Trichomes

That's a silly 1 init..1 guess.... Much love 💚.

Trichomes are the potency........or more correctly, the chemical composition of the trichomes........and not necessarily the amount of trichomes. No trichomes = no high.

A majority of the thc in a plant is in the tricombs.

Ja, Trichome spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Potenz. Diese enthalten die meisten Cannabinoide, wie THC und CBD, sowie Terpene, die für den Geschmack und das Aroma verantwortlich sind. Die Konzentration und Qualität der Trichome beeinflussen direkt die Stärke und Wirkung des Endprodukt. Je mehr trichome desdo besser :)

Potency has two parts, really. First is the average maturity of trichomes on the plant (this is commonly reduced to percent amber). This is your global-level potency calculation. Clear trichome heads will have no psychoactive effects. Cloudy trichomes are indicative of cannabinoids having been formed in the trichome head. Amber trichomes are indicative of cannabinoids having been formed in the trichome head and have oxidized/degraded into less psychoactive cannabinoids. Second, your potency will change throughout your day/night cycle. This is your local-level potency and matters little. The old amber rules are completely nonsensical. Most cultivars deposit trichomes in waves, and have trichomes mature from clear to white in waves, and have white turn amber in waves (not necessarily in that order every time). As long as the plant isn't throwing down new trichomes to have turn cloudy, you might as well harvest. You can always degrade your goodies later, but without chemical assistance you cannot un-ruin your ambers back to milky... If you are growing for washing or sifting or concentrates in general that rule goes even further out of the water. Different trichome colors are different head sizes and impact hashish quality and mass. I know folks that are real hash heads that don't do a single thing related to the industry anymore except grow good washers above 5%, make hash rosin, and do isomer shifts on the rosin for a new-level stone. These people regularly harvest at 7 or 8 weeks flower to zero detriment. I can get behidn this more than cultivators growing exclusively popcorn nugs only for med/rec programs just because their room gets one more popcorn boof cycle per year.

There's plenty of empircal evidence to show that they are. It's measurable and verfiable in an easy way. Also that the coloration is a viable way to assess potency in an accurate manner -- not saying current beliefs about how much amber or cloudiness is correct, as that has not been studied well enough and still relying on anecdotal knowledge about something that requires precise measuremnts with equipment average people simply don't own at home. I saw one person that came up with an accurate way to measure aerial density of trichomes... this is part of the lack of research -- how to measure some of this stuff accurately. Then,, you also have to isolate/extract and measure various molecules of interest, which is known how to do already... I don't have it bookmarked but a scientis showed a viable method to measure the trichomes on the surface in an accurate way. While he didn't comment on when it is bes to harvest or most potent, the coloration absolutely strongly correlates to potency. more testing would be requird to hammer out when.. and even that would come with asterisk. There are all sorts of things that a grower can do or variances in environment that might hinder or impact that timing. i've read varying accounts of what proportion is contained in the trichomes. I'd wager that the majority of increased in potency of plants the last couple decades is mostly on the surface, though. Just a guess. That's what seems to be the most different between them, at least as far as the eye can see, which should not instill confidence in the conclusion.

without trychomes there is no potency I would say ..