A-Dark-Hollow
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outdoor strain mass amounts of it usually floatin around harvest season would be nice to have truthfully :]
do old farts still smoke old strains?
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hard rain
Like others here, the old Thai sticks from the 70s would be a welcome return. I just think a lot of the strains around now are a bit bland. There doesn't seem to be the great differences in the high that I used to experience.
Some of the skunk I have grown from seed has been mediocre in comparison to the weed I started my toking career with in the late 80s early 90s around North London. The Skunk #1 I grew was nowhere near the quality of the Skunk that coffee shop 36 was serving up in 91.
We didn't get Thai sticks though. They were about and I had a few smokes but never scored any. The thai that we got was the deep gold bud variety. Smelled and tasted divine. I have always assumed it was imported but, having read this and other threads, am now thinking otherwise. I would know it instantly if I saw a good snap of it so here's hoping... Along with the Thai, we used to get rock hard bud that our man just called Red Beard or Sensi. It had a real orange citrus aroma. Highly resinous. That was always a treat when it came up. Again we always assumed it was Jamaican import. I still kind of do but don't have much hope of ever finding it. I was in Jamaica 2 years ago and didn't see anything like it. What I did get was good though, and cheap! I have thought about trying some Cali Orange or something because it did stink of oranges. Our man said Jamaica though.
I haven't tried many strains yet but still haven't tasted anything new that is as good as those old ones for all round smoking niceness. Best strain I have ever grown is a Cheese X Bagseed. Gives up some real old school flavours.
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We didn't get Thai sticks though. They were about and I had a few smokes but never scored any. The thai that we got was the deep gold bud variety. Smelled and tasted divine. I have always assumed it was imported but, having read this and other threads, am now thinking otherwise. I would know it instantly if I saw a good snap of it so here's hoping... Along with the Thai, we used to get rock hard bud that our man just called Red Beard or Sensi. It had a real orange citrus aroma. Highly resinous. That was always a treat when it came up. Again we always assumed it was Jamaican import. I still kind of do but don't have much hope of ever finding it. I was in Jamaica 2 years ago and didn't see anything like it. What I did get was good though, and cheap! I have thought about trying some Cali Orange or something because it did stink of oranges. Our man said Jamaica though.
I haven't tried many strains yet but still haven't tasted anything new that is as good as those old ones for all round smoking niceness. Best strain I have ever grown is a Cheese X Bagseed. Gives up some real old school flavours.
I'm getting closer
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stonedaze
I remember them good ol' days. We were about 500 miles from Humboldt, so that's where most of our skunk came from, but most of the time we smoked Columbian Gold, Acapulco Gold and this stuff called Red Bud...I think it was also Columbian. I remember my friend blew chunks one morning before school while listening to Whole Lotta Love after we smoked a bunch of red bud. That was some good shit. Smoked some Panama Red and Thai Stick wrapped around a stick with a thread. One time we had some Buddha Stick dipped in opium...4 hits and we felt like we were frying on acid for the next 4-6 hours.
I thought I saw a seed co. that was selling the original (or close to it) Columbian. I'll have to try and find that again. I see Sagarmatha Seeds sells Yumboldt...I wonder if that's anything like the original.
I also see that Sensi Seeds sells an Indica dominant Skunk #1 and Seedsman sells a Sativa dominant Skunk #1 also called "the Pure"...does anyone know which of these is closer to the original?
Almost forgot to mention some purple haired Sativa we used to get in South Lake Tahoe during the early 80's. This stuff actually had purple hairs...wish I could find that again.
Thanks
I thought I saw a seed co. that was selling the original (or close to it) Columbian. I'll have to try and find that again. I see Sagarmatha Seeds sells Yumboldt...I wonder if that's anything like the original.
I also see that Sensi Seeds sells an Indica dominant Skunk #1 and Seedsman sells a Sativa dominant Skunk #1 also called "the Pure"...does anyone know which of these is closer to the original?
Almost forgot to mention some purple haired Sativa we used to get in South Lake Tahoe during the early 80's. This stuff actually had purple hairs...wish I could find that again.
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stonedaze said:
I remember that stuff... My buddies and I scored it a few times... had a lot of fun making little bud-men out of it and sticking it to the windshield of the car as we drove around tokin' up.
LOL
Rip the poor little guy's head off and stick it in the pipe before sparking up and passing it.
That was some STICKY stuff... the purp just whacked us though... LOL
scaramanga
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In South Florida we used to get Jamaican that was just outstanding. The cure always left something to be desired but the high was excellent. There were many different varieties but my favorite was one that would come around only every so often. It was black stringy and really oily/greasy, and the smell was really rank, almost like something was dead/decaying; in a good way. It was very similar to DJ shorts description of "Black Magic African", except that I'm positive this was from Jamaica. It was among the most lung busting of buds ever, rivaling even the stronger afghans for expectorant properties. Unfortunately since it was compressed nearly all of the seeds were crushed, not that there were many.
