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Numbered notes from the desk: drops, guides and what the lab sheets say. Every number in a note is checked against a COA.

Newest · N°064 · Guide

Exotic vs top shelf

Neither word has a legal or lab definition. Exotic usually means sought-after, often newer genetics with strong bag appeal and loud terpenes, nearly always grown indoors. Top shelf means a seller's own highest grade, a ranking inside one menu. Only some of what sits behind either word can be checked: grow method, COA numbers, dates and the source of the genetics.

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  1. N°070

    What are THCA smalls?

    · Guide · The file desk

    THCA smalls are small, fully formed buds, roughly pea-size to about an inch, cut from the lower and inner branches of the same plants that produce the large top colas. They are the same strain and harvest, sorted by size. They can test somewhat lower than top buds because they got less light, so the COA should come from the smalls lot itself.