Doc D Bandaid Haze, Colombian Gold x Dragon Energy and Ancient OG x DE; Bodhi Soar; Freeborn Skycuddler Kush #3 f3

Where’d you get the impression that I don’t need to work? If I didn’t need to work, I wouldn’t be going out on job interviews. Or I’d just go get a cashier job at RiteAid or something to fill the time.

I need to work, for sure. The longer I go without a job, the more I drain my bank account. Isn’t any money coming in right now at all haha. Bought some seeds today, gonna be placing a relatively big order with Doc on May 1… The money’s getting spent.

Yeahhhhh, last night was weird for sure haha. Heading into the bottom of the ninth, Freeman hitting third, I was like,”OMG! He’s gonna make supershitfuck’s prediction come true!” haha. I actually pulled my girl outta the shower to be like,”Kenley’s on the mound! Freddy’s about to bat! He’s gonna hit a homer, like you said!”

Didn’t happen, though haha. Wouldn’ta mattered if he did, anyway. Still woulda been down a run haha.

Well, I hope I’m not fucking with your attitude haha. I really don’t mind my line of work at all. I mean, maybe sometimes I do, but it’s really just the process of getting the job that drives me nuts. Once I actually have a job and the powers that be see, like,”Oh, shit, he’s actually really good and sells a lot. Let’s leave him alone,” haha, it’s fine.

Those fucking interviews, though… I actually just fully ignored the last response I got to a resume I sent out the other day. They wanted me to come in today or tomorrow for an interview, totally blew it off. Didn’t even give them a courtesy lie, like,”Thanks for considering me, but I got hired last week.” I just ignored their email. I dunno haha.

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Alright, I think I have enough of a handle on the Colombian Gold x Dragon Energy #1 to write the report.

Looks:

I’m not even sure those pics are doing this one justice. These flowers are really frosty.

Smell: I’m picking up on burnt rubber/hot asphalt, with just the ever-so-slightest bit of “sourness” as well. Nothing in the realm of Sour Diesel-type sourness, though. Hash, too, maybe. It smells good, but it’s not like,“OMG, what is that??? I have to smoke some right now!”

Taste: mostly just hash, with the slightest bit of sourness on the way, way back-end. I’ve blazed this one before bed a few times, couple bong rips, then brushed my teeth, showered, dried off, moisturized… Twenty or thirty minutes later, after I’m done with the routine and I’m laying in bed, I’ll get this sorta “sour/fake lemon” flavor in my mouth. Which, I dunno, that’s pretty cool I think, especially since I brushed my teeth AFTER blazing her. But overall, the flavor is mostly just hash. Not even “amazing hash flavors,” though. The Ancient OG x AfPak (which I’ll write the review for after this) tastes so much more “hashy” that it kind of makes the C. Gold/DE #1 plant relatively lackluster. It’s like a little bit of hash, a little bit of sour… Emphasis on the word “little.”

So yeah, @ClassicGenetix, there’s definitely some sour flavors to be found in the DE crosses, although I suspect that other plants would produce significantly more sour notes than this plant did.

Effect: It’s okay. It’s strong, for sure, but a weird kind of strong. Have y’all ever heard that saying in Alcoholics Anonymous, that,“One drink’s too many and a thousand ain’t enough,” thing? The #1 plant is the opposite of that. One bong rip isn’t enough and two is too many haha. But the high is just kind of whatever. I’ve been asking myself over the course of the last couple days,“Is it just because that Bandaid Haze #6 and the C. Gold/DE #2 plant are soooooo good that you can’t accurately judge this weed? If this is the only weed you had access to, would you be stoked about it?” I’m not sure I would.

The high is just kind of,“Blahhhhhh…” Like I said, it’s strong, but there’s nothing that really makes it special or interesting at all. It’s not thought-provoking, it doesn’t make things sillier (in fact, it kind of makes everything sorta dull), it doesn’t make me more hungry or less hungry, it doesn’t even really make me feel either more energetic or more tired. It’s just kinda “there.” Like,“Yes, I’ve smoked some weed, I know that because I’m baked,” but there aren’t any standout aspects to it at all.

I really do keep thinking,“Are you being totally honest with yourself? Are you positive that it’s not just the other plants that you love so much affecting your ability to properly judge this specific plant?” I think I am. It’s good weed, I guess, probably a lot of people would dig it, but this one, to me, is just kind of,“Eh…”

I do think that it’d be good for making hash with, just because of how frosty it is. So I’m probably gonna do that at some point. Eventually. One day… haha.

