Same here, I’ve got three about ~16 inches tall and the leaves are easily half their height. You should run a journal on em. Or feel free to drop a couple pics in mine every now and then or whatever’s clever.
https://overgrow.com/t/diggys-dungeon/24830/32?u=diggysoze
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yesterday I stripped a plant from all the bigger fan leafs so it
would be easer to dry and then cut it up for curing in jars. Got a
very nice amount of finger hash and damn… this tasted like the
finest sandy hash with just one nights cure. Pretty strong making my
head feel like a balloon kind of pulling you up high. The plant had a
fantastic candy like aroma it will be nice smoking flowers from it
too sometime in the new year when it’s dried enough. Sun grown weed!
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I love the old thai strains, hard to get pure here in the states but definelty has some history behind it. Alot of people would love to see some pure lemon and chocolate thai seeds become a regular thing again.
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I think the reason it’s not a big seller for seed banks etc. is that it
is hard to grow these types of plants outside their natural
environment. They take a long time to really finish and they can take
up a lot of space. I would hope for world legalization and open trade
of cannabis so that places with a suitable climate can grow fields of
this type of weed perfectly under the tropical sun and then fetch a
price good enough on a global market that it’s worth it to take care
in the harvest and post harvest processing of the plant. One of the
biggest problems with commercial type of weed in this region today is
the care (or lack thereof) taken after harvest. It can often taste
and actually be moldy if it’s not stored properly as the climate here
isn’t very good for keeping anything outside. It will mold and grow
over in no time in this humidity and heat.
This is an old picture of a plant just by the ocen back in the day… I
wasn’t around in 1977 but the past sure looks pretty…
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I was around to smoke the tide sticks in mid 70’s Cheech and Chong lol
Edit maybe they meant tied sticks?
Either way they were something to remember one whole summer was a blur
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Yea I never seen it tied to sticks other than in old photos. There have
been places I have seen them like wrap the weed with red, blue or
yellow strings but no stick. It was more common like 10 years ago
though. These types grown and handled right can be so good… must
have been a real treat back then too.
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Thinking back to the mid 70’s when I use to buy them in the states here. They were $$$, and on a stick. The buds were tied on with thread, it was not a branch . They were small hard lil buds, and very good as I remember. We paid like 35-40 bucks for a “stick”. Weed was $7-$10 a “lid” lol, back then .
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I’m not totally sure the cost as my older bro made the connection , similar small buds tied with a hemp string on a bamboo stick he swears they were dipped in opium could of been cause it was quite the ride ,also very brittle almost like grinding bone dry stems ! 5/6 inches long you could roll 4 small reefers from a stick or 2 decent gaggers
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YES, bamboo stick, not 420 stalk
NOT dipped in anything , mine were not, I would have known it.
Very dry n brittle but surprisingly stayed on the stick and handled rough treatment
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Exactly. For 20 plus
Didnt know nuff about weed then to understand what it was…too bad…it was good.
Had “Wacky Weed” around then too…holy shit cans…high powered weed IS NOT NEW by any means !
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It takes too long to grow. Lol
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@StocktonT my Mango Thai have doubled in height since the flip to 12/12. They are still small plants but may need to top them. Hoping they stop growing and start flowering soon. We’ll see.
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I bet it did man, I have this theory, though my empiric data is not
that vast on growing these types, but they have a special kind of
climate they have adopted to over thousands of years. They never get
18 hours of light here in the tropics. Where I am at, between 8th
and 9th parallel north, it spans between 11 and 13 hours
of light a day over the year.
Two things can be tricky growing them indoors, one is starting them like
most other indoor at 18 or even 24 hours of light. I think the south
east asians fares well started under basically “normal” indoor
flowering hours. It can also be a reason some of them take a fair bit
of time of “12/12” to react, they are used to grow in these
conditions almost.
Grown good and cared for like I know you will, these types are a treat to
smoke though. I really like to trim a whole plant and then smoke the
finger hash… it’s the best of the best… I always loved hash but
most types like Afghani and Paki are too heavy for me. Smoking finger
hash from sun grown south east asians are even better than smoking
those old Nepalese temple balls. I just get a warm feeling in my
body, not a loaded but warm, active feeling and my head usually feels
like a helium balloon.
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Yep.
In the mid ‘70s I lived in the NYC metro area.
I vividly remember my first encounter with Thai sticks.
Wow, what a revelation, totally unique, spicy aroma, they were tight little buds tied with
delicate thread around a little stick. I had never seen anything like ‘em before.
And the smoke was delightfully inspiring, and potent. Wow.
The NYC market was beginning to provide more and more exotic varieties to ganja aficionados.
The stupendous Wacky Weed along with sweet and spicy Columbian Golds, Oaxacan, Michoacan, Chiba-Chiba, the first Hawaiian I ever smoked …as well as big fat pillowy, seed free buds …sinsemilla baby.
Almost every week, there was something new to enjoy.
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What do you think Wacky Weed was??? To this day, some of the best I ever had!!
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Well, I am not sure that any living human knows with any certainty, what exactly Wacky Weed was. The Chiba-Chiba and Wacky were different from the other ‘lombos.
Some think that these originated in the lowlands of Colombia and were the result of some genetic mixing with some African strains imported by African immigrants.
The Chiba and Wacky were both darker in appearance than the typical Colombians.
They were brutally potent with a deeper, more debilitating high, suggesting some indica influence.
That was a long time ago, and now seems enshrouded by a mysterious, smokey haze.
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Wanna trade? 
What do you have? dm me please
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I asked an old timer about it and he said if I find Thai. I would be in my glory.
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