30% here in colorado, They allow a 15% variance either way for cannabis.
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as someone whos done cannabis analytics via hplc hundreds if not thousands of times, 30%RSD is the cringiest thing i have ever heard
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You’re telling me! Absolutely ridiculous! And still no required pesticide testing for concentrates. State refuses to acknowledge that growers will have contaminated plants below the threshold of testing and once they’ve been concentrated they’ll be in the ppm range. Baby steps.
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Where do we leave comments?
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=AMS_FRDOC_0001-1919
this is what I found. There might be others
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Please submit your comments to the USDA proposed draft hemp rules.
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I have someone wanting to sell me seeds of a Watermelon strain. It has .323 Total THC but he is saying it will test within range because THCA only decarboxylates around 70%. I am inclined to call BS.
Looks like that’s already post-decarb figure stands .323. THCa is at .368, times .877. Though most states don’t count into the 100th percent, so .39 and below is still “.3”. Usually.
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That’s good to know. Still seems like risky genetics to mess with accounting for fertilizer fluctuations, drought etc.
The .877 that most states are using is in a perfect chemistry world hplc dont decarb and use this formula based off perfect chemistry.
In the real world like smoking it or a GC test where the sample actually gets decarbed the figure is more like 67-73 percent
You will probably be alright with the THC level, but unless you are getting them close to free, why you would want seeds of a relatively unknown strain testing out at 9.85% CBD that might be hot for THC is a mystery to me… I’ve heard of Watermelon testing over 20% CBD fyi
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Do eeeet. I have some ideas… and I can supply bioreactor equipment and teach people how to do some proper Liquid Cultures, psilocybe is a wonderful genus, but we don’t have to limit ourselves; there is an endless continuum of fungi and microbes at our disposal to culture during our stay here on 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙.
I need to talk shop with @Killa12345 to design some safe and affordable autoclaves from 55 gallon stainless drums; stove-top pressure cookers max out at like 20L.
Something like this but an actual salable product:
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Do they like potato and dextrose?
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We’ve extracted and isolated psilocybin here in Denver
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Haha. Since my post New Mexico just changed the regulation to have “three-tenths of one percent” to mean “.30%”. No more fudging all the way to .39. Bastards.
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Whoa. The link at the bottom of that page, farmers.gov/hemp, I think, is increeedibly interesting.
Whole-Farm Insurance?
A farm loan? For our hemp farm??
This almost guarantees that our currently-only-THC farm will expand into considerable hemp operations, probably almost solely in order to engage with these government programs.
Just now finding out about this 
Pa goes to the hundredth when they tested crops but that’s as far as I know
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