Mythbusters

[MysticEpipedon]

True that, it isn't looking that gr8 on our 3rd rock from the sun. We paved paradise to put up a parking lot and reaping what we sowed. The cumulative effects should force changes in behavior unless the ship has already sailed.

It would be very interesting to see which species dominate the world after us.

 

[CookiesLikeWhoa]

I'll leave that decision up to @Stoneyluv on that particular nug

I've toked enough of them over the years to have an opinion but am curious about Y'all when you try it.

Most off the wall thing I've ever read was they're a pile of trichs that can be scooped off with a spoon. I argued with the feller a bit on that one since he couldn't show pics or prove it while I was staring at a bleached tip in my garden knowing what he was posting was pure lies.

That was back around 2015-16 when the phenom was being called "Hash Tips".
It was unique and mysterious and as we know something unique and the word hash is gonna get some run in this hobby/industry.

Vashon Velvet Farm was one of the first to claim more terps and potency without proof in 2017. The blog had some valid points especially the randomness and how it can be on lower buds and not the uppers sometimes which I've experienced many times too.
But terps, potency, and it being unique to LED is where I question the facts and blogs.
As far as the LED goes yes they do it easier but I've seen 1000 watt HPS do it too.
And every single time when Hash Tips are being hyped nobody shows what they look like dry and some even outright lie and say they stay white.
After 6-7 years the hype has died down and I think we're at the pass where they're not good or bad, just a signal to raise the lights a bit higher

I've smoked a total of two buds that we blasted the tops white.

The only notable thing the wife and I remember was that it was a dryer harsher smoke (did a bowl each). Other than that couldn't tell the difference.

Has anyone taken a bud and had it tested and compared to the rest of the tops that weren't white?

 

[Observer]

this may be the wrong place to post this...but the 'myths' about planting trees are pretty much dinged in the article. Well-written article and I recommend reading until the end, it is a killer.... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/what-we-owe-our-trees

What We Owe Our Trees​

Forests fed us, housed us, and made our way of life possible. But they can’t save us if we can’t save them.
By Jill Lepore
May 22, 2023


The Earth is about four and a half billion years old. By about two and a half billion years ago, enough oxygen had built up in the atmosphere to support multicellular life, and by about five hundred and seventy million years ago the first complex macroscopic organisms had begun to appear, as Peter Frankopan reports in “The Earth Transformed” (Knopf), an essential epic that runs from the dawn of time to, oh, six o’clock yesterday. In his not at all cheerful conclusion, looking to a possibly not too distant future in which humans fail to address climate change and become extinct, Frankopan writes, “Our loss will be the gain of other animals and plants.” An upside!
The first trees evolved about four hundred million years ago, and pretty quickly, geologically speaking, they covered most of the Earth’s dry land. A hundred and fifty million years later, during a mass-extinction event known as the Great Dying, the forests perished, along with nearly everything else on land and sea. Then, two million years after that, the supercontinent broke up, a seismic process whose consequences included depositing oil, coal, and natural gas in the places on the planet where they can still be found, to our enrichment and ruination. The trees returned. The ginkgo is the oldest surviving tree species, its fan-shaped leaves unfurling lime green in spring and falling, mustard yellow, in autumn.
The advocacy organization American Forests was founded in 1875, and, as Cohen writes, it also advanced the idea that planting a tree was an act of citizenship. This was a tradition that faltered at various times in the twentieth century but was renewed beginning in 1970 with the first Earth Day (also held in April) and with the establishment of the National Arbor Day Foundation two years later. Its many programs include Trees for America; pay a membership fee, and you get ten saplings in the mail. American Forests runs Global ReLeaf.

