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Aspergillus Testing

Lab screening for four mold species in the Aspergillus genus that can cause serious lung infections in vulnera...

7 sources 4 weeks ago

Autoflower

A cannabis plant that begins flowering based on age rather than light cycle, due to Cannabis ruderalis genetic...

3 sources 3 months ago

Ballast

An electrical device that regulates current to a lamp, essential for HID grow lights and some fluorescent fixt...

4 sources 1 week ago

Beverage Manufacturing (Cannabis)

The process of producing shelf-stable cannabis-infused drinks using emulsified cannabinoids, controlled dosing...

7 sources 3 days ago

Body High

Slang for the physical, sedating, heavy-limbed side of a cannabis experience as opposed to mental or cerebral...

6 sources 2 weeks ago

Bowl Pack

A single loaded chamber of a pipe or bong, ready to be smoked; also the act of loading it.

4 sources 1 month ago

Bubble Hash

A solventless cannabis concentrate made by agitating frozen plant material in ice water to separate trichome h...

3 sources 1 month ago

Bud

The dried, cured flower of a female cannabis plant — the part most people smoke, vaporize, or process into oth...

8 sources 2 months ago

Budder

A soft, creamy cannabis concentrate produced by whipping extracted oil until it takes on a butter-like consist...

3 sources 2 months ago

Bushy Growth

A short, wide plant structure with dense foliage and many side branches, typical of indica-leaning cultivars.

4 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Lounge License

A regulatory permit that lets a business host on-site cannabis consumption, distinct from a standard dispensar...

8 sources 2 days ago

Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)

A soil or substrate's ability to hold and exchange positively charged nutrient ions, measured in milliequivale...

4 sources 2 months ago

Certificate of Analysis (COA)

A lab-issued document reporting the tested chemical and microbiological contents of a specific cannabis produc...

6 sources 2 weeks ago

Charas

A handmade, hand-rubbed cannabis resin produced primarily in the Indian subcontinent, distinct from pressed ha...

6 sources 3 months ago

Clone

A genetically identical cutting taken from a mother cannabis plant and rooted to grow as a new plant.

5 sources 1 month ago

Cultivar

The botanically correct term for what cannabis sellers usually call a 'strain' — a named, cultivated variety o...

6 sources 2 weeks ago

Cured Resin

A concentrate made from cannabis that has been dried, trimmed, and cured before extraction, as opposed to live...

4 sources 4 days ago

Dab Rig

A water pipe designed to vaporize cannabis concentrates by heating a banger or nail and inhaling the resulting...

4 sources 3 weeks ago

Fan Leaf

The large, iconic multi-fingered leaves of the cannabis plant that drive photosynthesis but contain little usa...

5 sources 3 weeks ago

Foxtailing

A bud growth pattern where new calyxes stack on top of older ones, forming spire-like towers instead of dense,...

3 sources 2 months ago

HID Lights

High-intensity discharge lamps — the old workhorse of indoor cannabis cultivation, now being displaced by LED.

3 sources 1 month ago

Hair Follicle Test

A drug test that detects cannabis metabolites trapped in growing hair, offering the longest detection window o...

4 sources 1 month ago

Head High

Slang for a cannabis effect concentrated in the head — alert, talkative, idea-driven — as opposed to a heavy b...

5 sources 2 days ago

Internode

The section of stem between two nodes on a cannabis plant, used as a quick proxy for plant structure and stret...

5 sources 19 hours ago