Have you ever checked out higherthought.guru? He’s definitely my favorite weed reviewer. Anyway, he’s grown a few of mean gene’s crosses and always raves about them. I’m super-stoked to get some in the dirt. Kind of sucks that I can only do three grows a year and won’t be able to start them until September 1…
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Hell yeah, “Repo Man” is one of my favorite movies. I even have the criterion edition haha. I need to watch this again.
and because I saw another post from you today-
Shit, man, I miss liner notes…
check out my booklet
I actually wrote a college paper on repo man (and other movies involving cars) about how cars are used as a characterization device that can tell us everything we need to know about a character with no expositional dialog.
the music in Repo Man is also excellent. The Plugz kick ass, they played all the instrumentals and the songs in spanish. I really like their album “better luck.”
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That uplift sounds like an awesome strain. Great job with the description, that sounds just like the OG’s I used to get in the bay area until around 2012. Right down to getting completely engrossed and lost in a good movie.
That’s the kind of bud I have been missing, I might have to order a pack of those.
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That’s pretty fucking bad-ass. Wha’d you do, add illustrations as well? “Screw that. I ain’t gonna be no repo man…” haha. I think the idea of cars as a characterization device is definitely a good one. Although, again, it makes me think of another “Repo Man” quote: “The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.” haha!
I just got the Criterion edition of “Sid and Nancy,” another Alex Cox movie and another childhood favorite. My girl had never seen it, so we watched it the other night. Afterwards, she said,”I feel dirty.” haha!
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Yeah, it’s really good weed for sure. It actually kind of reminds me of the Skywalker OG I used to get from a buddy’s dispensary in Echo Park like twelve years ago. “Uplift” is definitely an appropriate name for it. I’ve been blazing the #4 lately, gonna write the review of that one (thumbs up) and the Purple NL2 (thumbs down) tomorrow.
Edit: sorry, I meant the Uplift #1.
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I resemble that remark! You’re a righteous brother indeed.
Blessings…
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Okay, so here’s the Purple NL2 report.
Looks:
The nugs are actually pretty sponge-y and much less dense than I thought they’d be. They’re not airy, but kind of? I mean, they’re not even close to being as airy and light as the Midas from this grow or the Moonshine Haze from last grow, but I wouldn’t say they’re dense at all. Or even close to dense.
Smell: During the grow, this one really smelled identical to a grape soda, right down to the effervescent, “bubbly” sensation you get in your nose when you take a sip of a freshly-poured soda. As it’s cured, it’s become much more of a softer kinda grape bubblegum smell. Not quite as intense as an actual piece of gum, but it’s close. There’s also some kind of “exotic” smell that I get from it, like faraway lands or something. Not incense and not spice, just “exotic.” Little bit of typical “purple weed,” too, that floral sorta smell that isn’t lavender, but flowery nonetheless. It smells good.
Flavor: kind of like a chalky Sweet Tart. Like a really old Sweet Tart that you found in the bottom of your mom’s purse or something. But not as sweet and not as tart haha. I even get a sort of chalky sensation in my mouth, like I just ate the Sweet Tart that I found in the bottom of a purse. There’s also a noticeable earthy thing going on (although that’s likely from my soil mix, as it always imparts an earthy flavor to everything I grow). It tastes pretty good, but not nearly as good as the way it smells.
High: I tried this one for the first time a while back, I dunno how long after I jarred her up. Maybe a month? Anyway, it seemed pretty weak. Took me four bong rips to really feel anything at all, which is twice my usual “bong rip dose.” Even after four rips, it didn’t really get me high per se. I felt it, it was pleasant, but it seemed like a strain that, no matter how much you smoked, it just wasn’t ever gonna get you really baked.
Fast-forward a couple weeks and the strength has changed for sure, as has the high. I smoked this one a couple nights in a row last week after not having smoked any for a few weeks and each time it only took me two bong rips to get pretty baked. Still not as baked as two bong rips of anything else from this grow, but definitely higher than even four rips were getting me a couple weeks prior.
Having said that, the high is really, really unpleasant. I don’t like it at all. To illustrate: the first time I smoked this last week, I had been looking at Dodgers tickets online earlier in the day, wanted to get a few for my girl and me and my friend Natalie. Totally stoked about going to a game. I couldn’t decide which game I wanted to go to, though, and decided I’d get tickets later. Anyway, later that evening, I did a couple bong rips of this and got in the shower and started thinking, like,“I dunno. Can I even HANDLE going to a Dodgers game? It’s been so long since I’ve been in a crowd, maybe I’m gonna freak out. I don’t think I should get tickets…” like that. For like 45 minutes or an hour. And I mean, gimme a fucking break! Of COURSE I wanna go to a Dodgers game. I’ve been waiting like a year-and-a-half to go to a fucking Dodgers game.
