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Wild cannabis: what is ditch weed and can you use it?

The Cannigma

Feral cannabis plants, on the other hand, are left to the whims of nature, so they’re not as heavy in trichomes. For cannabis sativa and indica , this can be; but the plant is very diverse and some varieties adapted to live in the mountains and can survive cold, harsh weather. Related Stories. The 8 easiest cannabis seeds to grow.

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Harvesting your Cannabis Plant

Medical Cannabis Seedbank

Now, this is where the individual preference comes in, for a slight euphoric high, harvest when 15-20% of the trichomes have turned to an amber color. However, if it’s a fall blown relaxing, a narcotic effect which promotes sleep, harvest only when about 80%+ of the trichomes are amber. They form nice highly compact flowers.

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How to Grow High-Quality Weed at Home

The Joint Blog

You have to make your selection from Sativa , ruderalis, Indica, and hybrid. The pistil, calyxes, and leaf tops contain young trichomes. Unlike other plants, weed leaves are thicker, more minor, heavier, and surrounded by trichomes half concealed by flower clusters. Step 1: Choosing Your Cannabis Seeds. Drying Cannabis.

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Weed slang – the most common nicknames for cannabis

The Cannigma

Within the Cannabis genus, we can find the hemp species Cannabis sativa , Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Ruderalis. Indica and Sativa. There is perhaps no more contentious discussion in cannabis than what makes a plant an Indica, and what is a Sativa. Scientifically speaking, that’s simply not the case.

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Super Skunk Automatic: Another potency racer from Sensi‘s auto breeding garage

Sensi Seeds

Which yielded an 80% indica hybrid with all those desirable properties Super Skunk is famed for, plus autoflowering effect. believes that this specific trichome structure is a genetic stamp left upon the automatic strains by the ruderalis hybrid used by Sensi Seeds. And then there was this smell… which impressed Ellis D.

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The best strains of all time: 100 top cannabis strains to try

SpeedWeed

Under each strain you’ll find info on its lineage, type—indica, sativa, or hybrid—dominant terpene, activities its good for, backstory, why we love it, and where to buy it around you. King among indicas, this flavorful bud is great for falling asleep at the end of a long day. Strain type: Indica. Strain type: Indica.

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Minorities in cannabis, with Steven Philpott Jr.

The Cannigma

one of our science reviewers at The Cannigma and a cannabis trichome expert who is getting his master’s in Plant Sciences. As part of his master’s degree, Steve is currently using electron microscopes to take super close-up pictures of trichomes, tiny protrusions on cannabis plants. So, a trichome is what? EG: Super cool.