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Scorpion
high motaco,motaco said:
i still enjoy the columbian tastes and aromas,but mine are found in some of the better haze hybrids,this is what i look for when i select a plant to grow for a while,also the sweeter maple flavord afghans are a fond memories from the past
.the mexican red from Michioacan was very sweet and possibly the first kind i ever smoked.
afghan/columbian/acapulco gold ,ring a bell?
good ole skunk
peace taco
adios miho
bbing
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I ran across an old cat in my hood who has been tossing seeds on his ranch for 20+ years. He had been throwing what he called "mexican red hair" seed from the 70's and gave me a couple hundred of them. I really didn't think xbacks that deep would produce anything interesting..and then I cracked a couple on the last run and tripped out. typ. sativa pheno but smelled like plastic and pepper and sandalwood. Extremely pschoactive and cured up with a sweet floral finish. I fuggin love it.
Anyone remeber calling it mexican cess? <ph. "sehs">
Anyone remeber calling it mexican cess? <ph. "sehs">
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bagseed77
yes, the sess , i think it was short for sensimelia, a dime of sess back in the day , in a manilla envelope. im thinking sess was just better mexi but i do remember it like back in 87
norwalkin
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Oh the memories....
Oh the memories....
Hey Now! 
OK ..... I guess I'm close to old fart age ... remember the Thai sticks very fondly ... great pot! Also the rainbow lumbo and helpin' a friend bag it up ... several lbs sitting on a table listening to the "NEW" Led zep album and smokin big fat joints of the heavy smoke got your lips all gooey by half way through the j ... great time
But the weed that I am still in search of is a ratty looking brown weed that resembled the colombian of the day late 70's .. A older hippie frend said it was ganja he got from Africa ? got one little bud for $20 back then ALOT thought i got ripped off ... anyway one hit wonder bud ... that stuff put me in the recliner for hours... almost totally incapacatating...... but very happy.....Do not think any opiates were added although they were around on hash.
Hey stonedaze ... I remember the purple haired skunk too ... great trippy buzz ... I'll keep lookin' till I find the strain of my memories ...
I will be giving Sensi Star a a run this winter hopin' for a great mother for next summers grow!
Keep On Growin'
Oh the memories....
Hey Now! OK ..... I guess I'm close to old fart age ... remember the Thai sticks very fondly ... great pot! Also the rainbow lumbo and helpin' a friend bag it up ... several lbs sitting on a table listening to the "NEW" Led zep album and smokin big fat joints of the heavy smoke got your lips all gooey by half way through the j ... great time
But the weed that I am still in search of is a ratty looking brown weed that resembled the colombian of the day late 70's .. A older hippie frend said it was ganja he got from Africa ? got one little bud for $20 back then ALOT thought i got ripped off ... anyway one hit wonder bud ... that stuff put me in the recliner for hours... almost totally incapacatating...... but very happy.....Do not think any opiates were added although they were around on hash.
Hey stonedaze ... I remember the purple haired skunk too ... great trippy buzz ... I'll keep lookin' till I find the strain of my memories ...
I will be giving Sensi Star a a run this winter hopin' for a great mother for next summers grow!
Keep On Growin'
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xavier7995
One nice thing about growing up in the midwest as a kid was that they were behind the times, having hippy parents and friends with "good ol boy" parents helped as well. I am not really that old but started smoking at a young age and have around 15 years or so under my belt starting sometime around 1990. Most of the strains I hear people talk about as being amazing from the late 70's and through the 80's were widely available. I even got Maui Wowie and Thai sticks at one point early in the 90's and they were the best I have ever smoked. I am not sure if it is the current strains or simply having smoked for a long time but what is lacking now is that I just haven't found anything that gets me mind blowingly high. On a hit by hit basis I do think what is available now is stronger but there is just something lacking. After a bowl or so I just won't get any higher despite how much more I smoke, and given current prices that is a lesson learned 
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I have three varieties I miss dearly. I really miss the old school style of creepers. I remember smoking a joint with some buddies and having nothing really happen...so we smoked a few more. Half an hour later we were rolling around on the ground so high we were nearly tripping. The other stuff I miss was the basic day to day weed we had that was called either jamaican or mexican red hair, basically because it was almost the buds were basically red from the hairs. The jamaican had bigger buds, was lighter in color and usually not compressed much. The mexican being darker with small buds compressed into 5 lb. bricks. An old school grower that I knew thought the mexican was more like colombian than what he knew to be mexican strains. My first indoor grow was actually with some seeds I found in my old room from when I was a kid and produced this stuff:
In terms of potency it was fairly weak but man a decent joint of it made me trip out and run around the house cleaning and doing jumping jacks. It was probably the best weed I had smoked in the past 5 years or so, the only thing better being some jack herer and strawberry cough sometime around 2000.
