You are either not getting different strains, or getting different strains that are closely related to each other.
If you come and buy weed in a dispensary here in the USA, you will find several different smells, colors and shapes of the flower you are buying.
Meh. That doesn’t really seem to be my experience with the legal market, at all.
I kind of have the same question as OP; why the hell does ~90% of US dispensary weed smell like dispensary weed, and what the fuck does it even mean to say it smells like dispensary weed?
I’ve never once come across that particular odor in twenty years of black market flower.
I forgot about big corporate dispensaries. All of the chains are run by people who only care about money, and focus on undercutting their competition rather than selling a premium product. They hire wooks to put on chemical suits and spray poison, they take clones and rename them the latest popular strain, and in general all practices are directed away from high quality flower to increasing yield and preventing crop failure. Then there’s the cure and trim teams who also don’t know what they are doing.
At smaller “mom and pop” dispensaries, I’m able to find the bud with quality and character. I’ve been driving 4 hours to buy my flower for about 5 years to one which is constantly winning awards for their flower, because I don’t like smoking “corporate” weed. Fortunately, I have a friend in town who opened up a dispensary recently and he grows his own weed, saving me a lot of driving.
Oh, no doubt. I have seen some awesome flower in dispensaries, too.
But what I’m wondering is — the vast majority of the dispensary flower I’ve seen isn’t just mediocre — it’s very specifically different from normal flower. There’s a particular smell that I associate with dispensary flower, that I’ve never seen in black market flower.
I don’t really know what it means to say the flower smells like it comes from a dispensary.
Where you at? Nevada? Here in Washington I would say the flower offerings are getting pretty advanced. But the legal market here has been running for a decade so that helps
I worked in a commercial grow for my first job in the Marijuana industry. In my experience its one of these 3 things.
When we got a new strain, I was told to make clones from a similar strain that was also one of our better strains. We also got new strains when we acquired another garden. As the garden developed, this was moved into tissue culture. Tissue culture is useful, but it does not activate the epigenetic reprograming that occurs during Meiosis. Meiosis is a very special type of cell division, because it makes sperm and egg; both of these types of cells undergo epigenetic reprogramming, the chromosomes are renewed, and the genome is compacted and preprogramed to make a new plant. During Meiosis, there are other supporting cells that will provide nutrients for the egg (the nurse cells) and the egg shell (follicle cells). I think that commercial grows rely on cloning, they see the pheno change over time, they then implement tissue culture to help restore the pheno, but really what they have made is artificial and not found anywhere in nature. When I worked at ATCC, there was a limit to how many generations a tissue could be grown without the pheno continuing to change for both primary and immortal cell lines, and the product needed to be finished before reaching these thresholds.
The spraying of pesticides has become routine, and it is done on flowering rooms that may or may not have pests. They were sprayed on a schedule. The pesticides could be anything that was allowed, and the working solution often contains surfactants and oils like neem oil. They don’t just disappear when the water evaporates, they either remain as residue, or are absorbed by the plants.
The growing conditions are for optimized yield. The high density of plants is not found in nature. The nutrient schedule is the same for all plants. Harvest times are the same for each harvest. Not much if anything is done to adjust for specific strains. Now you have different strains rubbing up against each other, not getting enough airflow, and all being fed the same things.
That’s not something anyone has disagreed with.
The OP question wasn’t why is all of this weed bad, tho. They asked why do so many completely different flowers have an identical smell.
My experience with this phenomenon is Massachusetts dispensaries. OP is EU black market “cali exotics.”
I’ve never smelled the “dispensary smell” in any black market flower I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
Seems it’s not just an European issue…
Can you elaborate ?
As in dispensery weed has plenty of flavors
Or black market weed is better ?
They sell untrimmed weed there over the counter so I wouldn’t use MA as a litmus test