There are pictures of the pure 78 thai that bushy has and its not the same as hempys....Is it just me or can people not see the difference....I have pictures of the pure 78 thai used in bushys hybrid (they should be in his gallery)...hempys thai is very stable for type and is a lowland thai...the one in bushys hybrid is not a lowland thai...I dont get why people dont understand that...I even know were nevil got the thai used in bushys hybrid from an wally even made mention of this(although he got the gypsy bit mixed up)....the OutBack haze has some traits that clearly can be recognized as coming from hempys THIA78 as does the unreleased mm xTHIA78....there isn't one picture of the hybrid bushy has that has those traits..traits such as the slimmer leaves with that distinct thia shape and that very distinct bud structure....im pretty sure the thai used in bushys hybrid is of a highlands type..the budha thai type..very similar to drawrs chocolate thai only a purer older version....the hybrids we know that have hempys thai in them definitely cary recognizable traits over....yet bushys dont cary none of those traits....bushy got a pure thai off nevil labeled as 78 THAI with that exact spelling as well as the mm xTHAI 78 with that spelling an thats exactly what it is...however it isnt the THIA78. Its not just about the hermies but more about the difference in scent, look, affect, type between the two thais being quite different.
are u referring to what folks ended up calling hmong thai darkie from prof ?
to be honest its not clear of the origin of that stuff , lowland from thai sticks, aka thai buddha ,
or from the hmong people in the mountains ,
maybe he spoke more with bushy about it than with me ,
but i only heard the hmong reference from others , not directly from prof himself ,
the seed came from his father in laws stash , whether it was further reproduced , a mixed bag ,, etc
i have no clue , and its doubtful anyone else has ,
its likely it didnt come from thai stick as they were more for export to/for westerners ,
and the fact prof lived in central thailand , quite a distance from the isaan provinces where thai stick was generally grown and packaged ...
also i dont think bushy got any pure thai plants from nevil , so i dont know where you got that from , he didnt grow under lights or keep cuttings,
bushy was not much of a seed maker , as far as i know a guy we know , reproduced what he was given , the mm x thai 78 hybrid ,
there was only 1 thai 78 , how much sense would it make to label two things the same with one slight spelling difference ??
nevil was not silly ,, i very much doubt he would label 2 things almost identical just to fool someone ...
the other wally mentioned the swiss thai was also called thai 78 ,
but it was actually thai 82 and labeled that by bushy ,
i asked reeferman , he said the swiss thai was never called thai 78 and he was the source of it ...
seems like a bit of confusion with reference to the origins of all those thais and how they were labeled...
you can bet it wasnt that confusing and its all just a big deal over nothing at all of any importance ...
im sick of talking about it now , there is no solution and its of no importance to me really .. lets just leave it in the past and chalk it down to a misnomer ...
for the record though ,, its clear bushy got something called mm x thai 78 ,
so nevil lied to him about what he gave him , or he lied to hempy about not sharing with bushy ...
its not worth us all arguing about though , its done and gone ....