Most disliked strains

[Nannymouse]

Interesting thoughts and experiences, there.

Well, here's something a little different. One of my faves is also one of my most disliked. Clips did a bunch of Stbg13, sent f2's and f3's, which were all were taken to f4, finally i gave away all those, cuz he based his line from one very very stanky mom, and all the progeny from that gal made plants that were just too nasty smelling for the nannymouse. However, found an older version of f1's that had none of the nasty odor and they are very nice.

 

[Koondense]

Some of the "worst" i ever tried(also reasons why i dislike them) :

OG, dank but boring effect
GorillaGlue, dull and overall waste of time
Skunk, makes me feel kind of hangover
Mazar, boring and tastes generic
Northern Lights, stony and dull, boring taste and effect
Critical, definition of average
Frisian dew, average outdoor weed
Cookies, generic hype weed, boring
Most Jacks, partial effect, always something missing
...

Cheers

 

[f-e]

Critical is truly dull. In it's full name, it makes sence. Critical mass. It's Big-Bud all over again. Good yield of daytime smoke. I do like it's smoothness though.
It's real place is in a breeding program. Where a nice but low yielding strain, can benefit from crit's bulk, while picking up little in the way of new flavours. Hence everything has been crossed with crit at some point. Giving commercial bulk, and importantly, timing.

 

[Chi13]

Man Chi i have got high hope for the the C99 i have lol. I have to say cannabis can definitely be tricky to find the one's that works for you, no one strain fits all in this game...

PS For the OP, Blue dream works very nice for myself...

Sorry, don't be put off by what I say. Everyone has their own tastes. Also I grew up with long flowering sativas and had been smoking 10 years before I even saw an indica, apart from hash imports. C99 just wasn't in the same league as what I'd been used to. Most varieties labelled sativa today, I think are far from sativa, yet I know a lot of younger smokers who would disagree.

 

[HempKat]

Here's the thing everyone focuses mainly on THC and CBD content but there are at least 111 other cannabinoids that have been isolated and while THC and CBD might be the ones with the greatest effects not a whole lot is known about the role those other 111 Cannabinoids play. No Cannabinoids interact with the endocrine system and I would suggest that everyone's endocrine system is unique to them. As such while a particular strain might be perfect for one person for another it might be much less desirable. Now that's kind of an over simplification but it's for this reason that I feel every grower needs to find out for themselves what they like best and grow that, regardless of what others might say about certain strains. Then there are other factors such as taste and odor that play a big role in whether you like something or not. I know for myself there are certain strains that aren't the most potent effect wise but I still very much enjoy them for their flavor and odor. Then if that wasn't enough their are thing like how it grows, does it require a lot of care, does it yield well, how long does it take, etc? That factor into how much someone likes certain strains or not and one final thing that can put a spin on it all is if you are growing it for yourself or are you growing it to sell. If the former then you can just focus on things you like but if your growing for the latter (to sell) then market demand will influence how much you like something. You might have heard of the strain known as Charlotte's Web? If not this was a strain that had a very high amount of CBD but was very low on THC. The people who grew it at first weren't to happy with it because most people buying from the dispensaries wanted high THC content strains and as a result the people who grew it weren't having much luck selling it and they were about ready to give up on it. Fortunately for them at about that same time someone discovered that it was great medicine for young children suffering from chronic Epilepsy and word of that spread and soon the strain became very prized by parents of those kids because it virtually cured their kid's epilepsy without getting their kid's all wasted on THC.

So what I'm getting at is really you need to just try different things based on what your desires are. Sure it's hit and miss at first but eventually you'll identify what's best for you and then you're golden. Until that point you should take everyone else's reviews of various strains with a grain of salt. Try what most closely aligns with what you think you'll be happy with and if it works then great, you found a strain, if not then move on to the next. It's always good to have variety though because if you just keep doing one strain you'll build up a tolerance and get burned out on it. Ideally you want to be able to work with half a dozen strains or even more that you can cycle thru so that you're not always smoking the same stuff all the time and that way you're less likely to build up a tolerance and tire of it.

