Dabs VS Trees

I am a Vet who started smoking weed in 2011 when I got out of the military, I tried three type of strains and got zonked, didn’t know what way I wanted to go sativa or indica, I found out about hybrids later on in my smoking path. I later found out about dabs and what they were and decided to buy a nice set up and did a few small dabs and nothing, I watched a few videos to see if I had done something wrong but it set the temp automatically and timer was right so I tried a bit more, still nothing. I went though .5 in like 10 minutes and felt nothing so I smoked from the bong and I was good finally, also this is the same for edibles for me as well.

Trees have something different in them that dabs and edibles don’t have? Am I the only person experiencing this with edibles and dabs but not trees?