RIU'ish discussions now?
Wtf happened to the educated crowd on here?
Definitely unwatching this thread...
Wtf happened to the educated crowd on here?
Definitely unwatching this thread...
thats a lot of seeds to grow out - it always amazes me that breeders (pollen chuckers) go thru so many seeds to find that one or so special lady (or male)... and how they supposedly know which are the best ones for breeding...$39 for a few thousand Mex. Sativa seeds - not bad.
My experience - grow out 100, & get 1 killer female.
I saw it in recent threads and decided to click, probably a bad move for an unwatched thread.Holy crap! A guy posts a thread about the $39 an ounce he just bought, that he says is acceptable, and some people find reasons to criticize. When you go somewhere to buy weed you can buy what you want. He could have bought more expensive weed but he wanted to try the $39 weed. I would have just to buy weed under $50. Hell in 1973 I flipped out when I had to pay $40 an oz for Columbian Gold. It was worth it but I still complained. I could buy a QP of good Mexican for $45. I would sell 3 for $15 each and have a free ounce. A QP of Columbian Gold was $125.
Some people don't want my best weed. They want weaker weed. I have a friend who likes to smoke fan leaves and swears he gets as high as he wants to be. He gets the munchies too.
The one thing home growers will have to their advantage is some people don't want people to know they smoke even if it is legal. Doctors, lawyers, nurses, accountants, teachers and people in service jobs. People don't like knowing the guy operating on their heart or teaching their kids is high or was high.
As a nurse I have a few doctors as customers. And fellow nurses and health care people.
Right now in Pa you can't be medical and have guns so I have a lot of hunter/gun owner customers too.
You would think on a weed site people would be more tolerant of different views. I have lost many friends on here that I wish I was still cordial with.
I saw it in recent threads and decided to click, probably a bad move for an unwatched thread.
Here is the issue:
The issue is NOT that it's cheap weed or anything like that, the issue is that people are getting fooled. Why am I saying this. The reason is because X amount of grams is an old and IMO backwards thing to look at things. You really are buying trichomes and terpenes and NOT pllant matter. Some producers even call it that, biomass, which is true but it's also sort of an insider joke. There are proprietary genetics that yield very high on a scale that looks at all parts of the bud the same.
The issue is that if after so many years of hopefully connoisseurship, you're on a forum with 16k messages for gods sake there is a major issue and problem if you don't recognize that what you are doing is supporting big pharma/big (and bad) weed. Maybe it's the activist in me, which I'm not really at all but we all sort of are rebelious we all smoke weed ffs. Now the thing is, the market gets ruined, this means there is less and less good product out there for newcomers to smoke.
What if a newcomer only knows the weed that yielded 3 lbs per plant instead of a 14 week haze (which is already the case) or a lovely low yielding hybrid even. These small producers get completely priced out of the market because of the ''39 dollar oz'' the issue is not the 39 dollars it's what future smokers will not be able to get anymore not even at 300 dollars an oz because they were priced out.
Isn't this what we all were afraid off. Miss me with the brickweed arguments because you can go back and back and back and find arguments, I'm talking about today and the future which we all should do IMO. Don't dwell on the past.
In conclusion, maybe said friends just ''moved on'' and were true connoisseurs of the plant that appreciate: craftsmanship, dedication, all these worderful things.
I hope I have been respectful enough.
if u r a true connoisseur , for the most part u will not find it at a disp.... u have to grow it yourself...In conclusion, maybe said friends just ''moved on'' and were true connoisseurs of the plant that appreciate: craftsmanship, dedication, all these worderful things.
I hope I have been respectful enough.
I'm NY its terrible there's so much shit weed you can get lbs of any stupid named bud for 200-300 its crazy ...two yrs ago you paid that an oz haha and as a grower you can't even make your electric bill back ....not to mention if it doesn't sparkle and dance in the bag they won't even look at it...legal states ruined the plant in my opinionin new york they are lining up to get a lic. to be legal and sell... at these numbers, there is no way u are making $$$- everytime a state goes legal, more product comes in to the market- the amount of smokers stays more/less the same....
if the weed was better then the local dealer, or better then what we grow....great..... but as stated it is usually sucky, and more $$$- shiity and more expensive is not a winning formula...
I'd love to know the 'behind the scene' reason for the $39 price tag.................. - i find getting 39dlr weed at a disp pretty interesting.... .
It was grown outdoors, so it isn't as pretty as indoor, so that's probably all they could get for it. Ya know, "true connoisseurs" would never want it, LOL.I'd love to know the 'behind the scene' reason for the $39 price tag.
.............. just a ploy to get folks in the door or something deeper?
......... market issues, possible suspected contamination, but I'm betting on marketing (advertising) ploy....................What would the deeper thing be?