Subsequent samples of this weed have been the same way. I get really kind of… I don’t wanna say paranoid, but maybe. Kind of “unsure” of myself, for lack of a better word. It doesn’t make me feel good at all. I’m aware of my heart beating, which isn’t unusual when I smoke weed, but most of the time, the weed puts my head in a place where I’m like,“Dude, your heart’s just beating, it’s fine.” The Purple NL2, though, makes me worry that I’m on the verge of a panic attack and I almost have to sit there and convince myself,“You’re not having a panic attack, it’s just the weed…” I don’t like it at all.
Having said that, I’ve given this to a few people and they like it. In fact, my friend Erica said it’s her favorite from this grow. So there’s that. And after the first 45 minutes or so, it does get more relaxing and everything is fine. But I reeeealllyyyy don’t like the come-up of this one. At all. I actually doubt that I’ll smoke any more of the multiple jars I have left. Probably just end up giving it all away.
Yields were decent, though haha. 74 grams, which puts her in third, after the Midas and the Uplift #4. She was kind of a bitch to trim, too. You can tell just by the amount of leaf on the nugs in those pics haha.
Anyway, yeah, not real pleased with the Purple NL2, for sure.
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And here’s the Uplift #1.
Looks:
Lots of smaller OG-type nugs for sure. But they look good. I had a hard time getting pictures of these this morning for some reason (you should see the no-flash pics, they’re a disaster haha), but the flowers are frosty for sure. Just like the other three Uplifts.
Smell: musty and paint thinner. Really, that’s all I’m getting from this one. Smells good, just not a super-complex smell.
Flavor: nonexistent. Again. I started getting like,“Dude, why the fuck does this weed not taste like anything?!?” Then I remembered the drying mishap, when it got super-humid in the drying area and I had to take the plants out and almost “quick dry” them. I have to believe that’s the reason. Because the Uplift #3 (which I’ll review soon) tastes fucking amazing. That was the one that got chopped a couple days earlier than the rest of the Uplifts and got a proper dry. So, yeah, I fucked up for sure haha. Really wish they would have gotten dried right.
High: So good. One fat bong rip of the #1 is perfect for a wake and bake. Like the other Uplifts, it really gets my mind going in a positive and motivated (albeit slightly scatterbrained) kind of way. Makes me want to do things with a smile on my face, for sure.
Two bong rips is still motivating and gets the creative juices flowing, but there’s definitely a noticeable body element to it, too, kind of like the #4. But it’s still functional. I don’t know that I’d do two bong rips for a wake and bake, but I’m a weed lightweight. I’m sure most people could do two and it’d affect them the way one does me.
Three bong rips and I’m losing the desire to do much. My mind is still active and positive and I don’t wanna say I get lazy. Because I don’t. It’s just more of a “I’d rather just chill in the backyard and read” kind of high. Still good. And there’s not really a heavy comedown or anything, unless I smoke this before I start getting ready for bed. After about an hour-and-a-half, I’ll start dozing off, but that probably has more to do with the fact that it’s the end of the day and I’m lying in bed haha. I haven’t noticed myself getting sleepy after smoking this one at any other time of the day.
Anyway, yeah, this one’s a winner. Great weed, like the other three Uplifts. I know I keep saying this, but I need to grab another pack of these ASAP.
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Try a 16% thc green strains Afghans that treat PTSD stress, those other genetics seem cerebral and if you dont go into it clear and pre planned itll blow your high. No doubt no fear just ride it out.
I barely smoke only for angure and focus on tasks treatments.
Cerebral’s fine. I don’t mind cerebral-type highs at all. All four of the Uplifts are almost completely in the head. What I do mind is when the high takes me to a state of mind that’s unpleasant and makes me paranoid/unsure of myself. Like the Purple NL2. It causes really unpleasant thought processes that I don’t appreciate at all.
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Cheers! This is pretty much what mine are destined for too… Its like speed weed for my wife, and very introspective for me, without any upsides really for either of us. But my friends love the stuff 
Uplifts still sound and look great! Sucks on the dry on that one, but you can’t tell just from looking at it! 
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Could be the cure take it 3 months if you can
Usually that comes from high thc over stimulation of brain some strains stimulate the endogenous binding to proteins causes neuro stimulation.
Can be fixed with a good cure the thc will settle into Cbn and the effects will change into more pleasant user experience.
Dont give up on it yet
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Really? Like how? It makes her get up and go and wanna do stuff? Interesting. My friend who said it was her favorite from this grow is a big, big “Indica” fan. She likes the stuff that makes you lazy, couch-locked etc and hated the Moonshine Haze I gave her from last grow (I knew she would, but I gave her some anyway, without telling her what it was haha!). So that’s weird about your wife haha. Seems like the Purple NL2 is kind of all over the place for different people.
