What was Humbolt growing commercially in 1998?

[I wood]

Looking for wild speculation or what ever info is to be had about comercial weed from emerald triangle area in 98.


That year an old hippy friend came back from vacation and surprised me with 5 packs of seeds from humbolt/ emerald triangle area.
All unlabelled and folded up in news paper envelopes like coke used to come.
Also a male female set of chocolate chunk cuttings. These i rooted and made seeds from but i did not like it and moved on.
I grew out two types and was somewhat impressed and thought one resembled white widow while growing but kept nothing due to plant numbers. 49 or less was the self imposed rule to limit liability.
I had recently been to Toronto for seeds and liked those much better. Thank you again to willy jack seeds. Still hold nebula x blueberry started in 1998. This plant helped me stop taking pain pills after an ankle rebuild. Trippy , euphoric and with a delicious astringent berryness to it.

So recently while rooting around in seed fridge to give some unwanted things away, the humbolt 5 packs were found. Thinking they must be dead, five seeds were put in water and to my amazement all sprouted. A bit deformed like old seeds sometimes start out but all growing through that now.
These seeds were stored in a cool dry basement safe for about 15 years in a mason jar then moved to a fridge about ten years ago.

So im guessing these seeds are worth exploring even though i have no idea what they are.

 

[Creeperpark]

Looking for wild speculation or what ever info is to be had about comercial weed from emerald triangle area in 98.


That year an old hippy friend came back from vacation and surprised me with 5 packs of seeds from humbolt/ emerald triangle area.
All unlabelled and folded up in news paper envelopes like coke used to come.
Also a male female set of chocolate chunk cuttings. These i rooted and made seeds from but i did not like it and moved on.
I grew out two types and was somewhat impressed and thought one resembled white widow while growing but kept nothing due to plant numbers. 49 or less was the self imposed rule to limit liability.
I had recently been to Toronto for seeds and liked those much better. Thank you again to willy jack seeds. Still hold nebula x blueberry started in 1998. This plant helped me stop taking pain pills after an ankle rebuild. Trippy , euphoric and with a delicious astringent berryness to it.

So recently while rooting around in seed fridge to give some unwanted things away, the humbolt 5 packs were found. Thinking they must be dead, five seeds were put in water and to my amazement all sprouted. A bit deformed like old seeds sometimes start out but all growing through that now.
These seeds were stored in a cool dry basement safe for about 15 years in a mason jar then moved to a fridge about ten years ago.

So im guessing these seeds are worth exploring even though i have no idea what they are.

It would be fun to watch. Keep us posted friend.

 

[Jcue81]

Nice job keeping them viable and getting them to go! I definitely want to watch this one.

 

[JetLife175]

I am pretty certain NL was a major commercial crop up in humboldt late 90s. This was right before the OG kush craze that took Cali over and I for sure know we were getting a lot of NL in high school from up there.

 

[ReprobateMind]

I'm pretty sure that I got Urkle on Phish tour in 98 and 99. I was told it was from Humboldt but that could have been a lie.

 

[JetLife175]

I'm pretty sure that I got Urkle on Phish tour in 98 and 99. I was told it was from Humboldt but that could have been a lie.

Urkle definitely has Northern California roots. That must have been right around the time it was bred. That's the earliest urkle experience I know of.

 

[ReprobateMind]

Urkle definitely has Northern California roots. That must have been right around the time it was bred. That's the earliest urkle experience I know of.

To be clear, I wasn't told that it was Urkle. Just that it was from Humboldt. I got some 'Urkle' in the early to mid 2000s and I was positive that it was the same 'Humboldt' that I got in 98 and 99. But maybe the 'Urkle' wasn't even Urkle. Who knows? I shouldn't have even posted in this thread, lol.

 

[JetLife175]

To be clear, I wasn't told that it was Urkle. Just that it was from Humboldt. I got some 'Urkle' in the early to mid 2000s and I was positive that it was the same 'Humboldt' that I got in 98 and 99. But maybe the 'Urkle' wasn't even Urkle. Who knows? I shouldn't have even posted in this thread, lol.

Hahahahaha you're good brother. We're just riffing here. Not discrediting you.

 

[I wood]

urkle from humbolt is encouraging info, thanks.
i lost a cut i grew for about ten years recently, it came to me labelled purple erkle. I was corrected on the name many times but kept calling it what i got it as.

 

[Wolverine97]

Looking for wild speculation or what ever info is to be had about comercial weed from emerald triangle area in 98.


That year an old hippy friend came back from vacation and surprised me with 5 packs of seeds from humbolt/ emerald triangle area.
All unlabelled and folded up in news paper envelopes like coke used to come.
Also a male female set of chocolate chunk cuttings. These i rooted and made seeds from but i did not like it and moved on.
I grew out two types and was somewhat impressed and thought one resembled white widow while growing but kept nothing due to plant numbers. 49 or less was the self imposed rule to limit liability.
I had recently been to Toronto for seeds and liked those much better. Thank you again to willy jack seeds. Still hold nebula x blueberry started in 1998. This plant helped me stop taking pain pills after an ankle rebuild. Trippy , euphoric and with a delicious astringent berryness to it.

So recently while rooting around in seed fridge to give some unwanted things away, the humbolt 5 packs were found. Thinking they must be dead, five seeds were put in water and to my amazement all sprouted. A bit deformed like old seeds sometimes start out but all growing through that now.
These seeds were stored in a cool dry basement safe for about 15 years in a mason jar then moved to a fridge about ten years ago.

