other cannabinoid is making the difference? Or is it like a magical ratio of the cannabinoids that makes them all stronger in conjunction? Anyways...
Any time someone who relies on the commercial system smokes my herb they are blown away first by the taste, and then by how strong it is. However, for me, since I've been doing this since quite a bit before the medicinal age, its just your slightly better than average chronic. It is chronic, no mistaking that, but in CO that used to be pretty easy to find.