cali strain scene washed up, what do people want

[FunkBomb]

If some of those crazy strains from CA came over here to the NE the profit margin would be huge. Unless you know someone who grows, or know a friend of a grower it's hard to find really good bud. It's not uncommon for good looking, good smelling, potent bud to sell at $20/gram.

If supply of high quality is low and demand is high then prices are high. Simple economics.

-Funk

 

[InvisibleEmpire]

people outside of the growing realm who strictly deal will throw strain names out like candy because it sells.

here's a funny story.

i met this dude im good friends with about...2 years ago. we worked together, found out each other blazed and was generally a very stoney, funny dude. he would tell me how much he smoked (middies of course) and how many blunts he could smoke in one sitting, etc...but he NEVER mentioned good, quality herb.

so a year or two passes and i trust this dude enough to bring him on board with the fact that i grow because he's my #1 customer for the time being. i know loose lips sink ships but i have a very paranoid personality when it comes to weed and for me to trust someone, you gotta be almost a miracle worker. anyways, after me blazing him out a bunch of times and him buying my weed, it seems as if ALL OF A SUDDEN, he's this 'connoisseur" and smokes the best of the best at all times.

an example...he'll hit me up like "Yo yeah my cuz brought over some kush and man i felt like waves going through me"...or "yeah man i smoked some grandaddy purp today"...i find it suspicious that ONLY after the fact that he learned i grew and smoked some bomb weed that he now smoked the best of the best. in other conversations he seems to be like a one-upper where if someone does something above his level (IE, smoking chronic every day vs smoking shitty mexi-brick) he'll make up something to sound like he's on your level too. hard to explain.

anyways, he told me today actually about that grandaddy purp and in my head im like dude ive been blazin' since i was 15 years old and have not once seen a strain like that make it to my area (big city) and he lives in the fuckin' wilderness basically. so i take what he says with a grain of salt, but he told me the dude wanted $35 a gram. this would equate to $70 for 2 grams and more than likely 85-100 an 8th...which equates out to 700-800 an OUNCE.

i told you if people can bring A+ bud to the table, some people are willing to pay extraordinary amounts just because the frequency it shows up is rare.

at the moment i only have some widow and rhino going, and by january i'll have some better strains going but nothing like the $150-200 per 10 pack strains out there...and im sure i can off it for 500/zip easy. i can't even imagine when i start running strains like BOG's lifesaver or Sour Diesel what people will do. the demand is there.

 

[Hammerhead]

thats about right 10$ GRAM

 

[Yes4Prop215]

right now the hot shit is the CHerry Pie, Girl Scout Cookie, Blackberry kush and the Sour Grapes aka "new wave" if you can find it.

once outdoors start coming in shits gonna blow up literally.


just saw some of my boys outdoor LA con that he already pulled...holy shit this could pass for indoor 50 an 8th in the clubs.

cant wait for some of the good outdoors to hit the market...tired of paying the indoor premium

 

[Hammerhead]

outdoor can be just as good as indoor. If you get bad outdoor it was not taken care of.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

Hey dude you will be surprised what you can do with some CFLs and T5's since the herb in your area sucks fill your bathtub with party cups of coco and flower you clones at 5-8" and you should have some nice 5-10g cola's on each plant and it will be some dank frosty goodness!

Back to topic, I agree on the quality here in Cali but I will say I have been LUCKY enough to get some really super super nice strains that were actually done right from clubs last year. BUT!!! I am doing all purples right now cuz I've been so sick of going to a club and seeing Eurple, GDP, Lavender, Querkle, Grape Ape ect on the boards and then they bust out a jar of some green nugs with MAYBE a faded purple water leaf on it LOL and the bud looks like it's been tossed in a kief box before it hit the jar! I must say if you are going to do purple's and then sell the shit to the clubs DO THEM RIGHT!!! Don't cut em early, make sure you get a nice fade and they are 75% purple at the least and if you don't mind CURE THE FUCKING NUGS!!!!

haha man i hear what your saying 100 percent man....fucking green grapes piss me off. my custies hate them too call them beasters...whenever my people bring that shit around now i talk so much trash to them...i tell them i wouldnt even pay 2400 a lb for that shit...
luckily my friend grows good purps and he knows to run them a few weeks extra to get that shine..plus he has his nute regime down and his purple smells strong.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

outdoor can be just as good as indoor. If you get bad outdoor it was not taken care of.

yea unfortunately 70 percent of this years outdoor harvest will be sub par. just gotta learn to not patronize their shitty crops....i get more and more picky each year..sadly they always seem to dump it on the next person...

 

[Hammerhead]

it's ther own fault if the quailty is not there im going elsewhere. So u guys that grow ouside u need to step up allot more and put allot of love into your outdor grows

 

[yesum]

A little off topic, but I noticed some talk of purple in Cali. A friend got some really strong purple bud from a street dealer in LA, but he could not get the strain name. Anyone care to guess what it might be?
Might grow it out if I thought it was worth it.

 

[Hammerhead]

purple is common nothing special.

