Amos Otis
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Right you are. I manages to get in one for a bite about 3 times a month. If only I resided within the delivery area.
Market Flooded..strain variety overload?
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xtsho
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At least half the stuff out there is nothing more than pollen chucks. With so many people eager to pay $30 for a single seed everyone and their dog is making a website and selling seeds. Make up a cool sounding name, killer graphics, a couple shill accounts to plaster the cannabis forums, and people will buy the product. You can put hemp seeds in a pack and call them anything you want. There is no regulation and no recourse for the buyer to take when they get scammed. The cannabis seed industry is just another for profit business just like the cannabis specific nutrient industry. Given the amount of money that can be made it's a certainty that there is a bunch of scamming going on. I'm positive that given a blind taste test most people couldn't tell the difference from someone's so called Cookies Sherbet Pineapple Punch over some unknown bagseed. And in fact I would wager that half would pick the bagseed over the latest so called "Fire" strain.
Rivendell
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More and more people are picking up genetics to make their own seeds, instead of picking up stuff to grow out solely for flowers. It sure seems like many of the hype breeders are churning out basically the same thing now a days, most stuff available is a derivative of cookies, og or chem. Don't get me wrong, a lot of it is great stuff, but it seems like we are rushing towards a day when its all going to be the same. Right now I would be more interested in picking up something from Mandala or the like just to get some different genes in the pool that I am working with instead of a rehashed cookie, og or chem.
xtsho
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I've spent a good deal of money acquiring genetics from ACE, Cannobiogen, and The Real Seed Company. The only thing I have from Mandala is a pack of Kalichakra regulars and some Purple Paro Valley. I grew their Purple Paro Valley and made more seeds and three or four crosses of that. I have no interest at all in any of the latest designer strains. I'd be embarrassed to even tell people the names of some of them if I was growing them. It's like they're marketing to children with the names they come out with. It's a great way to market a product but it doesn't work for people like me.
Half the people out there wouldn't be able to identify different strains anyway. You could load three bowls of the same strain and tell them it's three different strains. The first call it Cherry Delight, the second Lemon Kush, the third Pineapple Passion and they would all claim to taste whatever fruit was in the name you called it. The average mind is easily manipulated.
yesum
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Word to their muthas. I tried their packaged ice cream they used to sell in my grocery store. It had all kinds of chemical names in the ingredients. It tasted like it too. I no longer go to their stores as the product is not worth it.
I read you did not find any Colombian Gold that was like you had back in the seventies or eighties? I found a good one in the USC CG '72. It did not have the incense smell like the ones I had in late 70's but the high was great and they may have changed the genes by then. I know they started putting indica into the Colombian by mid 70's or even before that.
I am gonna pop some CG '72 by Snowhigh next. He says it is different than the USC version. The later seventies Colombians were better than most Mexican for me, but not grail either. The green Colombian was the best for me. The Colombians from the sixties to early seventies were supposed to be killer, elites on par with Thai or any other strain. They may have in fact been Thai grown in Colombia. Heard that from an old timer who knows all the strains they had back then and smoked them.
The CG '72 I grew produced a pheno I liked better than the CG I had in '79, and that smoke was pretty good. Fresh and real CG from that time period.