Does all this make your skin tingle with excitement too Shed. Lol! Ok, one more.
In Jamaica they employ workers in the cannabis fields to rub their hands up the branches, lifting oils and depositing them on their ever-moving appendages. It's at once painful and fascinating to watch. Lol! They do this for hours and then scrape the accumulated material from their palms with big-ass knives.
Turns out that when the tiny bulbous trichomes (which are found all over the arial part of the plant) are ruptured it signals an increase in nearby capitate stalked trichome expression - they'll grow larger in size, and may be producing a more potent (to humans) oil in those chemical factories we grow in hopes of harvesting. Jamaican cultivators already know that the abused plant rewards with more oil. We're the ones pampering our plants and missing out on the opportunity. Jamaicans do it to get supplemental product. Two oil harvests from the same plant.
Hmmmmmmm.......
The bulbous trichomes aren't believed to hold cannabinoids. When they grow CBG chemovars the other trichomes express milky in appearance (all that cannabigerol) but the bulbous ones stay clear. I'd sure like to see some lab results from selective samples. We know very little about the effects of the "minor cannabinoids."
Isn't this fun? This book is great reading.