Hmmm...interesting lol

Ok, I was smokin like a couple of mins ago and finally realized, it's those little glands on cannabis, those little micro glands that are making this major impact on how I feel, eat and all that good shit etc. so I took the time to look up info about them and they claim this is how trichomes developed on cannabis plants...

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Trichomes evolved on cannabis to prevent herbivory/parasitism by small insects. In the wild, insects landing on a cannabis leaf become adhered to the trichomes causing death or lost time (see sundew) and in addition will absorb the cannabanoids and, so intoxicated, experience increased rates of predation and loss of will to escape. However, the intercession of man in the natural selection process has rapidly accelerated the favoring of genotypes that produce copious amounts of THC laden trichomes. In addition, THC has very high UV-B absorption properties, thus cannabis evolution may have favored the evolution of genotypes that produced these THC laden capitate-stalked trichomes as a built in 'sun-screen' for protection against UV-B light rays.

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Thats fuckin' cool and interesting :stoned:.

wurd

hmm, so basically what i'm getting is: trichomes are a special kind of "sunscreen" for the cannabis plant to protect itself on account of the larger amounts of UV rays, correct? well, if i understand this correctly, then if we want better bud, then we need more holes in the atmosphere, right??? right???

/goes outside and sprays as much aerosol as possible while burning copious amounts of gasoline on a huge ass rubber fire

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Originally Posted by orangeman

Ok, I was smokin like a couple of mins ago and finally realized, it's those little glands on cannabis, those little micro glands that are making this major impact on how I feel, eat and all that good shit etc. so I took the time to look up info about them and they claim this is how trichomes developed on cannabis plants...



Thats fuckin' cool and interesting :stoned:.

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isn't it?

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Originally Posted by Sizz

I knew about this, but it's still pretty interesting. You see, even stoners learn something new everyday.

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No, I knew about the UV rays and shit but the inscect part was facinating lol.

orangeman

My friend who lived in russia most of his life told me about this. In russia when planting crops they put 1 crop then a marijuana plant then 1 plant and then another marijuana plant and so on down a line. They do this because the insects are killed and deterred by the marijuana plant! Freaking sweet if you ask me :rasta:

thats cool

Natures defence,just like marijana to humans...

Most of the alkaloids in plants, from cannabis to tobacco to shrooms to coca and Mimosa, are there to prevent insects eating them, try and blow some very potent tobacco on a fireant and watch it convulse, they hate the stuff.

i lit a small leaf in a jar let the leaf burn the threw a big queen ant in there and closed the jar. for about 30 min it was triping balls and convulsing