Most of us cannabis consumers, growers, hash makers, and connoisseurs know what a trichome is, but for those who might be reading and not know a trichome is let me take a quick sec to explain.
Trichomes are the small tiny hairs, or outgrowths on plants. On a cannabis plant they look like clear hairs with clear round heads on them, they look a lot like a clear mushroom. The trichomes change color from cloudy to amber as they produce more THC, CBD, other cannabinoids and terpenes. The trichomes of the cannabis plant is basically where all the good stuff in the cannabis is found, and what we are all after!
BioHarvest Sciences is now the first and only company as of right now who has the technology to produce or grow these trichomes without growing the cannabis plant itself! CEO of BioHarvest Sciences Ilon Sobel excitedly stated in an online interview that “We have been able to demonstrate the ability to grow trichomes on liquid media across multiple strains!” “This is one and the second element building on this is, that we have been able to optimize the growth of the trichomes in a highly predictable and efficient manner!”
Bioharvest only uses the natural cells of the original plant, and produce the cannabis trichomes in proprietary bioreactors. The trichomes produced this way have much higher density up to 200 times greater density without being genetically modified and free of pesticides giving us a full spectrum biomass at the cleanliness and consistency the world has never seen before!
I do have to say what the team at Bioharvest has accomplished is truly amazing on a whole other level to say the least, my question is who truly benefits from this other than the commercial industry? I mean having a super clean and consistent product is always great for the consumer or patient, but at what cost? Is this something that will bring the cost down? or raise the cost of an already insanely expensive and highly taxed industry? I guess only time will tell.