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Old School White Widow

maryjaneismyfre

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I guess I never tried real widow
Yeah 100%, the old widow was narcotic, but stupifying rather than knock you out...though nap times wouldn't be too far away..I was in my 20s when we were smoking it and remember one time my mother was phoning me trying to organize some shit and everytime she called me back I couldnt remember that I was speaking to her minutes before. Seriously....I smoked everyday at that point, this shit was some other shit hahaha....Was like a spaced out shroom dose without the visuals and with more chill....

Regarding seedfinder...They have been a decent source of info for many years, but you have to sift through all the seedbanks descriptions yes...

Searching for "aloha white wido" there brings up 11 results, the first one that Reynard clicked on is an Hawaiian seedbank that likes to spin fanciful tales and those on icmag haven't had the best reports on, the theres also the "clone only" and "unknown or legendary" entries..and to quote one of those relating to the original, it says:

" The story of Aloha's White Widow is that someone working for Aloha clipped a cutting from the original Greenhouse White Widow mother (shatibaba's at this time, so look out for the black widow instead) entered into the Cup and displayed at the Cannabis Castle that year."



Also on the other old school widow thread on here there is a quote on the first page I think where someone corroborates that story..
 

goingrey

Well-known member
2008 thread on the AWW


Yeah it seems like the legendary 98 cut (also called Sweet Thang?) is from Aloha Seedbank stock. At least that's what was believed back when only 10 years had passed. And it's possibly a White Widow / Super Skunk hybrid.
 

CannaT

starin' at the world through my rearview
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White Widow day 59 of flower 4 more days till chop
 
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MangueBeat

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I'm getting obsessed with MangaRosa - Cabeça de Nego. I may be getting close.
Don't be, these "strains" were never strains, they are popular names, common names for regional weeds from the past, it was never a stabilized and worked "X" strain. In addition to being Brazilian, I am from Bahia, the land of these so-called "races" of cannabis and I assure you that they were never, never a specific plant.
There is a lot of talk about a so-called "cohiba" that gave rise to white widow and similar plants, but this plant was never known here. I have never heard this name in Brazil. No one has any idea what this plant is here. It is another legend/lie.

We should certainly have some heirloom cultivated by slaves who came from Africa in the past, and these varieties have certainly remained with us for centuries. However, a few decades ago we had an invasion of foreign pollen, long before we were able to select anything, thanks to the crappy prohibitionism we inherited from the U.S.A and the drug traffickers who don't care about the quality of the herb they sell or crossbreed in their hidden fields.

To find the so-called "manga rosa" or "cabeça de nego" or "rabo de raposa" or anothers, we would have to go back 100 years or more in the past and search the interior of the Northeast for something to then select for many generations in order to stabilize something that can be called that.

Today, Brazil is dominated by "satiguaia", the sativa-dominant Paraguayan heirloom that comes to us through brick weed.
 
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