@Instg8ter Hope you get a few going of the Nepalese then you can do your own hand-rubbed from it. I liked the Nepalese best of all the hash varieties as it was more up and high, like you say grabs you behind the eyes and just lifts you up. Cool to make your own sticks too but I would just go ahead and cure it with the flowers alone. Seems like a lot of work to wrap it to sticks. Do you have some bamboo to wrap it around?
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@Saxo nice there! I havenāt seen it in Europe for a long time but it was my favorite (Nepalese) hash back in the mid to late 90s. That Moroccan looks a bit dark but it also looks damn nice. The best Moroccan I had was what they called āblondeā and it was almost white, kind of off white and yellow-ish. There used to be a sliding scale from the very light colored to the darker kinds of Moroccan but I also know that handling it like pressing etc. can bring some darker colors to hash. Looks to be damn near pure resin heads in that one so I bet itās fire.
The Nepalese were always the best black hash in my mind but it was so different from the Pakistani and Afghani which would just knock me out. Kashmir was another favorite but it was also very strong stoney stuff where the Nepalese would just keep elevating me.
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thatĀ“s right @StocktonT ,the color depends on how it is made mainly. the light pressed hash is yellow,reddish to lightbrown.
yes,iĀ“m also like the nepalese mucho more than afghani/paki. the taste was better and the hight as wellā¦i got to agree!!
the best hashish i ever smoked(except waterhash Ā“nĀ“ stuff),was red lebanese!! iĀ“m realy loveing that aroma and taste. the turn was excellent too! but itĀ“s nearly impossible,get your hands on a goood lebanese nowadayā¦
ā¦the āredā available is just reddish,sandy looking moroccan,which is absolutely not comparable tho the original!!!
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@Saxo really beautiful piece of hash there!! yea that looks more like the type of Moroccan I was talking aboutā¦ really liked the best Moroccans as they were somewhere in the middle between Affy/Paki and Nepalese in effect, not only stoney though some of them could be somewhat stoney the lighter colored ones usually were really nice day-brighteners. Of course water extractions etc. are depending on what type of plant you extract them from for the effects. I liked the old quality imports as they had such a wide profile made out of fields of plants makes for a wide profile which is enjoyable for a long time. When I made my own with bubble-bags and only smoked one plant and one screen I got tired of it quicker though it was excellent hash.
At one point I got Moroccan hash that wasnāt really pressed and it was really light brown in color. Looked like little dog shits, like little piles of hash. At the same time I got black Afghani and when using a loop to look at the resin heads it was cool to see the differences in size and color between the two really good qualities of hash.
Thanks for the wonderful pictures man, really nice!
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I have 6ā Wood sticks and seen a video where he used a sushi roller on the moist buds, I think he used corn husk for cob, what do you think they would use, banana leaf??
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Oh I would not be the right person to ask that question as I have never seen a cob cure or anything like it done. I donāt know how common banana is up north but here down south itās everywhere like growing in the wild as well as grown for crops. Thereās a lot of different plants that could be used if leafs are used, talking about the tropics but I really donāt know. But if someone used corn husks then maybe banana leafs would do, they are rather thick and I know they use them a lot for food and local cake type packings here as well as making floating things for one of the holidays where they make these little boats out of banana leafs and put candles and flowers on them and set them off in the rivers and lakes. It would definitely hold as it is rather tough.
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I bet I could get them here in Michigan at culinary specialty place. Still have 6 weeks left on two plants. Then hopefully Iāll have some purple pineapple Thai to drop.
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My history with Super Skunk
I used to grow and smoke Super Skunk back in the 90s. The one I tired then came from Greenhouse Seeds and it was made by Nevil. It was one of the first really good cannabis flowers I tried as a young teen traveling to music festivals and places like Amsterdam and Christiania back in the 90s. I still remember the first year I visited the Roskilde festival (was it 1995 or 1996, canāt remember now) and when I arrived to the festival camping ground there were a bunch of people another friends older brother knew that had held space for me and my friends to set up our tents in their camp. This one guy greeted us early in the morning on the Thursday. The festival really begins on the Friday and goes on through the weekend with a finale on Sunday night. It did back then anyways.
