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Imperial OG and It's Relatives

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fafafaMANG

New member
I'd love to know more about the Imperial OG -- a guy brought a cut back from cali and the guy won't share :(

she was dank as all hell (fuely funk kinda) and IMHO one of the best herb i've smoked over here on the east coast.

is she an OG s1, or what?

i can only assume she's from the Imperial Valley ... or?

Please help me out here guys -- any step closer to that awesome dank is greatly appreciated! :ying:
 
Chimera

Chimera

Genetic Resource Management
Veteran
Storm trooper OG X Death Star OG, Darth's personal cut. Descended from Skywalker OG X Ewok OG.

Anything OG 'related' is all hype. Some examples of good pot for sure, but don't get too caught up in the heritage... it's all just stories told to sell nugs.

-Chimera
 
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Rowdy420

Member
Once they taste the OG they become fiends, glad my network of "friends" came thru.

Dude is a dick for sure for not sharing, Karma and his own stupidity will be his demise. I'm always down for trading or passing on the Kindness for someone else to enjoy, you'll never get a chance at the Dank if you don't share! Also acting like a douche bag, know it all ain't cool!

Good luck, Peace
 
Morphote

Morphote

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Chimera said:
Anything OG 'related' is all hype. Some examples of good pot for sure, but don't get too caught up in the heritage... it's all just stories told to sell nugs.
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With all due respect, I agree but I don't agree. Logically what you said does not make sense, no offense Chimera. OG, if it is all hype, then I would think you would say they are NOT examples of good pot, but you say just the opposite. Do you see? I agree that there is a lot of hype surrounding OGs, but by now it should be well established that a great number of people have grown and sampled true OGs as evidenced by all the glowing reports of the various OGs. Also, I think it's safe to say no one slaps the "OG" tag on "pot" that is average. I will agree it's not always up to par with the OG tag in terms of quality (some growers are better than others, some cuts are better than others), but more often than not ANYTHING labeled OG is "damn good pot".

M.
 
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guest8905

worked with a bunch of imperial og crosses this season, most were crosses but a few were imperial x imperial...

id say it is has bit less of the og funk than say the tahoe or others..yet it has a nice amount of trichomes and gets fairly dense and large colas...not much larf in her at all.

over all some potent smoke and worth trying imo
 
Aksala

Aksala

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Morphote said:
With all due respect, I agree but I don't agree. Logically what you said does not make sense, no offense Chimera. OG, if it is all hype, then I would think you would say they are NOT examples of good pot, but you say just the opposite. Do you see? I agree that there is a lot of hype surrounding OGs, but by now it should be well established that a great number of people have grown and sampled true OGs as evidenced by all the glowing reports of the various OGs. Also, I think it's safe to say no one slaps the "OG" tag on "pot" that is average. I will agree it's not always up to par with the OG tag in terms of quality (some growers are better than others, some cuts are better than others), but more often than not ANYTHING labeled OG is "damn good pot".

M.
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He's saying the NAMES are all hype (literally...that is why someone would name it OG...correct? to hype it?) not the bud itself.
 
Chimera

Chimera

Genetic Resource Management
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Hey Morphote,

While I agree with what you are saying, I think you missed my point.. and upon reading my 'joking' poke at OG - perhaps I wasn't clear.

As you know I was just in California, and visited with many different groups, dispensaries and chemical analytical labs. Among the dozens and dozens of growers I met with, about 15 of them had "The original OG". Some of them clearly didn't have AN OG plant, but were just passed clones from something labelled as OG by a dispensary who had no idea what they were selling (I can show you pics of a 23 foot tall sativa structured skunk lineage (IME) growing over the roof of a barn, with weeks to go until harvest and this was October 28th... true OG's (whatever that is) should have been almost done, if not completely done by that point. My point is that to say nobody slaps the OG tag on on something average is just plain incorrect, my friend. OG gets slapped on anything that is to be sold, to someone that doesn't know the difference. I saw it happen with clones, I saw it happen with bud. Trust me, it happens.

