What Cannabis Testing Doesn’t Tell You

Jamie Toth, The Somewhat Cyclops
Cannabis Explorations
6 min readJun 23, 2020

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I’m working on a new story to help everyone leverage test information and strain information to not only get the high they want but also to help tune their pot palate. This is not that story. This is, instead, what resulted from my research.

It all started when I was writing up strains for the darlings at 54 Green Acres. As they love sharing the test results that demonstrate their ability to get great results from organic methods, I was poring over terpene data and analyzing it as I went, to ensure I could capture all of the information I could about each strain. When you’re dealing with organic cannabis, just like with organic food, smells and flavors are at the front and center of everything, which means a lot of terpene work.

Green Dragon is one of their most terptastic strains. This strain has been grown by 54 Green Acres since 2016, and its genetics originate from another Southern Oregon farm which is also a Certified Organic farm that is uses Sungrown techniques in Southern Oregon. This means the phenotype I was raving about has been lovingly cultivated in Southern Oregon soil for many years at this now, and it’s easy to tell from the robust flavor mix that you get when tasting it.

What can tests tell you?

Green Dragon’s eclectic terpene chart looks like this:

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