I don't know enough about flower to be able to discern a difference.
Honestly, it's kind of like wine: the more kinds you try, the more you start to pick out the differences; and you can learn a lot about them without any sort of formal education.
An easy way to do that is by starting a weed journal. When you pick up flower, write down the strain(s) that you got, and then when you smoke it, write down stuff like how it smells/tastes, or how it made you feel. Before too long, you'll start to be able to pick out things that you liked (for instance, lemon and pine scents, giggly and calm effects) and things that you didn't like (skunky smell, sort of a racy feeling, too sedative, etc.) about different strains.
And, really, don't be discouraged if it doesn't work or takes a long time. When I picked up from a friend, I really couldn't tell the difference between most of what they had; and when I picked up from a sketchy gray-market delivery service, there was more of a difference, but still nothing super substantial. It wasn't until I'd been shopping at a dispensary for like six months that I realized that even though I "just liked weed," I did actually have a preference for sativa-leaning hybrids with a fresh pine scent.
I don't know enough about flower to be able to discern a difference.
Honestly, it's kind of like wine: the more kinds you try, the more you start to pick out the differences; and you can learn a lot about them without any sort of formal education.
An easy way to do that is by starting a weed journal. When you pick up flower, write down the strain(s) that you got, and then when you smoke it, write down stuff like how it smells/tastes, or how it made you feel. Before too long, you'll start to be able to pick out things that you liked (for instance, lemon and pine scents, giggly and calm effects) and things that you didn't like (skunky smell, sort of a racy feeling, too sedative, etc.) about different strains.
And, really, don't be discouraged if it doesn't work or takes a long time. When I picked up from a friend, I really couldn't tell the difference between most of what they had; and when I picked up from a sketchy gray-market delivery service, there was more of a difference, but still nothing super substantial. It wasn't until I'd been shopping at a dispensary for like six months that I realized that even though I "just liked weed," I did actually have a preference for sativa-leaning hybrids with a fresh pine scent.