It’s all watered down derivatives of Nevil’s original 5haze by my nose and experience. The lore confirms it as well to if you break it down into deductive reasoning.
Dog Bud was as common in the PNW during the 80’s as RKS was in the Midwest. It was big op and readily available in its circles according to Gas. A total squat BLD with nothing Chem about it. Consider this. When was the chem '91 found?
We know it wasn’t another BLD that hit the dog Bud and made those seed. It would have been some seed acquired in or before '90 figuring a standard grow time. How many seed banks were around pre '90? How many lines were available at that time? What had won the cup and would have had any serious growers attention at that time?
When I tell people the real keeper 5haze was pure haze fuel like nothing out there, the best description I could give is to imagine the sharpest industrial fir needle frankincense make of chem they ever had and know that dog bud cut it down and mottled it a hell of a lot from what we had back then. Flared up nostrils like a metal winter.
So how many of today’s seed banks and flagship lines are chem based? How many awards?. Topdawg, Bodhi, on and on etc. You name it. I know what I had then and I know what’s out there because I was there and have been looking for 30 yrs no quarter. It’s all nocked down outcrossed inbred original 5haze for every wave since.
It takes not just a haze, but the right ancestral haze to coax it forward again. First. A person has to know what they are looking for. The Piff. What they had on the East coast. I ran through a bunch including the CBH. The Piff is not the 5haze I am talking about.
The one we had was all the frankincense hang time of piff, but it was in industrial haze fuel that coated the tongue and crystalize a lung. Nobody thought it was even weed. Cracking a film canister would overwhelm a floor of a house.
I wonder if shanti or others even ever had the one we had because they sure don’t describe or select to it. We only know what we have had and usually call it good when we find our own grail.
Anyway…CBH was of the old. When I outcross what I have I get the curl leaf of CBH. CBH is what curls the Bandaid…it doesn’t seem the A5 of today does this much on its own
This cross. The Silk S x Soulmate…what is it? It’s no CBH in it at all. It’s no Bandaid. It is effectively an ancestral haze that had the traits I was selecting toward crosses with Soulmate…Soulmate is more or less a Chem D bx selection…what I am saying was originally an original 5haze pack of Nevil’s.
What happened? It teased up all of the traits of a very early selection like CBH and then some. The difference is I am selecting to the cut I knew in profile, effect and every other way.
This one plant already has more of the crisp bite of chem fuel winter and metal then anything else I have had for a long long time. It’s pulling it back out of the BLD dog bud into the original 5haze we knew in Chicago which is not what they knew or select to on the EC. Not saying better or worse, but not the same type for sure.
The experiments are proving the theories correct so far. The Alpine works are diving hard into ancestral haze for 3 years. The nL works are diving equally as deep into its own selection criteria. Building a taunt genetic rubber band in both directions to snap it all back hopefully.
The RFK is the culmination of the 150 plant NL hunts. The outcross to Chem via Soulmate has snapped a revived version of NL side of Chem (if my theory is right) that is a flashback to the real profile I remember of old school NL. Breathed life back into the line breeding bx works.
I am not trying to be ego, I am passionate. I am sharing what I am doing and found through my life’s work. Many people have multiple breeding goals and projects. I have only ever been dedicated to doing and working toward one outcome for 30 yrs with a solid reference of where I am going and a relentless. Good enough will never be good enough.
I am not there, but I am closer to the type I seek that we had in Chicago then anyone else at this time. I am super excited. This has been haunting me for decades to not have it back and now I can see that it is inevitable. It’s been a lot of work, investment and risk to develop it to this point.
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