I'm into Cannabis the way a hot rodder is into cars. Myths and misattributes don't slide when building drag cars. Muffler bearings and blinker fluid are jokes, not things people actually believe in the car community. Even though plants are as easy to understand as man-made machines, Cannabis growing is much different. Cannabis is full of blinker fluid and muffler lube. You're allowed to mix up fuel and oil lines here without being laughed at. Well, if you want to be taken seriously outside of the internet, you gotta retire from the bro sciences. I'll help you.
Plants are not green because of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is only green at a specific pH range. That range happens to be the same pH range that anthocyanins in Cannabis will indicate green.
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When the pH of the plant cell changes, the anthocyanin changes. You never see chlorophyll.
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OK so chlorophyll doesn't affect color like we've been told. But it does affect flavor, right?
Chlorophyll concentrate is minty. Chlorophyll does not smell like hay whatsoever. If you have enough chlorophyll in your plant to actually smell it, it would smell minty, and you better be reporting it because this is an anomaly.
Green Leaf Volatiles are responsible for the hay smell, not chlorophyll.
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Organic smell reference chart courtesy of Jame Kennedy
Green leaf volatiles are produced when the jasmonic acid stress response detects physical injury to the plant. The natural aroma process is hijacked completely as a defense response against injury.
This is why wet trimming is bad. This is why vine ripening is good.. If you cut the plant while it's alive, it thinks its being eaten by bugs and stops producing good weed smells, and starts producing the hay smells to attract big predator bugs, in order to eliminate pests (wet trimmers, day harvesters, backpack sprayers).
Bait thread? No, there's simply a culture of broscience-loving trolls that will make this out to be a bait thread because they can't wrap their mind around basic day one real world plant science. This is a facts-only post. Maybe the forum software attracts the trolls and angry failures. I can't maintain OPs but frontline trolls can delete their dozens of attacking replies? Hopefully legalization wakes these forums up, and backs some of these crusty old timers out of the corner and into their kennel for a nap. There's a lot of people who want to grow cannabis coming online. Not all of them want to waste their time on myths and misdirection.
