A strain that doesn't mess up your memory

[b8s]

I know there's a ton of threads asking for a strain recommendation based on characteristics x, y and z, so my apologies for opening yet another one. However, I try to do something differently here. I could ask for an "uplifting, energetic, happy" high, and even though that is what I'm after, that's not the most important thing. What I really now emphasize the most is not the characteristics it has, it's the ones it doesn't have. For one thing, I do not want couchlock, but that's easy enough to avoid. The reason I do not want it, is that I want to be able to do stuff when I'm high (besides just eating, listening to music, websurfing and staring with glazed eyes). However, smoking something "uplifting, energetic and happy" can just as easily prevent from you from being able to do stuff just by making you forget about it. I just hate it when every 15 seconds I go like 'Oh, wait, what was I doing... I can't remember, but I had some stuff I wanted to get done.... I'll go with this one.... Oh, wait, what was I doing...' So, I guess what I'm really after here, is a strain that doesn't fuck up your memory.

So far, I have had the best experience from a landrace sativa from the Caribbean island of Dominica, but I would like to get even less of that effect. Also, it flowers for ~20 weeks, so I've only grown it once. Overall, I am a pretty beginner as a grower, so I have experience only from a couple of strains, but I have a list of strains I want to try. However, as it is easier to find information that way, they have been picked pretty much for characteristics they do have, even though what I am really after here is something they should lack.

Right now I'm growing Laughing Buddha (Barney's Farm), and my list of strains to try next includes (at the moment probably ranked in this order):
- A-11 (have both the normal and Genius versions from Winged Serpent)
- Flo (Dutch Passion)
- Satori (don't have the seeds yet, but obviously Mandala)
- C-99 (Winged Serpent)
- The Pure (Flying Dutchmen)

As you can see, the list is sativa-dominant, and (as far as I know) something you would generally find recommended for an "uplifting, energetic, happy" high. However, I have recently had some really nice experiences with hash. Unfortunately I don't know their names, but generally-speaking hashs tend to be much more indica-dominant than the buds I have a habit of smoking. (Also, I have a gut feeling that even from the same strain, hash would be ever so slightly more "indica-like" than the bud. I have no idea if this is really true, though.) It's a calming effect that keeps your head clear.

Anyways, now I'm wondering that is it actually a light indica that I want, and have I really been going astray looking for something "uplifting and energetic", when just being not "tiring" would have be enough. On the indica front I have grown Northern Lights (not what I'm looking for), and have some Mazar (Dutch Passion) seeds waiting.

I would really appreciate any input from more experienced growers.

 

[SMC]

Satori makes me and my friends unable to focus and messes with memory a bit. Also growing C99 now but still long way to go so not much to say.

 

[fastnick1oo]

Maby You'll try to approach from diffrent direction? Get some soy lecithin and magnesium. It'll help to keep brain in good condition, especialy lecithin - if you want to remember.

 

[litebuzz]

strawberry cough is more on the sativa side...i think its 75% sativa 25% indica. i love it. its very high energy and smells great. i've always had the same pheno for the 4 yrs i've grown it.
i wasn't a big fan of dp mazar....although its a beautiful strain...nice and bushy with fat leaves...i didn't care for the high as much as the other strains i've grown. or put it this way...i wouldn't pay for seeds and grow it again.

 

[Tropic]

The Satori I've grown were pure clear head high, and didn't leave you memoryless/faded out/tired.
The high wears off so smoothly that you don't really realize it's gone until you're rolling another one.
But it seems others haven't always had this results, so I'm guessing phenotypes come into play here. I suggest cloning all/most strains during your search, if you have the space to do so.

 

[Twoshot]

Hey b8s

Does it exist, I dont know...
Sometimes Blueberrie can give me that, sometimes...
Maybe try to grow some maroccoan plants??
Afghani in many hybrids can be very stony, more then some maroccoan hashish.
(Find out where the hashis is from) Wappa, sounds good, but dont know it?

But hey, Cannabis mess up our perception and focus.

 

[berlinweed]

Satori is imho a great strain, try it! Just wonder why you do not have kalimist on your list. It is clear and pure energy.


BW

 

[Leviathan]

the advice on magnessium n lecticin is spot on, if your mems shite u might want to get into hemp oil not the seeds(seeds are great but just to costly imo), hemp oil is the perfect one part human oil for essential fatty acids, u can get like 14 oz for about 15 dollars shipped, try vita cost, they got cheap stuff. and u might want to consider raw cacao, its loaded in mag more so then any food.. look up raw cacao on youtube , try david wolfe raw cacao.. id recomend erbal wise u avoid the heavy indicas, not only from the stupifying high they provide but also becasue they seem to leave u with a ''pot over'' that even when the high is gone your dumber-

 

[erbium]

La Nina

 

[Hydro-Soil]

I'm a high functioning autistic and without cannabis.... I have no memory. Sativas are what do it for me for sure.

C-99
Princess Diesel
Lemon Wreck
Lemon Drop (only saw it once)
Lemon Skunk
(starting to see a pattern?)
Trainwreck (though it caaaan tend to slow you down, depending on who you are.)

