CharlesU Farley
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A video showed up on my YouTube feed and when I saw the name Captain Jack, I just about freaked out.
It's enough to drag me out of lurk mode.
I had recently read the book Thirty Nine Years of Short Term Memory Loss by Tom Davis. He's half of the comedy duo Franken and Davis, a writer on Saturday Night Live, creator of The Cone Heads and many other SNL skits all us Boomers know and love. He frequently mentioned the outstanding quality of the cannabis they consumed and a bit about their 'dealer', Captain Jack. The video below is _that_ guy:
As you will learn, Captain Jack went to Afghanistan before Nevil Schoenmakers! He brought back Type II/Indica-Afghanica seeds to the U.S. in the early _70's_. I know Viet Nam vets had access to this type of cannabis in the late 70's and 80's (i.e. NL Seattle Greg, creator of Northern Lights) but this is the very first verifiable, non bullshit/non commercial account I've heard concerning Type II cannabis seed coming to America in that time frame.
He actually _worked_ the variety _exclusively_.
This guy has bred (I never use that term with cannabis growers, myself included, because I feel like Nevil did, "If you don't have access to over 1000 plants, you can't be a breeder") the same strain for over 50 fucking years. He has developed his Afghanica cannabis to grow over 12 feet tall and it has massive BLD leaves.
Look at the massive leaves on those towering plants!
I've always thought I was a dinosaur for working Sensi's Northern Lights exclusively for almost 25 years to transform it into SouthEast Lights cannabis. It's now not only reverse engineered back to it's original constituents but I've made some improvements as well:
This is from seeds Gypsy Nirvana sent me back in 2000 when his was a subforum admin on OG.
I could drone on about how Captain Jack let the plant speak to him and how he communicated with the plant without chasing the latest fad, gimmick or bullshit marketing scheme. But that won't change those who either chase after the newest, chemically feminized, autoflowering wonder weed variety from millennials or the legendary Cannabis Cup winners of the 80's and 90's marketed by inexperienced, seed slinging Boomers to other nostalgia soaked Boomers pining for the high of their lost youth. Just thought of a marketing slogan for those name droppers... For Boomers By Boomers.
I've always known there were other dinosaurs like me around who aren't afraid to actually work a variety of cannabis for years to improve it, but I never thought there would be someone like Captain Jack.
All I know is after seeing Captain Jack's video, I want to get down on my hands and knees like on Wayne's World and scream, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!"
It's enough to drag me out of lurk mode.
I had recently read the book Thirty Nine Years of Short Term Memory Loss by Tom Davis. He's half of the comedy duo Franken and Davis, a writer on Saturday Night Live, creator of The Cone Heads and many other SNL skits all us Boomers know and love. He frequently mentioned the outstanding quality of the cannabis they consumed and a bit about their 'dealer', Captain Jack. The video below is _that_ guy:
As you will learn, Captain Jack went to Afghanistan before Nevil Schoenmakers! He brought back Type II/Indica-Afghanica seeds to the U.S. in the early _70's_. I know Viet Nam vets had access to this type of cannabis in the late 70's and 80's (i.e. NL Seattle Greg, creator of Northern Lights) but this is the very first verifiable, non bullshit/non commercial account I've heard concerning Type II cannabis seed coming to America in that time frame.
He actually _worked_ the variety _exclusively_.
This guy has bred (I never use that term with cannabis growers, myself included, because I feel like Nevil did, "If you don't have access to over 1000 plants, you can't be a breeder") the same strain for over 50 fucking years. He has developed his Afghanica cannabis to grow over 12 feet tall and it has massive BLD leaves.
Look at the massive leaves on those towering plants!
I've always thought I was a dinosaur for working Sensi's Northern Lights exclusively for almost 25 years to transform it into SouthEast Lights cannabis. It's now not only reverse engineered back to it's original constituents but I've made some improvements as well:
This is from seeds Gypsy Nirvana sent me back in 2000 when his was a subforum admin on OG.
I could drone on about how Captain Jack let the plant speak to him and how he communicated with the plant without chasing the latest fad, gimmick or bullshit marketing scheme. But that won't change those who either chase after the newest, chemically feminized, autoflowering wonder weed variety from millennials or the legendary Cannabis Cup winners of the 80's and 90's marketed by inexperienced, seed slinging Boomers to other nostalgia soaked Boomers pining for the high of their lost youth. Just thought of a marketing slogan for those name droppers... For Boomers By Boomers.
I've always known there were other dinosaurs like me around who aren't afraid to actually work a variety of cannabis for years to improve it, but I never thought there would be someone like Captain Jack.
All I know is after seeing Captain Jack's video, I want to get down on my hands and knees like on Wayne's World and scream, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!"
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