This guy had camped on the festival site since the nordic midsummer weekend so heād already been living in the big military tent they set up for a week when we came. He waved us into the big tent and pulled out a glass pipe and a bag of really beautiful, bright green and totally resin covered buds and said āthis is Super Skunkā. The smell was really strong and pungent and it was obvious before he even pulled out the bag but when we opened it and put our noses down in it and took out buds and carefully inspected them we got this nice, full aroma which I hadnāt really smelt until that day. We all had a hit or two from his glass pipe while he told us stories of Christiania which the guy who knew him had done all spring as well. I didnāt really believe it as it sounded too good to be true. Streets lined with weed and hash sounded like a pipe dream. The buds he had though were very nice. We all got really stoned and most of my friends and myself had some problems setting up our simple tents. We went to the nearest store and I was amazed that though I was only 17 or 18 at the time, I could buy beer and they didnāt even ask about age or id. Loved the danish people. I bought a case of Elephant beer which was 7.2% and after stashing them in my tent we went to the danish capitol of Copenhagen where this free town of Christiania was alleged to be.
First stop was the Burger King restaurant on the main square where we ate and then we went on our way in the cars trying to find this Christiania. The older guy, my friends brothers friend who was our guide of sorts, couldnāt remember and I started to have the doubts about that place again. His friend had showed us really, really nice weed though so maybe there were something to it. We drove in circles trying to find the place out of chance which wasnāt going to happen. We stopped and tried to talk with some locals for direction but when they noticed we came from their northern neighboring country and kept asking about the free town they basically told us to get lost or get back over the border where we belonged. We tried to get a city map but when inspecting it on the hood of one of the cars there was no place in the whole city named Christiania. We drove around again more trying to get there by some sort of stoner chance and it worked. After a while we came into an area where the windows on buildings were replaced with wooden boards and the walls were tagged with spray paint the photographer (the older friend) yelled out that we were close.
The car I was in made a full stop suddenly and the driver pointed to a sign on the other side of the road which said āWelcome to the free town of Christiania, this is not a part of the European Unionā or something along those lines. There were a few other hand-pained signs below it. One with a camera inside a red circle with a diagonal red line over the camera and big black letter below stating āNO PHOTOSā. There were one stating āThis is a junk free villageā and it had a syringe crossed over in a red circle. Seemed forthcoming enough. No cameras and no hard drugs.
Our little group made our way through the first park like area where the grounds keeper seemed to be on holiday as the grass was waist high and there were some people sitting and laying around in the grass. The first set of buildings we came around the corner of following the walking path looked like old military barracks made in red english style bricks. There were a few cafes and stores but no cannabis. We walked for a few minutes more and came to a little square smelling nice of kebab and grilled chicken. There were a few stands selling pipes and papers and a few selling t-shirts and sunglasses with cannabis motives on them but still no weed or hash. I had enough time to think āyea just what I thought, just talkā when I saw my one of my friends just run off in the corner of my eye. As I turned and watched him run my eyes changed focus from his to what he was running towards. There were a stand at the beginning of a dust road where I could see big brown and black lumps. Could that beā¦ damn it looked like big pieces of hash and then my eyes wondered up the street as far as I could see from my point of view. The street was lined with people having big jars of what looked like weed and big pieces of hash. All the colors of the hash rainbow from the blackest to almost white/yellow.
I spent some time walking up and down this dust road that was called āPusher Streetā. It was amazing. Full of vendors showing off different types of hash with little signs on cardboard pieces stating names like Lebanese, Afghani, Pakistani, Nepalese, Moroccan this and that. Some of those named weed varieties I had heard of was also stated on some of the big jars with buds like White Widow, Northern Lights, Skunk, Haze, Super Skunk and much, much more. I had died and woken up in stoner heaven. I remember that the guy whoād smoked us out on Super Skunk earlier said heād got his bud from a guy named Big John. A tall african looking dude and I soon found his stand. He didnāt have as many types as some of the other vendors. He had four different kinds of weed and it seemed they were arranged like a stairway in price. The first step was called āDanske Potā and it didnāt look good at all. It looked like pretty shitty outdoor weed form north Europe but it was also priced very low. The next step was āSkunkā which looked much better and had a nice smell to it. Not āskunkyā but like good weed. It was also a bit higher in price than the first step. The third was āSuper Skunkā and it looked better than the skunk and had a much more pungent aroma. It was the same as our new friend had smoked with us that morning. It was slightly higher per gram than the Skunk. The top of this little weed pyramid was named āKiller Hazeā and it was little flat, triangular and very light green buds that was equally covered in resin as the Super Skunk.
