I GET IT NOW! Never Going back to the Dispo!

I also feel this! It’s because when we grow we get to control all the factors of growth that change the quality of the bud- nutrition is a big one, but also time to harvest, trichome color, preparation, dry or cure time, and transit time to consumer.

I feel the exact same! Just this last harvest of my PK, it is insane stone compared to the stuff from the dispos! Was always buying the strongest THC and Terps I could find but now vaping this homegrown - I forgot what is was like to get high again. Thought I was tripping to bro until really started digging into what was going on?! Our dedication, babying and nurturing, meticulous attention with every aspect gets lost or even stolen when dealing with the commercial grows. Love to see other people experiencing the very same rewards! Keep em green friend 👊

Age and handling...

By the time the bud get to us, it get real beat up whether the grower hand trims or machine trims. Dispo even worse, that bud had to go thru a lot of hands to get to you. Whereas a small batch drop might beat a good home grow, because its actually been treated really well on top of being commercially grown, selected strains, handled by pros.

I think a lot of growers started growing because they were fed up with the inconsistent quality and quantity of legal store-bought or even black market weed.. at least that's why I do it, even if it's crap (usually it's not, but there have been exceptions), but at least it's my own :D the product often loses a lot of its quality by the time it reaches the user due to improper drying and storage, and it doesn't matter whether it comes from a legal or illegal source, plus, it always adds to the feeling that this is your own grow, your own effort went into it, and you know how it was grown, rinsed, dried, stored, etc.

sad truth is dispo buds get manhandled so many times b4 it gets to you, half the goodness is gone. combine that with overzealous machine trimmers saving shit for extraction, and u get MDM- modern day mersh.

Good afternoon, everything that becomes a business ends up losing quality in favor of quantity... that's what's been happening with most dispensaries... Hence the number of private growers has increased in recent years, as people are looking for quality that is becoming harder to find...

Possibly old or poorly stored making it age even faster. The source my just be poor. Each dispo will probably wildly vary in quality. the only thing that prevents them from providing good weed is incompetence growing or incompetence somehwere else in the process of drying / storage. It's not magic and it's quite easy to do with basic competency.