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[acespicoli]

After Phi Phi, we headed south by boat to Koh Lanta for the final stretch of our trip through Thailand.

Koh Lanta is not a very touristy island, especially during the rainy season. When we checked into the hotel in the south of Klong Khong beach, we realized we were the only guests and would have the entire hotel and service to ourselves. A lovely Thai family ran the hotel.

On the first day, I grabbed a motorbike and took the main road heading quite far north, stopping at all the coffee shops marked on the map.

First stop, Lanta International. The Thai weed looked terrible and very immature. The girl budtender was ashamed to sell it to me, but i insisted. Very poor looking uncompressed loosy, very immature with almost nothing salvageable after sifting stems and leaves. Smoked one, but it didn’t do much, practically nothing, so I discarded this batch. 3 mature seeds found.

Heading a bit further north, I found a couple of cannabis shops more run by Thais, but 'to my surprise' they didn't have Thai weed, only Farang hybrids. I even got angry to them some times, saying to them: 'Thai sativas are among best sativas in the world, and you Thai people don't do the effort to offer best Thai genetics possible, disappointing! They addressed me to a a poor woman’s house nearby with what seemed to be an illegal coffee shop.

She had two very Thai looking sativas growing in her backyard. She didn’t have Thai weed at the moment but hopped on her motorbike and returned in five minutes with Thai brick weed. It contains quite a few broken seeds, sticks, and leaves. Strong aroma of chocolate and cocoa powder, the most pronounced when opening the brick for the first time. Easily the best smelling brick among all those in Lanta. Flavor is wet herbal, woody and burnt trash, reminiscent of what i like to call 'jungle trash terpenes' from this pasrt of the world. Potency is strong and not trash like the Chiang Mai from Phi Phi or the Lanta International brick. The effect is cerebral but quickly becomes stony. Overall not very cerebral, psychedelic, or euphoric compared to others earlier in this trip. 3 mature seeds were found.

Further north, I found another shop, Weedology, that seemed fully legal, run by two girls. They were selling Thai brick weed, the second brick of the day. The girls claimed it was southern sativa from about 200 km away from Lanta. Aroma is a bit dark but not chocolatey, more like jungle and burnt trash, a terpene profile common in both Cambodia and Thailand. Flavor is burnt plastic like, a horror. I left it halfway. Effect is slightly noticeable but not worth continuing. 3 mature seeds found, but upon closer inspection at home, they were broken.

Even further north, at Tattoo Bamboo, I bought a third brick. The guy had an enormous disk of compressed Thai weed and cuts with a big knife a good chunk of brick right in front of me. Greenish brick with aromas of cured wood and chocolate, more similar to the first three Thais from Phuket. Potent, initially cerebral, although not very clear, quite stony and dirty development yet not totally physically sedative, more mentally out of bounds. No seeds.

On another day i drive to the southern part of the island and came across Happy Island Family, run by a really nice guy who told me his family had been growing their own Thai genetics for a long time. I almost arranged to visit their farm, but his phone was off next days and couldn't make it. The brick from his family
had a rich aroma of chocolate and blonde hash. Quite similar in effects to the brick from the poor woman. No seeds.

Sorry no weed pictures from Lanta batches, which were probably the less interesting from the trip.
The highlights of the trip in effects were without any doubt the Electric Lady from Phuket, Happy Butterfly from Yao Yai. Regarding terpenes it has been great to have had the chance to experience several chocolate Thais in the South. For distinct, different terps the poppy tea one from Phi Phi was the most remarkable. Fortunately i have seeds from all of them

We had to leave Thailand next day and i still had lots of bags of weed to finish, so i gave it all to the family running the hotel and they accepted it with the biggest Thai smile you can think of

Also, mushroom are also legal and stupid me i discovered only in the last part of the trip!
I bought some big white dry ones that were really potent and interesting, but the more common, smaller brownish type only made me feel dizzy.

Thailand is paradise, now even more than ever!

dubi shoots and scores Thai preservation at its finest
This is a very exciting read, so enjoyable I may have to read it again
For what was possible to relay gratitude !!!
Thanks for sharing the experience of your travels

 

[dubi]

@dubi I've spent a few years working on autoflower sativas. For next season, I ordered your Ethiopian, new Caledonia, and Nepal Annapurna... I'm really excited about starting those projects (I grow outdoors, so it takes a while). Anyway, the auto I'm starting with is an auto hybrid I made from a Jamaican sativa crossed with an autoflower named "Ace" from the Spanish breeder stitch of flash seeds. I've always assumed that was the name of the strain because he made it using your your stuff (at least the Thai and Haze part). So, my question is...are you familiar with that product and is it indeed an auto produced using your stuff?

Happy New Year @AcrylicGoblin thanks for your support.

I'm not familiarized with that release from the breeder you make reference.

 

[dubi]

This is most recent Cambodian seed line we've received ... comes from a close friend during his visit to Siem Reap. He knows my passion for landraces, so he spent an hour and a half negotiating with the tuk tuk drivers to purchase seeds. At the beginning they couldn't understand why my friend wanted the old school Cambodian seeds and not the hybrid seeds... tuk tuk drivers insisted saying the hybrids were better, but my friend said he was only interested in pure Cambodian.

At the end he managed to get a a small plastic from tobacco box full of seeds for a very fair price. He came back home in August and filtered-discarded some whitish bad looking seeds in a pot, he gave me the rest of the good looking seeds for preservation in the fridge, quite a bunch, probably a few hundreds.

Surprisingly a beautiful pure sativa emerged from the discarded seeds under the hot and sunny days of Mediterranean summer, and the plant sexed as female late, in October, since she had to reach sexual maturity first, but quicky started to go deep into flowering. It has been a challenging season, with flooding rains, lots of wind, not as much sun as we are used to, and winter arrived cold already in early December (some nights around 3ºC), but she managed to withstand all the outdoor challenges, without suffering any major pests or mold, maturing like a champion by Christmas.

Here she is, finishing organically in a pot after receiving very little attentions, even leafier than usual with these SE Asia lines since the terrace has light contamination from light streets. Flowering has been long enough and haven't found any indica trait in her development. She smells intense, divine and complex, very sweet and floral, much more interesting for terpenes than the Thais i've found from my recent trips. Terpene profile reminds a lot to 20´Thai's Thai 79, although this Cambodian looks more tropical and untouched.
Can't wait to give her a try in 2-3 months, looks and smells very interesting, resins are good as well. Promising Cambodian line worth to explore in more depth in the future.

 

[Hasch]

Happy new year!


Thanks for sharing news about your new Cambodian line @dubi