another batch of hash from the ethiopian paintbrush x omg strawberry pheno.
The live plants have a very strong fresh strawberry smell, like perfectly ripe strawberries and a note of tart green strawberry.
The dried bud smells like strawberry PEZ candy, unripe strawberry, and a hint of basil and thyme. The flower hits nice and smooth.
Mainly I have been making concentrate. This one doesn’t extract as cleanly for live resin but it makes excellent hash (as pictured) from the dried bud.
The concentrate tastes like a slightly unripe strawberry (tart not sour) with a stronger herbal note of thyme and basil, and a little gasoline dank in the nose on the exhale.
The highs are very interesting.
It doesn’t always reveal its secrets but when it does, it’s absolutely amazing. The experience can be very different each time you use it, making it a bit hard to pin down.
It’s complex and subtle. It’s got potency- the medicinal effect is almost instantaneous.
but the cerebral high creeps up on you. at first you get a very gentle relaxed meditative afghani type effect. Floaty pillowy vibes. But after a while the heady effects start to creep in, especially if you continue to indulge. Then after a while, it picks up and you begin to feel the sativa effects whooshing in.
At that point, the high can kind of take off in any direction. Sometimes it remains laid back. Sometimes it gets the heart racing. Sometimes there’s a pleasant exhilerated sense of paranoia. Sometimes that’s as far as it goes, sometimes it goes all the way into mild psychedelic territory and gets real out there. Sometimes instead of the psychedelics, it takes a left turn and leaves you hypnotized and useless like some kind of floating couchlock.
This one is special. The wildcard aspect that I get from the high really encourages you to smoke more and go further into the experience because you don’t know where the next bowl will take you.
It doesn’t always give you that peak psychedelic experience of its high, but it’s excellent every time. The fact that it gives you different experiences is pretty special. My situation and setting is the same every time, but somehow this one pheno can give me a variety of highs.
I need to get some more opinions on this one. The ethiopian seems to target my medical needs very precisely, so I seem to get some particularly special effects from these.
But so far, the feedback from a friend who only smokes the cheapest dispensary bud was: “It’s really good. I feel great. I haven’t been this high in like a year.”
And the feedback from a friend who has only taken edibles for the past few years was: “woah… WOAH! goddamnit this is why I miss smoking!”
And my smoke report is that I hit it at the beginning of writing this, and I feel like I had better finish writing this now before it really ramps up. haha
