thats just a normal plant! the kush pic looks like 2 fresh picked buds, the other pic is just the top of a plant ( the cola ) - the hairs / white stuff is the flower / the bud, the bit you smoke. the kush pic is like a close up of the white stuff in the other pic. the sticky looking white stuff are trichomes see these pics below, 1 shows the different stages of the plant growing - see the hairy white stuff ( the flowers/buds ) growing bigger? the other pic is the same bud you see in the different stages of growing - picked, dried and ready for smoking
but if you see the fuzzy hairs on the leafs that means that it ios hydroponic weed. you can smoke the fuzzy hairy leafs with the buds. but only if it is hydroponic.
Thc is contained in tiny little translucent balloons: trichomes. They appear all over the plant: stem, leave, flower, hair of flower, you name it. The range of density of trichs determines the quality of the smoke: the denser they are packed on the plant part, the more THC. Flowers (buds=flowers+associated leaflets+stem they are fastened to) are the highes. Even male plants have plenty! Lower quality plants and plant parts are best use by subjecting them to THC extraction techniques so you don't smoke your throat raw trying to get some! b1
Not that any of you are wrong, but just FYI. the tiny white hairs are a defense to heat. Just as you sweat when its hot, so does the little plant. that sweat is called THC, and is clear. As it drys it becomes red then brownish-black. And not that I know this for a fact ( even though I do) you can smoke every part of the plant. ie leaves, stems, seeds, the thing you gotta remember is how bad do ya want the headache to be.
We'll see if bambam returns to enlighten us on the source of her headaches. In the meantime, she's correct in saying that the trichomes do appear on the white hairs and is most densely packed together there, more so then on the leaves. And she is also correct in saying that the plant uses it as a form of sweat. But she should have qualified it as saying:"functions like sweat". Plants produce trichmes as various responses to their environments. Heat is one, it is thought that the little globules of liquid absorbe ultra violet rays, as one of their functions and help protect the plant from fluid loss during high heat + low humidity periods of time. So, right on BamBam. b1
