Grew out this pack this year, have harvested and dried, now into the curing process.
I have been sampling this bud throughout flowering, mainly because I had no bud and cannot get hold of any where I live. It supplied me with smoke well before I officially harvested it. This caused my final yield to suffer, but I didn`t care. Where I live, if I don`t grow, I don`t smoke, as my sig says.
I`m used to smoking average to good weed, but I hadn`t smoked at all for around 6 months before this strain. As such, my tolerance was down, with even immature buds and leaves giving me a buzz. Now that I`ve got my tolerance back a little, I decided to do a smoke report. Apart from the average mystery commercial, I have Nirvana`s White Rhino, Cali O, Northern Lights and some strain claiming to be New Guinea Gold to compare it to. Smoked through bong, occasional joints/dry pipe.
First up, a little about the grow: Outdoors, guerilla. Very light chemical nute regime. Flushed for 1-2 weeks. Small amount water cured for 1 week, majority air cured. Super-uniform, looked like clones, with the only difference being slightly thinner fan leaves on some.
Appearance: Pretty lightish green, with brown pistils on mature buds. Pretty good coverage of trichs.. Not super dense buds, but that was more my fault than the genetics. Untopped plants produced fat colas, topping made them more bushy but still with 2-3 large colas. Water cured buds went brown/dark green.
Smell: Poo. Striking, burns the inside of your nose almost. In veg, some plants smelled like exactly like dogshit. After a little curing, when the buds are broken up they reek of yellow, new-born baby poo. You know what I mean if you`ve smelt it. Excellent. Overtones of pine/fuel. Water-curing killed nearly all the smell, leaving a slightly herby, grassy aroma.
Taste: Nothing especially distinctive, pretty smooth for a short cure, although slightly hashy taste. Not sweet/fruity, not spicy. Not unpleasant, just nothing particularly outstanding. Some of the smell comes through in the flavor. As others found, water-curing also got rid of most of the taste, too. A bit disappointing as there wasn`t much there to start with.
High: Top44 has the mostly (pure?) indica Viking as one of it`s parents, giving a heavy, deep stone. Just as they looked similar during growth, they all displayed the same effect. Impressive length of high. I can still smoke this in the morning before work, at lunch and of course after work and on weekends. Having said this, smoked excessively this stuff just seems to skip the drooling, “faaaark, I`m wasted” couchlock stage and makes me plain tired. I prefer instead to spread out the bongs instead of sucking down 4-5 in a row and feeling like crashing, which is a bit of a waste. It`s hard to resist, but if I have too much too soon, by the end of the day I`m almost put off smoking it, I feel more tired than with smoking other strains. Obviously a good one for insomniacs, as long as you harvest late.
Smoke expands a fair bit in the lungs and certainly lets you know what you`re smoking, curing seems to have reduced this a little. There`s a couple of minutes of delay after you hit it before you get the full effects. By the time your lungs recover you`re already stoned.
Minimal tolerance buildup so far.
Basically, easy to grow, potent, stanky, potential for large crystally buds. Listed by Nirvana as commercial, I think this is a fair statement.
Downsides: Taste for some, lost a lot to mold, smell is not exactly stealth but with water-cure its almost non-detectable.
Bottom line: Better than the average weed I`ve purchased in the past, but not the best ever smoked. Would I grow it again? Yeah. Could I grow it a little differently (read:better) next time? Hell yeah. But I have different plans for next season. That, however, is another thread.
I have been sampling this bud throughout flowering, mainly because I had no bud and cannot get hold of any where I live. It supplied me with smoke well before I officially harvested it. This caused my final yield to suffer, but I didn`t care. Where I live, if I don`t grow, I don`t smoke, as my sig says.
I`m used to smoking average to good weed, but I hadn`t smoked at all for around 6 months before this strain. As such, my tolerance was down, with even immature buds and leaves giving me a buzz. Now that I`ve got my tolerance back a little, I decided to do a smoke report. Apart from the average mystery commercial, I have Nirvana`s White Rhino, Cali O, Northern Lights and some strain claiming to be New Guinea Gold to compare it to. Smoked through bong, occasional joints/dry pipe.
First up, a little about the grow: Outdoors, guerilla. Very light chemical nute regime. Flushed for 1-2 weeks. Small amount water cured for 1 week, majority air cured. Super-uniform, looked like clones, with the only difference being slightly thinner fan leaves on some.
Appearance: Pretty lightish green, with brown pistils on mature buds. Pretty good coverage of trichs.. Not super dense buds, but that was more my fault than the genetics. Untopped plants produced fat colas, topping made them more bushy but still with 2-3 large colas. Water cured buds went brown/dark green.
Smell: Poo. Striking, burns the inside of your nose almost. In veg, some plants smelled like exactly like dogshit. After a little curing, when the buds are broken up they reek of yellow, new-born baby poo. You know what I mean if you`ve smelt it. Excellent. Overtones of pine/fuel. Water-curing killed nearly all the smell, leaving a slightly herby, grassy aroma.
Taste: Nothing especially distinctive, pretty smooth for a short cure, although slightly hashy taste. Not sweet/fruity, not spicy. Not unpleasant, just nothing particularly outstanding. Some of the smell comes through in the flavor. As others found, water-curing also got rid of most of the taste, too. A bit disappointing as there wasn`t much there to start with.
High: Top44 has the mostly (pure?) indica Viking as one of it`s parents, giving a heavy, deep stone. Just as they looked similar during growth, they all displayed the same effect. Impressive length of high. I can still smoke this in the morning before work, at lunch and of course after work and on weekends. Having said this, smoked excessively this stuff just seems to skip the drooling, “faaaark, I`m wasted” couchlock stage and makes me plain tired. I prefer instead to spread out the bongs instead of sucking down 4-5 in a row and feeling like crashing, which is a bit of a waste. It`s hard to resist, but if I have too much too soon, by the end of the day I`m almost put off smoking it, I feel more tired than with smoking other strains. Obviously a good one for insomniacs, as long as you harvest late.
Smoke expands a fair bit in the lungs and certainly lets you know what you`re smoking, curing seems to have reduced this a little. There`s a couple of minutes of delay after you hit it before you get the full effects. By the time your lungs recover you`re already stoned.
Minimal tolerance buildup so far.
Basically, easy to grow, potent, stanky, potential for large crystally buds. Listed by Nirvana as commercial, I think this is a fair statement.
Downsides: Taste for some, lost a lot to mold, smell is not exactly stealth but with water-cure its almost non-detectable.
Bottom line: Better than the average weed I`ve purchased in the past, but not the best ever smoked. Would I grow it again? Yeah. Could I grow it a little differently (read:better) next time? Hell yeah. But I have different plans for next season. That, however, is another thread.
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