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Marrige_Iguana t1_j7vh3om wrote

Reply to comment by A_Swayze in Researchers find that outdoor cannabis can "express more cannabinoids with potentially desirable bioactivity" compared to cannabis cultivated indoors under artificial lights. by OregonTripleBeam

Terpenes and other cannibinoids are terpenoids, and most do not have nitrogen in their bonds (main part of being an alkaloid)

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tarrox1992 t1_j7vq3qk wrote

But the entire organism is connected and affecting one system could presumably affect the plant's ability to create certain molecules over others. I'm not saying this is the case, but good experiments should control for as many variables as possible, especially something as simple as the growth medium of the plants.

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dasus t1_j7w9qtg wrote

Yeah, this.

There's one main difference to inside and outside light, and that's UV. I would argue that a change in grow medium and style has a larger effect than simply the added UV exposure from the sun.

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[deleted] t1_j7w2n6v wrote

The proteins that synthesis those terpenes have nitrogen and presumably metals in their structure.

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