Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis - Is it all BS?

[Doug58]

Yes, but not ALL of it, right? Not all square grouper are created equal. Lol some stuff that I am reading says that the proportion of THCV in addition to the general condition of the weed may cause that. If you think about that all Mexican weed, how much Did you have to smoke to get high in the first place? Did it vary from batch to batch! The THCV may have just made it more fun. I have heard some reports that say that the really “pure” sativa auto strains like Fastbuds Mexican airlines, Are more likely to give you that effect. I wouldn’t be surprised if say something like the world of seeds Thai Ryder or say the Dutch passion Durban poison auto might also give you that same affect

Mexican Airlines is currently my go to smoke when I'm not smoking my own hash made from trim from numerous strains from my grow last Summer.

 

[Doug58]

We used to full blown hallucinate off of mexican brick/schwag.

Those were the days but everyone said Mexican brick weed was crap. I read there was no real drying or curing, that they would harvest and press into bricks. Before I retired in Arizona where I worked in the government, feds would bring in bales of Mexican weed where I was working and you could smell it in their vehicles from a hundred yards away.

 

[jdm61]

Mexican Airlines is currently my go to smoke when I'm not smoking my own hash made from trim from numerous strains from my grow last Summer.

I have only grown Fastberry so far, but Mexican airlines is on my shortlist of fast buds sativa dominant strains to grow next along with blue dreamatic and Maybe this new orange sherbet strain

 

[JaPinkman]

On the @KIS podcast, there was a guest who stated the same thing and hosts an alternative to the cannabis cup. The strain that won had less than 15% THC and one that did very well was all the way down to 6%

Terpenes and balance will hopefully guide the future of cannabis breeding as legalization and usage normalizes.

Yes, I think that was the podcast that I was referring to. She was a very pro cannabis researcher, a doctor, who has been studying it for some time and if she had an agenda it was definitely pro.

 

[jdm61]

Interesting you should mention harvesting drying and curing. My understanding is that Colombian Santa Marta gold is gold because of something they do with stripping the main stem a couple of days before harvest which kind of starts the plant drying ahead of time. I have also heard that Acapulco gold (the real stuff that is) gets some of its unique characteristics because of how and where it is dried and cured. I always wondered if the Columbian red bud that you would see on occasion in South Florida was the same weed because they harvested it in a different manner or if it was the stuff from the other part of the country that grew pot?

Those were the days but everyone said Mexican brick weed was crap. I read there was no real drying or curing, that they would harvest and press into bricks. Before I retired in Arizona where I worked in the government, feds would bring in bales of Mexican weed where I was working and you could smell it in their vehicles from a hundred yards away.

 

[Doug58]

On the @KIS podcast, there was a guest who stated the same thing and hosts an alternative to the cannabis cup. The strain that won had less than 15% THC and one that did very well was all the way down to 6%

Terpenes and balance will hopefully guide the future of cannabis breeding as legalization and usage normalizes.

i always see articles claiming the weed available in the 1970's had THC around 5% and I wonder why it was so good in my experience.

 

[jdm61]

The numbers that I’ve seen are as low as 1%. I think if you rolled a cigarette size joint of 5% sativa back then and smoked it with your best friend, you both would’ve been pretty freaking high at the end of that little session.After a while in the early 80s, that’s what me and my best friend were doing. We would roll in one of those little “two speed” manual Rizla or Top cigarette rolling machines. We would Clamp it own to the smaller size to tighten the joint up a little bit, but that was still a fair amount of weed.

 

[420Forever]

mmm, this is all very interesting, but, the only question i concern meself with is -> "duz it get me high-?" jus sayin... ppp

 

[jdm61]

mmm, this is all very interesting, but, the only question i concern meself with is -> "duz it get me high-?" jus sayin... ppp

LOL. But seriously, as we are now in a position to grow what we want, we can kind of control HOW we get high as Well as how high we get. The “science” just helps us to figure out how to get to where we want to be. :smoking:

 

[Doug58]

Interesting you should mention harvesting drying and curing. My understanding is that Colombian Santa Marta gold is gold because of something they do with stripping the main stem a couple of days before harvest which kind of starts the plant drying ahead of time. I have also heard that Acapulco gold (the real stuff that is) gets some of its unique characteristics because of how and where it is dried and cured. I always wondered if the Columbian red bud that you would see on occasion in South Florida was the same weed because they harvested it in a different manner or if it was the stuff from the other part of the country that grew pot?

Colombian Red Bud. That brings back memories as that is what they called the weed I got in North Carolina around 1980. Same year I got a 1/4 oz of Bluish tinted Hawaiian, the first sinsemilla I ever had. I took that weed to a Doobie Brothers concert at Castle Farms in Charlevoix Michigan and never knew I had so many friends in the crowd.