What word is most appropriate to describe the kind of cannabis that gets you high? Max Montrose and Brandon Allen sit down with Southwest Studies Professor Santiago Guerra and student/grower Kourtney Kane in section three of the Interpening course to discuss the fascinating and lesser-known origins of the word “marijuana.” Watch below! Using the …
It’s not uncommon for OG’s to engage in healthy debates over how to grow, cure, or extract cannabis. Recently, I had a bizarre curing debate with a twenty-year veteran who owns a nice dispensary and grow. In fact, his garden is damn near immaculate and he even hires scientists as growers to ensure the highest …
A Curing Debate: What does it mean to properly cure cannabis? Read More »
You may have seen a rare cannabis type called Freakshow with wild looking fern like leaves emerging into our culture recently. Distributors such as Humboldt Seed Company started selling Freakshow to home growers and facilities just a few years ago. We may never know the truth of where Durban Poison or OG Kush come from; …
Crazy Leaf Types: Where did Freakshow cannabis come from? Read More »
To have the best cannabis experience, you need to know how to identify high-quality weed and then know the best ways to consume it. The problem is… Low-quality weed is everywhere! There is no standard in the industry for categorizing cannabis quality. Lab tests are great because they tell you if the weed is safe to …
Is it possible human senses alone can detect the psychotropic spectrum of cannabis? The idea of interpening, which is predicting the psychoactive effects of different hybrid cannabis types, can be a little complex. We have waited many years for a team of scientists and an objective approach to test aspects of interpening, which recently became …
Trichome Institute has been friends with Leafbuyer Technologies for half a decade and in that time we’ve made some really incredible videos together. The first video we put out has 52K+ views and is about how Blue Dream is the most counterfeit strain there is. I went Blue Dream secret shopping in Denver CO and …
Cannabis: when we use this word, what are we really talking about? Since the 1700’s, there has been a constant debate among taxonomists, researchers, and within the cannabis community on whether cannabis is a monotypic (single species) or polytypic (multiple species) genus. Now, in 2020, Trichome Institute is settling on an answer based on recent …
Cannabis Taxonomy Update: What do Indica, Sativa, and Ruderalis mean? Read More »
Jar rot can easily taint a quality batch of cannabis and slip through lab testing since it generally occurs after the flower is tested. Jar rot develops when fresh flower is improperly dried and cured or is put into a jar with insufficient air circulation and excess humidity, not allowing the product to breathe as …
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