HMS Health Strawberry OG[/caption]
My point is, THC percentage is a feedback loop of bullshit, can we please stop it? So long as customers keep chasing the high THC percentage, some growers will keep paying shady testing labs that accept money for rigged reports so that they can advertise their "lab-tested" high THC flowers.
Case in point, HMS Health got in some hot water in social media cuz they were advertising their 37%(!) THC flowers a couple months ago. Um, as far as I'm aware, that's not a thing. 30-31%, ok, maybe. 37% is, like, Guinness Book of World Record time. It is an utter hogwash result.
When rightly questioned, the social media account manager retreated into some nonsense about it being the lab-tested results, which is not a valid excuse. HMS Health shoulda known better.
I talked to Steep Hill of Maryland about it, who said they didn't test it, another company did. I talked to Zenity Wellness on my visit, who said Steep Hill and other companies tested it and everyone came up with 37%.
Unfortunately, I have little patience for he said-she said'ing and default assume everyone is lying or at least hiding something, so we won't get into it any further. The THC percentage is not that important, y'all.
What is important is whether my flowers smell and taste good. HMS Health's Skywalker OG exhibits a wonderful, deep aroma of spices that often indicates a significant concentration of myrcene, the terpene hypothesized to be responsible for the couch-lock effect, exactly what you'd expect to find in this classic indica cultivar.
Now here, check this out- the Strawberry has more visible trichomes than the Skywalker. You'd think that means it's a better product, but you'd be wrong! HMS Health's Strawberry OG reeks of ammonia, tastes even worse, and I threw it in the trash after a couple bong rips.
The Gentleman has even less patience for bad weed than he said-she said. Ammonia is the smell I encounter most frequently these days, far outstripping the hay smell of a bad cure, and I run into it in dispensaries here, out West, up in Boston, in I71, every-fucking-where. Some googling has led me to believe that its unflushed fertilizer breaking down in the plant, but I'm not a grower. I just know it's Not A Good Look, Fam.
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HMS Health Skywalker OG[/caption]
That being said, HMS Health's Skywalker OG is very good. It glues me to the couch alright, but it doesn't make me that tired. Just dulled. I'm not going to get any work done on it unless you count leveling up in Fallout work, which I do, plus I figured out how to get my settlers to stop attacking me when I kill the Brahmin for meat to set up my Super Mutant cages. Then I zoned out watching Defenders on Netflix for a while. It's not bad!
In summary, that's a yes on Zenity Wellness and a 50/50 on the first batch of HMS Health's cannabis flowers, so that's