Flower Help me understand the difference please

[BudGuy]

Not really but...

Myrcene is a big boy for relaxation.
Linalool is great for calming the mind.
Caryophyllene is good for stress relief

^^^ click on any of the linked terpenes and it will show other strains with it. Scan all 3 and if there's any that pop up consistently that is where I would start..

Its not an exact science because terpenes interact with eachother differently for a host of reasons but it can be a good place to start.

My personal rec for sleep is Chapel of Love, it's sourdough but less racy.

Yeah, but you also need it to be potent for sleep, so not only the right terpenes by fraction, but the right overall terpenes % is important too but rarely listed. There'll be a lot of strains out there with what looks like the ideal profile, then you find in reality it's like 0.1% terpenes total, so barely feel a thing.

Also there's quite a few where it's like "other 39%" lol. So it looks like a really great terp profile until you find out the other 39% is made up of stuff you totally don't want lol.

The whole thing is a quagmire. Buy a diary, take notes, settle in for a few months of slow progress finding what works, it's the best you can do.

 

[cornucopia]

Oh I didn't mean to put you off the idea entirely, just letting you know that there isn't really a sure-fire way of arriving at the right medicine for you on the first couple of tries, but that's often also the case with any other medicine. Most people are very lucky if the first painkiller they get prescribed on the NHS does the trick, both in terms of strength and unwanted side effects. The exploratory phase is part of the process for any medication for a chronic condition really.

Particularly in the realm of pain medications, medical cannabis certainly has one of the lowest negative side-effect profiles compared to other options if you can get it right, with some of the lowest potentials for physical addiction, etc, so it's well worth exploring if there are aspects of other therapies you want to avoid, frustrating though it can be.

no you didn't put me off, I'm just having a bad day and sometimes I'm just so tired and uncomfortable it all gets a bit too much.

your dead right, i cant keep taking regular medicine as its no good long term and tends to cause me stomach problems too

 

[williemed]

Well, to be fair there's only one MC strain available at the moment claiming to be a true Indica which is Hindu Kush... which intrigued me but it was terribly reviewed, so truth is I haven't personally tried any confirmed true Indicas. But most people don't/won't - almost everything in the MC world is a Hybrid of a Hybrid of a Hybrid, and you can probably take any claims of true Indicas/landraces etc with a pinch of salt.

So yeah, for all intents and purposes you're going to be dealing with mostly Hybrids, meaning it's not going to be uncommon to come across a "Sativa Hybrid" that feels like a traditional Indica or the inverse.

If MedBud is to be trusted over Curaleaf's own packaging and Leafly's description, then the GG4 is a Sativa Hybrid that Curaleaf classify as a night-time strain and which did work for me for night-time (not a heavy knockout, but suitable sedative for me anyway). But who to trust on whether it's 60/40 or 40/60 in favour of Indica? Who knows.

True, they’re becoming increasingly rare as everything gets more and more hybridised. I believe another option is Black Triangle, it supposedly has 100% Indica lineage and certainly felt like it to me. Still, you’re right there are very limited options in medical, and to be fair, true Indicas or Sativas are rare in any market these days. Definitely useful if you can find one, though, especially for new cannabis users who are still finding their feet.

GG4 is an interesting one. From what I understand, it’s a pretty unstable Hybrid, so there’s a wide variety of phenotypes - you can get plants with an Indica appearance and Sativa-like effects, or vice versa. That variability can show up even with clones, depending on how they’re grown.

 

[joint_account]

Yeah, but you also need it to be potent for sleep, so not only the right terpenes by fraction, but the right overall terpenes % is important too but rarely listed. There'll be a lot of strains out there with what looks like the ideal profile, then you find in reality it's like 0.1% terpenes total, so barely feel a thing.

Also there's quite a few where it's like "other 39%" lol. So it looks like a really great terp profile until you find out the other 39% is made up of stuff you totally don't want lol.

The whole thing is a quagmire. Buy a diary, take notes, settle in for a few months of slow progress finding what works, it's the best you can do.

I agree wholeheartedly but we can only work with what we have unfortunately

 

[Weedbie]

newbies to the prescription service. you need to research and pick properly

dont be forced into the 1st script being picked for you. go into that initial consultation with maybe 1/2/3 strains that you know about and want to try


read stuff on here
vids on YouTube
and actually see what others are getting and doing.
Sativas imho fall into the category of uplifters - i imagine good for those who want to get up and do things, be social able, be more functional with not much chance of a sleepy couch lock side effect

Indica i feel is easier to manage. I love a good Sativa if i find one. The DOE UJH was for me top drawer (i know the issues but my batch had nothing wrong) but i try and find a decent Indica where i get the right effects for my health but also offers different levels.
Sativas are full on day time where as Indica for me can be any time of day if you find the right levels and effects

and dont go full blown expensive vape. go for an arizer solo2 or the air max at just over a 100 ( id say budget for a machine you can afford at say so much per month - think about you could get £120 machine for 10 a month if you budget yourself, stretch to £20 and you move up to 240 - dont stretch yourself too much to think you've spent a load and your disappointed)

another thing, try find the best of a cheap bunch. if you can low ball your 1st few scripts and get the good lower priced stuff, when you splash on that 8.50 bud, it'll be the treat you want.

also im now myself only just realising that youre probably best going with 2/3 dead certs youve chosen from reviews, terpenes, effects, vids and the like
and then throw in a couple of risky ones based on grower, packager, price, etc......

you may miss out on some new bits from time to time but 9/10 i bet you get if you have them available
ive not known many to go OOS within a month so if it aint on this script, you'll pretty much get it on the next

ive honestly had a bowl of the zero gravity whilst typing this so if the above dont make much sense, its cos im slightly impared but this strain really is a 50/50 for me