 

[B.T. Herb]

Here's the thing everyone focuses mainly on THC and CBD content but there are at least 111 other cannabinoids that have been isolated and while THC and CBD might be the ones with the greatest effects not a whole lot is known about the role those other 111 Cannabinoids play. No Cannabinoids interact with the endocrine system and I would suggest that everyone's endocrine system is unique to them. As such while a particular strain might be perfect for one person for another it might be much less desirable. Now that's kind of an over simplification but it's for this reason that I feel every grower needs to find out for themselves what they like best and grow that, regardless of what others might say about certain strains. Then there are other factors such as taste and odor that play a big role in whether you like something or not. I know for myself there are certain strains that aren't the most potent effect wise but I still very much enjoy them for their flavor and odor. Then if that wasn't enough their are thing like how it grows, does it require a lot of care, does it yield well, how long does it take, etc? That factor into how much someone likes certain strains or not and one final thing that can put a spin on it all is if you are growing it for yourself or are you growing it to sell. If the former then you can just focus on things you like but if your growing for the latter (to sell) then market demand will influence how much you like something. You might have heard of the strain known as Charlotte's Web? If not this was a strain that had a very high amount of CBD but was very low on THC. The people who grew it at first weren't to happy with it because most people buying from the dispensaries wanted high THC content strains and as a result the people who grew it weren't having much luck selling it and they were about ready to give up on it. Fortunately for them at about that same time someone discovered that it was great medicine for young children suffering from chronic Epilepsy and word of that spread and soon the strain became very prized by parents of those kids because it virtually cured their kid's epilepsy without getting their kid's all wasted on THC.

So what I'm getting at is really you need to just try different things based on what your desires are. Sure it's hit and miss at first but eventually you'll identify what's best for you and then you're golden. Until that point you should take everyone else's reviews of various strains with a grain of salt. Try what most closely aligns with what you think you'll be happy with and if it works then great, you found a strain, if not then move on to the next. It's always good to have variety though because if you just keep doing one strain you'll build up a tolerance and get burned out on it. Ideally you want to be able to work with half a dozen strains or even more that you can cycle thru so that you're not always smoking the same stuff all the time and that way you're less likely to build up a tolerance and tire of it.

ABSOLUTELY AGREEMENT. It’s a question of criteria. How to establish a scale of measurement without having set criteria? we are in the order of taste declined according to oneself genetic compositions.
All we have to do is grow as much as possible and compare ourselves, possibly even outside the circles which strictly define the criteria themselves. could be very interesting
and not at all boring

 

[Switcher56]

*SNIP
That factor into how much someone likes certain strains or not and one final thing that can put a spin on it all is if you are growing it for yourself or are you growing it to sell. If the former then you can just focus on things you like but if your growing for the latter (to sell) then market demand will influence how much you like something.

True!

You might have heard of the strain known as Charlotte's Web? If not this was a strain that had a very high amount of CBD but was very low on THC. The people who grew it at first weren't to happy with it because most people buying from the dispensaries wanted high THC content strains and as a result the people who grew it weren't having much luck selling it and they were about ready to give up on it. Fortunately for them at about that same time someone discovered that it was great medicine for young children suffering from chronic Epilepsy and word of that spread and soon the strain became very prized by parents of those kids because it virtually cured their kid's epilepsy without getting their kid's all wasted on THC.

As previously mentioned... I have no idea how the low THC affects Cw (as a whole). I am a proponent that it is the whole enchilada that does the job. Once again IMHO you need both, more important is the balance between the 2. I spent countless hours researching/viewing that exact point, and how that balance plays a role in the whole entourage effect.

When it comes to taste... to me, after a puff or 2 it simply tastes like burnt leaves. Vaping vs combusting helps (cleaner, more pronounced flavours) but that is not why I smoke weed.

So what I'm getting at is really you need to just try different things based on what your desires are. Sure it's hit and miss at first but eventually you'll identify what's best for you and then you're golden.

Exactly! Once you find the main elements that suit you, it then becomes a starting point for what you may want to try. Wrt the difficulty or fussiness of growing the strain is a moot point. You deal with it and most folks will because if it is what you need, it is what it is. Wrt yield... IMO that criteria really plays 2nd or even 3rd fiddle in the total equation.

 

[...CR500AF...]

Sorry, don't be put off by what I say. Everyone has their own tastes. Also I grew up with long flowering sativas and had been smoking 10 years before I even saw an indica, apart from hash imports. C99 just wasn't in the same league as what I'd been used to. Most varieties labelled sativa today, I think are far from sativa, yet I know a lot of younger smokers who would disagree.

Hey Chi13 my friend don't worry about that... just having some fun, where i am at a big tall sativa is just is not a realistic plant to grow here so i try different hybrids till i find something i like, and that will fit in the setup i run...

 

[Greenheart]

HempKat nailed that one square in the head. All that at and even the individual variants among plants of the same strain all play a role in it.

