i have never disagreed with anything in this thread. i just don't get the point and i feel not enough focus is put on the numerous other compounds.
I am not as in as much disagreement with you as it might appear. I was just more remaining topical and in part because of how many breeders push/hype/advertise their gear. They mainly rely on a strains level of THC as their main way of advertising it and of attracting customers. Because of that many people see THC as being the only thing that is important, or at least by far of the greatest importance. Since that is a very common perception among growers when picking strains I am not surprised than people have begun to research when THC levels peak and then write about it.
If anyone does not believe that is a common perception, that level or percent of THC is all important or of greatest importance, just stop to consider how many times we see threads or messages in existing threads where the question is asked, what strain has the most THC, the highest percentage of THC.
But I do agree with you that it is THC along with other cannabinoids and terpenoids, when in a better ratio to each other, is what actually equates to what people consider to be maximum potency, not highest levels of percentages of THC, but potency as each person defines it according to their personal preference.
For a while I was growing a Durban Poison where the THC level rating only said over 12%. Well that's less than half the percentage of THC advertised about a few strains, but it got me a whole heck of a lot higher than some strains that were rated at 18%, 20% and above, and some friends of mine I turned on said the same thing. The only answer to that can be the ratios, the combination, 'the mix' of cannabinoids and terpenoids were a better ratios, combination or 'mix' than some strains that have higher levels of THC.
Some other friends did not agree, but then their personal preference in what they smoke is very different than mine and that of my friends who felt the same as I did.
So yes, there is much more to the story than THC alone, but regardless of personal preference or taste or likes and dislikes it is still a fact when THC levels max out.
To some they might prefer their smoke when maximum levels of THC exist. To others they might very well prefer to grow beyond maximum levels of THC and gladly lose some because the affects they then get are more to their liking, more in line with their taste and preference. In the case of those people they should harvest later than when maximum levels of THC have been reached and in the case of others with different tastes and likes they should harvest when THC levels are at their highest.
In a way it falls under a very broad very vague descriptive term, that being 'potency,' or 'most potent.' There really is no singular totally accurate definition for potency or most potent that fits or applies equally across the board, that everyone or most everyone will agree with. I have friends that are total couch-lock fiends and they grow some herb that will make a person almost comatose. They consider it to be uber-potent. Me being a lover of 100% satvas and the soaring clear high they give, to me my friends couch-lock herb is not really potent.
Potency is really in the mind's eye of the toker, it is the type high or stone they like the most that is more pronounced than another that is either similar to it or totally different to it. My friends that are couch-lock fiends, the few of them that there are, are not at all impressed by the satins I love the most because they lack what they love the most and what they consider to equate to potency just as I do with their strains that may almost knock me out but do not deliver a clear soaring ceiling-less rocket-sled ride like I prefer. To me their preferred strains lack potency. Neither of us sees or accepts the powerful affects of the others strains as true potency because they do not give each of us what we prefer in the amounts we prefer it.
i'm allowed this opinion.
Of course you are, as are all the rest of us equally allowed our own opinions.
Not to sound like I am going back on my previous statement but I think that opinions and preferences are the cause for many of the arguments and disagreements and flat out fights we see here, and like are also seen on other similar sites.
When irrefutable facts are presented, even if they do or do not tell the whole story, if they do not support someone's personal opinions and personal preferences they are rejected and people look for ways to attempt to discredit them rather than just accept that they are true, but that due to their personal preferences they really do not actually apply to how they grow and or when they harvest.
Some seem to take certain facts in a personal way, as if the individual is being attacked in some way, as if they have been shown or proven to not know what they are doing or not know what they are talking about, rather than accept the facts as being accurate in the context they were given, but also realize and understand that in that context they do not fully apply to them due to their own personal preferences being so different.
Rather than just do that, they claim the facts to be inaccurate and absurd and the next thing we see is a thread that is highly argumentative and where one side argues facts while the other side argues opinions and preferences and both sides want to come out on top, to be seen as being the ones who are correct rather than just accept that fact or not, doing everything exactly according to the facts do not always give every single person what they like or prefer the most.
That is often the case when a topic is stretched somewhat beyond its origin, beyond what it is actually about and instead applied to individual cases where while still factual it does not fully apply because there are other mitigating factors involved that might in some cases be more important to one group of people than the facts alone are, strictly due to personal preference, and in other cases the facts alone are all that matters because to that group the facts give them what they prefer.
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