What genetics led to modern cannabis insane trichome coverage?

[PlastikeRubba]

A sprout covered in kidney stones, because it was fed seedmeals containing high levels of arginine, which breaks down to urea, which requires nickel to detoxify/metabolize:

Please sir can I have some nickel?

If you don't eat your Calcium, you can't have any nickel! How can you have any nickel if you don't eat your calcium!

Some pictures show lots of hairs with no caps or glands, I attribute these to extra cal mag and led's, as there are calcium carbonate crystals at the base of each one.

Ugly ass plants with French tips, anthocyanin buildup, and ornamental-only frost are all the rage in the indoor organic world these days. Gotta start these social media influencer buds young.

If people knew what they were were looking at they wouldn't be so mesmerized by reflected light..

If I see another fucking podcast about mylar drones and Mexican balloon witches, I swear, people are god damned obsessed with pointless reflected light. You false image worshippers all go straight to hell according to every religion I've studied.

 

[Dime]

Potency and trichome coverage are not always correlated...

anyway i remember that white widow was the first plant where i saw that crazy trichome cover, medium long stems and sticky resin. I also remember shark shock as one of the first strains that consistently produced crazy frosty specimens with those typical trichome tunnels. Before the widow i think NL was the undisputed queen.
Regarding new things, i often see trichomes with very long stems and with lots of barely sketched heads and i always, always find soapy resin.

True, many strains are resinous but the trichromes have nothing in them to give effects.

 

[JetLife175]

True, many strains are resinous but the trichromes have nothing in them to give effects.

And that's where we are today....

Sometime in the 2010's people stopped breeding for effect and just looks. The advent of Instagram weed as me and my friends call it. Photogenic as hell, but what about the rest?

 

[Dime]

And that's where we are today....

Sometime in the 2010's people stopped breeding for effect and just looks. The advent of Instagram weed as me and my friends call it. Photogenic as hell, but what about the rest?

Yep,ornamentals that taste nice. I'll take a rose and a chocolate bar instead.

 

[theBeaver]

Nice, the good old Great White shark cross,I've found some devastatingly strong plants in the seeds I've done long ago, one of the females was the most narcotic cannabis I've grown. Yours come from a different breeder but you'll find some great individuals for sure.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

I think it‘s not a new as you may think . Hash farmers have been selecting for high trichome for thousands of years . For example you can grow out a straght landrace from Afganistán and find stand out plants covered with snow maybe not all that high THC but plenty of resin

I believe in this; high resinous trait is not a indicator of high thc/ power effect. Afghan phenos aren't the most powerful high out there (personal opinion; as I like high vibration effect rather narcotic) yet one of the most resinous genepools I put them up there with Pakistan pools.

Trichomes seem to me the material/physical expression of the selfdefense mechanism, the chemicals compounds form inside the heads are a result of solar energy (UV, RED, BLUE, solar spectrum...)

Generic Wiki definition;

-"Plant trichomes have many different features that vary between both species of plants and organs of an individual plant. These features affect the subcategories that trichomes are placed into. Some defining features include the following:

• Unicellular or multicellular
• Straight (upright with little to no branching), spiral (corkscrew-shaped) or hooked (curved apex)[2]
• Presence of cytoplasm
• Glandular (secretory) vs. eglandular
• Tortuous, simple (unbranched and unicellular), peltate (scale-like), stellate (star-shaped)[3]
• Adaxial vs. abaxial, referring to whether trichomes are present, respectively, on the upper surface (adaxial) or lower surface (abaxial) of a leaf or other lateral organ.

In a model organism, Cistus salviifolius, there are more adaxial trichomes present on this plant because this surface suffers from more ultraviolet (UV), solar irradiance light stress than the abaxial surface.[4]

Trichomes can protect the plant from a large range of detriments, such as UV light, insects, transpiration, and freeze intolerance.[5]"-

Not all trichomes are Glandular therefore not all secrete chemicals aka cannabinoids. My interpretation is that a all white trichome covered flower can be made of predominantly non glandular trichomes so it wont get me "high".
I experience it when I smoke equatorial/tropical Sativa VS a non equatorial cultivar. Equatorial sativas to my understanding are not covered in trichomes making flowers look white, but will get you "high" as anyone has ever been.

Washers or trichome farmers (as some like to be called) are experts on the subject of glandular vs non. They will even look for density and mass of the glandular heads and select based on that... not if the flower looks white of trichs... also not many washer growing white widow...

Its hard to judge this topic objectively with out the help of a microscope.

 

[kro-magnon]

I think most of us gardeners have found at least one plant who looked insanely resinous with a very disappointing high even weak. Potency is not just related to aparant resin and some specific types of resin are better smoked in hachich form.
I have no experience with hachich made from equatorial sativas, does it make a good resin to smoke or you lose some of the high?There is cannabinoids in the plant matter also not just the resin, no?

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

I will put this out there;

Hand made charas are aimed at a specific type of glandular trichome VS dry sift hash is aimed at a very very specific trichomes gland.

both methods birth the same result; Hash. Charas and Hash don't have same effect.

 

[kro-magnon]

I will put this out there;

Hand made charas are aimed at a specific type of glandular trichome VS dry sift hash is aimed at a very very specific trichomes gland.

both methods birth the same result; Hash. Charas and Hash don't have same effect.

There is some very different types of hachichs, that's absolutely true. The process and the plants genetics all play a role in the finished product.

 

[BC LONE WOLF]

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