I was never much for the BD. I know other's that do. Don't really go for the kush or haze lines. The only Blueberry I've ever really liked is the DJS.

 

[burningfire]

I've always been a fan of BD, I had some great Med BD up in canada before legalization that was very good. Some of the lesser producers relabeled some random varieties as BD but you can still get decent BD from the gov store, none were as good as the Med BD I sampled.

Koondense mentioned Jacks, I've been disappointed by most of the Jacks I have tried, the head is bright but it's also confusing and kind of dull.

 

[Happy Times]

I'd say it's more the market gets saturated with certain strains for a while so people get sick of them. Large grows care more about pumping out weight than quality so sacrifice the high for the cash and people get a mass produced product that doesn't represent the original clone properly so also get sick of it.

Well said

and I think if people don’t like a strain in general it’s going to die out

something I really didn’t like? The flat black brickweed with seeds all smashed in so that you couldn’t even get them out that I used to get in high school in the Midwest USA. Yechhhhhh

 

[PolyChucker]

People in their 30s and older generally think fondly of blue dream from everyone I’ve talked to but the thc numbers around 18% are kinda old school. BD is getting pushed out of clubs by 27% thc weed which people might not actually think is better if they smoked both, but that’s the problem with a numbers based approach to the weed market compared to the smoke test.

 

[Switcher56]

... couldn't say it better myself!

 

[944s2]

I don't like Mazar. To me, it's a strong green taste, like smoking green vegetables. With a bit of a liquorice twist. In that it leaves a heavy aftertaste.
I bred some auto's that came out that way. I was gutted, but not surprised as it's just not a real weed taste to me.

Green poison never excited me, and when you see it's potential to mould, you have to wonder why people would do it twice.

Things that take 16 weeks... why wait that long. How special is it, to spend twice as long flowering it. Twice as good? really? I like a little off a menu, but not doing it myself.

Northern Lights. Simply put, I'm sick of it. I smoked so much 30 years ago, I just feel repulsed by the smell now. It might have a bearing on my dislike of Mazar.


I'm an evening/night time smoker. This means a large number of things are simply unsuitable. I like things that assist sleep, and that's a minority

I’m with you f.e,,,
Cant stand and won’t smoke Northern Lights,,,,Afghani,,and Cheese are another two I dislike,,
Won’t have them anywhere near me,,,
Kinda makes me wanna gag,,,

 

[bigtacofarmer]

Black domina. Made me sad about a half hour after every time I smoked it.

Second least favorite. The ones grown by people that don't realized the have a hay pheno and dry it til it crumbles to dust.

Not s big fan of strains that make me sleepy. Querkle is a good example, (decent smoke, then a nap) I don't need that in my day.

 

[Switcher56]

... that would depent if you want/need a nap or sleep

 

[sallyforthDeleted member 75382]

I really dislike the cheese clone. I had it in my grow and around for about a year. Very strong smoke that made me so depressed and while high on it I could be a bit temperamental or just plain fucking mental.So it wasn't for me. Also the acrid strong aroma was a nightmare at cropping time and thereafter when carrying a bit around. I like my flowers to make me feel good mentally or even a bit of a challenge in terms of trippy ness but certainly not depressed. A lot of indica varieties can also give me a brain fog of dullness which takes the fun out of life however I do enjoy a good indica at the right time as long as it makes me feel good. I have White Rhino x pre 98 Bubba Kush for that, it's mind blowing the pheno I found recently.

 

[Brother Nature]

Guess it depends on what you like and need. I love my c99, gives me an up high all day, but not a useless or paranoid high, I wierdly get shit done. I hit those good indicas at night, only recent mainstream strain that rolled me has been Gelato, shit is fire. Got some great Malawi and Deep Chunk on the way, can't wait to see how these seeds perform outdoors.

 

[rolandomota]

Mexico brick weed every one loves to hate it i say lol more for me

 

[JetLife175]

Most commercially available lines are so closely related its past funny. The main building blocks are NL/SK/ Hz/ Afgani.

I think most are weak or have an affect i personally dont like .

Saying that what i dont like 10 others will love and value highly.

Best advice for some one starting out growing their own is this.

Research lines you may be interested in growing look for as many grow and smoke reports you can.

Once you work out what you want to grow then my advice is research and get the seed if possible from the original breeder.

this notion is so exhausted by how. We all know. Everything is actually closely related. It’s the same
species. It’s never been about that. It’s been about selection. That’s what separates the men from the boys.