The flush "myth"

NanoGadget

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Go look it up. I just seen it a couple weeks ago. 5% thc was the strongest pot u could get in 1995.
That is a crock of shit. I was assisting the guy who taught me to grow in 1995 and he was running some Northern Lights that was every bit as good, if not better, as the Northern Lights people grow today and NL typically rests between 15 and 20%. You are 100% incorrect.
 

Chunky Stool

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it was my first color paged grow book. I enjoyed others subsequently like Rosenthal but planted my first legal room with the bible in hand. I didnt get steered wrong, never had mites, molds, plant deaths, cloning issues, no room failures no fires. No issues at all. the links were awesome, the pics were priceless.....he's full of shit about the red lights used to make fem seeds, but with a grain of salt it put me straight.
It did not explain why things were the way they were necessarily but thats where Rosenthal came in .
I own both books and they do contain useful information. Of course they are outdated when it comes to LED technology, but overall they aren't bad.
I read most of Rosenthal's book while on a six hour flight. Got some strange looks and a few thumbs up! :eyesmoke:
 

greg nr

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That is a crock of shit. I was assisting the guy who taught me to grow in 1995 and he was running some Northern Lights that was every bit as good, if not better, as the Northern Lights people grow today and NL typically rests between 15 and 20%. You are 100% incorrect.
Agree he is incorrect. There are landrace strains that push 20%. Those have been untouched for thousands of years.

5% is ditchweed with a lot of dirt mixed in. It is used by the anti forces to say weed needs to be controlled because it's much stronger than what you remember. I smoked back in the 70's, and I remember being punched into the ground on several occasions. That wasn't 5% weed I was smoking.
 

whitebb2727

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I'm guessing that those from the Jorge camp grew guerrilla style and for cash. They surely fed to the end for big profits/heavy weights. They added elements and witnessed growth.
The weed tasted like shit when dried. they couldnt figure out how to make it right. they tried feeding only water at the end and found what they were doing was actually starving their plant at the end in an attempt to use up excess carbs in the plant material. ah...they were flushing out the excess carbs they figured.

It does actually do this. If I stop feeding nutrients in hydro and go plain water the plant material does show a significant decrease in glucose, thus ridding the plant of these carbs. It still tasted strange so they dug up old tobacco tech and thus began the fermenting of their herb to do the more of the same. common garden herbs are not cured with fermentation before use. tobacco is smooth when fetilizer is tapered in the end. the plant produces less green of course, but its smooth as soon as the twigs snap..(sounds familiar)

jesus didnt cure his kanah~bosem...he used the dried flowering tops straight up:P

my authoritative 2cents
Tobacco is not smooths as soon as the stem breaks and it is very green at the end.
 

coreywebster

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That is a crock of shit. I was assisting the guy who taught me to grow in 1995 and he was running some Northern Lights that was every bit as good, if not better, as the Northern Lights people grow today and NL typically rests between 15 and 20%. You are 100% incorrect.
Haha. 1995, like that was a long time ago... lol. I was smoking Northern light back then too. It was common in the UK due to less odour. It was beautiful and got you high AF. Possibly the first proper weed I started on.
Just made me laugh that someone thinks you couldn't get weed above 5% in 1995. I wasn't the dark ages, jesus.
 

greg nr

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Haha. 1995, like that was a long time ago... lol. I was smoking Northern light back then too. It was common in the UK due to less odour. It was beautiful and got you high AF. Possibly the first proper weed I started on.
Just made me laugh that someone thinks you couldn't get weed above 5% in 1995. I wasn't the dark ages, jesus.
White Widow was released in 1994. Just one potent strain among dozens that were available, even in the states.
 

Kingrow1

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The Teaming series is an introduction to organic's. It's written in layman's terms...... But, your right in a way. Still a damn good read for those wanting to change over!
Certainly a good book, i have recomended many read it for a good grounding. After that you cant help but learn a whole lot more :-)
 

ANC

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I would say most of the African strains run in that 5 to 15% band. Still gets you plenty fucked up.
 

MichiganMedGrower

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White Widow was released in 1994. Just one potent strain among dozens that were available, even in the states.

It won the cup and tested in the 12% range.

Before that the old guys were breeding for potency as the Mexican weed they had was in the 4-6% range and they got seeds from the Middle East and also Vietnamese Thai and went from there.

All in rosenthals book.
 

chemphlegm

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Tobacco is not smooths as soon as the stem breaks and it is very green at the end.
my tobacco is very smooth compared to marlboro or the ones fed to the end. when my stems crack apart my leaves crumble too.
I dont keep it moist in a bag/jar, I gift it when its dried, and youre right, still a green color most of the time, tied up, users shred it and use it immediately. The leaves I dry outdoors in the sun are very different, browner, different taste but nobody would say harsh when compared. there are dozens of strains I imagine all tasting differently than others when cultivated.
 

whitebb2727

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my tobacco is very smooth compared to marlboro or the ones fed to the end. when my stems crack apart my leaves crumble too.
I dont keep it moist in a bag/jar, I gift it when its dried, and youre right, still a green color most of the time, tied up, users shred it and use it immediately. The leaves I dry outdoors in the sun are very different, browner, different taste but nobody would say harsh when compared. there are dozens of strains I imagine all tasting differently than others when cultivated.
I'm just going by the tobacco that I helped with when growing up.

Large fields. I used to spend my summers cutting tobacco as a kid.
 

chemphlegm

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I'm just going by the tobacco that I helped with when growing up.

Large fields. I used to spend my summers cutting tobacco as a kid.
some of my fam were baccy farmers in Tenn. never worked there though. its illegal to sell baccy shredded here in MI you know that?
I have an established market for bundled though, just waiting for the right time to pull the trigger. I'm so busy, so old, so tired these days.
 

whitebb2727

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I will say that there are studies that have been done on cannabis potency. A big one done by university of Mississippi.

They tested samples over the last 20 years. Its shows thc has risen from 3.8 to about 12 percent the in 2012.

What does that mean? Nothing really. First the samples were old. There also different ways to test for thc.

Then you have to look at what people were getting back then. Mostly early cut brick.

Indoor high quality cannabis is more available now.

I smoked pot for the first time over 20 years ago. That shit would make you see tracers. Highly psychoactive. I've been looking for it since.

Humans have been using pot for thousands of years.
 
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