Sorry if I offended you and I am pretty relaxed. You tried to tell me I was not allowing my plants to dry long enough before bothering to read the whole post.. Sorry but I had to correct you. Did not mean to make you mad but you did not give it a chance before trying to find fault in what I wrote.
Now you have a problem with one of the pictures? You don't agree with the information in it? Thats cool, use your own method.
This is the method I agree with (and thousands of other growers). Lots of us like to see amber trichomes before harvesting (it's fine that you don't). I can find a lots of authors and other good sources who use this method as well. For every person you say the pictures is not science, I can find some one who will dispute it. This is not such a bad thing my brotha, we are all trying our best to grow the best weed possible. To be honest, I don't like that picture and would pull it off if I could still edit that post, the quality is real bad and almost un-readable. Also, I did not want to make a post on when to harvest, I just put it in so folks could see some sort of reverance that was not mine. I also said (if you bothered to read it) So you don't like that picture..... Let it go and move on (don't get so mad).
Lets go back to the first thing I wrote (please read it this time):
I asked you about the 3 day dry time you had in your 'guide'.
I didn't see that you also dry for 3 days in bags, I was not trying to "find a hole in your setup", I asked a simple question.
I did not get mad about that neither.
I don't 'have a problem with it' per se, I just think it's wrong to put a factually and scientifically incorrect (and old) image in a 'guide'.
It has nothing to do with "method".
It has everything to do with science and being right or wrong, and thereby providing proper information or wrong and misleading information.
I'm not mad at you for doing it, we all see this happening on this forum each day, in many subjects and categories.
I still think it's wrong though, and misleading (especially to new growers who don't know what to believe and believe a lot more than they should).
Stick with the science is what I say, we are growing plants, it's a science, there are right and wrong ways to do things (many a piece).
I'm not surprised that you and thousands of other people are wrong, it happens a lot, for every grower.
But presenting wrong information as factual information is not helpful to anyone.
It's not about "seeing amber trichomes at harvest", again you are stating an obvious fact, every grower gets amber trichomes, unless you have no clue what you're doing and harvest several weeks early.
I have amber trichomes on my plants as well, I however minimize their presence because CBN does not contribute properly to a fully realized high.
I'm not saying that trichomes changing colour and thereby gaining and losing new substances (mainly THC degrading into CBN) is not a science.
I am saying the image you presented is a wrong image, which was made by a person who didn't know the scientific facts.
It was known 20 years ago what cause an energetic high and what caused a couch lock high. That is mainly the reason why Sativa and Indica are revered whereas Ruderalis is sort of placed on the side.
I realize you wrote that trial and error is the best way, and I would tend to a agree to a degree with that, but providing proper and valid factual information is key to helping people learn.
All these myths which are thrown around and repeated always end up gaining huge support even without those believing in it know whether it's actually scientifically valid and fully factual.
