New Grower Bandit's Cheesy Grow.....

[Northern Grower]

The fox tails on the one looks nice! Doing a good job on them mate. Hope they smoke good.

 

[stashmouth]

After a cure, you can tell everybody you brought them back from Amster-Damn!

 

[Bandit]

Thanks everyone! I guess I just wanted to be able to finish them properly. Although they are only about two weeks shy of what I wanted, I feel like that would have made a huge difference in yield, maybe not.
But this was my very first time growing Cannabis, and I wanted everything to go perfectly. In general I guess I should be very happy, but I am a perfectionist......

Thanks again for all the good vibes.

This evening I am feeling quite nice. Between looking at me plants, smoking me nice purple and downing me Childress 2000 Cabernet Sav. I am feeling very happy.......

~bandit

 

[Bandit]

NOw foir a question/

Is it TRUE that raw cannabis, the fresh plant out of the ground, is not psychoactive at all. There is a process called decarboxylation after you dry the plant that makes it psychoactive?

Bandirt~

 

[florafire]

not sure about, 'at all'....but it does not do much and is a waste of it to smoke it without proper drying and curing imo...

some other may disagree with me, but quick drying is not satisafactory...

 

[low_and_slow]

Decarboxylase converts L-Dopa to dopamine within the body...doesn't have much to do with cannabis as far as I see it. People take decarboxylase inhibitors to prevent conversion of supplemental L-Dopa into Dopamine outside the blood brain barrier. If you're an alzheimer's patient and take something to increase dopamine production, any unnecessary production outside the brain is bad, so you take a decarboxylase inhibitor to make sure that all your L-Dopa converts once inside the blood brain barrier.

 

[Muddy]

The psychoactive properties come mainly from the THC which is present in the trichomes. As long as they are present it will get you high. While curing does effect those properties a bit, it's more for eliminating the chlorophyll and improving the taste.

For a better understanding of the changes that take place as a plant matures and cures, take a look at this. Technical but pretty much a must read for any serious cannabis student. https://www.autoflower.org/f42/marijuana-botany-1963.html

 

[Bandit]

Awesome! Thanks for the response Muddy, as usual very helpful

The girls have been in darkness for about 34 hours now. I will get good pics of them once I start the chop! Here in the last four days the amount of trichromes has exploded. The buds when from a light dusting previously to simply covered now. No matter what angle you look at them from they glisten back at you..... so pretty. Also, the heads of the trics have gone from mostly clear to solid milky white. I do not see any amber, but oh well.

~bandit

 

[Bandit]

Well, today is the day. I am getting ready for the chop. I will post pictures asap.

I am very excited!

~bandit

 

[Muddy]

All milky on the trics is fine. I'm really looking forward to seeing your yield off of those. You've done a bang up job with them.