MidgeSmith
420 Member
I have posted this elsewhere, but nobody really seemed to know the full answer, do you?
I know that the best time to harvest for optimum strength, aroma and taste is supposed to be at the point of peak maturity, once the trichs are as milky as possible and ambering (or maybe just about to) at the start of the day, before first light. Some say give them 24 - 72 hours of darkness first, keep them cooler the last few days, drive a nail through the stalk, give them more UV, be sure to access the Emerson effect and so on and so on and so on... But...
While I know that the terpenes and cannabinoids are most concentrated in the trichomes, the giant glands of plenty like the swollen shrooms of an alien city which cover our favourite plants, making them look frosty... But... Cannabis stinks to high heaven from about halfway through flowering, if not before that. So terpenes are being made, evaporating, glands are bursting and spilling cannabinoids and terpenes on to the surface of the buds.
We know that buds contain terpenes and cannabinoids inside the bud, not just on the outside, though presumably, those inside grew while the bud was filling out and were then enclosed by the swollen buds, calyxes, sepals, whatever.
So, what I am wondering tonight is... Just how much of the super lovely wonder chemicals of cannabis are from the day of harvest, the precise moment of harvest and just form the trichomes that exist on the plant at the moment of harvest and how much is smeared over the surface and inside of the buds, building up over the last few weeks of the plant's growth, surviving the balmy heat and dryness of the flowering period and creating its impact when the plant is consumed?
TL;DR It can't all be in the final days trichomes can it? There must be quite a bit of flavour, aroma and effect from the last 2 or three weeks of growth that has been burst, rubbed in and smeared about huh?
I know that the best time to harvest for optimum strength, aroma and taste is supposed to be at the point of peak maturity, once the trichs are as milky as possible and ambering (or maybe just about to) at the start of the day, before first light. Some say give them 24 - 72 hours of darkness first, keep them cooler the last few days, drive a nail through the stalk, give them more UV, be sure to access the Emerson effect and so on and so on and so on... But...
While I know that the terpenes and cannabinoids are most concentrated in the trichomes, the giant glands of plenty like the swollen shrooms of an alien city which cover our favourite plants, making them look frosty... But... Cannabis stinks to high heaven from about halfway through flowering, if not before that. So terpenes are being made, evaporating, glands are bursting and spilling cannabinoids and terpenes on to the surface of the buds.
We know that buds contain terpenes and cannabinoids inside the bud, not just on the outside, though presumably, those inside grew while the bud was filling out and were then enclosed by the swollen buds, calyxes, sepals, whatever.
So, what I am wondering tonight is... Just how much of the super lovely wonder chemicals of cannabis are from the day of harvest, the precise moment of harvest and just form the trichomes that exist on the plant at the moment of harvest and how much is smeared over the surface and inside of the buds, building up over the last few weeks of the plant's growth, surviving the balmy heat and dryness of the flowering period and creating its impact when the plant is consumed?
TL;DR It can't all be in the final days trichomes can it? There must be quite a bit of flavour, aroma and effect from the last 2 or three weeks of growth that has been burst, rubbed in and smeared about huh?