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Alex Elle (via kushandwizdom)

The leaves and stalks don’t turn into nugs, they’re all parts of the cannabis plant.

A cannabis plant is made of up one big stalk that branches off into a bunch of other stems. The stems grow leaves on them, and eventually baby nuglets. Those tiny dank delights are nurtured with plenty of vitamins and nutrients until they grow big and strong into the giant nugs you smoke today. 

The leaves act as solar panels for the light and pull in all the energy to photosynthesize into food for the nugs to get denser and danker. The stems are also put through rigorous training by artificial winds and growers abusive hands – allowing the stems to bruise, heal, and grow thicker to handle the massive weight of the nugs they carry. The stems also act as an excellent bendy straw to all the plant food sitting in the soil.

Once the nugs mature to a point where the grower is personally satisfied, be it orange pistil hairs present on the nugs or cloudy trichomes in the microscope, they chop the plant down from the main stalk. Slice and dicing away, a trimmer makes quick work of the freshly harvested ganja, breaking the stem system down into smaller sub branches. These all get hung to dry for a bit, then trimmed again to the nugs you see today. After trimming, they’re left to, what stoner’s call “cure”, for what seems like an eternity to increase the plants potency.

And after months of growing and months of curing, the nugs are finally ready to be ravaged by stoner hands or grinders and blazed into a quick and glorious, smokey and stoney send off.

There’s a lot I’ve left out, but that’s basically the gist of it. If you’re looking for grow videos to watch, Jorge Cervantes has an awesome library of stuff, and books to read on the subject.

Hope that helps,Stay regular super stoner~