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Strains & Terpenes

Strain coverage without the fortune-telling: cultivar names are real but loosely enforced, indica/sativa is more genre than chemistry, and the honest spec sheet is the tested terpene profile — where flavor lives and percentages can be verified. This hub reads strains the way the rest of the site reads vendors: from the paper, with hedges where the evidence is thin, and with zero promises about how a plant will make you, specifically, feel.

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Terpenes
The aroma compounds — where flavor lives, and where claims get slippery.
Terpene Profile
The tested breakdown of a flower’s aroma compounds.
Indica / Sativa / Hybrid
The menu’s three-way sorting — more folklore than chemistry.
Cultivar (Strain)
The named variety — real genetics, loosely enforced names.
Phenotype
The same genetics expressing differently — why one name varies by grower.

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