As a concentrate, I’ve got to say I love the simple elegance of it. It seems obvious, once you make it, that the juice was in there for the taking. I wish I had thought of it as a kid.DD, thanks for the detailed response. I could learn so much from doing that, I haven't a clue as to how to make rosin, though I do smear some on my bass bow now and then. Hard as glass to imagine. It's a real concentrate, isn't it?
I was intrigued the first time I heard of it, shortly before coming to 420. I remember explaining to the young guy who told me about it what the rosin is that gets rubbed on the horse hair.
This stuff isn’t Kauri gum or amber, but the best of it is that colour so I suppose that’s why the word got mugged, bundled into the boot of a car, and treated this way.
You are saying that you will still have jar stock from this year this time next year?!I'll start will the aroma, it was very evident during the grow that it's smell was different from the other plants, a diesel/fuel/chemically smell, which I assume is natural to the plant, I have seen other strains also described similar. After drying and curing the smell has matured somewhat and I have to say I rather like it. It is a bit like opening an old wooden box and smelling the smell of old leather, when fresh it was something like Laphroaig whiskey which is a very peaty whiskey and folks either love it or hate it, There is a nice familiarity to the smell now, I like it, altho it's scent still hangs in the air and alerts the disapproval of my wife when it is given an airing. It is one of my current 3 varieties, which isn't much of a choice so I am glad I have it because it is easy to feel a tolerance when limited to smoking/vaping one strain.
In strength the WW feels like the strongest of the 3, it was described as good for 'lift off'. Next is the WG and still the day time favorite giving a lovely enhanced lifted feeling while interactions with others are surprisingly clear and easy. The GGa is a warm safe relaxing high, and some who have tried the 3 have a preference for the GGa.
I can see the value of having a variety to select from. I imagine having the choice of even more varieties to choose from would be better to avoid the sense of tolerance developing, like having a choice of different strains good for day time, and several for evening times. Of course with CDB and terpene awareness these days, having some good medical strains would be good too.
I now wonder if I could have given the GGa a better soil during it's grow, as I germinated the seed straight into the only pot I had available from which I had just chopped a 3.5 month old male. I had wondered whether the soil still contained sufficient nourishment, however the GGa appeared to grow well, but next time I'd be interested to grow one in a properly pre-amended container. That was my first auto so I didn't really know what to expect.
I now have a good reserve of jarred bud from the harvest of those 3 plants so I probably wont grow any of them in my next grow which I will kick off in September. I have 3 new strains on hand that I haven't grown before which I will try (Gold Leaf, Chronic Widow & Californian Dream), and at least all going well that will bring my jarred selection up to 6 strains!