The Evolution of the Trichome

newbutpersistent

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also, thrich didn't always contain THC, there can be uses for the thrichs that are independent of their psychoactive properties, those properties could have been selctively breeded by man with the actual trichomes having been
 

ccodiane

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So it could be inferred that the trichome evolved as a way to produce and concentrate high levels of THC in the plant. Now what was the evolutionary need for THC?
 

Your Grandfather

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I hit the Volcano and I'm thinking back to when we grew in the high desert_over 7,000'_we lost the weed, due to competition from the wildlife. But, the plants were purple, and we are sure_to the extent people who smoke massive amounts of pot, can be sure_it was caused by the UV levels being so high. As a matter of fact, the UV regularly goes off the scale_which is from zero to 11.

This thread is just like a game of chess. It forces you to think thru a number of variables. Great fun :)
 

skunkushybrid

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So it could be inferred that the trichome evolved as a way to produce and concentrate high levels of THC in the plant. Now what was the evolutionary need for THC?
I believe the other answers answer this one... animal prevention and attraction.

Is it a coincidence that all plants offer wildlife, gifts? The more enticing the gift, the more likely an animal will come over. Certain animals will be attracted, others not.

My dog will always smell out the stinkiest plants to do his business on. Urine is full of nitrogen... as the animal urinates it must lean up against the plant, or brush it in some way... therefore not just collecting seed... but much more likely, male pollen.

Animals like to mask smells with their own, and what smells more than marijuana?
 

closet.cult

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i'm sorry i missed this thread so far. skunk, i believe your theories are entirely credible. they are in line with some very recent readings of studies on trics. it has been concluded that their main purpose is as UVB light collectors.

like a skylight tube- if anyone has seen these. it's a clear half-sphere mounted on your roof, sitting on a tube with highly relective sides which can bring natural light down one or two stories.

the coolest thing is, ALL of the sugestions mentioned in this thread could be correct. if they serve these purposes today, they probably evolved in response to each those pressures.
 

skunkushybrid

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Excellent, thanks CC... that's given me even more belief in this outrageous theory.

It seems the more I look into things, the more scientists don't know. I hit dead ends in logic all the time.

Also, peoplelike to pretend they know, and will state things as facts. Much like I have done here... but for me things have to add up. I also think that the cannabis community as a whole is more intent on getting a good smoke than actually finding out about the plant. Yet, we are the only ones that can study it. Funding isn't given for cannabis. So it is up to us.

Cannabis is an individual, it has no direct family tree... forgive the pun. So studying other plants is good, but just not the same.

And i realise that we have no way of knowing what the earliest cannabis looked like, but then we don't from all life either. As I believe that all life started from the same single strand of protein, and that environmental factors played it's part in cell division, then each cell grew into an animal or plant, to cut a long story short. The big bang of life, so to speak. Anyway, that's a different thread.

What i mean by the early cannabis plant, is the very stage it was a plant. A very tiny plant, just finding its way through the jungle that is life (forgive the pun).:mrgreen: Maybe it was still a hermie when trich's first evolved on the plant, who really knows?
 

tahoe58

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like a skylight tube- if anyone has seen these. it's a clear half-sphere mounted on your roof, sitting on a tube with highly relective sides which can bring natural light down one or two stories.
I think this may very well be a good analogy. you have low light conditions, and the plant has developed a mechanism to extract as much energy out of the environment at a time when it is waining, and pumps this directly into seed production...if fertilized and into false seed production if not.

The issue of the "purpose" of the THC is an interesting one. I think the comment a while back about the "modernization" of the cannabis plant may be worth considering in this light. Let's look at some other examples....and the one of corn/maize is a good one. It may very well be that it is our own intervention that has been the impetus to concentrating more THC in our plants. I might use the American QH and their tiny feet, and navicular - this was a bred in trait that was ulitmately destructive to the integrity of the foot structure and to the "ridability" of thosse individuals....but they were great show horses - but for us humans, and a focus of small feet/hooves and showing these animals led to a very serious problem for many years.
:mrgreen:
I dunno....still remains a VERY interesting discussion...:mrgreen:
 

skunkushybrid

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I honestly believe that we came after thc (don't we always, lol)... we discovered the plant for these properties (back when civilisation didn't exist). And through farming it in different locales (environments) discovered the plants amazing ability to adapt. This didn't happen in just one part of the world, but everywhere... and i'm not even talking as far ahead as the beginings of the hemp industry.
 

donnieosmond

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So I put a post on here stating that you reversed your hypothesis on trichomes and you delete your original posting and mine. Good move.
 

tahoe58

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interesting thought....I don't doubt we came after it...but as with so many things that we try to improve, we look to the attirbutes that we wish to enhance and breed for it. Any taking the variations from different parts of the globe gave us that oppotunity to take all of the best traits as it relates to thc production and start comining them. don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm right, I am just putting forward the thought processes that I am going through....? :mrgreen:
I honestly believe that we came after thc (don't we always, lol)... we discovered the plant for these properties (back when civilisation didn't exist). And through farming it in different locales (environments) discovered the plants amazing ability to adapt. This didn't happen in just one part of the world, but everywhere... and i'm not even talking as far ahead as the beginings of the hemp industry.
 

skunkushybrid

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So I put a post on here stating that you reversed your hypothesis on trichomes and you delete your original posting and mine. Good move.
the only post i deleted from this thread was yours. I did it because, I didn't want to have to explain it all to you. How have i reversed my hypothesis? See what I mean, I should just delete this one too, but no doubt rolli's and the other mod's inboxes would get filled to the brim with your complaints.

I have not deleted a single one of my posts from this thread. Only yours, which asked a stupid question.
 

donnieosmond

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Actually, you're lying. I didn't ask a question. You said something earlier that was the complete opposite of your beginning hypothesis of this thread and I called you out on it. I don't remember what I said or what you said because I didn't think I had to, but you revised it after I said something so obviously it bothered you. This coming from the person who said medical marijuana was a joke. I have absolutely zero respect for you at all. You might know, in some regards, about how to grow marijuana but your lust to be revered shines through everything you post and I see right through you.
 

donnieosmond

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That coupled with the fact that you compared aids to the flu in post #6. No one ever said you had to be an educated man to grow marijuana. Or have any compassion. I suppose it puts a new meaning to the phrase the light's on but no one's home.
 

skunkushybrid

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Excuse me?

I'm a liar, covering up?

From you?

Please.

I edited nothing. I have no need to edit anything. I deleted your post because you are thick... and as usual asked a stupid question.

Which was, why did i change my hypothesis?

You asked this after my explanation of why thc is produced. THC is secondary to the trichome.

You think I need or want your respect, now that is a joke.

Now keep out of my thread. Please.
 

skunkushybrid

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That coupled with the fact that you compared aids to the flu in post #6. No one ever said you had to be an educated man to grow marijuana. Or have any compassion. I suppose it puts a new meaning to the phrase the light's on but no one's home.
AIDs and the flu are comparible in that they are both viral.

Compassion comes on many levels... you know not what you speak of. moron. :wink:
 

donnieosmond

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Ok so spraining my toe and having my foot severed off are comparable because they are both below my ankle.

And you can't touch a door handle and give the next person who touches it AIDS.
 
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