I should have grown zamal x toms haze more, next time when it will be possible,,,
The THH’s I’ve grown have been very good, but far too few to find the acid like Thai effects. Perhaps some day.it is acidic citric pheno of toms haze I have. supposed to be thai dom yes. I didnt mean all colombians, I meant selection of original haze which leans to colombian side. that it is not so racy and not so trippy like haze which leans to heavy thai. just like Tom talks about it:
I cant talk for all colombians, but for colombian phenos of ohaze yes, I know it very well. it is base for dutch haze. Toms haze is different. it is more clear and more trippy. colombian side is more relaxing.
I have some colombians I wanted to grow. like colombian gold, purple santa marta colombian x double panama, seedsman haze, 90s haze, panama x a5 etc. but now I am busy with toms haze crosses
it is acidic citric pheno of toms haze I have. supposed to be thai dom yes. I didnt mean all colombians, I meant selection of original haze which leans to colombian side. that it is not so racy and not so trippy like haze which leans to heavy thai. just like Tom talks about it:
I cant talk for all colombians, but for colombian phenos of ohaze yes, I know it very well. it is base for dutch haze. Toms haze is different. it is more clear and more trippy. colombian side is more relaxing.
I have some colombians I wanted to grow. like colombian gold, purple santa marta colombian x double panama, seedsman haze, 90s haze, panama x a5 etc. but now I am busy with toms haze crosses
when I grow it big in greenhouse. she is octopuses and twice so big as nevilles haze or bandaid haze, for same sized cuts before flipping it into flowering.
the plant is not maturing equally. tops are later than lower part. so I think that at 17 weeks tops of my cut are not so extremely matured, so I get both very matured buds from lower part and not so much matured from tops
Hi Maha.
Statements like that would only be made by somebody who doesn't really understand how HUGE the USA is, or they weren't old enough to be in the game when the period you are talking about went down here. Either that or they never really thought about the fact that their experience here back then was a tiny bubble in an ocean of bubbles.
It is just a massive incorrect generalization.
European countries are the size of American states, so it isn't surprising that this might not be obvious to someone not from the US. Of course, each city/state/region had it's own pipelines in the black market herb trade. Hell, a load could be brought in by one passionate adventurer that would never make it beyond a group of 50 or 100 people. And of course, individual weed lovers carried their best stuff with them when they traveled around, like dead shows, but on a micro scale. Seeds and quarter pounds came back to college campuses after christmas vacation every year, then spread around and traveled again, outward to the 4 corners of the country. Just one example of how things flowed and disappeared.
Basically, the "good stuff" was everywhere, all the time, and almost impossible to get (if that makes any sense.) Like catching lighting.
Even though it was MUCH easier to find commercial Mexican herb on the west coast of the US, and commercial Colombian dominated the east coast in the late 70s, it didn't mean that the obvious trade route bias wasn't crossed on a regular basis when there was demand and opportunity for profit.
Some places in the US are like magnets and attract the best black market goods to them from all over the world.
The SF Bay Area was one of those places, NYC of course. There are many others but I figure I had to list at least 2.
You can't discount the giant magnetic effect of the market in the Bay Area: the hippie culture which was born there and still raging, and the money that was always touching the lives of people who live in some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
The boys over the mountain down in Santa Cruz benefited from all that. They were in the center of the weed universe, and every corner of the planet was scoured for her flowering treasures and returned to that beautiful bosom of the Aquarian generation.
Dr. Purpur has a story of his visit to an exclusive cannabis house in SF run by none other than the Dennis Peron. He describes being admitted to the house by a doorman who confirmed he was OK (can't remember the details) walking through beaded curtains to a room with people sitting on pillows on the floor. The room was filled with baskets of buds from all over the world all there in one place, for sale as much as you wanted. This was his personal account. It's up here somewhere I think. Worth searching for.
His personal experience perfectly illustrates my point about the bay area back then.
My imagination may have added a bit of color and left out just as much, but he painted a great picture
Weed culture in the US could be completely different from one town to the next. Hell, even in a single town, some people might be smoking from red bud bales that came in on a small plane load of a 300 pounds. People a mile away might never know anything about it, and live a life never experiencing anything but bales of low grade seeded Mex.
It was literally that fragmented. Think of it as cells, and it was all about who you know. People kept shit very low key, Commercial was everywhere and anyone could get it, but getting into circles with the good stuff was not easy at all.
Every time I was lucky enough to get access to one of those special circles, I felt like the luckiest guy in the world. Weed thrust me into brushes with famous people several times. When I think about it, I still marvel at the luck I had. Not sure if luck is the right word. Maybe magic.
Anyway, just wanted to drop a bit time-capsuled experience on the speculation/assumptions there.
It was an amazing time to be alive, and I understand the fascination with it by people today, trying to imagine what it was like.
I wish we had time machines and we could all go back to visit it together.
It would be the best party ever.
Cheers !
... so you totally missed my point, it was not about weed culture, but about what weed was imported there MAINLY, so much more about genetics present in Mexico and Colombian in that time, which was many kind of, and weed which they imported to USA MAINLY. not about every possible weed they could import. without any nostalgia in it. no grandpa nostalgia, please.