Anyway, yeah, they can’t all be winners haha. I’ve actually given some of this to some friends of mine, along with samples of the Sky Cuddler Kush and the Soar and everything else, just because I always like to hear everybody’s opinion. And not a one of them so far has mentioned the C. Gold x DE #1 nugs. I didn’t even realize that until last night. They’ve for sure been texting me, like,“OMG, that SCK is sooooo fucking good!” or,“Holy shit, that Soar is tasty!” But nobody’s told me how much they love the #1 plant haha. And it hasn’t even occurred to me to ask them, which I think is even more telling. I’ll ask them today, though, kinda curious to see what they think of it.

Edit: I just realized that I was like,”Yay! I blazed the C. Gold x DE #1 for the last two days and I wrote the report! Now I can get back to blazing the weed I really like!” haha! I guess I probably could’ve just written that at the very beginning and saved a lot of time and space haha…

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I blew the pic up. That’s definitely some frosty bud. @minitiger

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And here’s the Ancient OG x AfPak report:

Looks:

Sorry about those shitty-ass pics, they were the best I could find out of the, like, 20 that I took.

Smell: it’s kinda “green,” kinda vegetal, very earthy and also a little bit of lime, too, which has been surprising to me. The “earthy” aspect is pretty unique, too, and not the usual earthiness that I think my soil mix always imparts. This is more of a “limestone”-type thing, reminds me of the sinkholes I used to play in when I was a kid growing up in Florida haha. These nugs have only been in jars for like three weeks, so maybe that sorta “green-ness” will dissipate as we go on. It doesn’t smell bad, though, at all. Smells real good, actually.

Flavor: like I broke off a huge chunk of hash and chewed on it for twenty minutes. And I mean that in a good way haha. It’s soooooo fucking hashy, like even more hashy than some actual hash I’ve smoked. I’ve been doing my best to differentiate, like,“But is it blonde hash or black?” I haven’t come to a conclusion yet, but it does taste really, really good. I mean, as long as you think hash tastes really good haha.

Effect: So the first time I blazed this one, I immediately thought of Bodhi’s Clusterfunk. That’s what this one reminds me of, but a Clusterfunk on steroids. It is such a classic “hybrid” up-then-down thing, but times 100. The first hour might very well be the most “cerebral” high I’ve ever experienced. My mind just will not quit racing. Since we’ve been talking about jobs and interviews and trying to get jobs and stuff on this log lately: if I’ve gone out on an interview earlier that day and then smoke this before bed, I porrrrrre over every single detail, anything I said that might’ve made me look bad and un-hireable, wondering,“Maybe you shouldn’t have said that. You idiot! You idiot!” haha.

Picture somebody slapping themselves in the face and yelling,“Quit thinking! Quit thinking!” It really is like that, although I have not (yet) actually slapped myself in the face haha. But yeah, man, gawddamn, this one really gets the mind racing.

Having said that, I don’t actually feel any sort of negativity during that first “cerebral” hour. I think a lot, but it’s not necessarily any sort of “bad thoughts.” It’s more just like,“Ahhhh, haha, you probably shouldn’t have said that during that interview today. Oh well, guess I won’t be getting that job…”

Anyway, yeah, so that’s the first hour haha. But I can almost set my clock to this high. Like I said, that first hour, there’s a lot of stuff going on in my head. But almost to the minute, the second hour is very quiet. I’ll be laying in bed, mind racing, and then everything just shuts off. To the point where I’ll have been laying in bed for a few minutes after that first “Hour of Nonstop Thinking” and then realize,“Oh, wow, I haven’t thought of anything at all for five minutes…” And then, BAM! I’m out. Sleep like a baby for a good seven hours and wake up all refreshed and shit.

So yeah, I dunno about this one haha. I honestly haven’t blazed it at any other time than before I get ready for bed. And I don’t think I will, either, just because every time I’ve smoked it, it really is like,“I’m thinking, I’m thinking, I’m thinking, I can’t stop thinking!” and then 66 minutes into it, I go,“I’m not thinking at all,” and that’s the last thought I have until I wake up in the morning. Pretty interesting weed, for sure. Not something that I wanna blaze in the morning or afternoon, though haha.

Growing notes on this one are that I only vegged her for 39 days before flipping and I think the yields are reflective of that. I got 23 grams from this plant. TWENTY. THREE haha. I didn’t top her, so that probably had something to do with the gawd-awful yields, as well. I’m not unwilling to run her again, though, at all. She’s good weed, just not necessarily something I wanna be smoking all the time. I’m gonna blaze some tonight before bed, though, just because she tastes so fucking good.

