Trichomes & Highs and Harvest

THE Roseman

This is from my poor and weak memory but from much research and experience. It is not a cut and paste.

EVERY GROWER needs that $ 9.95 Radio shack microscope at harvest time.
Pot gets us high by giving us THC and something else called canabanol. There's a couple of other things in pot that gets us high, but that is the basic two. AGAIN an expert can tell you more or cut and paste it here.
Most of the good THC we desire is in the trichiomes. Smoking or ingesting cooked THC gives us a heady high. A high that is giggley. We laugh for no reason except we feel good when high from THC. The THC lowers our blood sugars.
A THC high makes us creative, and we get ideas, like I want to make a painting or do some art. I want to build a model car or model boat. I want to write a poem. I am going to finish that ironing or finish that chore or write a novel. I 'm going to learn to play the guitar.
The canabanol comes mostly from the resin or oily part of the pot. It gives us the body high. It relieves pain and it makes us lazy. It gives us the "couch lock" high, or the "glued to the sofa" high. It affects our muscles and lowers our blood pressure. It makes us NOT think or have thoughts. Or you think I am going to just sit here, or you think I 'm so stoned that I can't get up and go pee.
Two different distinct highs!
We normally smoke commercial grade pot, harvested cause it quit growing and gaining weight. It is a mix of buds and leaves. We don''t want to waste it, so we smoke it all, leaves and all. When it was harvested, the trichiomes had aged and turned dark brown, after absorbing the resin and canabanol. We get a mix of the two highs, the THC High and the Canabanol High.
When an EXPERT GROWER and educated knowledgable GROWER grows pot, he can seek and achieve different kinds of highs from his GROW by harvesting by the color of the trichomes. This can be done by observing the trichomes under a cheap lighted microscope.


This is somewhat a debateable subject, but 90% of the Expert Growers will agree with me here.

OLD-TImers harvest by the color of the pistals or stigmas, sometimes called the hairs, in slang. Educated Growers go by the trichiomes. Again, it is arguable and debatable.
If you harvest the buds when the trichomes are all clear, I mean clear as glass so you see thru them, then you get a HEADY, CEREBRAL Light High, a non-body high, from the pot. You can smoke a J and do saturday chores, or go do something creative.
About the 6th, to 7th or 8th week of FLOWERING, the trichomes start getting AMBER, or the color of beer. GROWERS tell the BUD LIGHT joke here. I want my trichomes the color of BUD LIGHT ! Then they get CLOUDY, and look like the color or semen. Then at the 8th to 9th to 10th week, they get darker and darker and get brown.
DARK trichomes give you that "Tied to the sofa, I can't get up off the sofa" BODY high.
This varies according to strains, and whether it is Sativa or Indica.

THE Roseman

I think this ought to be in FAQ.

HighPhi

thanks roseman this is a big help to me, as i hate the couch lock high.
now i dont have to have it anymore

THE Roseman

I enjoy labeling my jars "clear trichs" and "dark trichs" and "mixed trichs" just to be able to achieve different highs.

kP

one thing though is when you harvest at all clear, your potency is next to nothing. at all cloudy, your potency is about half strength, and at 50/50 cloudy/amber you get almost full potential.

if you don't like couch lock highs, grow a heady sativa and harvest at 50-50

kp

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HighPhi

i am aiming to grow or create my own strain that is a super head high, something that'll make you laugh like your on acid, inspire you like you just got your head around the universe, something that you can smoke a few joints and crave being around people.

love to get some recommendations for strains etc.

bd1975

HighPhi,

Wish I could give u some recomendations...I can't...
My wife HAS GOT HAVE some of this when u get it..I'm trying to make something down this line myself. Please keep me posted w/ your progress. thanks

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HighPhi

no worries mate, you can be sure that when i get it right there will be seeds for everyone
share the love it say.

THE Roseman

Gather some KIEF and make HASH !

Here's my new box:

HighPhi

beautiful looking box there roseman, may i enquire to the price and stockists?