I’m curious on what makes what you grow “top shelf”. I feel that when I grow my own strains and pheno hunt what I like, I may think what I grow is “top shelf” but the people who buy “top shelf” would say different.
very interesting article. I do believe what people interpret as "top shelf" is quite subjective to what they are looking to get out it. Everyone i know automatically thinks if a strain has high quality terpene profile it's "the best" . I myself have been working on reaching that top notch odor & taste for years . be it different strains or struggle with dry & cure . i'm mostly dependant on outside conditions as i don't like to smell up the whole house drying for two weeks. so i dry in a tent in a barn & try & do the best i can. the electric sky i bought a couple years back has improved allot over the blurple viparspectra , not that the blurple wouldn't grow well , it just didn't crank out the trichomes like the sky 300. so the search goes on. but that's half the fun of growing , searching for different strains & do the best we can with what we have
very interesting article. I do believe what people interpret as "top shelf" is quite subjective to what they are looking to get out it. Everyone i know automatically thinks if a strain has high quality terpene profile it's "the best" . I myself have been working on reaching that top notch odor & taste for years . be it different strains or struggle with dry & cure . i'm mostly dependant on outside conditions as i don't like to smell up the whole house drying for two weeks. so i dry in a tent in a barn & try & do the best i can. the electric sky i bought a couple years back has improved allot over the blurple viparspectra , not that the blurple wouldn't grow well , it just didn't crank out the trichomes like the sky 300. so the search goes on. but that's half the fun of growing , searching for different strains & do the best we can with what we have
I think it comes down to perception. What you think is top shelf may be different from what I think is top shelf. Some dispensaries consider top shelf bud as strains that are over a certain % THC. However, science show that THC % doesn't actually mean you'll get more high: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2020/06/16/science-reveals-the-cannabis-industrys-greatest-lie-youre-buying-weed-wrong-and-so-is-everyone-else/
I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts.