Why Triploid Cannabis Seeds Are the Smartest Grow Upgrade

[The Vault]

At https://humboldtseedcompany.com/og-triploid-auto/, the company claims average (not best case) 30%-34% THC. I've seem similar percentage claims by growers and dispensaries (which many say often cheat) and seed companies.

Is this for real, attainable, or a by-product of funky testing methods? This seems to be about the same concentration as kief or other simply concentrated trichomes. If allow another 10% for other terpenes/essential oils, non-THC cannabinoids and also unavoidably some moisture bound in the buds, this means the buds are about 50% or maybe more liquid! And then there still would be a fair amount of stuff within the buds (the dead plant cells) - cellulose (bud structure; cell walls and fibrils), DNA, proteins, chloroplasts/organelles, chlorophyll/pigments, misc. salts, ATP, etc. [I just saw in another posting someone citing that <15% bud moisture after drying is good for pressing, suggesting even higher percentage water in buds than I assumed].

What do actual 34% buds look like? The seed co. and dispensary online pictures for strains claiming over 20% to me look all much the same, in terms that they are not oozing/slimed/goop-covered with THC/congealed trichomes.

Good question, and I think this mostly comes down to how those THC figures should be interpreted, not whether the genetics themselves are credible.

When any top breeder cites 30%+ THC, I read that as demonstrated potential under optimised conditions, based on lab-tested samples — not a promise that every plant, harvest, or bud averages.

On the physical side, even very high-testing flower isn’t going to look meaningfully different from other elite cuts once you’re already in the low- to mid-20s visually. Past a certain point, appearance just isn’t a reliable proxy for potency, particularly given how labs prep and normalize samples.

Triploids also shouldn’t be read as “breaking” cannabinoid limits so much as making it easier to consistently express the top end of what the cultivar can already do — better uniformity, reduced seed set, and strong resin production all help close the gap between theoretical and realized performance.

 

[The Vault]

For sure I will contact you.

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cu tobe

Thanks buddy, and to you