What about edibles?
Heading down to Portland (OR) for the weekend with the GF. Anybody have any âdankâ recommendations? Good pot shops, strains, edible brands? I always like to try the local flavor when I go places.
IMP-5 week 5 of flowering phase
notes:
since last week, the odor has changed from skunky to fruity with a low skunk undertone. the flowers and leaves around the flowers have sticky trichomes all over them, and the new leaf growth is purple. also, i think the lights have burned my cones out because it doesnât look that purple to me irl as it looks in the photos.
according to the seed company (In House Genetics), itâs a 10.5 week flowering phase, which means 5 more weeks and hopefully it stops growing soon because itâs way bigger than i expected it to be. depending on how big it ends up, next time iâll either be significantly shortening the growth phase or buying a bigger dwc bucket. at this point i also wish i had set up the tent in my guest room instead of the basement because i would really like another 2 feet of height in this tent. definitely worried about burning the flowers because they are in the danger zone of lamp closeness according to the lamp companyâs manual
edit: ok with the lamps off i got better colors:
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IMP-5 is a name i made up for this plant because i germinated the first seed of this pack on the day dems voted to open an impeachment investigation, and the first 4 plants died. so itâs impeachment #5. in house genetics named it âforbidden jellyâ
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i like this. itâs a great start. but until somebody builds a gene deletion collection, we wonât have an indication of what the genes might do. hopefully thatâll come, but it would be an insane amount of work, like literally thousands of plants grown in lab conditions with plant experts describing every characteristic of every plant in detail lol. part of me would like to see it happen but another part of me hopes real scientists stick to like, curing disease and shit
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IMP-5 week 6 of flowering phase
these next 4 weeks are going to be torturous. how exactly will i kill the plant at the last minute? will i screw up the harvest? will i screw up the drying? iâll definitely screw up making hash
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Edit: google says they stress a female plant to induce formation of male sex organs and thatâs how they guarantee no male chromosome
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Two words: Glass Slipper. 21%. Not a fruity flavor but not flavorless either, tho it will seem that way if youve been puffing on something like Chem dawg. A deep, earthy flavor that reveals itself the more you smoke it.
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Iâve always just assumed that strains are complete BS. Like obviously there will be differences from one grow operation to another, but is the âglass slipperâ youâre smoking really going to be similar to the stuff Iâd get if I bought it locally?
FWIW I also donât buy into differences between indica and sativa for the same reasons.
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I think strains are somewhat BS, somewhat not. I think in general most things I buy are pretty similar to the descriptions on Leafly. Here locally it seems that which dispensary/grow op you buy from matters a lot more than what strain it is. So there is definitely some truth to what you are saying.
Indica/Sativa there is a noticeable difference for me. Indica = sleepy, Sativa = energetic or at least I donât feel tired. Is there legal pot where you are? I know before there was here I was super skeptical of the differences or what my dealer was telling me but I am less so now that I am getting closer to what I am supposed to be getting when I buy.
Nah itâs not legal here. I get it in DC which is in a weird semi legal status, but I mostly donât trust whatever they tell me about what Iâm buying.
The strains are different but itâs like beer snobbery. Like just give me a nice IPA, ya know?
To be fair, most of the time Ive been a habitual smoker, I operated under the same thinking. Was never concerned with sativa or indica as much as just strength and flavor.
But even then, there did seem to be a difference between bowls and Js. Of course, we now know thatâs because the temperature differences alter the highs.
Everyoneâs different tho. I think people who are blessed to experience less anxiety than others probably possess a more finite ability to appreciate strain dynamics.
Add to it the fact I abuse the frick out of caffeine and that probably dulls my weed senses. Kicking caffeine will be a game changer.
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iâm not confident that weed people know/care enough to really be stringent about whatâs what.
I can tell Iâm a lightweight because when you said you would burn a gram a day, I thought jfc lol no wonder you were having paranoia. But youâre right that product back then was so much less potent, and a gram isnât that much for some.
Plus, I believe that having a healthier well-being is essential to being present and connected to the experience a drug provides, and you are learning so much lately about being present.
I donât think you have to be as deliberate as a peyoto-fueled spirit retreat where you have a day of sobriety before the trip to plan exactly what you want out of the experience, then a day after to process what actually happened.
But this is where I stop caring whether wine snobbery is total bullshit. Our knowledge and intention are essential components to manifesting an experience. Honestly, if believing this wine tastes of cherries, this food paired with this whiskey tastes amazing, this THC strain relaxes vs energizes me, if that helps manifest a more full and satisfying experience, sign me up for the Matrix.
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I mean 20 years ago i smoked an oz of shitty brick weed a week. Now 2 ounces will comfortably get me through a year. Shit is way stronger and Iâm way less dumb now.
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I wish I were blessed with yâallâs restraint 
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