Hey admini
nice comparison
BTW the greatest problem for me as a smoker who is also a grower (self sufficient) is not the THC % but....
tolerance built up.
If I haven't smoked for a while (4-5days+) almost any bud even low thc strains (
<5%THC) can get me quite high , even wasted if I smoke enough..But when I smoke all day for long periods , like for over a month , even a 26% THC bud will not be able to do much to me and I will find it hard for myself to get high.
So I really wonder which are the resin compounds (or combinations) that are responsible for the tolerance built up. Do you happen to have any info on this ?
Strains like c99 can give a really strong high but after a while of use its really hard to get high at all. Since you mentioned CMass , which more or less is a line made for commercial production, well if I haven't smoked for sometime 3 hits will pretty much do the job like you said..but if thats all you got to smoke after long term constant use it feels quite unpotent. Same goes for many if not most strains out there and my goal is to find strains that produce plants that not only have the high profile/flavor I like, but also have almost no ceiling to the high as well as show almost zero tolerance built up over time even with heavy daily constant use.
Several of the haze hybrid lines from MNS seem to be good at all that and the higher the haze percentage the better since the other lines used in the crosses like Skunk seem to not really fit the bill when it comes to tolerance built up.Of course each person has different body chemistry so things can vary from person to person.
BTW I was wondering do you happen to know how samples are prepared for THC % testing ? I mean are for example whole trimmed buds ground up ? Are the most frosty buds selected/chosen?
As a grower in order to compare different strain efficiency I believe apart from measuring THC% in dry trimmed bud, you would also weight the whole plant whole after drying it (with all stems/stalks/leaves still on) and see how much THC is produced per gram of dried biomass.
ps To avoid tolerance built up its best to use different cannabinoid profiles or combinations . Strains with lower THC content than other lines may show less tolerance built up over time so THC% does not mean much on its own. Best strains from a grower+smoker point of view are those that produce high bud to leaf/stem ratio , have lots of THC , high or no ceiling to the high and show minimum tolerance built up.