the first cross i ever made was cali connection’s sour diesel to tga qrazy train. supposedly the cali connect sour diesel cut was AJs and it was the best i’ve had but i never really had access to other sours until the chem fuego i have now, which is [(sour diesel x headband) x chemdog]. i wasn’t happy with the 2 i grew out but i’ll have to try again.
I’m sure nobody wants to hear this or whatever, but I’ll state it again. When I got brought in by the older dudes (19-25 was older back then to me) in ‘98 they had a cut called Diesel, but the old guy (35-40 ancient to me back then) who lived on our beach was a hardcore Brooklyn guy and he was the one who’d bring down cuts for them when he’d go up there. He never shut up about NY so he called it NYC Diesel. It smelled like straight gasoline. People would pull over thinking their car was leaking gas. Then in ‘99 he brought down what he called Sour Diesel and that’s what everyone fell in love with. It grew different, looked different, smelled different, and smoked differently. I preferred the Diesel myself over the Sour D, but honestly preferred others over them. Not sure if that helps anyone or anything, but that’s how it happened around me. Brought that Sour D cut out to Santa Barbara in the summer of ‘04 and started growing it there. Then, West Hollywood for a while before getting the HPK cut from a guy I hung out with and would walk home from The Comedy Store with. Dropped the Sour D when I got HPK. That was ‘08 or ‘09.
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I’m not sure which it was, it did have a strong gasoline funk and was super frosty (compared to other bud back then), which is the only reason I bought it from a random unknown dealer. I was probably around 18-19 at the time, didn’t know a thing about growing only smoking then. I can never forget the high and taste though, haven’t come across it again since. @PatHealy
That’s all that matters. I think we get too caught up in the names and whatnot. It’s the experiences and actual enjoyment that matter. The “NYC Diesel” was more narcotic body high and the “Sour Diesel” he brought down was super heady. They smoked completely differently. Looked and grew totally different too. But, who cares? Certainly not 18-19 year old you who had the time of your life with whatever flower back in the day. That’s what’s more important.
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I believe headiegardens still has the Sour Diesel (JP Cut) x 88g13hp in stock. The site is down at the moment but I believe it will be reopening sometime this month.
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Yeah the dealer probably sold me NYC Diesel but called it Sour Diesel. The way it knocked me out, was definitely a narcotic body high. Back then most people probably didn’t know what they were smoking or selling for that matter. We had so many generic names for just good weed like Piff, Purp, Kindbud, Chocolate, etc… The names really didn’t matter, only how it smoke.
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@anonymous4289 think this is the list.
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Yall gotta be young AF cause back when I was smoking in my teen years the dealers never even knew what the strain was you just told them you wanted Highs, Mids or Lows, and you got what they had, if you asked what it was, they would tell you “its weed do you want it or not”. Maybe that was just an Ohio thing not knowin the strains, but that was like 92-93.
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In my neck of the woods it started as green or brown weed. Then it went to Sinsemillis or Commercial. When named weed started it was …pine, skunk, christmass tree bud, Acapaulco Gold, Columbian, Michocan to name a few
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Every once in a GREAT while, Like ONCE a year or so, our weed guy would get something with a name, but it was RARE and back then, I was payin 25 for 1/4 ounce, but when it had a name the price went up to 80-100 for 1/4 ounce. and it was usually what he called Kind Bud. Sometimes it was something else but it didnt happen often. But im also in a very small town and there was normally only one or two weed guys.
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Same in New York in the 90s. Strains didn’t have many strain names back the and sour diesel was one of the first big commercial strain names after northern lights and chocolate Thai. sour diesel was good smoke but it is gone now and was mostly great marketing
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I’m 41 now lol but back in the 90’s I was definitely young. Situations was similar you was just in Ohio, NY’ers just like to hype everything up lol. Like with your area, stuff with a name would cost more so you know what happens next, everything start getting a name but they was those generic names I mentioned earlier Piff, Purp, Chocolate, etc @Ace71975
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I think the very first name I ever heard back in the 90s was purple haze, and the buds were PURPLE as hell, but they charged 200 1/4 ounce for it back then, so needless to say, we had it once when like 6 of us pitched in to buy it, and well, it was worth every cent, I have never been that high since, even on live resin carts. That was the stuff that I walked in the house, looked at my mom, asked her who the hell she was and what she was doin in my house.
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I remember Purple Haze, that’s where the Purp came from. They just shortened it and started calling everything purple Purp. @Ace71975 All the NY rappers like Jadakiss use to rap about it, it was that good.
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It was a little TOO good!
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Sounds like none of you were growing back then though. I think that’s the big difference. I was twelve in ‘98 when those dudes brought me in and I’d already been geeking on seed catalogs and stuff for years. Haha All of us were growing and ordering seeds or getting them brought back from Amsterdam. You definitely couldn’t order or buy seeds by asking for “highs” or “mids”. But, if you were just a kid or person buying from a random dealer it could come as whatever they wanted to call it.
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Back then $10/4 finger lid. $90 for a Lb. Ohhh forgot about Brick Weed. Saw a compressed 42 lb bale of it once.
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I was 23 in 98 so ya i had already stopped smoking weed at that point, and was married with 2 kids lol. If there were seed catalogs, we never saw them and we didnt grow anyway unless we found a random seed in our bags, then we planted it in the woods somewhere and let nature do its thing, we literally knew nothing about growing weed, or at least most of us didnt. But that was also late 80s early 90s lol. Im pushin 50 real real real hard ill be 49 on the 19th of this month lol.
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Sometimes, the brick weed was actually fairly ok,not great but cheap and if you smoked enough it did the trick lol I remember getting 3 ounces of brick weed for like 80 bucks around 1990-1992, at my age remembering exact dates is impossible at this point lmao
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Haha I gotcha. No kids or marriage so I kept growing. There were seed catalogs in the 80’s for sure. I was too young to order from them, but I still looked through them constantly years later. An older head would have to chime in on when the earliest seed “catalogs” started. I have no clue.
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