Some old 70’s grow book from Australia. Looks like they knew what they were doing.
I live way out in the country these days and just went into town yesterday morning to do errands..Might be 5 of 6 days before I go back and try to get those old pictures scanned..
Maybe I'll try to take a digital picture of those old photos and see if that works...
Meanwhile.....
I have a hard time thinking of 1987 as vintage too, as I was already in my mid 30's then..
But I realize 1987 is vintage to a lot of people...
In '87 I was living fairly far back in the Florida Everglades...
Pot was really easy to grow there as far as nature was concerned..
But for the grower it was hard work with the heat and humidity and all the pot-spotter planes they had flying around then..
I picked up a copy of High Times that summer... I hadn't bought one in almost 10 years..
They had an article saying that they wanted people to send in stories for their "Harvest Issue" to come out in December..
I wrote them a letter and they published it!
I bought the December '87 "Harvest Report" issue and saved it...
I'd been using my "Bud Green" handle since around 1982...
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I can't believe nowadays that I use to think 9 oz. per plant was good!
Love this thread guys! the only thing that has changed in cannabis now to back then is the compounds within the genetics.
Back then you had mixed spectrum of compounds over 20 to 60 that give a different feeling. smell, taste, effect complexity etc etc because those compounds are also monoterps that effect everything including potency smell, taste etc.
Today we have lots of strains that have 1 or 2 main compounds which is usually THC-A (which is actually a conversion of real THC which in my opinion is the biggest problem with our polyhybirds 1 trick ponies i call them) & CDB maybe CBN and few others at very low scales 00.2% and a few monoterps usually high in 1 2 or 3 and low in the rest. 00.2%
Example an old landrace could have 15 monoterps and 20+ active compounds in the genes with many phenos giving different results, so what you end up with is a wide array of compounds including monoterps which enhances your experience
Compare that to a bottleneck F1 Feminized strain... where a person ran through 100s of phenos of a strain and choose the 1 displaying the most THC and strongest smell.
Lets use Chem D..They choose the best chem D and cloned it. 1 pheno from 1000s of expressions in that strain.
What your left with is a plant that's high in only THC-a low CBD and maybe 2 monoterps so everybody is experiencing the same plant every single time, same compounds, that would be very different if they had 5 or 10 added compounds.
So maybe newer cannabis is stronger due to selection but only stronger on the THC-A side like a 1 trick pony but the best pony you seen!!.. but lacks complexity in the high which will lead to tripper effects.
Like as i mentioned when you choose 1 pheno that has the most THC-a and loudest smell mycerne you normally end up with non complexity but a lot of strength in 1 area.
Its like a cake... some people love a cake with lots of flavours and textures and complex tastes which in turns satisfies them, where maybe the next guy like a triple chocolate cake and he is happy and full after it.
The only difference was the ingredients (compounds).
Another personal thing i would like to add is The Dea were into a lot of countries cannabis they literally went into peoples countries destroyed there landrace and left, why? well look at the dates 80's 90s most good landrace was ruined by this type of stuff... then you look at legalisation in america then you look at who is the mecca of cannabis and sells it the world over? America does. And that's what america and Cananda want!! they want you from (insert country) to source your cannabis from them and not be able to source the real genes and compounds available in cannabis they want you on the generic THC-A THC-V the fake stuff that science recently claimed thc converts to THC-A... yeah just after legalization that happened
Here's an example of what im talking about. CHEM D. Notice all the non detections of compounds and the compounds it does display are very low almost non existing to.
0.58 real THC.. The conversion to A in my opinion is the generic THC.. you can link scientific articles all day proving the conversion happens yet you fail to realise the source of the info is probably Agenda driven and im talking real agenda not some guy in his basement messing with phenos. World agenda.
This is 1 pheno, 1 small example of the strains we get. 1 reversed female on itself or crossed to another f1 chemical Feminized 1 pheno of 1000s. you end up with blandness. no complexity which for me is the main effect of great cannabis.
Not to mention people constantly reversing the same clones and strains over and over, Mutating the genes before you even pop them.
Anyway my 2 cent i could literally keep going on this subject but i wont get to deep.
Cheers for all the photos and articles and good vibes to the ole heads here and the newer and in between guys.
We all love cannabis doesn't matter if it came from the 70s 80s 90s till 2020. The plant rules over time. PEACE to all.
Probably the test is done with HPLC method, so 24.14% THCA is what you get then, but a GC analyse would measure around 22-23% THC.