My dealer is sellin what he calls "rub" which ive been told is a mixture of bud hairs and THC.. Ive smoked it before and its very potent. But when i google it, nothing shows up
i think it's what you get when, after trimming bud, you rub your hands together to get the crystal off...
I don't think they'll save this 'rub' to sell apart, it would be pretty concentrated indeed (isn't most thc already in the bud hairs) so they'd probably ask more money for it as well? But how long would it take to fill a bag like that Sounds like a bogus term to me.
No,No,No the "bud hairs" or stamen of the flower actually contain little or no THC. All the THC is contained in the heads of the little mushroom shaped structures known as trichomes. What happens is during handling these trichomes will rupture releasing the sticky resin inside. One ancient method of masking hashish involves rubbing the the bud stalks with your hands as if you were rubbing them together to get warm. As they would do this the resin would collect on their hands until a thick layer developed and then that was rubbed, picked off and formed into balls or sticks. Ever hear of Nepalese Temple Balls or Nepalese Fingers? That is exactly the type of hashish it is. It produces a very dark almost black hash that is very potent. Another method was for workers too wear leather gloves, arm coverings and pants like chaps. They would then run through the fields and allow the resin to collect on the leather and then scrape it off. So "rub" is just one form of hash.
the hairs are made of trichromes im pretty sure, ive looked at a fully developed one under a microscope and it just looked like a big stack of trichs. im pretty sure hairs contain thc
I was talking about the older methods of making hashish he mentioned. The hairs aren't trichomes, there may be trichome on them but there are even some on the leaves and stems too.
Wrong. There are four different types of "hairs" or Trichomes. Cystolithic trichomes, the hook shaped "hairs" Non-cystolithic trichomes, the straighter, shorter "hairs" Sessile glands, the non-stalked round glands on the leaf/flower surface And the Stalked glandular Trichomes, the familiar mushroom shaped "hairs" the last two are where the good stuff is. The Stigma of the flower (I mistakenly called it a stamen previously, the stamen is the male flower part that contains the pollen) or "hairs" of the female flower or calyx are comprised of many fine filaments that trap pollen and transfer the genetic material into the ovum of the flower. There are no glandular structures on this part of the flower, therefore no THC as all THC is contained within the two glandular structures mentioned above. This picture clearly shows the filaments of the stigma and no glandular trichomes, which can be clearly seen on the calyx or "body" of the flower where a seed would form.
aight, i believe it... i think i should take a picture of what im talking about.. i just think ive seen a hair with stalked glandular trichs coming off it (no point debating though, i will have to look again) just seems like a pretty distinct memory so you would say there are no active chemicals in the hair? these parts of the plant are heavy in resin for catching pollen. ive always thought the resin was somehow psychoactive, or at least something you would want to ingest. ive smoked bowls full of hairs and they were pretty nice. i can't really remember how high they got me, but i do remember they tasted nice and didn't give a bad reaction.. Cool electron microscope picture
this one is labeled as "close up of pistil" im pretty sure this is what i refer to as a "hair", and it looks like its got a structure on it that looks like a trichrome. is it possible this is what i see under a 400x microscope? are these trichs? resin?
My guess is that they are trichome heads that have broken off and then stuck to the pistil "hairs". I have also gathered up the little red hairs until I had enough for a bowl. It does have a nice spicy taste too it, but nowhere near the potency of the rest of the plant.
Yes. it is what NoxiousGas said in his first post, what i got for "rub" was like hash, but it had THC crystals and hairs imbedded in the rub.. the potency is pretty good but i wont buy it again because I dont trust who made it Stick To Bud.
