I don’t think it’s just me, but I find good weed all the time, and great weed fairly often as well. It’s a constant struggle to decide what to keep and what to let go of. Some hype cuts are great, some are just hype. The best plants come from the right combinations of quality genetics; that has always been the case and likely always will.
Sure we have lost pheno’s from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s that we will never get back. But we also have new access to both hybrid and single origin strains that have not ever been as readily available as before this past ten years. Plus there is still a whole bunch of the best pheno’s from the previous decades that have survived and been held and are more available now to more people than ever before.
The old dudes complaining about the quality of weed these days is
No cookies crosses on top of polyhybrid cookies aren’t all that. And, also no you can’t expect to find the top grade in a dispo, it’s the same w industrial farming of any product. But, if you in North America and you can’t find quality seed or cuts to grow, that probably says more about what your choosing to look through than anything else. Options are massively abundant these days, but creative minds much less so, it would seem.
I strongly disagree with you; not only do I value their input, but I also think what they have to complain about regarding the quality of weed when they walk down memory lane with me from a time when I was not alive about marijuana, is very intriguing.
Fair enough. I’ll leave you all to reminisce over your woes in here. Fwiw, I’m pushing 50 and I think people just like to complain a lot, and that bores me. But hey different strokes for different folks
I saw a nug of white rhino homegrown when I was a kid and he threw it at the window fresh and it stuck there.
The stuff they were doing back then for customs. That Thai might’ve been dipped in a little opium. I bet it was a bit stronger sometimes, maybe a little bit of mixed processing techniques for other imported substance.
I remember Kali mist very well she put out a good yeild made buds that reminded me of champagne bud frost coverd spears Had a Spice like smell reminded me of spice gumdrops the type grandma always kept in glass bowls and almost a yaeger meister like smell mixed in almost like a ricola drop mint and anise
From what ive been told and theres a smuggler on youtube on the future cannabis project that talks about how the shipments he got were never dipped said he was getting the best Stick at the time and it was being harvested by the Hmong tribe.Was wrapped in red silk thread by women smaller hands to get all that bud neatly tied to that stick.He said the opium thing was more of a myth but that was before my time and i wasn’t there when they did it to see it so ???Dont know for sure
When I was working a dispo as a tender last year we carried a strain called Apple Mints and it sold out in like 3 weeks because it was 31% THC but everyone hated it after trying it once.
They probably weren’t giving out free opium isn’t hard to believe. Fermentation and sweating may be a good option. Even Mexican brick has the conditions to achieve fermentation once’s processed. There’s some members here with good information but overall they seem very happy with the effects. Nostalgic even.
We carried a Gorilla Quake that was decent by what I assumed is most of our standards, whenever we would stock it, it would be gone by the end of the day. We had a specific patient who would try to fill their entire 128 gram allotment with it every time it came in. Meanwhile the Apple Mints sold like candy for 3 weeks and never came back.
Just like the occasional white line in chunk of the hash you would see…nope…not opium. It was more likely some tasty mold. But it’s a good myth. Like curing yer pot in a cooler full of dry ice will make it far more potent.
Personally, I believe that: “not everything that can be tested for matters, and not everything that matters, is tested for”.
I think we lost a lot of what made weed “special” in the pursuit of hitting certain numbers, to try and “improve” that weed, in a way that’s tangible. A smoke report is hard to quantify and explain, but numbers “don’t lie” - well, actually, they only tell partial truths.
The weed may be measurably “better” according to the chosen metrics, but the smoke test is still the true measure of quality. A lot of older strains still punch above their weight for their age.
A few people earlier made a great comparison to breeding of modern vegetables. You can chase certain characteristics and select for them, but you will lose other traits in the process, many of which are highly desirable. Standardization is a big part of most big industries, but it does come at a cost.