I've found the lemon scent to be tied to whatever cannabinoid tends to sharpen my focus and allow me to actually remember stuff properly. Oh yeah, works wonders for my anxiety and executive function issues as well. Speech and on and on.

Love that lemon

Stay Safe!

 

[3dDream]

DJ Short's F13 can be clear, up, and w/o a hangover - it was created to do this, not many varieties can claim the same. It is a stronger version of your flo. Plenty can be read in the subforum.

BTW do you vape? The high can be more clear that way.

 

[hempknowsis]

Everyone has said pretty much what I was going to say. Stick to the sativa's.

Also, lecithin is pretty good for increasing acetlycholine in the brain. I noticed it helped. THC suppresses acetylcholine release in the brain. For an even better source of acetylcholine I use CDP-Choline. Works GREAT for me. Also a high quality fish oil is great for brain function. I take acetyl-l-carnitine as well. These supplements keep me sharp and functional for work and school.

 

[3dDream]

Oh.... one more thing.... If you want to try this on the cheap get a couple packs of MOD bx. It's an old kalimist, a thai, and a mexican mixed into one. The thai and mexican comes from cannabiogen's destroyer. Destroyer could also be an option, but I have only had the MOD bx.

 

[Dr_love]

In my own personal experiance, if you harvest early and store your herbs right, most pot that isnt mixed with hashplant will be up and clear. But if you harvest late or store in a container where thc gets degraded, the high is down and makes you retarded.
Though ive only had like 2 years and 10 strains under my belt, so im still pretty new to the game.

 

[Bi0hazard]

Great to see you have the Apollo 11 as your #1 strain on the list. Love that Genius x Princess crosses.

 

[StealthDragon]

Certain cannabinoids stimulate anandamide, the brain chemical that makes us forget, as well as many other effects. I'm not sure off hand which cannabinoids it is that stimulate this chemical( it may be still specifically unknown), but if you are interested in the brain chemistry part of it I recommend watching a video called "cannabis forgetting and the botany of desire"on youtube. Through research I suppose one could find out which specific cannabinoid it is and look at the official #/%'s of them on certain breeder sites. Yet even then you are not guaranteed to get that particular phenotype from seed of course.

just my I could be wrong on anything this is just my simple understanding of it. I still don't actually understand if cannabis contains the chemicals or stimulates production of them, or how exactly it all works out in the body.

This is just scientific stuffs anyways and everyone is different when it comes down to it. You may just need to do alot of experimenting

 

[VerdantGreen]

erm, oh sorry i forgot what i was going to do....

oh yes! Blueberry!

very functional high - its what i smoke when i need to get on but be chilled or when i dont want to act stoned.

V.

p.s. take a smaller hit, that helps too

 

[smokeymacpot]

i think no matter what type of weed you smoke it will give you short term memory loss. maybe less so with a sativa, so go for that over a potent indica.
if i was u id ignore it and just get used to it like the rest of us

 

[hempknowsis]

If anyone's interested, here's more talk about the subject, in terms of countering the negative affects of THC.

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=31066&hl=favorite&st=0

There's some good advice, and some people who bag on weed.

 

[b8s]

Thanks for all the comments.

Just wonder why you do not have kalimist on your list. It is clear and pure energy.

Actually, I do have kali mist on the list of strains I want to grow, but I thought that it is not exactly the clearest of highs, but more trippy. But on the other hand, the difference between those two is often just the amount you smoke.

id recomend erbal wise u avoid the heavy indicas, not only from the stupifying high they provide but also becasue they seem to leave u with a ''pot over'' that even when the high is gone your dumber-

OK. I also appreciate strains that don't leave any of this "hangover". Like to wake up with a clear head even after a heavy night.

I've found the lemon scent to be tied to whatever cannabinoid tends to sharpen my focus and allow me to actually remember stuff properly. Oh yeah, works wonders for my anxiety and executive function issues as well. Speech and on and on.

Love that lemon

Actually, the Dominican landrace I mentioned has this lemon scent. So, that's one more proof of that linkage. If anybody's interested, there are some pics of that strain here and here.

DJ Short's F13 can be clear, up, and w/o a hangover - it was created to do this, not many varieties can claim the same. It is a stronger version of your flo. Plenty can be read in the subforum.

BTW do you vape? The high can be more clear that way.

I have heard other people tout F13 as well, I guess I better add it on my list. Thanks for the recommendation.

I recently bought an Iolite vaporizer and have mostly moved to that from smoking. The high definitely is different, but I've noticed more difference in the tiring department than in the clearness. In fact, I think it takes the tiring effect pretty much completely away. Even to the extent that I sometimes find it really hard to sleep.

Sometimes Blueberrie can give me that, sometimes...

oh yes! Blueberry!

very functional high - its what i smoke when i need to get on but be chilled or when i dont want to act stoned.

Thanks for the suggestion. Blueberry is the indica strain I'm probably most interested in, and I think I'll upgrade it a couple of spots on my list of strains to grow at some point.