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Yeah, for sure, she’s frosty. It’s unfortunate that the high is just so lackluster, though. Or I dunno, maybe “lackluster” isn’t the right word, but she’s definitely not my favorite plant from this grow haha.

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Love reading your reports very through and great shots on the camera too

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Man reading that description was a little personal rollercoaster bud. “Thinking too much” and I’m like “oooh no, that one’s not for ol’ legs, too much thinky thinky is bad news biscuits” but then “immediate sleep” I’m like “well now that does sound lovely!” I gotta say bro I love that you review these things In a stream of consciousness way; this is very much the way I think about new varieties I try myself. I know this might get me a wrist slap but if you’re looking for a job you should call up wikileaf or one of those other strain info sites and offer your services reviewing these cultivars for real people so we get some accuracy in those descriptions: either way, I like your style dude.

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Haha, I was actually talking to somebody years ago about doing that. He said he was starting some weed review site, posted an ad on Craigslist and I was like,”Fuck it, I’ll respond to this.” Posted some links to some old reviews I’d written on weedmaps and he wanted to pay me to do that for his site. I don’t remember why I lost interest, but I never did write anything for him. I’m not sure the site ever took off, either, don’t remember what the name was gonna be.

Back when Vice didn’t have their own fucking cable channel and they were still kinda cool, I scrolled down to their masthead (this is back when they just put people’s email addresses in their mastheads haha) and contacted the editor-in-chief, sent him something I’d written (not at all like a strain review; much, much different than that haha) and the dude got back to me almost immediately. This is back when I was single and outta my mind on blow and fucking a different girl every night and I figured, you know,”Shit, man, I can write about this, this is easy.” Anyway, that guy was totally down to start publishing whatever I sent him, but then I lost interest in that, too haha.

I don’t know what my problem is, I just lose interest in things really quickly. It’s like I just wanna see if I can do it, but once I find out I can, I forget about it and move on to something else. I dunno.

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I call it “taking the magic out of it”, learn enough that it isn’t magic anymore and it stops being captivating. Except weed.

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There’s too much above that resonates with me to quote it all lol
The part about you slapping yourself is me to a T @minitiger
And I felt the exact same way @LegsMahoney … oh hell no, like I need anything to keep my mind racing, but then… yes please, I’m always in search of sleep meds!

Man, that is a tricky one…

Great reports as always!!!

And no, your not affecting my attitude, it’s been a self afflicted problem of mine for as long as I can remember lol.
Im just glad I found some like minded heads I can unload on :wink:

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Yeah, that is so true, good way to put it. I almost started doing porn like fifteen or so years ago, was pretty tight with the VP at Digital Playground, so I had an in, he was ready to put me to work, did the AIM test, the genetic HIV test thing, all ready to go, but I chickened out at the last second (I still thought I might wanna get married back then, kept having visions of having to tell my future fiancée,”Oh, by the way, I used to be a porn star…” haha). When you put it like that, though, I’m glad I didn’t do porn. I will always want porn to maintain its mystique haha.

Yeah, it’s kind of weird smoke for sure. But in a good way? I really haven’t been thinking of it as my “sleepy time weed” at all, on account of how fucking cerebral that first hour is, but the second hour is totally “lights out.” There isn’t even a “second hour,” really, I’m crashed out almost exactly, like, an hour and seven minutes after blazing it haha, every time.

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Great write up and super interesting the difference in effects. Both of mine look pretty homogeneous so far and neither very narrow leaved, but I suppose we’ll see as they grow. Look familiar?

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Hmmmm…. Not really haha. Especially that one in the back, with those super-fat leaves. Are you doing your usual “topping early and training” thing with those plants? Maybe that’s why they look different, I dunno. But yeah, I don’t remember any of the three that I vegged looking quite like that.

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The reason why dudes work is because of their girl, if there was no girls every guy would just be bummy and not do shit haha, we don’t care! we just wana grow weed and watch baseball!
was nice to see mookie hit one in the second deck huh! “petco park” what a lame name for a stadium

that’s pretty, rubber hot asphalt sounds nice, stick with that pink background

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Actually, my girl is the reason I’m not working. She makes real money, she bought our house, I didn’t have anything to do with that (except for me saying,”Yeah, this is the best one we’ve seen so far. Get it.” haha). She doesn’t seem to care if I work or not and she’s definitely never busted my balls to go find a job. But I care, which is why I’m looking. Kind of haha. Didn’t send out any resumes last week and blew off my one interview. But yeah, if it wasn’t for my girl, I woulda been homeless five years ago (wouldn’t have been the first time, either).