So im guessing these seeds are worth exploring even though i have no idea what they are.

You're the only other person I have seen mention Willy Jack seeds. Those were my first commercially purchased seeds, around 2002 or so. I still think about the Northern Lights I got. It was in no way stable, likely an f2 of Sensi work, but so many great phenos. One was holy grail type weed. The most pure lemon smell and taste I have ever experienced in cannabis to this day, and just wonderfully potent with a great narcotic high. I really miss that stuff.

Can't help with the Humboldt question, I'm a Michigan guy.

 

[Wolverine97]

urkle from humbolt is encouraging info, thanks.
i lost a cut i grew for about ten years recently, it came to me labelled purple erkle. I was corrected on the name many times but kept calling it what i got it as.

That's how I got it too, around 2005-7 ish.

 

[I wood]

The erkle i had came from rosevillle MI, from an extremley cool and generous man who went by roofrat on another forum.
met him for lunch one day around 2010 and went home with the purple erkle and a super lemon haze that were both great and produced well for over a decade.

 

[right]

I was living in Humboldt a couple of years later.
Lots of purple

 

[Wolverine97]

The erkle i had came from rosevillle MI, from an extremley cool and generous man who went by roofrat on another forum.
met him for lunch one day around 2010 and went home with the purple erkle and a super lemon haze that were both great and produced well for over a decade.

Ha. I had that SLH too, it was a good one. Never any real stretch, just a candelabra shaped plant with nice compact spears all the way down. We must have been in somewhat the same circles, or our circles overlapped. Casey Jones? Apollo 13? SSH? Skunk 1? Those were the other core cuts in my circle at that time.

 

[ThaiBliss]

Greetings,

I was in California, the Central Valley, from 1978 to 1982. Significant amounts of weed was coming from the Northern California coast range mountains like Humbolt. Kush was certainly being grown at that time even in the Central Valley. Haze was being grown locally. I found both in pure form. Northen Lights didn't have much of an influence on the Haze plant I saw growning. It didn't get ripe until between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was also very electric and trippy. Not even a bit of couch-lock.

By the 90s, hybridization of ganja and hash strains were rampant by then. This was disapointing to me, because in my opinion, we lost a lot of pure sativas that grew great in some areas. I never see those early skunky indica plants anymore either. They had huge, fat, stink to high heaven buds. However, there were some good blends. Skunk #1, was good. I don't know when Trainwreck got started, but I thought that was really good. Two parts sativa, Mex and Thai, to one part hash plant. Hopefully, you have something like that or early versions of Kali Mist, Goo, etc. You might have something very special.

Good Luck with those. I'm interested in what comes forth.


Oh! I grew some Willy Jack seeds. I really liked something he sold named Strawberry Blonde. It was a hybrid, but it had some good cerebral kick to it.

 

[Nspecta]

Looking for wild speculation or what ever info is to be had about comercial weed from emerald triangle area in 98.


That year an old hippy friend came back from vacation and surprised me with 5 packs of seeds from humbolt/ emerald triangle area.
All unlabelled and folded up in news paper envelopes like coke used to come.
Also a male female set of chocolate chunk cuttings. These i rooted and made seeds from but i did not like it and moved on.
I grew out two types and was somewhat impressed and thought one resembled white widow while growing but kept nothing due to plant numbers. 49 or less was the self imposed rule to limit liability.
I had recently been to Toronto for seeds and liked those much better. Thank you again to willy jack seeds. Still hold nebula x blueberry started in 1998. This plant helped me stop taking pain pills after an ankle rebuild. Trippy , euphoric and with a delicious astringent berryness to it.

So recently while rooting around in seed fridge to give some unwanted things away, the humbolt 5 packs were found. Thinking they must be dead, five seeds were put in water and to my amazement all sprouted. A bit deformed like old seeds sometimes start out but all growing through that now.
These seeds were stored in a cool dry basement safe for about 15 years in a mason jar then moved to a fridge about ten years ago.

So im guessing these seeds are worth exploring even though i have no idea what they are.

Can you post some pics Wood?

Northern Lights, Skunk 1, Big Bud, TrainWreck, among many others were commercially grown round Humboldt in the 90's.

 

[Lester Beans]

Mendo Purps could have been the purp.

Check out Notsodog on The Potcast and Breeders Syndicate as he talks about growing in Mendo since the early 90's.

Chemdog was being grown there I believe and that would be cool to find in your seeds.

 

[Lester Beans]

Can you post some pics Wood?

Northern Lights, Skunk 1, Big Bud, TrainWreck, among many others were commercially grown round Humboldt in the 90's.

Cool to see you post Nspecta!

I enjoy your interviews with Heavy and Matt's crew. Big Respect for the work you do!

 

[JetLife175]

Mendo Purps could have been the purp.

Check out Notsodog on The Potcast and Breeders Syndicate as he talks about growing in Mendo since the early 90's.

Chemdog was being grown there I believe and that would be cool to find in your seeds.

The first few largely produced purples being pumped out I remember being urkle, gdp, grape ape, and mendo P. That's the backbone of the purple genepool in my opinion.

 

[merkaba]

Big Bud, Salmon Creek, Afghan hybrids, NL stuff was more up north. Skunk, Super Skunk, Afgooey, Purple Kush, Hash Plant, Blueberry. White Rhino/Widow were more indoor. Bubblegums.