What Are Your Temperatures Like There, SF??? I Know That If You Grow In A Really Mild Climate, Plants That Normally Turn Purple, Will Do So, But Because Of The Ambient Temperature, For Some Darn Reason They Just Do NOT Get Completely Purple. I Have Grown Purple Kush, Black Finger(OLD SCHOOL SATIVA, NOT EVEN SURE YOU COULD FIND IT ANYMORE?!?!) Probably A Knock Off, But Supposedly The OG Purple Haze, I Know The Old School Purple Haze, And It Was NOTHING Like What Manifested It's Self From My Grow, The OG Purple Haze Comes From Santa Cruz, And My Surf Buddies And Friends, If They Did Not Have Purple Haze To Be Smoked, They Smoked Skunk(EITHER SKUNK #1, SWEET SKUNK, OR ANOTHER OF THE MANY VARIETIES OF HAZE, YOU COULD GET THAI WEED THEN STILL TOO, BUDDAH THAI, GOLD THAI, CHOCOLATE THAI, AND ANY OF THE OTHER THAI VERSIONS THAT USED TO BE SO PREVALENT), I Never Thought The Day Would Come, When One Could Not Get Thai Weed, During The 80's Through(I WAS TOLD) And The Early Nineties, It Could Still Be Gotten, Personally I Have NOT Seen REAL THAI WEED Since 1987, And It Was Gold Thai. Thai Weed Is Extremely Hard To Grow In Our Climate Here In The States, Unless You Built Green Houses For Them, Which Obviously A Lot Of Growers Did. But When The Indicas And Afghanis And Kushes Hit The Market, The Thai Weed Went Away(IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR MANY OF US WHEN THIS HAPPENED), I Tried Unsuccessfully For Several Years To Find Thai Bud, But After I Bought My Last Zip In 87, I Never Saw It Again. I Will Say This Though, I Have Smoked Mexican Weed That Really Was Thai, But Grown In Mexico, The Quality And High Were Exceptional, And The Mexican/Thai I Found, Would Take You To The Moon And Back, Very Stoney Stuff
!!! It Had All The Nuances Of Flavor That Those Old Men, Like Me, Still Remember From The Good Ole Days Of Real Thai, From Mexico Or Thailand, It Did Not Matter, As Basically It Was The Same Product, One Produced In A Jungle, The Other Produced(GROWN) In The Desert. But We Were Talking Purple Plants , SORRY, Just Reminiscing Is All. We Had Purple Skunk As Well, Along With Purple Indica, ETC, I Miss The Old Strains, As You Cannot Explain A High Very Well, And As Large Of A Vocabulary That I Do I Have, I Can Only Come Up With To Say About It(THE OLDER STRAINS, MOSTLY ALL GONE NOW), Was That Because They Were Pure Land Race Sativas, They All Were Very Head Stoney(YOU KNOW THE KIND, THE STUFF THAT MAKES WALKING TO THE BATHROOM, KITCHEN ETC. AN ADVENTURE IN AND OF IT'S SELF!!!) I Have Smoked Many Purple Weeds, But Sometimes Growers Let The Plants Go Too Long, To Get More Purple(BAD MOVE, AS IT DIMINISHES THE THC PRESENT, AND EVERYTHING ELSE AS WELL), It Is Not Worth Extending The Plants Ripest Stage, As The Quality Suffers Along With It, Just To Make It More Purple. And Some Purple Strains Actually Turn Black, Like Highland Afghani, Or Purple Indica Do You Always Use The Same Criteria To Determine When The Herb Is Ready To Be Harvested, Amber Glands(OVER 50% Amber), And Just Being Able To Truly Feel When Your Plants Are Ready, It Is A Feeling You Get In Your Stomach, That Says Do It Now!!! Just Be Sure They Have Reached Peak Ripeness In Them, And Chop Away. Big Sur Holy Weed, Also Can Turn Purple, It Was Usually About 70% Of The Big Sur Holy Weed That Would Stay Green, The Other 30% Would Get Nice And Black Purple Coloring In Them. I Am Waxing Nostalgic. ELECTROGYPSY, Truly Beautiful Herb, I Have Never Grown(WAS IT PINEAPPLE EXPRESS???) Anyways, I Tip My Hat Twice To You Sir
, Excellent Buds And Damn Fine Pictures
