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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day agoso you can make tomacco because the roots are what make the nicotine. swap the roots of a tomato plant and a tobacco plant and you can get tomacco (nicotine tomatoes) and nicotine-free tobacco.
the THC (and minor cannabinoids) in cannabis is in the flowers, but i don’t know if the THC is made there. we don’t smoke tobacco roots to my knowledge, but this is about the extent of my education on the subject.
kieron115@startrek.website 1 day ago
The chemical production actually occurs in the trichomes themselves, so you need unfertilized female flowers, or at least sugar leaves, to (eventually) produce THC. Although the plant doesnt directly produce THC, it produces things like CBGA which get broken down through a process called decarboxylation (removing the carboxyl group from a molecule and replacing it with hydrogen.) The most common way to decarb it is with heat through smoking, vaping or cooking but some decarboxylation also happens naturally over time during the curing process after harvest.! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3165946/ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11050509/
Image I was unfortunately in the hospital for a week or so when these were starting to flower and they got really stressed out from lack of water but they came out alright in the end.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
does I forget: doesn’t THC “degrade” into CBG? is CBGA part of that chemical process?
it’s been so long since i thought about cannabinoids (aside from “limonene and pinene pleez”) that i can’t remember much beyond their effects.
kieron115@startrek.website 23 hours ago
The decarboyxlation process is how the various acids (the A at the end) in the plant break down, yeah. I wouldn’t really call it degrading, but THC can degrade over time if exposed to oxygen or light, or stored somewhere too dry. They sell these little saltwater packet humidor things from some company called Boveda. After drying and curing, you throw the pack in a mason jar along with your flower and then you can store it for up to a year without losing much quality.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
those packs are great for upgrading shit- weed into mid- weed too