Long term toker here but only just getting into concentrates, in particular carts (because I’m lazy).
I was under the impression that one of the main selling points of live resin was that you got the full extraction of that particular strain & as such a fairly like for like high from it. If I’m wrong please feel free to correct me.

Yesterday I stumbled upon a listing on a DM offering generic live resin which could be bought I mixed with your own terps or bought with terps of choice pre-mixed into it.

That’s kind of worrying for me as an end user. I can see how that may be beneficial for someone in the carts & concentrates game.

If I’m buying a live resin cart of say Amnesia I kind of expect what’s in that cart to have been extracted from an Amnesia plant, not some generic live resin with Amnesia terps mixed in.
I may be being naïve here (wouldn’t be the first time). Is this the norm these days? What do you guys/girls think of this?

Let’s talk about PGR…

Everyone seems to be going on about it recently I just want to give my 2 pence…

My understanding of what PGR is PGR = Plant Growth Regulator which growers use to increase yields on crops which makes the buds more dense.
PGR weed looks good but most of the time it doesn't burn properly and lacks smell/strength.

Now it’s a common misconception that ALL weed that’s dense and doesn't smell/taste good has PGR.

This could be many factors from Grower experience to strain Genetics.

Now you could have some bud that looks really good smells good but has a muted taste this doesn’t mean it’s been fed with PGR sometimes there’s other factors to take into consideration.

When a Pheno is saved to make a mother plant it is selected for its characteristics - smell appearance flavour yeild.
This means it’s been selected for all of those reasons or maybe even 1 of those reasons meaning a grower might select a pheno just because it yields more or looks better than the others. So basically the grower might compensate flavour/smell to get a bigger/better looking crop. That doesn't mean it’s PGR it just means the grower selected the pheno for a bigger yield/better looking bud.

So to make things simpler for people that don’t understand the basics. For example you buy 10 seeds you grow them all check which ones the best and you turn it into a mother plant. Then you take cuttings from that mother for your future grows. At this point a plant could have been selected for its yield potential or looks not flavour/smell so it will NATURALLY come out looking better than it tastes.

A lot of import has come under scrutiny of PGR because of the density of the buds. Now from my experience there is a lot of PGR riddled bud coming from abroad but
not always the case.

Some people are getting confused with dense looking buds calling it PGR when it’s not.

A lot of bud from abroad is overly vacuum sealed many times which makes the bud seem more dense and sometimes it kills the terpenes so its flavour is muted.
It can make the bud look unnaturall and deformed due to vacuum sealing for long periods of time which compresses the buds.

The take from this is basically all bud that looks dense is NOT PGR! There’s many factors that go into deciding whether it’s PGR or not I have explained in the post.

So please this one goes to the PGR police lol don’t make accusations on the vendors buds just from a picture until you’ve seen the product in person you can make a fair judgement.

If bud looks decent but is overly dense stiff no smell and burns bad yes it MIGHT be PGR.
But just because a bud has a muted flavour doesn’t mean it’s PGR it could simply be the pheno was chosen to have a bigger yield/looks and taste wasn’t a priority.

Anyways I hope that information can answer some people’s concerns I’ve had a lot of customers asking about PGR recently thought I’d share my personal experience.

Just received a small order and was gutted to see that it was a 2Gs of sprayed weed.

I've seen a tonne of this stuff from street dealers but hoped it wouldn't be on LB and to be fair this is the first I've come across (not going to name the seller but won't be using again.)

I know it's sprayed because the crystals are just a little bit too reflective on the bud and when you grind it and collect the 'kief' the powder compresses into a squidgy hard ball that doesn't burn well under flame and leaves a tarry black ash after a good torching.

I've smoked since I was 16 and I'm 35 so this isn't my first rodeo and this stuff isn't as it should be.

Anyone else seen this on here?

I’ve ordered with sayno2drugs and they’ve delisted every item and not answering in the chat…anyone help with this?…