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Continued - Monday 18/04/05
So after gawking at all of that lovely glass I sat down to wait in the hopes that the people I still hadn't met would arrive. I knew Rez was going to be there before I got there, we had been exchanging pms and he let me in on the fact he was going. I also found out Smokey Puffmaster was there, had no idea he as going to show up.
In the meantime BOG pulls me over and hands me a bud....says, "take a look, that's Sour Bubble". I broke the bud and got the most incredible whiff of limeyness....wonderful lime fresh pucker 'em up smell, and the nug was rock hard, covered with trichs. BOG's creation may not have won first place, but there is no doubt at all that Sour Bubble is every bit as good as anything I had the pleasure of smoking while I was there, ECSD, Amnesia Haze and everything else included!
After a couple opf tokes of Sour Bubble I had to sit down again
I was just sitting there talking to some people in the shop and this guy strolls up and says "Hi...I'm Jimmynitz". Well that was it...I knew the serious partytime was about to begin. Jimmy sets himself on down and the first thing I asked him was to take a look at the ECSD. While he's pulling it out of his pocket I hear "You must be Bluevelvet"...I look up and I just knew it was him, said "hey....you must be the Rezdog" and folks...so it was . Rez sat himself down and pulled his promise out of his pocket. What promise you might ask? The promise to enlighten me and pull me out of second rate stonerdom elevating me to the heights of first class stoner with four letters.... ECSD.
After hearing so much about this strain I was very curious to find out for myself what all the hype was about. I examined it closely, sniffed, and when Rez passed the joint my way and I took my first hit I understood. This is connoiseur herb, very obviously a cut above the rest, you don't need to be an old school stoner to realize its special, but you do need to be one to really understand just how special it really is. I knew as soon as I smoked it that it would do well at the Cup, and I think Rez has alot to be proud of. The ECSD did excellently and though it didn't win in the breeder's category, it was every bit as good as the winning Amnesia Haze by Soma....just very different. In the end it came down to personal taste.
My own very personal remark about the ECSD, and what suprised me the most upon tasting it is the immediate sour edge as soon as you take a toke ....tastes exactly like Sicilian sour oranges. Gotta get some of those for Rez to taste so he'll know what I'm talking about :wink:
While all this ECSd oooooohing and ahhhhhhhhing is going on in rolls Smokey! Smokey showed up with his wife and daughter, two very very lovely ladies with whom I spent some time while I was there, and for whom I shed my stoner dimension to go out and have a ball doing serious woemn's stuff...namely shopping. I was real pleased to meet Smokey, first thing he did was make me turn all red by showering me with the nicest compliments and second thing he did was give me a taste of his own ECSD ....man oh man, we had ECSD up, down, beneath, beyond, and across Amsterdam, couldn't get enough of the stuff!
This isn't ECSD, and it wasn't even in Amsterdam...but its time for a pic and I guess I'll show y'all what I left at home with the babysitter, threatening castration with a bread knife if he so much as breathed on my plants:
Those are two of the four plants in my grow now...sativa Mangos and they're over 6ft tall
So while we're getting down to some serious ECSD partying, I see these two guys walk up, one of whom asks if I'm Bluevelvet. Turns out to be hashstar. I didn't really know hashstar very well, he's new to these boards, but you can say we'd already formally introduced each other. I had stumbled across a thread by hashstar saying he was coming to the Dam with a friend who was travelling on a serious budget. About the same time I ran across that thread, I found out Farmer John, for whom I'd advanced the purchase of a Guest Pass, wasn't going to be able to make it (missed ya alot FJ :wink. So I had a situation of two paid for Guest Passes and FJ who was feeling bad about not being able to come at the last minute, and I wanted to solve it as painlessly as possible for everyone involved. To make a long story short, I simply gave the Guest Pass to hashstar's friend Pachuko. And Pachuko was at the Dam with hashstar....and everytime I looked at Pachuko he was one happy smiling dude, so I felt really happy about having given him that pass, especially because hashstar and him seemed like really nice people. Hashstar was so generous as to scoop out for me some high quality Super Silver Haze buds he had grown himself, and that was my special weed to put on the table when we all got together for a smoke .
After some very heavy partying it was time for some munchies! BOG, Rez, Jimmy, Smokey and family, some other people and myself headed off to a Tibetan restaurant which Rez knew and proceeded to majorly chow down! It was really nice to just sit back and talk over a good meal. The weather was still nasty, lots of rain and wind, and we didn't really want to do too much wandering around outside.
After dinner we headed for De Dampkring nearby. My first coffeshop! I really enjoyed it, nice place, nice atmosphere, and they serve alcholics, which isn't a must, but I do enjoy a glass of good red wine when I smoke. My very first (and what would turn out to be my only) purchase in a coffeshop was a gram of Mother's Finest and a gram of Afghani Pollen at De Dampkring.
The evening was really nice, very laid back which I needed after the experience of meeting so many people in so little time, it can be quite overwhelming. I got to know my ICMag friends a bit more personally. It was quite a gift actually, I don't think people like Rez and BOG are so forthcoming about themselves with just anybody and I thank them both for having let me get a little bit closer. The evening was spent with laughter and friendship and incredible weed and though I wish ti could have never ended, I'd been up since 6am and was ready to get some rest and prepare myself for Tuesday. BOG took me back to my hotel, I fired myself up a good night smoke of Afghani Pollen and floated off to dreamland.
Hope y'all enjoyed Monday...Tuesday is when things really start rocking! :wink:
Same bat time, same bat channel......