I had a little chat with Big John and got a nice big bag of Super Skunk. I wanted to have a bag of the Killer Haze too. He tried to warn me seeing I was a young guy from out of town he said āthis is not for your first festival manā insinuating that I would blow the top of my head off and maybe get scared if I smoked it. After that little speech I just had to have some and he of course - being a drug dealer ā agreed with a smile shaking his head saying something along the lines of ābe careful and donāt come back saying I didnāt warn youā.
Me and one of the guys met in the middle of Pusher Street trying to make out where the rest of the group was. Weād all been split up when we saw the cannabis and everyone went on their separate missions. My friend had bought some papers and he showed me where he got the nice thin ones so I got a few packs and a grinder along with a sort of cardboard tray for rolling and then we went into a side street. Today I know it was outside of the legendary āpubā called Woodstock. We sat down and he went in to buy two beers while I rolled a nice joint from my Super Skunk bag. It smelt so nice and strong and the second he got back with the beer I lit it up. We made it half way down this pretty decent sized joint before both of us were pretty sure we couldnāt smoke more. I was so stoned I couldnāt get up from the wooden box I was sitting at even if it would have caught fire.
I donāt even remember getting back to the car much less the 45 minutes drive back to the festival. We had already went through the main gates and my first memory after getting back to Roskilde was sitting outside one of the smaller entrance gates smoking something that tasted really nice with one of my other friends and talking about what we bought. We were happy we didnāt have to go through the main gate as that was the only place they seemed to have some sort of check what you brought in thought it wasnāt at all rigorous. The smaller gates were just turning wheels with a guy checking that you had your wristband and that it was tight enough so you werenāt sharing it with someone. When we got back to the tents we tried some of the Killer Haze I bought and it really livened up most of us. Compared to the Super Skunk which was really strong but very stoney this was really strong but got you super high. We had a long walk around the whole camping area stopping at most places offering food or chocolate. I always thought that Big John should have warned us of the Super Skunk rather than the Killer Haze as it was totally up my alley. The Skunk would just sit you down and make you quiet for an hour where the Haze would keep up up at night and make us talk to strangers. Good old memories.
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Thanks for sharing!! Love to hear memories like this!!
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Man, you can swing those V-Mex seeds to anyone who needs them. 
Iāve managed to score some Mexican strains recently, including Crypticās Highland Guerrero and the Vintage Mexican freebie. They were out of that Oaxacan Gold freebie, 
but I picked up Motherās Finestās Oaxacan IBL from Hella Seed Co.
All I have to say is Feliz Navidad!! 
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I have some of the sensi seeds super skunk I will be growing out before next spring. Iāve always thought the super skunk was more skunky then most of the skunk varieties I see people grow and am slowly working threw some older skunk lines to see if I canāt find a winner. Currently growing out the skunk 1 , then Iām doing some work on a heirloom California skunk I crossed to a sfv og and will most likely grow the super skunk after that.
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Yes the topic of skunk is always a risky one to bring up online where I think there are so many baselines to what is āskunkā and how it should smell. Though not everyone grew up in places where the animal skunk lives most people in the western world know that the animal skunk is associated with stinky things. Even where I grew up, where there are no animal skunks, I knew as a toddler that skunks make things smell bad. Itās kind of engrained into popular culture through cartoons and even in places where people havenāt smelt animal skunks itās part of the collective consciousness. This is why I donāt think itās a far cry to think thereās been a lot of people calling stinky things skunk, not only things that smells exactly like a dead skunk animal preferably hit by a car or truck. This is one of the problems. What bad smell do people associate with the name Skunk? I think there are so many different ideas of what a āskunkā in terms of cannabis flowers should be. This is mostly so for the RKS debate but it kind of spills over to any subject with skunk in it.
