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@Seamaiden yeast and other microbes too. Stuff im just learning about lol. you definitely need to keep curing jars out of any sunlight.. sunlight degrades THC. it's best to cure in amber glass to be safe. I wanted to mention another thing about wine. b-
myrcene is the sedating terpene in wine and imo the majority of the terpene is concentrated in the skin and is released when the grapes are crushed. The terpene behaves as an oil, the interactions from the acids in the juice causes the oils to disperse evenly throughout the grape juice. Some of the microbes in wine come from the feet, because they crush the grapes with their feet. Then with fermentation the alcohol is created and the magic starts. i believe a lot of the medicinal qualities from wine and possibly marijuana too come from how the microbes combined with the
terpenes and the alcohol or thc is running through the blood. When you drink wine the beneficial microbes can pass through the organs and intestinal track and attack bad microbes. this is just a guess but i think it something like this could be going on.. the oily terpene bind and carry certain "things" with it as it passes through the body. Also the combination of the alcohol and
terpenes cause havoc on the bad microbes, where as the microbes in the wine have adapted and formed a symbiotic relationship with the wine. Once the alcohol and
terpenes grab the bad microbes they stand no change, they are defeated and flushed out with the wine. I would guess good and bad microbes are being absorbed into the oils but the good ones are let go. I think the microbes change from being in the alcohol during the aging processes and ultimately only the fittest survive, a sort of evolution process. that's all just a guess. I find organic wine tastes better and has a stronger effect than wine from chemically worked vineyards. It's because organic grapes have higher
terpenes than modern vineyards that have depleted the soil from applying too much fertilizer over the years. Also i believe scientists just discovered that plants can eat microbes and turn them into nitrogen that they convey up the plant into the leafs. If plants are eating microbes i think it's possible there's microbes in the trichomes. It might be that plants intelligently pick the microbes to eat and some others to incorporate in the plant for immunity.