Yeah, that was nice. Wasn’t so nice to see him go 0-for-5 yesterday, though haha.

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So just some quick thoughts, things I’ve been thinking about the past few weeks as I’ve blazed the Bandaid Hazes and the Colombian Gold x Dragon Energy #2 (the big one, my favorite) and the Soar.

One, I really think this whole “Sativas are racy” thing has been way overblown. I mean, it’s possible that my endocannabinoid system is just that unique and different from everybody else’s that I respond to Sativa-dominant flowers in a totally different way than most people, but the way these BAH flowers smoke and the C. Gold #2’s, as well, seem to me to be just more evidence that Sativa-dominant plants really aren’t that racy. It makes me wonder how much people’s preconceived notions about “Sativas” and “Indicas” and whatever factor into their ability to judge/review weed. The most I ever smoke in one sitting is like half a joint, so maybe if I smoked an entire blunt or something to myself, yeah, maybe shit’d get crazy, but half a joint seems to be plenty stony to me. I don’t feel the need to smoke more than half a joint with any of these plants (or anything I’ve ever grown). Maybe some people do, I dunno. I do feel like if you need to smoke more than half a joint to get high, maybe get some new weed haha!

I also keep thinking about movies I’ve seen from the 70’s, where people smoke a joint and get all giggly and silly and laugh their asses off and eat a bunch of food and whatever all else. The people writing those movies were (usually) drawing from their own experiences. It’s not like they were just making that shit up. And if they weren’t drawing from their own personal weed-smoking experiences, they were drawing from their observations of the people around them who had just smoked a joint. I’m not even talking about, like, Cheech and Chong flicks (but those are actually a great example of the point I’m trying to make); I’m more talking about the one random scene in a movie that’s otherwise not about weed at all, where a character or a couple characters smoke a joint and have a blast.

Well, where was the majority of weed coming from in the 70’s? Primarily from Mexico, Central America and South America, as far as everything I’ve read (yes, I know there was weed being imported from other parts of the world, too, but the weed that most people had access to was coming from down south). In other words, THEY WERE SMOKING SATIVAS.

Going back to Cheech and Chong, what were they smoking? Colombian Gold, Panama Red, Acapulco Gold etc etc etc. Shit, they even have a song called “Acapulco Gold Filters.” Watch any of their movies and tell me it doesn’t seem like they were having a blast writing them. And there were for sure those kind of zany,”The cops are coming! The cops are coming! Put that shit away! Everyone knows I’m high!”-type scenes, but I always considered those more a commentary on the absurdity of weed being illegal in the first place more than it was a commentary on actually being high.

And for whatever reason, I keep thinking of that scene in “Poltergeist” (I have no idea why, haven’t seen that movie since it came out, when I was like seven), where the parents smoke a joint and Craig T. Nelson’s cracking jokes and they’re both laughing their asses off. That was ‘82, so hybrids were for sure in circulation at that point, but still… Craig T. Nelson looking in the mirror, repeatedly sucking his gut in and then sticking it out, going,”Before, after, before, after,” and both of them cracking up… That’s some silly shit.

I think that the arbitrary system of saying,”This is a 60/40 Sativa/Indica hybrid,” or,”This is an 80/20 S/I hybrid,” or whatever, just based on the way it makes YOU feel, with no knowledge at all of the actual genetic makeup of a plant, has completely fucked everything. I mean, what? You cleaned your house after smoking a particular strain, therefore it must be an “80/20 S/I hybrid”? Or whatever? Gimme a break. I haven’t felt like cleaning my house at all after blazing any of this weed so far haha. The Sky Cuddler Kush is probably the only one that makes me even consider doing something like that. Everything else is just like,”Fuck cleaning the house, I’m gonna sit out back and drink a beer…”

I dunno, just something I’ve been thinking about lately.

One quick update on that Colombian Gold x Dragon Energy #2: I cracked a new jar yesterday and it REEKED of pine and skunk. So it seems like that sorta “dry wood” smell is all gone and now it smells super-delicious haha. My friend Natalie, one of the perfume enthusiasts haha, agreed about the pine and skunk. I meant to have her smell some of the other as-yet unreviewed jars so I could get her opinion, but we smoked a joint and I forgot.