I agree that to me the Super Skunk of the 90s was the nasty, stinky thing where the Skunk#1 wasnāt so much. I smoked it in Amsterdam and Christiania as posted above and it was the same thing they sold in both places. I bought the seeds in Amsterdam it was from Greenhouse (in 1995 or 1996 and onwards a few years). I think that thereās some confusion to the name Super Skunk too as some still call the 80s SSSC offering (M9) of Skunk#1 x Afghani the same but I think the Afg.T x Skunk#1 (which was Nevilās cross) was the one called Super Skunk. He had an Ultra Skunk too but I always liked the Super Skunk better. The SSSC one was from different selections and it had Skunk#1 on the female side and Afghani (different afghani too) on the male side if memory serves me right. It makes for a different cross but within the same type of families.
I donāt know what was in Sensis Super Skunk, if it was the āsameā as Greenhouse would later sell or if it was the same family with different selections. Never grew or smoked the Sensi Super Skunk to my knowledge. I have smoked their Skunk#1 many times though.
The heirloom Cali skunks must be pretty nice, I can only imagine, I did smoke some SFV OG imported from Cali but itās always hard to know if it is just the name slapped on something or if itās the real thing. It was good though and pretty āskunkyā with some strong lemony tones. The little experience Iāve had with american famous lines like Chemdog, Diesel and OG reminded me a lot of the old Super Skunk and NL5 x Skunk#1 in the 90s but not exactly the same if that makes sense.
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I grew up and live in the Midwest. We deal with skunks every year. In the late 80ās we had a Skunk around here that smelled just like a skunk had sprayed. Now I have absolutely no idea of the genetics. But that is always what I will judge a Skunk by.
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The skunk conversation is definitely a long and contraversial one. Sensi seeds bought nevils stock and was partners with him originaly. What I will say is that a skunk hit on the road aka dead on the road smells the same as one that sprays something in self defense. The skunk smell is so strong you canāt smell the normal dead animal stench . When people think roadkill I think they are imagining the stench of something dead.skunk spray is a sour musky smell that will make you vomit similar to body odor and cat piss combined with a sharp alcohol vinager thing going on. The heirloom skunk I grew was very earthy and hashy tasting not skunky but the cross to the sfv with it is a skunky grapey musky delight. The herb we got from Humboldt was always called skunk buds , or super skunk. The roadkill term seems to pop up later as more of a descreption. I canāt say I have a skunk that smells like straight skunk yet but if I find one Iāll be breeding it and the seeds will be cheap not $500 a pack smh.
Long story short skunk bud smells like skunk spray, that plants reak in veg, the bud reaks in your pocket, even threw glass. You canāt grow it with out people knowing unless you run some serious air cleaners.
If your in Stockton Iām about a hour east of you will have to smoke some of what Iām working with when this whole covid situation cools off.
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Thanks bro but I am in Asia, Thailand to be precise, the name is not due to location but so many people had already taken the āhunter thompsonā names so I went with his middle name, Stockton and T was just for Thompson, my favorite author, later I recognized that there were actually a place called Stockton in Cali. I have had a lot of people asking me if I am from there but I am not, never been to Cali at all hehehe, thanks for the kind offering though, I would take you up in a second if I were there hehehe!
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Hunter was a facinating person , his life and death was a beautiful and depressing story to watch unfold.
Thailand must be a interesting place to live I have a close friend from Cambodia and he has some crazy stories .
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Yes he was definitely a āone of a kindā kind of guy. I just love his writing, or most of it anyways. He had a way with the english language and a dark, drug fiend kind of humor that just spoke to me when I was a teen. Fear and Loathing and Hellās Angels were two very entertaining books to read.
Yea itās a special place for sureā¦ I have a lot of stories too, some I canāt post here hehehe
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Thailand ,Cambodia , and Vietnam all have some amazing culture , clothing and food. One of my favorite foods is hot thai food . That mango salad with Thai peppers is addicting.
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Yea, somtam is nice and the spicy noodle salad is pretty good too with a similar type of flavor (yaa wonsen). I never been to Cambodia or Vietnam though but I bet they have some nice places and foods over there too. Been to Malaysia a bunch of times but for some reason I donāt like the culture nor the food at all over there. It very different from this side of the border.
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Nice! Iāll be looking this one up. Glad you scored Mexican genetics. Which one(s) will you be running ? If you donāt need those vintage Mexican, I will pass them along.
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