capt carnuba
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I've regularly enjoyed c99 and malawi on the upside and pre 98 bubba and herijuana on the flipside.
This is interesting, ive reversed swerves bubba and grew a couple dozen, found one that was alot like OG and tall and green, then one that looked the same but purple. Neither looked or grew anything like bubba.BubbaKush - because I know I can herm it and pop enough seeds to yank og kush out as well and I love both of them
There is a grapefruit cut thats been around a long time in canada and cali, its more of a hybrid and nothing like femaleseeds grapefruit. Femaleseeds current GF isnt the same as the original release since they lost theyre old gear in a robbery mid-2000s. Then they bred a shorter version thats more like c99.is there really even a grapefruit now?
thanks..I think I just read that here and thats why I commented..yeh that one
So, the folks at femaleseeds said the work with theyre grapefruit started with a landrace thai plant they loved and wanted to bring down the flower times of it so they crossed it to a ruderalis and line bred it for years selecting for shortest flower time that retained the amazing high that the thai provided. Then they got ahold of some c99 beans and crossed it to that. They bred that further until the 2004 release calling it grapefruit. Tastes alot like c99 and 3 of the 4 plants were racey, I kept the up clear and happy one. It still tastes alot like c99 but i wouldnt call it racey, more intense...very happy and clear. -Clamsjoey clams has held the same Grapefruit (not sweet pink grapefruit) forEVER. I forget the genetics of it; I think he mentions it in his seed thread (The Kush House).
Edit: https://thecannacabana.com/forums/threads/the-kush-house.42286/post-1617864
That's interesting. I had always thought it was the SPG X c99So, the folks at femaleseeds said the work with theyre grapefruit started with a landrace thai plant
I have a hard refute on that line of reasoning. My example is this, when I was 13, I was smoking weed every day already, born in 1968. My dad and his friends got roadkill type skunk in town(cuttings, grew it for over 20 years from then on), and to this day people who were 13 or 45 at that time, all say best stuff ever. It wasn't a matter of a young brain, people of all ages thought it was the best pot ever. And like I also mentioned, the old thai was crazy strong, when someone pulled out a pinner and said it would get a bunch of people high you would scoff, and then have only two tokes and start to just say wow! Same thing, 50 year olds or 15 year olds, stuff was a bell ringer.I have heard, time after time after time, people say the best weed they ever smoked was back in the day (whether that means the 60s or the 80s, it was when the people in question were young). To that I say, So what? The weed back then was different, but not any more potent than today's weed (The numbers are there if you look for them).
The BIG difference was that the people in question were young and their brains were not habituated to smoking weed by decades of exposure. I smoked a variety of different flowers during my teen years. Mostly Colombian and Mexican brick, but occasional Mexican regionals, Thai, Hawaiian, and other "exotics." I got high AF on some of them, did all kinda silly things while high. Feelings that I just don't get from weed anymore, because I've been smoking it for almost fifty years.
What I'm saying is, it's all about habituation. The highs you had when your brain was young and cannabis-naive are always going to be the highest highs you ever had. You can't equal those experiences after your brain has been soaking in cannabinoids for decades. But that does NOT mean the weed today is not as strong as the weed back in the day.