Anywho, I love you old hippies as you remind me of the people I grew up with going to communes/pot farms as a kid. I guess the only real advice I can offer you old folks is to take a look at the midwest as there are many people there set in their ways who are more than likely still growing out the strains of back in the day. Personally I would take the brick weed of my youth to the sourD of today. I miss having it be a reality that if I smoked more I would get more high.
ps. a strange tale of the generation gap was that I got called whippersnapper by an old hippy when I explained that I weighed out bags for people using a postal scale and told of the beauty of using a scoop and 3-4 fingers.
. I have three varieties I miss dearly. I really miss the old school style of creepers. I remember smoking a joint with some buddies and having nothing really happen...so we smoked a few more. Half an hour later we were rolling around on the ground so high we were nearly tripping. The other stuff I miss was the basic day to day weed we had that was called either jamaican or mexican red hair, basically because it was almost the buds were basically red from the hairs. The jamaican had bigger buds, was lighter in color and usually not compressed much. The mexican being darker with small buds compressed into 5 lb. bricks. An old school grower that I knew thought the mexican was more like colombian than what he knew to be mexican strains. My first indoor grow was actually with some seeds I found in my old room from when I was a kid and produced this stuff:
In terms of potency it was fairly weak but man a decent joint of it made me trip out and run around the house cleaning and doing jumping jacks. It was probably the best weed I had smoked in the past 5 years or so, the only thing better being some jack herer and strawberry cough sometime around 2000.
Anywho, I love you old hippies as you remind me of the people I grew up with going to communes/pot farms as a kid. I guess the only real advice I can offer you old folks is to take a look at the midwest as there are many people there set in their ways who are more than likely still growing out the strains of back in the day. Personally I would take the brick weed of my youth to the sourD of today. I miss having it be a reality that if I smoked more I would get more high.
ps. a strange tale of the generation gap was that I got called whippersnapper by an old hippy when I explained that I weighed out bags for people using a postal scale and told of the beauty of using a scoop and 3-4 fingers.
Lucky 7
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Oh yes, we got a lot of Jamaican, mexican brick, some really special Meshmacon from the Highlands I suppose, various Colombians, & some Island weed called Wahican from the coast of Africa.
It was orangy, and a fairly devastating product. I bought half a pound for $75? I think . . .
It was orangy, and a fairly devastating product. I bought half a pound for $75? I think . . .
floppyfundanglr
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i grew out a couple of bagseeds that reminded me of an old school hash plant and another that reminded me of the "mexican red hair" you guys talk about in here. It looked like it but the true mexican red hair used to get me so high! i used to love smoking that shit! i remember one day me and my friend sat for like an hour just pulling red hairs and then just smoked bowls of red hairs! no green!
oregon_guy
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Was smoking in the mid-late 70's back in the midwest. It was cheap 15.00 oz but it was all mexican. We did run across some black Mexican and some real Thai Sticks every now and then.
Moved to the west coast a few years ago and have only concentrated on the newer strains. I am not really looking forward to going back to the mex stuff. Now trying to find some of that old thai, thats a different story. I have some thaitanic veging right now and also have some Thai Haze X Skunk 1 that I might try soon. The thought of a 120 day flower period dosen't sound too great though.
Yep these days I am like the younger ones chasing the new "improved strains".
Moved to the west coast a few years ago and have only concentrated on the newer strains. I am not really looking forward to going back to the mex stuff. Now trying to find some of that old thai, thats a different story. I have some thaitanic veging right now and also have some Thai Haze X Skunk 1 that I might try soon. The thought of a 120 day flower period dosen't sound too great though.
Yep these days I am like the younger ones chasing the new "improved strains".
Backwoods Bud
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Norwalkin
I remember skoking a lot of opium based hash (what we called it in the day) around 80. It wasn't that opium incense crap that got passed off but was black opi hash. That shit would lock you in a recliner for hours with a blissful smile.
I remember skoking a lot of opium based hash (what we called it in the day) around 80. It wasn't that opium incense crap that got passed off but was black opi hash. That shit would lock you in a recliner for hours with a blissful smile.
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Gobwats
I recall back around '79-80, all you could find for hash in southern Germany was what they called morphine green. That shit was nasty, nothing at all like real hash.
irieeyes808
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I don't really anyone has the true old school skunk from the eighties coming up through the lower 48? If anyone does have any really old beans from a bag or if someone is keeping the strain alive , hook us up. I have heard that it's all pretty much just afghani knock offs? I have some roadkill from Canna going right now so we will see. Thanks all
