Hey man, welcome! It really took me back, and I would have considered this top notch back in the 70’s. In a funny way though, I probably enjoyed growing it more then smoking it.
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I was wondering how loud they are. Have a double panama x malawi gold.
Loud? Best way I would describe the 2x Panama is subtle but in a heady psychoactive sort of way. The smoke is not super expansive, it is quite mellow with subtle flavors. It is a super functional sort of high, very alert with visual acuity. After about 10min, you realize you’re really fucking high, heady high, not physical, and it lasts for a long time. Smoking more doesn’t really get you higher though.
Flowers have little smell, unless you squeeze them. They are reasonably dense for a CA weed, with good trichome coverage. When you squeeze them they put off a very natural lemony scent (not chemical) with a mild spice component, not cinnamon, more allspice.
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One other point, this is perfect joint weed. All the stories of taking a couple hits off a pinner joint in the 70’s and getting really high are so true. The weed is very true to historical references I’d say.
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Thanks for the information. Does it smell a lot when you are growing it?
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Not compared to modern hybrids no. The lemony citrus smells are more pronounced when growing, but only when you are near the plant.
Funny story, I grew her out in the main part of my garden, behind a wall of tomatoes, right next to a major street. It was pretty visible from the street where we get a lot of foot traffic to the nearby park.
After I harvested, this old guy approached me one day. He was laughing about how times had changed. I said how so. He say’s “Man I’m an old NY hippy, spent the entire week at Woodstock in the mud blah blah, I’ve never seen anyone grow weed right out in the open where everyone can enjoy. I walk by here every day just to see how she’s doing”
Personally, it was arguably my favorite grow, certainly in modern times. She was so vigorous and receptive to manipulation. I bent and thinned, bent and thinned and turned and bent and…lol, she’s like “thats all you got”? Every pinch/bend immediately healed and became a thick knuckle supporting a big cola.
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This is encouraging.
Honestly I was probably a little to forceful with my shaping methods. See the break in the one stem, where an entirely new branch sprouted out of the break. The base was a thick as my arm when I took her down. In retrospect I should have turned her into a bonsai.
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I have had the wind cause my main stems to split sometimes and have used black electrical tape to hold them together. By dampening them with water and then using the tape they have, sometimes knitted back together. It’s almost like “high stress” training. I usually “low stress” train all of my plants for better bud production, I have found this method to produce better/ larger buds that otherwise would have been small “popcorn” buds. “Low stress” training also keeps the plants lower to the ground and therefore they aren’t prone to being blown over in windy/ stormy conditions. .
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