But Cohen and other critics have argued that there is little evidence that these programs do much more than greenwash bad actors. American Forests has been sponsored by both fossil fuel and timber companies. In 1996, the climate-change-denying G.O.P. encouraged Republican congressional candidates to have themselves photographed planting a tree. “10 Reasons to Plant Trees with American Forests,” printed in 2001, suggests that “planting 30 trees each year offsets the average American’s ‘carbon debt’—the amount of carbon dioxide you produce each year from your car and home.” The E.P.A., on a Web site that linked to American Forests, urged Americans to plant trees as penance: “Plant some trees and stop feeling guilty.” What with one thing and another, have you used ten thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity? The site offered indulgences: plant ten trees, one for every thousand kilowatt-hours. At the height of the corporate tree-atonement era, a New Yorker cartoon showed a queue of businessmen waiting to see a guru, with one saying to another, “It’s great! You just tell him how much pollution your company is responsible for and he tells you how many trees you have to plant to atone for it.”
The notion that clear-cutting can be counteracted by the planting of trees is a political product of the timber industry. As Cohen shows, the phrase “tree farm” was coined by a publicist at a timber company, as was the motto “Timber Is a Crop.” And the notion hasn’t died. In 2020, the World Economic Forum announced its sponsorship of an initiative called 1t, a corporate-funded plan to “conserve, restore, and grow” one trillion trees by the year 2030. At Davos in 2020, Donald Trump pledged American support. (At the time, the President mentioned that he was reading a book about the environmental movement; written by a former adviser of his, it was called “Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero.”)

Thinking of the earth as one big petri dish.

It only took a few billion years for something to grow on it lol

 

[moe.red]

I've smoked a total of two buds that we blasted the tops white.

The only notable thing the wife and I remember was that it was a dryer harsher smoke (did a bowl each). Other than that couldn't tell the difference.

Has anyone taken a bud and had it tested and compared to the rest of the tops that weren't white?

Working on that now. Just harvested. Hope to get time to test this weekend.

 

[moe.red]

It would be very interesting to see which species dominate the world after us.

I expect it will be furries.

 

[TomH]

This thread is getting long, I may have missed this but:

Putting a cinnimon stick into a hold drilled into the base of the stalk of a plant to “stress” it into producing more THC?
Back in the 70s, my buddy used to talk about it like it was penicillin, not sure?

 

[moe.red]

This thread is getting long, I may have missed this but:

Putting a cinnimon stick into a hold drilled into the base of the stalk of a plant to “stress” it into producing more THC?
Back in the 70s, my buddy used to talk about it like it was penicillin, not sure?

I know cinnamon can be used as a root hormone. Curious.

 

[MysticEpipedon]

This thread is getting long, I may have missed this but:

Putting a cinnimon stick into a hold drilled into the base of the stalk of a plant to “stress” it into producing more THC?
Back in the 70s, my buddy used to talk about it like it was penicillin, not sure?

That stemmed from some bullshit in High Times. There was a claim that the pine scent of Colombian was from farmers putting a splinter of fresh pine through the base of the stalk.

 

[TomH]

That stemmed from some bullshit in High Times. There was a claim that the pine scent of Colombian was from farmers putting a splinter of fresh pine through the base of the stalk.

I believe that may have been part of the story, good to know the source.
Anyone ever try it? Just askin for a friend!

 

[MysticEpipedon]

I believe that may have been part of the story, good to know the source.
Anyone ever try it? Just askin for a friend!

It already had a pine scent, without poking it with homemade toothpicks. I suppose that was one of my earliest encounters with bro science.

 

[elusive]

Flushing a week or 2 before harvest is good for the plant

 

[moe.red]

Flushing a week or 2 before harvest is good for the plant

That is one that is on the chalkboard of upcoming tests.

 

[TomH]

That is one that is on the chalkboard of upcoming tests.

Will you test different flushing nutrients as well as just water?

 

[moe.red]

Will you test different flushing nutrients as well as just water?

I can do an 8 clone test soil or fog or 1/2 and 1/2. I'm doing my first soil grow right now, going to school so to speak.

I'll design the test after this grow when I have a little experience. But yes multiple flush styles side by side is the goal here.

 

[elusive]

That is one that is on the chalkboard of upcoming tests.

Heck yeah! It’s awesome to see some of these things being put to the test