Terpenes are extremely volatile and evaporate at a much lower temperature than even water does (at least for most terpse as far as I know) so they disappear along with the water. If the water is gone, there's a really great chance the terps are as well. I know a lot of people who smoke bud 5 days after the chop and think it is stronger, maybe they enjoy the the buzz from the terps more than the thc.
Those people need to throw their computer/nutes/feed chart/cuts in the trash. Back to the drawing board.
1) Computers are making people stupider.
2)Nute profiles and 3) feed charts obviously don't make sense, being designed to sell more products and pesticides.
4) Cuts.. I honestly don't believe people are breeding for the lame terpenes everyone worries about, I haven't smoked anything newer than Blue Dream, but even a turkey bag of that stunk up my dry, hot spare bedroom for a year and a half before I got around to smoking it.
Please tell me which herb on your spice rack expires in 5 days. Even the fake flavorless sprayed shit from the 99c store has smell for years, sitting above a hot stove. Why would Cannabis be the one herb on planet earth that expires in 5 days? The one herb I know of that actually improves in smell and taste with time.
My sisters Strawberry Shortcake doll still smelled the same after 30 years when I dug it out of my parents closet and sold it on ebay. Smells exactly like the half used 5 year old bag of Sta-green Fast Acting lignin sulfonate lime that stinks up the supply room every time I open the bin.
Wow, it's like the literal strongest smelling substance on earth no longer smells at all.. Commercial agenda behind all the shit nutes, bullshit grow info and frosty carbonate stalked ornamental bud? Same thing has happened to multiple other crops. Cooking oils were deskunked for western markets. For you Brits who don't know what Skunk is, toasted sesame oil still has a little skunk in it (but it used to dominate the nuttiness). American corn was bred to no longer respond to sulfated fatty acids exclusively found in American grasshopper spit. What a coincidence. Blossom end rot in tomatoes is engineered failed glutathione metabolism to sell more lime. Blossom end rot is definitely calcium deficiency even though excess unmetabolized calcium causes it more than anything. Etc etc.
Maybe the same REALLY did happen with all this white market exotiktok new houze methphisto nerdz turdz crap that people are growing from breeders who look like Anime fans and children of politicians? Deskunked, defunct hay weed with doterra terps? Is it true? Deskunkman Sam really was eradicating medicinal weed for government sponsored pharma companies prior to any talks of legalization? Old breeders and skunk growers getting busted to this day, while Reddit Fedora weed is everywhere, sold out in the open?
I've smoked so much home grown in my life, I can truely say 99% of growers completely lost the plot when Ethan Russo started talking about essential oil terpenes (that's Ethan Russo, of GW Pharma, the company who grows Skunk #1 legally in England). Everyone got this notion they needed to focus on preserving lame ass doterra terps (flaws in cannabis!) instead of curing carboxylic acid resins. More thc =better pot, because the DEA sponsors said so..? Frosty carbonate stalks are better be cause some new York jew magazine with not a single bust in their history said so? But plenty of their readers get busted for ordering out of the back? Man, this shit really did happen. Weed in 20 years went from stinky enticing natural medicine to commercial trash, and the grow community went along with it, helped more than anything...
In case the conspiracy against medical cannabis isn't true, I can still say the following:
Everyone grows with fucked up nutes, harvests emaciated weed, and tries to keep it too moist, sealed up for too long, completely ignorant of the chemistry actually desired. Same era of growers who dim their light 50%, feed fucked up nute ratios and top/train their plants instead of feeding correctly and letting the light they paid for bring side branching up. I just don't get what the internet has done to young minds. At least everyones pointless "grams per watt" metric is twice what they think it is, since everyone uses half the wattage they paid for. Pat yourselves on the back, Dimmers. You've actually hit 1.5 grams a watt!
Cannabis is not a fruit. Your bud should taste like raisins fresh and like grapes cured. We're not talking fermentation, but very specific types of electron transfer that 99% of growers aren't aware of and don't have the metabolism for, having never experienced even mediocre cannabis. It seems these forums got people to stop wet trimming and nylon racking their work, but not many seem to have understood why. It's still: emaciated light burnt weed, cuz amber trichs (more like amber turds), then scurry the emaciated plants away to total darkness, keep it wet the rest of its life and never burp unless you fear the mold can no longer pass as trichs. Then get nostalgic thinking about some weed you smoked in high school that was grown for free and dried in a tool shed.
TLDR: If latex is a terpene, why don't condoms expire in 5 days? You terp bros are silly and embarrassing. Just stop using the word,at least do yourself that favor. It's annoying as fuck how you all sound the same, trying to change the face of a crop thousands of years old with your gullible terp fridge purchase justifications.
subsequently, all those old stinky strains got bred out of existence...hopefully some skilled breeder will bring them back again and this time we will be able to grow them will all the incredible lights, equipment and knowledge we have gained over the years.