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Yeah bro! We always smoke just before bed, reserve any indica’s I have for it in order to relax and sleep better. Quite a few nights now that i’ve given her the pnl2’s without telling her what it is and always right after we’re done she’ll just get up and legit disappear for an hour or so. One time I found her trimming her hair at almost midnight… another time she was reorganizing her entire closet… just random stuff like that. Introspective type work in hindsight, but always within like 10 minutes of smoking any of the pnl2.
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Haha!! That’s funny as shit. But I get it. If I smoke any of the Uplifts before I start getting ready for bed, I’m bound to put off taking a shower for a little bit while I fuck around, doing something random that could probably wait until the morning, but that I have to do right now anyway. It can’t wait!
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You have such great reviews @minitiger! Thanks for the effort to write them and sharing with the rest of us. It’s invaluable when I’m trying to find new beans to pop.
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My pleasure, dude!
That’s why I do it (that and I like growing and smoking weed haha). I cannot STAND when I see a cross that I’m interested in but then can’t find any info on it. I mean, that happens a lot, just because there are so many seeds available these days. Still, I know motherfuckers are growing some of them. Document that shit! Haha. Help us out!
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Here’s the Stardawg f2 #2:
I really love the way these flowers look. There’s just something about them…
Smell: So I kept these jars sealed for a pretty good long time, maybe like six weeks, before I started to really evaluate the nugs. The first time I opened a jar, there was an unmistakeable and overwhelming frozen orange juice concentrate/dirty feet smell going on. And that’s a good thing haha. I realize “dirty feet” doesn’t sound like something you wanna be smelling, but that coupled with the frozen orange juice combined into something delicious. Unfortunately, that smell is gone now haha. Now it’s a kind of spicy/botanical smell. Which isn’t bad, but I preferred it when it smelled like OJ and feet haha.
Flavor: little bit of pine, but mostly just smoky, which seems to be a running theme with these GPS seeds. The California Cannons (Tahoe OG x Stardawg) I grew last round tasted like hot, smoky ass. This Stardawg isn’t nearly as bad-tasting as those Cali Cannons were, but the flavor is definitely the lowlight of these flowers. Also, this weed makes me cough big-time. It’s weird, because going into my lungs, it feels smooth. You know that feeling, when you inhale and you’re thinking,“That’s some smooth smoke…”? That’s how this feels, but then I invariably start coughing pretty hard. Even just a medium-sized bong rip will make me cough.
High: It’s strong weed for sure. Two bong rips is alllllmost too much for me. Heavy. Definitely not day-time weed. I’ve smoked it three times in the early afternoon and every time, I end up crashing hard on the couch. And I wake up like Michael Scott in The Office. “What time is it?” “Five o’clock.” “am or pm?” haha. And it only takes two bong rips to knock me out, so I’ve really only been smoking this one before bed since the initial tests. It’s great for bedtime. Take a couple bong rips, get in the shower, dry off, get in bed and I’m out in like fifteen minutes. Sleep really well, too.
The only thing that bothers me with this one is it’s nothing like the Stardawg I used to get six or seven years ago. Which isn’t surprising, considering this is an f2 and not the original. But that Stardawg I used to get was pretty up, slightly psychedelic and great summertime, early evening, “drink a couple beers, smoke a little bit and crank some music with friends”-type weed. This one is way more,“Do a couple rips and don’t make any plans…” haha. But the “heavy” thing could just be me. I gave some of this to my friend Jo and she said she smoked a blunt between her and her friend and it WAS psychedelic for her. I’m quoting the text she sent me after blazing it for the first time here: “For some reason it’s like LSD. Everything is glowing. My friend says the same thing.” So it worked for her and her friend. But I don’t get that from this one at all. I think my cannabinoid receptors may be all fucked up from years of cocaine use, though. I dunno. Is that a thing? Cocaine fucking up your cannabinoid receptors? Maybe I’ll look into that.
Still, it’s good weed. It’s gonna be my go-to smoke for whenever I just wanna crash-the-fuck-out. And I still have almost four packs of these, I think, so I’ll probably do a larger run at some point and see if I can’t find something that more closely resembles the real Stardawg. I dunno.
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I used to party regularly and I still get plenty high on weed. Not like Eric Clapton or Dr. Rockso level partying but still.
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Oh, yeah, I still get plenty baked from weed. It’s not that. But sometimes I think that, because of all the blow I used to do (which actually was Eric Clapton/Dr. Rockso level)(nice reference, btw haha, I love Metalocalypse), weed sometimes affects me differently than other people. Like the Stardawg f2, for instance. That one’s knocking me out every time, but it gets my friend Jo high in a psychedelic kinda way.
I dunno. Maybe everybody’s cannabinoid receptors are different. That’s probably all it is.
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