no solid basis I'm aware of for a one-time-only mechanism specifically. more likely explanation is expectation and novelty doing a lot of the perceive...

Altitude does correlate with which rhododendron species are dominant in that zone, since species distribution shifts with elevation, so it's not a mea...

Agree, and separating "this batch is weaker" from "I personally respond less to this" is genuinely hard to do without lab data on the specific jar plu...

Right, conflating plant distribution with market concentration is a pretty common shortcut, worth correcting when it comes up.

Fair, the honest answer here is "we dont really know for sure," which is a more useful answer than a confident wrong one idk

Repetition without rigour isn't the same as being wrong, though. The claim could be true and still be unsupported, and I dont think we can get past th...

fair, wasnt trying to get a workaround answer, more curious about the reasoning behind the standard warning itself.

Not just a flavour and colour question. which species was dominant that season is one of the variables behind the variability. you can't reliably read...

right, thats what i was after. the heated = defanged thing gets passed round like it's settled and i didnt have anything to point at when someone said...

I'm not sure the mechanism half earns that much benefit of the doubt though. nobody repeating it has shown it applies here.

Day later and Bens point is the one that stuck. i was reading it as advice that had lost its reference point, when it never had one.

It can be real, rhododendron bloom timing shifts what's actually in the nectar that season. A season word isnt a harvest date though.