Yep and a little C-99 never hurt anything I know of…
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I agree hahaha
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I dropped the 4 I had left. Got 3 seedlings going. 
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Durban Thai high-flyer?
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Dense, frosty, syrupy Sativa spears that taste like caramel and herbs, very savory with a sharp clear full body and head buzz…
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Yeah. The Grimm version, so it’s DTHF x C99.
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Nice pictures and description man, well done this far for sure!
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@Instg8ter how did the Columbian gold turn out? Is it still flowering? It looked like it wanted to finish up the last photo… but I was hoping you would get another flowering or two.
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Great thread ! Love Thai (and Nepali, Jamaican, and other sativas). Enjoyed my share of thai in the 90’s.
Here are a few pics of Thai grown this year.:
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Nice pics @Royal here’s a thai out by the Durian trees!
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They’re looking nice! Looking forward to seeing how they finish in their natural environment.
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Wow, looking great! Don’t forget some close up shots of the nugs as they fill in😁. Any idea which Thai you have going? Flowers look like they are filling in quickly.
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The plant is growing in the ground between the 8th and 9th parallel north of the equator and it’s been in the ground since spring. The previous picture that I posted about a month earlier was taken in May and you can see it is pretty developed for a vegging plant, about 120 - 150 cm tall with nice branching and on this plant you can actually distinguish between the meristem and the others which isn’t always the case with some thai plants. Last year and the year before I planted the thai plants much later in the season well into the flowering photoperiod so I got smaller plants and shorter flowering period for them so it’s going to be cool to see what the plant does with a full season in regards of both yield and potency. This plant has been flowering through monsoon season and it still stands so it will be interesting.
The simple answer to ”which thai” this is, is that I don’t know. This particular plant was germinated by a person in my thai family. He got the seed from me but I don’t remember what seeds I gave him and he never asked. All the seeds come from my own collections. Most of them are as unexciting as bag seed meaning that I saved seeds from cannabis that I in some way thought had merit, mostly if it smoked great but in some cases also color or other specialities like odd flavor or effect. Where those came from I don’t know further than where I bought the cannabis. In a few rare occasions I have been given seeds by other growers and in those cases I know where they are from, the growers, but I don’t really have any idea where the seeds came from. It’s tricky with the culture and language differences between Thailand and the west. They don’t work like we do when it comes to names and origins and such, at least not with cannabis. It’s hard even if you know smart and connected people, to really know where things come from. Only when I have smoked and collected seeds from cannabis where I have met the grower can I say I know where that was grown but the guy might have gotten seeds from elsewhere.
So in simple words I don’t know where this one is from but I am sure its a south east asian. When I have cut it, dried it, cured it and smoked it I will be able to tell more but even then it will be a guess at best. There are many ways to categorize cannabis and even south east asians have many different categories within its own category. The two main sides of south east asian cannabis - to me that is - are Green and Brown. There are some green plants that turn brown after harvest. There are some green plants that turn half brown after harvest and there’s some that get a more golden color but those I would also put in the Green category. The Brown category is rarer to see pure. There are some commercial cannabis that seem to have been processed after harvest (cob style cure etc) and therefore seem to fall into the Brown category.
To me the distinction between the two main categories is the effect where I think of the green type as the typical south east asian weed very up, very energetic, a bit visual, can have some paranoia or feeling of unease, long lasting. It can be edgy and almost trippy to some smokers (those not familiar with LSD and shrooms). There are some green types that come on instantly and hard and there are some that have a delayed onset where you smoke and then 15 minutes later you’re still getting higher. There’s a lot of variation within this vast category I call green. The brown is different in the effects and quality or feeling of the high. I think personally that it is a gentler, kinder high. Softer feeling of dreamy, mellow tingling warm happiness. It’s not always easy to tell if you got high (enough) or not so I often over indulge on the brown type thinking I didn’t really get that high of the first joint so I roll another one and after smoking that I put something on the youtube app on the phone and ZING!!! I wake up with the phone beside me two hours later really high and wondering what happened. The real, pure Brown type is rare, I would say in my experience for every 9 green joints there’s one brown. Of course there’s good and bad examples of both these types of cannabis, I comment from the point of the best examples of both. There’s a lot of bad examples of both, especially if you go to jamaican music establishments and other easy to find outlets for cannabis the chance of getting sub par weed is high. But don’t let that discourage you from trying. Sometimes those bamboo huts have pretty decent stuff and even if it isn’t the best, most of it will work. But when you get those really high quality samples, wow, that’s when the south east asians really shine.
Long and pointless as usual! All the best boys//StocktonT
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Wow, great read! I’m just getting into the Southeast Asian genepool. I’m soaking info up like a sponge😁.
You mention brown and green types, with brown being less common. Is there a Thai variety that is always brown? Or is it always mixed with greens?