(GROWN OUT OR INDOOR, OR SOME OF BOTH???), I See Their General Shape And Want To Say Outdoor Grown, But Because Of Other Things, Like The Plants Turning Totally Purple I Would Say Age Did This, And They Are Possibly Indoor, Or Am Amalgamation Of Both In And Out. When You Hear People Bitch About "THAT" Bag Of Purple Not Doing It For Them, It Is Always Because Said Plants Were Either Left Growing Past Their Peak, And Had Begun To BOLT, As We Call It(MEANING A CONFUSED PLANT THAT CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHETHER TO STILL BUD OR STOP BUDDING AND DIE, OR REVERT BACK TO VEGETATIVE GROWTH, BUT JUST BARELY, AS THEY ARE ANNUALS, AND LIKE OLD AGE, IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO.) If There Are Any Old Heads Out There That Truly Remember Smoking OUR Thai Weed. Tell These Students How Good It Was. And If I Move To Arizona(SHOULD YARROW PASS), I Know I Can Be On The Look Out For Some Mexican Grown Thai. I Wish To Dispel An Old MYTH, You Can Get GREAT Mexican Weed, Michuacan, Oaxacan, Acapulcan, Mexican Thai, Punta Roja, And The List Goes On. But Contrary To Some Beliefs, They Think That ALL Mexican Is Shat, Most Assuredly NOT TRUE!!! If You Live On The Border, (CAN SPEAK TO THE LOCAL CHICANOS IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE, NOT WILL THEY JUST HELP YOU FIND THE GOOD MEXICAN HERB, BECAUSE YOU SHOWED RESPECT, IN TALKING, OR AT LEAST MAKING THE EFFORT TO TALK IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE!!!) Being Humble And Straightforward, Goes A Long Way In Their Culture(ESPECIALLY WHEN A BLONDE HAIRED GRINGO IS MAKING THE EFFORT TO DO SO), I Think They Get A Kick Out Of Hearing Their Mother Tongue From A Gringo Being Spoken, My Step-Mom Was Mexican, And She Started Teaching Me Spanish The First Week I Got There(LIVING WITH DAD,JULIE Felt It Necessary To Convert Him To The Catholic Religion Living In Our Truly American Family(SCOTTS-IRISH,GERMAN,SCANDINAVIAN, AND ANGLO SAXON ON MY SIDE, ON THEIRS, AZTEC AND SPANISH), But I Thank My Step Mom Every Day For Teaching Me The Rudiments Of The Language. It Has Saved My ASS On Many Different Occasions, Madrastra Means Step-Mother, So When I Went To Live With My Father At 6 Yrs Old, My Madrastra Helped Me Out By Teaching The Rudiments Of The Language To Me, And Teaching Me Never Let No One Walk Over You, And So Full Of This Beautiful Language, Plus, Because I Had A Mexican Madrastra, The Mexicans At My New School ALL Knew My Madrastra Was Mexican, Which Meant They Considered Me One Of Them, If It Had Been A Stepfather That Was Mexican, I Was Told That My Welcome Would Not Have Been So Rosie, In Fact, I Probably Would Have Gotten Jumped A Lot, But Because My Stepmom Was Mexican, They Gave Me, And Got In Return, Respect. On The Flip Side., They Played Soccer, And In All My Short Life, I Could NOT See Enjoying Running Up And Down Fields, Chasing A Freaking Ball, But Hay To Each His Own. I Played, I Sucked, And That Was It, I Instead Of Always Being Picked Last For A Team, I Usually Got Picked Somewhere In The Middle, This Is How Much Respect They Had For Me, Do I Ever Remember ANY Of Them, When They Were Captains, Of Course I Do, But It Has Been So Long I Do Not Remember Them Actually By Name. So I Have Always Believed That Two Cultures Can Intermingle, American Genetics To Land Race Mexican, Or What Ever Land Race You Could Find, Even From Colombia, Or Anywhere. From Colombia(EXCELLENT HERB, Colombian Gold, And Colombian Red And The Colombian Black(DARK PURPLE), Were All killer Weeds, We Used To Also Get Jamaican Lamb's Bread, A Very Stony Sativa, That Was Rather An Odd Looking Strain, But Was Still Immensely Very Stony. Thanks For Letting Me Ramble, In Gentlemanly Love And Respect, Commander Of The 420 Knights Watch, JamesTheGreen
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