U want PCK or
Magenta 99 PCK x DTC99 from Dutch GROWN SEDS NOT OUT YRT ANY WEEK NOW

 

[BlueberryLovr]

All about bag appeal (wow it's purple!) and branding (wow it's OG/Kush!) in Cali.

A lot of card holders I've spoken to don't know diddly squat about what they smoke. They just follow the trends and the 'branding'.

 

[danks]

sounds like the dispenseries are making higher margins. bc is fucked man they get 1300 to 2000 for killer pk or bubba and og. outdoor is coming in the thousands rights now everyone cutting early to get a good price before the rest comes in they will be lucky to get 1000 an elbow lucky. with rents going up more and more and weed prices dropping all thru the summer after olympics everyone here is fucked were heading into the biggest recession ever, everyone i know is working 2 jobs and doing something on the side selling their cars bikes boats for cheap. somehow ur 2600 n elbow doesnt really seem that cheap to me since thats like 2900 here, double what people are getting here. everyone has quit except the large guys with connects and distribution. hydro stores closing down, marc emery in jail for 5 years for selling seeds taken there today. looks like the 2 billion dollar industry in bc is over looks like cali gona pick up the ball im sure alot of people are jealous reading how some complain cause they are only getting 2500 to 3500

 

[Thundurkel]

I feel ya Danks, I'd be happy with 2500 but it's the clubs keeping the price high charging 60 a 8th of course the grower is gonna be like "fuck that" I did all the work for you guys to get 480 per oz but only paid 200 per oz... Talk about doubling your investment...

Back to topic, the Cherry Kush that's around Nor Cal right now is a hitter that shit is soooooooo bomb and so is Alien Dog the fisrt version.. I'm trying to get my cut of Sugar Cane Kush circulating since it's such a good purple strain and really has a grape smell and flavor like a musky grape jolly rancher...

 

[Thundurkel]

Love the teenage wannabe thugs in this thread! Classic!

By the way, I would get all my vato loco homeys then we would throw up gang signs and shoot everyone with our Ak-47's and let our pitbulls eat them when they are dead while we have sex with their girlfriends and we smoke their weed! Then we would get back in our lowriders and go play spades in the park and smoke a blunt holmes. Yeah. Then go water my Original Gangster Kush plants.

HAHAHAHAH! Tell em SOFT420!! Never under estimate a whiteboy that grows....

 

[SOTF420]

I have had two people this week I smoked with tell me about some shit going around called Rosemary Kush and it's suppose to smell exactly like rosemary and be bomb ass herb which might be kinda cool I guess but I'm sure it's not a damn kush these freaks around here call everything a kush lmao

 

[SicKSKills]

Your asking too much or the quality ain't there..... End of story.

yea well i personally feel like its kinda an inverse of that, i feel the quality is next to unbeaten compared to the other dozens of lbs i see daily, but still seeming to want to pay 35/6 for it and really that just doesn't cut it for me with more difficult and long flowering strains like sour and og, or bubba with its long veg and the added costs associated with producing them....compared to blue dream i can see people not wanting to pay much for cause they know its an easy growing huge producer but 3000 if you want to move em that day?? iono thats a little low, i always put in full effort on my garden and i take it personally, even if it is just biz... it also doesn't help when all your neighbors have 20 lights in their garage and a 100lb in their backyard too...

i just popped 50 beans to look through and see what i can find

my whole real reason for this thread was about strains, not particularly prices and quality, just tired of hearing the same names over and over, gotta keep shit pushin around here ya know...

 

[Donald Mallard]

Wow i would have thought 3000 usd was pretty good for a pound of herb ,, its about on par with what youd get in australia , whats the problem ???

 

[SOTF420]

5 letter word starts with "G" ends with "D"

 

[InvisibleEmpire]

Love the teenage wannabe thugs in this thread! Classic!

By the way, I would get all my vato loco homeys then we would throw up gang signs and shoot everyone with our Ak-47's and let our pitbulls eat them when they are dead while we have sex with their girlfriends and we smoke their weed! Then we would get back in our lowriders and go play spades in the park and smoke a blunt holmes. Yeah. Then go water my Original Gangster Kush plants.

You truly cannot understand sarcasm if you think either myself or the other poster truly act like that.

I used to chill (keywords being used to) with people who frequented the Uptown and Hill District areas somewhat near where i'm from, if you don't know about those areas, just google it. These dudes don't grow or anything but they hustle major amounts of brick weed and coke, and no lie if someone owes them $100 I wouldn't have put it past them to shoot the motherfucker. We've had highway shootouts here in the past month, 2 in 2 days. Don't believe me?

http://kdka.com/local/Route.65.shots.2.1893381.html

I can't find the 2nd article.

It's all where you're from, I don't run around killing people obviously but i do carry and have 3 weapons...never had to use em but had to draw my handgun twice as I felt I had no other option...


When you said you would "punch someone in the face and steal their weed", I assumed you were JOKING, which is why i JOKED back.

 

[SOTF420]

Definitely joking bro it's pretty obvious in my post above, I never took any of it seriously at all & I hope you did not have to go grab your gun!

I did shoot a bird once with a bb gun, so I'm hard to the core killer!