west papua

[waveguide]

west papua has been isolated for over fifty years (sixty) while subjected to a 1.8 million genocide for the world's biggest goldmine nobody ever hears about.

with changes in technology, hundreds of west papuans now post music videos (made with fruity loops) expressing their feelings about being constantly murdered by the lawan (invaders). there are a lot of spliffs. weed and reggae themed clothing is everywhere.

things are changing in west papua. the morning star flag was worth a decade in prison a few years ago, but popular resistance is building to the point where for the first time in years, i've seen the subject of west papuan independence in indonesian news, and west papuans making comments like "merdeka already" and making gestures that activists and musicians would never have done in the past.

i don't know shit about weed in west papua except that it's there and it's been there.

those of you with international ties might want to look for the first opportunity to preserve landrace before the inevitable. things are happening now. i doubt it will ever make the news, but things are going to really change there in the next year i figure, given current trends (and a grand solar eclipse over timika next march i think it is). those mountains and valleys are huge. god knows what's coming out of there.

 

[Gry]

Freeport mining had strong agency ties and was pulling nickel from Cuban mines.
Grasberg is a project the CIA has been aware of for years.
JFK had been made aware of the asset and wanted it to go the people of the country.
Allen Dulles had other intentions...

 

[Chi13]

I don't think there is a history of cannabis use in either West Papua or PNG, until maybe the 80s. I had a friend who traveled there frequently and spoke Pigeon English. He told me that he was giving the locals cannabis seed from Australian bagseed in the late 70s and telling them it was a form of tobacco. At that time he said he knew no one who smoked it or grew it. If there is cannabis in West Papua my bet is it's either from seeds imported from Indonesia or Aussie bagseed. It would probably be good pot, anything that grows in those places is mostly sativa due to the climate.

We got what was called PNG Gold here in Australia, but I doubt it was true landrace, in the sense that it had been there hundreds of years.

 

[Thule]

Nice to see you still around Waveguide! I've had a great time with the Hazes you once sent me.

 

[Donald Mallard]

when i was a young fella it was just called Irian Jaya ,
and is/was part of indonesia , despite being on the same island as the rest of png,
back then png was due to get its independence from Australia ,
a lot of folks were worried what would happen ,
but it seemed to go smoothly directly after independence ..
in the longer term i think things fell apart a bit though sadly ..

on the png side there has been weed for a long time ,,
i guess since at least the 50 s , perhaps introduced around the second world war time,
im fairly sure some hemp was grown there in the early days too , perhaps by the germans ,
the locals seemed pretty versed with it when i was there in the early 70s ,
rolling up huge joints using the local newspaper which was a different consistency to the one we had at home in australia,
and when licked would stick together , sealing their massive joints..

as far as weed in the west , it could have come from the eastern part initially,
or as chi said via australia ,
and perhaps not been there too long but nevertheless could be worth a look ,
its a dangerous place though ,
id be pretty wary wandering around there alone without the right sort of knowledge and friends ...

 

[waveguide]

i'd thought papua was listed as a landrace. still interested of course. i see it used in the community in videos like this


for several years before discovering the music culture, the only thing i saw coming out of west papua was a constant stream of machete cut photographs and worse eg. a white phosphorous shelling in 2018.

whatever you want to think, i've little to lose in relating it, i think it was summer 2014 i started to hear this new resonance in the air conditioning which developed from a "wah-wah" charlie brown teacher sort of thing until about two months later i could hear clearly like i was in open air with a group of women chanting "papua.. papua.." so naturally i researched and found the lack of attention compelling, my sort of thing. singular sort of experience and hard not to appreciate the resolve one sees. exploring their expressions of grief and tribulation has been rewarding. so to speak. bloody terrible but there you are.

thule i hope they weren't too hard to sort out. arizona is legal now so i'll run whatever germinates this summer and see where i end up with them. only planted the fast ones for a while.

 

[Thule]

thule i hope they weren't too hard to sort out. arizona is legal now so i'll run whatever germinates this summer and see where i end up with them. only planted the fast ones for a while.

Not at all. If I recall it was like opening a christmas calendar. Except better of course. Should you ever need the haze back, let me know.

I don't know much about ganja in Papua but it can't be a completely recent thing. Maybe enough time has passed that there are regional variants by now. The tropical highlands should have some pretty nice environments to grow in.

 

[Mustafunk]

Hi! This is an old post.

This plants were sourced from Indonesia, West Papua. This are two clones I've been keeping this past few years, I just love this plants so much, the intoxicating lime citrus smell, the elegant slender leaves and structure, the clean and inspiring effect they have... definitely one of my favs. Will be doing some crosses soon with this beautiful girls.

veg:

Unique and characteristic leaves:

Mid flowering:

Another different girl, more resinous and aromatic, althought a bit less productive and vigorous:

Port Moresby PNG was a bit different, with much smaller leaves, flowered for a month more and smelled just like Haze:

 

[Thule]

I have to say Musta, the bud structure on the plant above reminds me of original haze.

The second plant looks stereotypically Indian.