Lights just came on took a couple pics for ya.I dunno bout you guys but I just wanna see more pics
good thread, good discussion too
I'm guessing you meant outlaw growers and hells Angels?...I've never met a man who has worked w 2 different outlaw clubs...except maybe cops...some folks don't realize that the bikers were just as heavily involved in breeding as the seed slingers we have today.
I was taught to grow by Outlaw and hells angels members and that schooling included breeding and phenotype hunting.
In 89 there was no such thing as a "Hells Angels OG" , not in Canada anyways. In fact , the term OG was not used until well into the 2000's.
the old hells angels HP might be an OG as it certainly fits the bill by todays standards and could be from those lines of low yielding super greasy OG like plants.
problem is Hells Angels are in many countries so we would have to know the source of the cut to determine if it is what it's advertised as. BUT I would agree, in 89 , "OG" was not a term used in our gardens.
I'm pretty sure that Hellz Og is the same cut Karma has used to breed.
in surrey BC in the late 80's /early 90's there were indeed a small group of growers , patch members of the outlaws who were working with certain hells angels in setting up and training growers. It is a fact.
I was but a garden rat in those days, 19 years old, brought into the fold because I was dating one of their daughters. The dad wore the tattoos of an outlaw member as did several of his associates. I was never involved in any club business in those days, tho I did my fair share of runnin to the grow store, haulin bales and all those things growers hate to do LOL I hung with that crowd for several years and learned to grow at the same time. I didn't work for anyone as a grower back then, just helped out girlie's dad and reaped the bonuses.
Later in life, I ran a breeding and mothering set up for 9 years straight, passing my cuts off to friends who happened to be patch members and associates of the HA's. I also benefitted as being one of the first to receive new genetics from them as well. I was never a member of those clubs but managed to come thru those years with the respect of a lot of good people, killer growers, who happened to take the biker path in life.
Sandy , the Outlaw member I speak of, and my growing mentor for over a decade back in the day, passed away in October. He was well into his 80's.
Some folks might not like posting stuff like that online but really, I don't care, I paid all my dues from my youth and so have all those dudes.
It's weed history, embrace it
up here in Canada we have this beer company called Sleeman's. Their TV commercials are awesome and always bragging about their deep roots in the underworld of Al Capone and the prohibition era gangsters. They embrace it and it's cool as shit to me hehehe
funny here there are a couple clubs that are in the news because there is some serious tension between them yet I still know a few fellows that associate with both sides equally
I notice things, part of my nature. I noticed a real long time ago that certain allegiances are deeper than others.
For example I noticed bleed between the real life fraternities of bikers, cops and it because of their military interconnection.
For example, especially in war time generations, people served together in some very life defining moments and later came back and took different paths. Do you really thing the bond of brother hood was forgotten? I think it goes deeper than this but i'll save those thoughts to myself.
Based on my experiences most of these groups have intense filtering systems that all have some common denominators.
Simply being an honest person as far as not having a hidden agenda has seemed to serve me well when my safety was at the grace of others because had they wanted it any other way it could have been. I have and have had more than one friend that has psychopathic tenancies, some pretty serious. Never saw it manifest between us.
I am not trying to hide the ugly side of anyone or anything, I just think they aught not be defined by the stigma of what they do wrong. There is a side that revels in freedom and has. by proxy kept things free for us like pot.
Also, i feel as if many of the generation I am exposed to where veterans who came back changed, and this was their way to adapt. The things specifically the vietnam war did to people where not good and like the homeless vets who die in the street it just seems wrong to let serving go unrecognized.
My hippy ass wouldn't be venting my mind so freely if I had drawn the same lot, I benefit from it though. For some reason this is prominent in my mind.
I also am part of a certain counter culture and so many of my friends have family that are members of those fraternities and they are the people who grow weed because they believe in it and how supportive they can be to those at arms length.
As someone who identifies with a specific counter culture who has come into in a later generation I have resigned myself to approaching it in such a way that it brings good karma tot he table and leaves the rest behind, took a long time to understand that concept. Grateful is as grateful does I guess.
In the end nothing is as it appears at face value but yeah man I don't think high heels and dancing to the macarena is going to save you if shit hits the fan.
TEQUILLA!