Educate
The record, taught.
What the compounds are, what the certificates say, and how to read both. Every number here is a measurement on a filed lab sheet — 85 of them and counting —and nothing on this page says what anything is “good for.” That is not what a record is for.
The Cannabinoid Circle
every chord is a measurement on a filed sheet
hover a compound and its receipts light · hover a subject and its chemistry does · a dim compound has simply not been measured on a filed sheet yet · a subject that draws no chords hasbeen measured — its sheets are filed and its breakdown is not transcribed into the record yet, which is our backlog and not the plant’s silence — shown, never invented
indica · sativa · hybrid → does the label say anything?
The label is how nearly everyone shops. So we asked our own record what it predicts: of the 95 strains carrying both the strain’s own researched type — indica, sativa or hybrid as the world files it, never a BOOF ruling — and a recorded terpene list, how often does that type name each terpene? The three that lead both labels come first; the rest follow by how far the labels differ.
- Myrcene
- Limonene
- β-Caryophyllene
- Terpinolene
- Humulene
- Ocimene
- Linalool
Under both labels the same three terpenes lead. The difference between indica and sativa lives in the ones almost nobody names.
Every bar counts what the record names, not what a lab measured — and the two barely meet. 95 strains carry both a type and a named list; of the 26 with a measured terpene panel, not one carries a type at all. A chemical comparison isn’t available to us, so none is implied.
The counts ride beside the bars because a fifth of twenty strains is four strains. Bare “Pinene” is held back on 32 namings rather than guessed at α or β.
Nothing here says what any of it is good for.
the terpene flavour wheel · what these things smell like
Everything above this line is our own record. This one is not, and that is deliberate — it is the aroma vocabulary the industry shares, so that a compound name means something before you ever look at a shelf.
hover a terpene and its family and notes light · equal wedges on purpose — this is a vocabulary, not a measurement, and the sizes claim nothing · ⚑ nothing on this wheel comes from our lab sheets or our shelf, and nothing here links to a strain: these are the aroma descriptors terpene references share, drawn so the words mean something · and as everywhere on this page, aroma is all it says — not one word about what any of it does to a person
the activation arc · what heat does · published boiling points, at ordinary pressure
hover a marker and the physics meets our record · the three sesquiterpenes sit ABOVE the burn line because these are atmospheric-pressure figures — the familiar low numbers for caryophyllene, humulene and bisabolol were measured under vacuum and have been copied for years as though they were not · nothing here is a setting to dial
flavour → terpene · what travels with what, counted on our own record
hover either column and its ribbons light · every band is the number of our 87 two-list strains that name that flavour AND name that terpene — both are the strains’ own recorded lists, counted together, never a claim that one causes the other · 52 rarer notes are named on fewer than three strains and are held back rather than drawn as noise
the family tree · one precursor, and everything the plant and time make from it
every arrow is a named transformation — enzymes, heat, age and oxygen, isomerisation — and every circle is sized by how many of our filed sheets measured that compound · a dashed circle is real chemistry our own record cannot vouch for yet
being drawn: the flavor wheel in full sunburst · how to read our effects radar