SmokeDaima
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Does higher thc content mean that the weed is going to get you more stoned?
No, because the THC %age is bullshiit.
Total bullshit, if one is to be precise!
Reason 1:
THC % age means what percentage of the tested gland cannabinoids is THC.
However this doesn't tell you anything, since you do not not what percentage of the plant matter is gland cannabinoids.
In other words a plant that tests at 25% THC, but the gland cannabinoids are 10% of the tested material is 2.5% THC by weight, but the bullshit sellers will never tell you that, of course.
OTOH, a plant that is 16% THC in tested cannabinoid material, but that material is 20% of what the total weight is, will be 3.2% THC by weight, so it will be "stronger", than the supposed 25% alleged heavyweight.
Reason 2:
THC is not the only factor in strength. Terpenes and their combination with the THC seem to play a big role, but this is really not properly understood or researched yet. The childish obsession with THC number doesn't help here, either.
Reason 3: (the clincher)
A publicity seeker (seed bank, seller or whatever) will never, ever take a true average of a strain to be tested (i.e. grow, say, 100 - or even just 20 - plants from a strain and take an equal amount from each, without crooking the selection). No, they will take their bestest clone, which they may have selected from tens, even hundreds of plants, and try to fob this off on you as a "typical" sample. You only have a snowball's chance in hell of finding the same pheno from one whole pack of seeds. Only a fool would believe that every seed in that pack has the same THC %age as advertised.
Until testing is more honest (more unbiased, better explained and preferably handled by an INDEPENDENT tester) then any given THC %ages are a total waste of ink and paper.
No, because the THC %age is bullshiit.
Total bullshit, if one is to be precise!
Reason 1:
THC % age means what percentage of the tested gland cannabinoids is THC.
However this doesn't tell you anything, since you do not not what percentage of the plant matter is gland cannabinoids.
In other words a plant that tests at 25% THC, but the gland cannabinoids are 10% of the tested material is 2.5% THC by weight, but the bullshit sellers will never tell you that, of course.
OTOH, a plant that is 16% THC in tested cannabinoid material, but that material is 20% of what the total weight is, will be 3.2% THC by weight, so it will be "stronger", than the supposed 25% alleged heavyweight.
Reason 2:
THC is not the only factor in strength. Terpenes and their combination with the THC seem to play a big role, but this is really not properly understood or researched yet. The childish obsession with THC number doesn't help here, either.
Reason 3: (the clincher)
A publicity seeker (seed bank, seller or whatever) will never, ever take a true average of a strain to be tested (i.e. grow, say, 100 - or even just 20 - plants from a strain and take an equal amount from each, without crooking the selection). No, they will take their bestest clone, which they may have selected from tens, even hundreds of plants, and try to fob this off on you as a "typical" sample. You only have a snowball's chance in hell of finding the same pheno from one whole pack of seeds. Only a fool would believe that every seed in that pack has the same THC %age as advertised.
Until testing is more honest (more unbiased, better explained and preferably handled by an INDEPENDENT tester) then any given THC %ages are a total waste of ink and paper.
gert,
THC % means what % of THC as a % of the dry weight of the sample. You misunderstand analysis.
Tell me how do they determine gland cannabiboids are a % of the tested materials? I have been doing analysis for 25 years and never heard of this.
THC is the most important analytical result.
If you have lots of THC and the right terpenes this will equal higher potency.
If the terpenes are ones that do not contribute to the high or make the kind of potency you do not like at all, then the terpenes are not creating what you want. THC is still important but you need a variety with different terpenes with your THC. It is easy to find varieties that are your idea of potency.
-SamS
No, because the THC %age is bullshiit.
Total bullshit, if one is to be precise!
Reason 1:
THC % age means what percentage of the tested gland cannabinoids is THC.
However this doesn't tell you anything, since you do not not what percentage of the plant matter is gland cannabinoids.
In other words a plant that tests at 25% THC, but the gland cannabinoids are 10% of the tested material is 2.5% THC by weight, but the bullshit sellers will never tell you that, of course.
OTOH, a plant that is 16% THC in tested cannabinoid material, but that material is 20% of what the total weight is, will be 3.2% THC by weight, so it will be "stronger", than the supposed 25% alleged heavyweight.
Reason 2:
THC is not the only factor in strength. Terpenes and their combination with the THC seem to play a big role, but this is really not properly understood or researched yet. The childish obsession with THC number doesn't help here, either.
Reason 3: (the clincher)
A publicity seeker (seed bank, seller or whatever) will never, ever take a true average of a strain to be tested (i.e. grow, say, 100 - or even just 20 - plants from a strain and take an equal amount from each, without crooking the selection). No, they will take their bestest clone, which they may have selected from tens, even hundreds of plants, and try to fob this off on you as a "typical" sample. You only have a snowball's chance in hell of finding the same pheno from one whole pack of seeds. Only a fool would believe that every seed in that pack has the same THC %age as advertised.
Until testing is more honest (more unbiased, better explained and preferably handled by an INDEPENDENT tester) then any given THC %ages are a total waste of ink and paper.
Withe all due respect Sam, I find that VERY hard to buy.gert,
THC % means what % of THC as a % of the dry weight of the sample. You misunderstand analysis.
Well, they'd determine that by testing the glands (trichs). That is the impression I've gathered over the years, although some people state that it is 25% of the general cannabinoids, as appearing in spectral chromatography test, but I'm not sure I believe that either. %age weight of trichomes is the only one that sounds remotely reasonable. Do the people that test your buds really tell you that they are in the vicinity of 20% by weight???? Do you trust them?Tell me how do they determine gland cannabinoids are a % of the tested materials? I have been doing analysis for 25 years and never heard of this.
When an analysis comes back at 18% thc, does this really mean that almost a fifth of the material is thc? or that 18% of the glandular material (resin) is thc?
If it means that 18% of the total material is thc that doesn't leave much for water, cellulose, sugars, and all the other leaf and calyx material. It also means that the thc content of a plant depends on its carefulness of trimming, doh! if more useless leaf is cut away, the higher the thc percentage of the remainder. That way the best % thc would be to do a dry sieve and call it buds.