Even of the ones who had "the original OG" as each group proudly claimed, they all had a different plant. How is that possible?

Originally, OG must have been a single plant..... a clone selected by someone from a grow out, which eventually became popular via pop-culture, music, rap what have you.... and once it entered pop culture others tried to capitalize on the name... be it to sell bud, clones, seeds etc etc. What 'was' OG - changed- as others tried to capitalize on the name.

I laughed with many growers (and admittedly, at, some growers) about their OG's and the originals.... how could it be "the original OG" when clearly not all of the growers even had the same genetic clone! One grower tried to explain to me that OG wasn't a clone, but a smell that was found in "all of the OG's". I teasingly took it further, to suggest that to him it may be a smell, but that was only HIS impression of 'what OG was', and it didn't necessarily match up with what others thought... with what 'The Market' thinks.

Jorge and I had this conversation over and over again as we visited different growers, dispensaries etc etc..... and finally- it came to me; that OG Kush is no longer a single plant (an individual), or even a family (since all 'the original's are clearly not all related), or even a smell profile. OG Kush is a philosophy, a way of life, a state of mind or even a state of being. It's a religion. It's grown past what was once a single plant, to a collection of unrelated hybrids, that don't necessarily even share the same/similar terpene profile.

What I'm saying is, I know what you believe is OG... and you may even have 'the original' cut, but the reality is that the rest of the market doesn't necessarily agree with you... as others have copies of 'the original', that smell different, grow different, ARE different. With different buyers, who can't agree on what OG is... there is no standardization. So you know what OG is. Does the market? I think since nobody can agree on what "It" is, that shows the conundrum.

Obviously this is all a bit tongue in cheek.... no offense intended to the OG, or anyone in particular.... but I do find the whole thing a but funny. But it openned my mind to a serious problem in our community, and that is how do we standardize genetics? How do we know that clone X (name X) , IS, clone X?

So Morphote will you donate your OG to the OG Kush DNA project? I'm going to let the DNA tell the story.... because we all got our cuts from someone, who was proud to pass us the cutting with a history (storied Pot is always better, remember G13?)... and that history might not be as accurate as they portrayed. There's always incentive for unscrupulous money hungry folks, that are rife in this biz, to tell a little grey lie to help their sales.

Bottom line, people lie, DNA does not.... so I want to let DNA have her voice in this whole debate. What do you think?

Don't get me wrong.. I like OG, it's really good pot. Is it the best? My answer is that there is no best, never will be. There is no holy grail, to which everything else can be measured against. To me there is just a top class of cannabis... say the top 5%... and from within that 5% you can have a preference, but none is better than the other... once you enter the class of the true elite, you can prefer one more than the other, but that doesn't mean you are correct - because someone else may like a different plant more. Who is to say what is right?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. I'd also like to get your OG DNA in the test ring, if you would be willing to participate.

Respectfully,
-Chimera
 
Abja Roots

Abja Roots

ABF(Always Be Flowering) - Founder
Veteran
Chimera said:
My answer is that there is no best, never will be. There is no holy grail, to which everything else can be measured against. To me there is just a top class of cannabis... say the top 5%... and from within that 5% you can have a preference, but none is better than the other... once you enter the class of the true elite, you can prefer one more than the other, but that doesn't mean you are correct - because someone else may like a different plant more. Who is to say what is right?
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Real talk. Best idea I've read regarding the ever present question of what the best is. If it's fire. It's fire. The question is how do you like it.

Does anyone have pics to share of this Imperial OG?
 
SmokeTrees

SmokeTrees

"Hey bud, lets party!"
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well said, although i do think all og's have the same smell profile... If its a real og, it smells like og. There is no arguing that... Also there is no arguing about people capitalizing on the "og" name, and tagging anything og.
But there are indeed many MANY different og cuts, that are indeed slightly different, but all of them have that same og smell... If it doesnt have that smell, then i dont consider it a true og.
And i also wouldnt say og is the 'best' pot, but i cant think of anything thats better.
 
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