Dude Stoneder
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Well
Your statement about indoor growing is interesting. I don’t think indoor growing completely ruined strains. Undoubtedly, it altered strains and likely impacted many in a negative manner. However, as you pointed out, indicas made indoor cultivation possible. This is a great point. It’s a positive point for me because I’ve never had the opportunity to grow outside ever. Many city dwellers only have/had indoor cultivation as an option. So the indica crosses were a necessary evil so to speak. It greatly benefited me and my situation. Without the indica crosses I would’ve completely missed out on this life changing hobby. But I understand and respect your point of view BigSur.
I think preservation of pure Sativa landraces is super important. I want to see the uncontaminated Sativa protected. I think the contamination concerns continue to be shared. Those concerns have spread far enough for folks like you to realize action is required to preserve pure Sativas. I think the alarm has been sounding for long enough that the remaining purebreds can be preserved. Certainly a lot of damage occurred before the threat was properly identified, but I think the realizations were caught in time.
Your passion as a keeper of seeds is important. There are certainly more folks like us who knew the importance of preserving unique, quality breeds. I’m so appreciative of folks like you. Your instinct, foresight and passion of landraces is what’s going to be responsible for the perpetuation of something that which was almost lost. Your breeds must not be exploited by those who’s sole purpose is profit. You must find those special folks who understand to help create “preservation vaults” to ensure that these remaining special breeds escape extinction.
Upward and onward. Cool waters ahead.
In closing, terpenes are very important to me, very much so. Pinene, without a doubt, is my favorite. Pinene was the first terpene I was ever exposed to.
Back in the mid 80’s, the only weed I had exposure to was old, brown, seedy brick weed. No smell nor taste. That’s what I thought cannabis was. Then a friends brother, from Iowa, came for a visit. He had magical green weed. Super sticky and an overwhelming scent of pine. Overpowering potency. That weed exposed me to what cannabis could truly be. It opened my eyes and started my radar pinging for ways to obtain unique marijuana. Without that exposure to fine weed, I might’ve missed the Relevance Of The ad for the Seedbank catalogue that I found shortly thereafter .....which started my awesome journey.
Well BigSur , your passion shines through in your choice of words and descriptives. Personally I see no reason to doubt your stated history.Did I stammer in my post here?
No need to apologize for long posts. Sadly they say that the attention span of a typical young adult now is a whopping 8 seconds. So if it does not fit in a tweet, it gets passed over. Also it seems that the internet is where most people get information now. So I get all kinds of flack like in this and other threads here on 420 about freezing seeds, not really having these old landraces that I listed here, not really having lived in California in the 60s through the 2000s, not being a stoner from 1972 on, and all that shit. No one believes the shit that we did back then. Its all science fiction to millennials.
As for the OG Kush craze, I never understood that, or any of the indicas really. Give me some old school sativas like Kona Gold, Colombian Green and Gold, Oaxacan Mint, Cambo Red, Kerala Ganja, or skinny stick Thai. The sativas of old. Sativas bloom later as a rule, and are too large for indoor growing. Indoor growing is what ruined weed strains, IMO. They took the RKS out of skunkweed. They put indica in everything to get the size down and shorten the bloom times. They also wanted more THC in weed, so they amped up and bred for high THC. But in doing that they rendered out the other cannabinoids, terpenoids and character in weed. They also put in more couch lock, as it seems that was what the market wanted. And now they wonder why the noobs to weed cannot even take one hit and not get blown over. Like you have to smoke 80% shatter or you are a pussy. Fuck that noise. I would rather smoke 2 or 3 hit 8-12% THC weed with CBC, CBD, THCv, and nice terpenes like pinene, limonene and linalool. The only place to find high levels of THCv is in South Africa landraces it seems. Also the only strain that is high in CBC that I have grown is Maui Waui Cherry Bomb. Whatever the magic is in that strain, it has the right blend of it. I like pinene, as it is lung expanding and good for asthma. It was common in high levels in landrace Colombian and SW Mexican strains.
Your statement about indoor growing is interesting. I don’t think indoor growing completely ruined strains. Undoubtedly, it altered strains and likely impacted many in a negative manner. However, as you pointed out, indicas made indoor cultivation possible. This is a great point. It’s a positive point for me because I’ve never had the opportunity to grow outside ever. Many city dwellers only have/had indoor cultivation as an option. So the indica crosses were a necessary evil so to speak. It greatly benefited me and my situation. Without the indica crosses I would’ve completely missed out on this life changing hobby. But I understand and respect your point of view BigSur.
I think preservation of pure Sativa landraces is super important. I want to see the uncontaminated Sativa protected. I think the contamination concerns continue to be shared. Those concerns have spread far enough for folks like you to realize action is required to preserve pure Sativas. I think the alarm has been sounding for long enough that the remaining purebreds can be preserved. Certainly a lot of damage occurred before the threat was properly identified, but I think the realizations were caught in time.
Your passion as a keeper of seeds is important. There are certainly more folks like us who knew the importance of preserving unique, quality breeds. I’m so appreciative of folks like you. Your instinct, foresight and passion of landraces is what’s going to be responsible for the perpetuation of something that which was almost lost. Your breeds must not be exploited by those who’s sole purpose is profit. You must find those special folks who understand to help create “preservation vaults” to ensure that these remaining special breeds escape extinction.
Upward and onward. Cool waters ahead.
In closing, terpenes are very important to me, very much so. Pinene, without a doubt, is my favorite. Pinene was the first terpene I was ever exposed to.
Back in the mid 80’s, the only weed I had exposure to was old, brown, seedy brick weed. No smell nor taste. That’s what I thought cannabis was. Then a friends brother, from Iowa, came for a visit. He had magical green weed. Super sticky and an overwhelming scent of pine. Overpowering potency. That weed exposed me to what cannabis could truly be. It opened my eyes and started my radar pinging for ways to obtain unique marijuana. Without that exposure to fine weed, I might’ve missed the Relevance Of The ad for the Seedbank catalogue that I found shortly thereafter .....which started my awesome journey.