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Alchemiser: Thankyou. I just went searching for some answers before I saw your comment. I will post links and paste the contents. I did see uv-b mentioned either in one of these or somewhere else. I would like to learn or figure out how to produce specific terpenes for specific odors. It may come down to identifying the terpene that produces a desirable odor them looking up its precursor and adding that to the nutrient mix at the correct time in the plants life cycle.
Hiya FERMENTATION :smokin:
You've definitely been looking along the right lines of research, just wish it wasn't so long since i had to think about these things :stoned:
First things first the second Glucose pathway is only activated when Mycorrhizal fungi forms a symbiotic relationship with the plant, UV-B is needed to activate the top part of the pathway thus doubling the number of trichs
The odors from the girls is something we've worked hard to get rid of, probably best if you stick with pre-cursor formed thc by not using to much uv-b to have more pre-cursors left.
Did lookup changing the taste of the girls with fruit juice etc, then tried feeding just a bit of glucose once a week during flowering & couldn't be bothered with trying anything else. Real Fruity everytime now :rasta:
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This one isn't anything specific to just terpenoids their is also talk about uv-b and it's contribution to the potency as well as some other interesting ideas about cannabis.

http://www.hempfood.com/IHA/iha01201.html
Good but still missing far to much as to uv-b's effects on the trichs, more interesting is the feeding of CBG & CBD resulting in an increase of THC!
Unfortunately getting hold of CBG & CBD was the hard thing to do, along with all the other fun chemicals
We did try an experiment feeding phenylalanine recently with some very positive results, though being quite so constantly stoned nowadays makes it hard to keep going with the extra work
Will go through me bookmarks to see what's there, finding links that still work is the prob.
Hope i've made enough sense to give you something to think about FERMENTATION