Seems like the C. Gold x DE #2 got stickier, too. I rolled that joint while we were sitting outside, with the sun hitting the flowers, looked more sparkly than usual haha, felt super-gooey. Shoulda probably taken some new pics… For posterity’s sake haha…

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I definitely agree with you on many if not all of your points. The current language used is not that effective for communication and has been that way for quite some time. That said it definitely feels to me like many of the “sativas”, especially in the late 90s and early 00s were selected for raw intoxicating power rather than what was accepted as a less “potent” giggly social effect. This was all during a time when High Times, the other cannabis cups & THC levels were all much more influential than they are today. I’ve definitely had some “indicas” that induced racy thoughts just as much as a 120 day Kali Mist.

To me it mostly boils down to clear-headedness and functionality vs highly intoxicating effects. My preference for everyday use leans more towards functional relaxing strains rather than a reenactment of “The Hasheesh Eater” by Fitzhugh Ludlow, but we’re all different in what we seek. The cleaning the house element to me always just represented bringing in some kind of structure to re-focus your mind and gain control of the racing thoughts, but that just may be my personal take on it.

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Yeah, I just read the last post in your thread, where you said that thing about,”Hazes are out,” for you. I considered posting that last thing I wrote there, but I’d already been thinking about it for a few days and was already planning on writing it here. It wasn’t a response to your comment about Hazes not working for you, is my point.

This is kind of the thing I’ve been wondering about for years now (and I’ve mentioned this over and over again on my own logs and on other threads, too). Most “Indicas” seem to make me reeeealllyyyy uncomfortable, heart-pounding, racy thoughts, “gotta get up and do something” etc for the first thirty minutes or so, at least. Sometimes even longer. Ordinarily, if it was weed I’d gotten from a dispensary, with the aforementioned “Indica/Sativa” designations, I’d just chalk that up to the fact that most people working at dispensaries are morons. But even the stuff I’ve grown myself, it seems like the longer she takes to finish, the more enjoyable she is; the quicker-finishing ones are the ones that always send me into a near-panic attack, at least initially.

Really, I’m just more wondering how this whole “Sativas are racy and Indicas are downers” idea even became a thing. Where did that come from? Who started that? And why? I feel like there’s plenty of evidence beyond my own personal experiences that illustrate that that’s not the case (which is why I brought up those old movies from the 70’s). I have to assume that it was based solely on the growth patterns/rates/expressions of the plants being grown, i.e. the flowers from the longer-flowering, stretchy/tall plants made the people classifying them feel more “racy” than the quicker-finishing, shorter, non-stretchy plants. I mean, I guess? I dunno. Obviously.

OG’s are another good example. Real OG Kushes have never, ever made me feel all lethargic and couchlocked and whatever. Where did that idea come from? I’ll read reviews of Larry or SFV or whatever and be like,”What?”

But now I’m getting off-topic (even though this is my own thread and I can talk about whatever the fuck I wanna talk about haha!). Anyway, yeah, I don’t really get it. I mean, I get it, I guess, but maybe it’s time to reconsider shit… Or at least be a little more observant. Don’t write a review if you’re not capable of being self-aware haha.

And I’m not talking about you, @syzygy! At all. But I think you know that. I’m just saying, in general, we could all do with maybe a little more self-awareness. Don’t write reviews just for the sake of writing reviews. And don’t say something must be a “Sativa” because you cleaned your house after blazing it or an “Indica” just because you ate a bunch of food and crashed out.

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Yeah, for all I know it’s the high powered indicas bred into the sativas around that time bringing that uncomfortable effect to the dutch-bred “sativas”. I remember during that time all the dutch breeders referencing the indicas they bred into the “pure sativas” were there to either reduce flowering time or increase potency. I definitely experience those effects as well and the first time I remember experiencing it was with Sensi Star, an “indica” dominant plant. My aversion to trying hazes is probably unfounded, but Tom Hill’s descriptions back on ICmag always ruled it out for me.

For sure, and even if that weren’t the case I think the language we use and our thought processes should always be open to critique. I get the impression we have similar sensitivities or at least reactions so naturally I find your perspective interesting, especially considering they are based on recent experiences with these strains. That soar is definitely getting added to any future orders I make if it’s still in stock…

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Totally agree. For the most part it’s the indicas I have to worry more about giving me panic attacks as opposed to the sativas. But, it really just depends on the individual strain, pheno, and when it was cut.

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