Ever come across Malaysian pot? Sumatran,?
What is your favorite Thai strain? Any idea?
Beautiful plant! When are you thinking for harvest? January? December?
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This sounds so much like the US but back in the 70s and early 80s. We didn’t have all the strain names, and just had Columbian, Mexican, Thai, Monkey Paw, Sensi, etc. Saved so many seeds. Sadly didn’t freeze them or store them well so after 20 or so years none of them germinated.
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Well my point is that it’s hard to discriminate between different type of thai weed as it is all south east asian and they do fall in the same general category, and, the locals never used the names we do in the west like Lemon, Chocolate, Mango or anyother name. I think what many refer to as “Chocolate Thai” in the west would be the brown type I speak of but no Thai would ever call it that. The word for Chokolate in Thai is a borrowed word from english and it sounds like they are just trying to say it in english when they say it. I am quite sure they would never put the tag “Thai” on it either, why would they? They know it’s thai so that tag was probably put on it by westerners either (best case) going there to try to find something or the people that got it as imports back in the west. I’ve had arguments with people swearing it is called this or that by the locals but it’s just funny to me and to anyone else who can speak a little bit of thai. They wouldn’t ever name any kind of weed “Buddha Thai”, that is a name westerners called it to sell it.
So in my experience there is a brown type, it’s rare or at least in my experience it has been. It’s very different and looks more like chocolate than smell or taste that way (which it doesn’t). The color and the effect are the two main differences but like I said, compared to Afghani, the green and brown thai are almost the same but compared to each other there are differences just like there are between some brown and brown samples as well as within the green category. I found the brown to be more consistent in its porperties of the high. Most of them (the good ones) smoke very similar where the green category seem to have a lot more variation in effect.
I have smoked pot in Malaysia though it took me many trips there before I dared to. It’s not the kind of country you want to be nicked by the poopoo with weed in your pockets. Don’t know what the weed I smoked was but it was pretty ok, like decent thai. Again that is my very limited experience. I don’t like Malaysia and only went for other reasons and often only for a few days at each time so I don’t really know the culture or the weed scene at all there. I just hate going there, hate the food, hate the vibe and usually I go on a 48 hour beer bender when there to forget that I am there, lol. It’s always like dying and going to heaven returning to Thailand after a few days in Malaysia.
I like most all of the thai varieties if they are high quality samples. I like the “paranoia” ones that some can’t smoke. I love the day brighteners that just makes the mood lift and lift. I like the ones that give you audible effects where sound gets softer and slower. I like the really tasty ones, the golden green ones that are grown to perfection are often much better than any of the best hybrid weed I have grown or smoked. If you get close to the grower, like one or two people removed, and get to sample some weed that hasn’t been devastated by bad handling after harvest you will see that south east asian weed doesn’t taste like hay or mold at all. I once got some really nice, locally grown green weed on an island from a guy I just met there and I smoked a few joints of it at his bar with him and had a few beers and then a few hours later I couldn’t even remember how I got to that place. I spent 2 hours walking around trying to find the way back to my hotel. Finally I gave up and had a pizza and a beer and when I finished I could see I chose to sit right across the road from my hotel lobby… real stoner story hehe. That is still the best quality of weed I found in the country. It was so smelly it would make a good Amsterdam hybrid shy in the 90s. It had such a rich taste, like the fruits there in asia are much better than if you buy them here in the store kind of good. It also had the most electric effect and it was real strong. Two canadians shared one of the joints with me and they had to go back to their hotel after smoking a third of it each. Maybe they were light weight smokers but it had kind of the same effect on me and I have been smoking everyday since the 90s, or as many days as I could since then.
Harvest after new year, think it’s going to be awesome but maybe it’s one of the meh ones, we’ll see.
Yes Comacus, I think there’s definitely something to the way we used to grow and how it’s done today in the west. The thai experience has taught me that environment really puts a stamp on the product, like wine. Maybe the old skunks could be found if grown outdoors and with cow shit and such as it was back in the day. I think there were more than one dary farmer that planted ganja and found that his nutrient addition (cow shit) was perfect for stinky weed, that and the great halide in the sky as DJ Short used to call the sun.
It’s sad to think of all the seeds I had in my hand and what they could have become if I could grow them today. I am sure your list is longer and contains more of those old classic flavors and highs than mine.
All the best guys, I will try to check in a bit more often but life’s got me busy at the moment. Have a great one and thanks for checking in to my thread again
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@StocktonT great write up as usual! There is one SE Asian strain I still remember from the early 80s was Monkey Paw. May not have even been a SE Asian strain but I think it probably was. Sure it was named here in the US as like you say no one in there would have called it that. The flavor and high were so unique. We always wondered if it might have been dipped in opium. It had the most unique flavor of lavender and purple!
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