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Strains that rock that you can't just buy (ever or anymore)
mark6699331
Active member
I've got some friends that like the dutch passion version better. Personally I haven't tried theirs yet but that's what they tell me. As far as the black african, i'd say that's genetic not curing.
I'd like to see the original g-13 cut that was going around in the eighties and early nineties!
Maybe RED could shine some light on the diff. between dp's moonshine etc. and the one's he had from DJ. RED are you there. I've heard all you have to do is say his name and wave the magic wand and....
I'd like to see the original g-13 cut that was going around in the eighties and early nineties!
Maybe RED could shine some light on the diff. between dp's moonshine etc. and the one's he had from DJ. RED are you there. I've heard all you have to do is say his name and wave the magic wand and....
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Guest
DP's version is done from a smaller selection of DJ's origional work. You may find something worth keeping in there, just seems that they are fewer and farther between, hence watered down.
guerilla
guerilla
RKS, RKS, and RKS..
Or..
Big Bud (the original real cut)
Trinity
Mothership
HP13
Or..
Big Bud (the original real cut)
Trinity
Mothership
HP13
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Guest
In 1974 I got a bag of herb so dark it was almost black. It was called Wacky Weed and I thought it was Black African til I read that wacky weed was some sort of crazy columbian. It was some fucking whacked shit though, it was selling for $80 an oz when columbian gold could be had for thirty dollars an oz. Shit would knock your dick in the dirt, as good as the lumbo gold was the wacky weed was worth the extra fidy bucks an oz
PPDODOBOY said:
Actually I have talked to people from various parts of africa and have seen ethiopian black, congolese black, zimbabwe black, zambian and malawian black among others. I'm fairly certain this is the curing method. The reason why in the u.s it all seemed like one strain is because it was so rare that very very few people had been able to obtain it from multiple origins. Very little of it's exported and all that made it to the u.s was probably from the same source. Its a very old traditional curing method which is why its always found among those who are living the same as they have for hundreds or thousands of years.
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Guest
I am sure you are right Z, the first i ever heard or saw it was from friends in Nigeria! who to them the 'black' was the connisuer local product from the best farmers.
Any speculations or knwledge of the curing process?
Bests, hhf
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Guest
I think this one the Malawi Cob method?
I get the impression the Black method is something else, old time stuff.
Be good to know more.
Peace, hhf
Well, I believe malawi cobs are briefly sundried then rolled in a cornhusk and buried. I did some experiments this past year burying about 2 oz's of malawi very tightly rolled in dry yet flexible corn husks and tied then buried in 5 gallon buckets of pine forest soil. Since malawi is so much more dry than my location I didn't want to ruin all of that herb by burying it in too moist of a location. I still have most of it buried. The herb has turned out good from what I can tell. I have yet to smoke much of it. It can still go for much longer though.
In malawi you can also get zomba black which are black cobs and ibelieve the zomba black may be some kind of variant on the malawi process. Or rather the more popular non-black malawi cob method evolved from the traditional black method. Perhaps it was using a banana leaf, perhaps it is buried in soil that stays more damp. However what I believe to be most likely is they don't dry it before burying. We have to remember drug cannabis use was vrought to africa before smoking techniques. Cannabis isn't active orally without at first drying. I believe that in africa they may have figured out that burying it made it active before figuring out to dry it. The religious symbolism of giving something to the earth and allow the earth to prepare it for you seems very african to me (hopefully this doesn't come off as an insult as I know little about african religion) and this process was probably the way to prepare cannabis throughout the sparse african cultures that used cannabis before WWI and especially before tobacco introduction.
In malawi you can also get zomba black which are black cobs and ibelieve the zomba black may be some kind of variant on the malawi process. Or rather the more popular non-black malawi cob method evolved from the traditional black method. Perhaps it was using a banana leaf, perhaps it is buried in soil that stays more damp. However what I believe to be most likely is they don't dry it before burying. We have to remember drug cannabis use was vrought to africa before smoking techniques. Cannabis isn't active orally without at first drying. I believe that in africa they may have figured out that burying it made it active before figuring out to dry it. The religious symbolism of giving something to the earth and allow the earth to prepare it for you seems very african to me (hopefully this doesn't come off as an insult as I know little about african religion) and this process was probably the way to prepare cannabis throughout the sparse african cultures that used cannabis before WWI and especially before tobacco introduction.