So after gawking at all of that lovely glass I sat down to wait in the hopes that the people I still hadn't met would arrive. I knew Rez was going to be there before I got there, we had been exchanging pms and he let me in on the fact he was going. I also found out Smokey Puffmaster was there, had no idea he as going to show up.
In the meantime BOG pulls me over and hands me a bud....says, "take a look, that's Sour Bubble". I broke the bud and got the most incredible whiff of limeyness....wonderful lime fresh pucker 'em up smell, and the nug was rock hard, covered with trichs. BOG's creation may not have won first place, but there is no doubt at all that Sour Bubble is every bit as good as anything I had the pleasure of smoking while I was there, ECSD, Amnesia Haze and everything else included!
After a couple opf tokes of Sour Bubble I had to sit down again
I was just sitting there talking to some people in the shop and this guy strolls up and says "Hi...I'm Jimmynitz". Well that was it...I knew the serious partytime was about to begin. Jimmy sets himself on down and the first thing I asked him was to take a look at the ECSD. While he's pulling it out of his pocket I hear "You must be Bluevelvet"...I look up and I just knew it was him, said "hey....you must be the Rezdog" and folks...so it was . Rez sat himself down and pulled his promise out of his pocket. What promise you might ask? The promise to enlighten me and pull me out of second rate stonerdom elevating me to the heights of first class stoner with four letters.... ECSD. After hearing so much about this strain I was very curious to find out for myself what all the hype was about. I examined it closely, sniffed, and when Rez passed the joint my way and I took my first hit I understood. This is connoiseur herb, very obviously a cut above the rest, you don't need to be an old school stoner to realize its special, but you do need to be one to really understand just how special it really is. I knew as soon as I smoked it that it would do well at the Cup, and I think Rez has alot to be proud of. The ECSD did excellently and though it didn't win in the breeder's category, it was every bit as good as the winning Amnesia Haze by Soma....just very different. In the end it came down to personal taste.
My own very personal remark about the ECSD, and what suprised me the most upon tasting it is the immediate sour edge as soon as you take a toke ....tastes exactly like Sicilian sour oranges. Gotta get some of those for Rez to taste so he'll know what I'm talking about :wink:
While all this ECSd oooooohing and ahhhhhhhhing is going on in rolls Smokey! Smokey showed up with his wife and daughter, two very very lovely ladies with whom I spent some time while I was there, and for whom I shed my stoner dimension to go out and have a ball doing serious woemn's stuff...namely shopping
. I was real pleased to meet Smokey, first thing he did was make me turn all red by showering me with the nicest compliments and second thing he did was give me a taste of his own ECSD ....man oh man, we had ECSD up, down, beneath, beyond, and across Amsterdam, couldn't get enough of the stuff!This isn't ECSD, and it wasn't even in Amsterdam...but its time for a pic and I guess I'll show y'all what I left at home with the babysitter, threatening castration with a bread knife if he so much as breathed on my plants:
Those are two of the four plants in my grow now...sativa Mangos and they're over 6ft tall
So while we're getting down to some serious ECSD partying, I see these two guys walk up, one of whom asks if I'm Bluevelvet. Turns out to be hashstar. I didn't really know hashstar very well, he's new to these boards, but you can say we'd already formally introduced each other. I had stumbled across a thread by hashstar saying he was coming to the Dam with a friend who was travelling on a serious budget. About the same time I ran across that thread, I found out Farmer John, for whom I'd advanced the purchase of a Guest Pass, wasn't going to be able to make it (missed ya alot FJ :wink
. So I had a situation of two paid for Guest Passes and FJ who was feeling bad about not being able to come at the last minute, and I wanted to solve it as painlessly as possible for everyone involved. To make a long story short, I simply gave the Guest Pass to hashstar's friend Pachuko. And Pachuko was at the Dam with hashstar....and everytime I looked at Pachuko he was one happy smiling dude, so I felt really happy about having given him that pass, especially because hashstar and him seemed like really nice people. Hashstar was so generous as to scoop out for me some high quality Super Silver Haze buds he had grown himself, and that was my special weed to put on the table when we all got together for a smoke .After some very heavy partying it was time for some munchies! BOG, Rez, Jimmy, Smokey and family, some other people and myself headed off to a Tibetan restaurant which Rez knew and proceeded to majorly chow down! It was really nice to just sit back and talk over a good meal. The weather was still nasty, lots of rain and wind, and we didn't really want to do too much wandering around outside.
After dinner we headed for De Dampkring nearby. My first coffeshop!
I really enjoyed it, nice place, nice atmosphere, and they serve alcholics, which isn't a must, but I do enjoy a glass of good red wine when I smoke. My very first (and what would turn out to be my only) purchase in a coffeshop was a gram of Mother's Finest and a gram of Afghani Pollen at De Dampkring.The evening was really nice, very laid back which I needed after the experience of meeting so many people in so little time, it can be quite overwhelming. I got to know my ICMag friends a bit more personally. It was quite a gift actually, I don't think people like Rez and BOG are so forthcoming about themselves with just anybody and I thank them both for having let me get a little bit closer. The evening was spent with laughter and friendship and incredible weed and though I wish ti could have never ended, I'd been up since 6am and was ready to get some rest and prepare myself for Tuesday. BOG took me back to my hotel, I fired myself up a good night smoke of Afghani Pollen and floated off to dreamland.
Hope y'all enjoyed Monday...Tuesday is when things really start rocking! :wink:
Same bat time, same bat channel......
and was a big part of the cup. I'm gonna try to go next year. I would love to meet you, even if you don't like my art. 