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Guest
i messed up a water cure and some of my C99 turned black
not sure why
it retained the moisture for so long when drying and i only changed the water once a day when i remembered.
after that it didnt smell or taste like weed more like old water lol
i had almost forgot about the malawi pine cob hehe
i cant wait to hear how it turns out
not sure why
it retained the moisture for so long when drying and i only changed the water once a day when i remembered.
after that it didnt smell or taste like weed more like old water lol
i had almost forgot about the malawi pine cob hehe
i cant wait to hear how it turns out
monkeykush
Member
Zamalito, Nepthaze, Hothouse:
If the inground cob cure is the critical step needed to transform great herb into the Magic african black then sign me up. The popular questions that many people ask an answer for is "What's The Most Powerful" and / or "Whats the best commercial" is the answer is right beneath their feet? If this is the case sign me up. My mind is open to the idea of a inground cure turning common herb much darker. I can even see it making the herb stronger. I just cant get past the fact that the A-Black was not rotted or moldy. The texture, resin content, high weight for small mass, smell, taste and most of all the deep multifacited quality of the high never varied. It never once appeared, tasted or smoked like a completely diffrent strain cured to a all powerful black.
NeptHaze how did the water cured black C99 smoke, look and feel?
Zamalito how did the inground cured malawi smoke, look and feel?
Most importantly was there a major change in power from the original precured herb?
Icmag in motion PPDODOBOY...
If the inground cob cure is the critical step needed to transform great herb into the Magic african black then sign me up. The popular questions that many people ask an answer for is "What's The Most Powerful" and / or "Whats the best commercial" is the answer is right beneath their feet? If this is the case sign me up. My mind is open to the idea of a inground cure turning common herb much darker. I can even see it making the herb stronger. I just cant get past the fact that the A-Black was not rotted or moldy. The texture, resin content, high weight for small mass, smell, taste and most of all the deep multifacited quality of the high never varied. It never once appeared, tasted or smoked like a completely diffrent strain cured to a all powerful black.
NeptHaze how did the water cured black C99 smoke, look and feel?
Zamalito how did the inground cured malawi smoke, look and feel?
Most importantly was there a major change in power from the original precured herb?
Icmag in motion PPDODOBOY...
Heady NUGs
Member
Will be working with Haze, Purple Haze, Jack Herer, Hindu Kush origonals from some old-school stock, this spring. You'd be suprised what is still out there with some digging.
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monkeykush
Member
Does anyone still smoke that nice exotic hawian bud? The one with that authentic super strong penatrating aroma... Is there a company that still sells the real deal genetics? PPDODOBOY
The Slickster
Member
Shishkaberry/3, Cherry Pez, Cherry Pez Livity, Real Skunk 2, Blackberry, Rosebud, Glo (Steves Grapefruit x Dj Short Flo), Strawberry Blonde, Sweet Cindy99, Ortega, Blue Domino, X-18, Blue Heaven, Purpurea Ticinensis, Lemon Joy/Bud or Lemonade, Trinity, Rene, Rosetta Stone, Banana, Coral Reef, Vanc. Green Island Gold.
Tried a few, but have none of the above now. Listed them as they are not really available anymore or at all yet.
Tried a few, but have none of the above now. Listed them as they are not really available anymore or at all yet.
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I hope I will get to try that x18 someday. Tom Hill has the best taste in indicas. What's the buzz and flavor like, raco? To me the deep chunk has some phenos with a very social buzz and I'm sure the pine tar kush does also. I really like the social indica buzz of his lines.
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Guest
I'll chime in also; how about the early 80's Northern Lights from Washington State Univ. The Flavor, Smell, Effect, are often missed by myself.., If you can get a cut of this (no seeds that i know of) it is well worth it!..
