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red rider

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Thank you everyone so much. I’m very happy to be back on IC mag forms and in Colombia. However due to where I’m living at the moment I’m unable to grow. My Colombian wife has flipped on cannabis (among other things) and she really doesn’t want me to start growing again. She does have a point that our children are getting older and she doesn’t want them to see the plants or know anything about what she considers drugs. I disagree with her of course but she knows I burn and always will so I’m sure once I get the right place I’ll be sowing some seed. In my 4 year absence from Colombia things have changed and younger people (18-35) have started smoking. But it seems their not interested in sativa as much as this new “creepy” weed that is everywhere. Since I can’t grow at the moment I’ve had to purchase my stash and last year when we first moved back down here I was able to get some very good Colombian highland Punta roja for a little more money then I paid 6 years ago. It was not very seedy but still I kept the best of the seed from the qp. Later I met some new friends and they are young in the university and they wanted to turn me on to the new creepy. When I first saw it I thought it was some type of indoor indica, bright green large solid buds and a sweet hashy smell. Then I went into shock when they told me it was going for 5,000 peso’s a gram! I thought weed in Colombia selling by the gram???? Anyway they convinced me to try it before complaining about the price. The hit was from an odd homemade pipe and the green hit was full of intense flavor. A definite Sativa dom hybrid with imported genetics for sure. The taste wasn’t sweet like the green smell but more like the roja. The smoke very expansive, making me hack after I exhaled. The smoke smelled like sweet incense, nothing like the heavy woodsy flavor. We had been drinking beer and I was not drunk but feeling real good from it when I hit the bowl (just once) and I could feel the effect right after I stopped coughing. After that I had no desire for more beer or smoke but I became very talkative and interested in explaining the USA to the most beautiful young lady. This bud had that soaring “up” motivational high, classic sativa and super potent. This wonderful euphoric high continued to intensify to a peak after about an hour and then seem to just make me feel really stoned but not lazy. My Colombian friends wanted to do a few bumps then go out drinking and dancing but I had to get home and being super stoned traveling alone at night was making me paranoid, so I spent 20,000 pesos and bought 4 carefully weighed (never seen a digital scale in Colombia before) out grams of the Creepy and started home. Since then I’ve made four other purchases, two from other sources and it’s always the same price but varies in everything else. But it seems no one here wants the good old strains or don’t even know about them.
 
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idiit

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But it seems no one here wants the good old strains or don’t even know about them.

again, welcome back red rider.

i feel landraces are making a strong comeback. many of the best landraces are or are near extinct.

combining a great landrace with a great "dutch weed" hybrid is great fun and can produce some wonderful results. point is, we need these pure landraces. especially for outdoor grows.

you have been a very valuable force in the past for strain preservation. thanks for your generosity.
 

lost in a sea

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its a huge shame that people just see things in black and white as "drugs",,

everytime we eat anything or drink a cup of coffee we ingest "drugs" we are addicted to, everytime you look into the eyes of someone you love a cascade of neurotransmitters flush through the brain,, and being honest people are far more irrationally physically addicited to their other half than they could ever be to smoking dope.. sometimes i think women see ganja as a rival.. oh well you cant have everything in this world..

welcome to icmag red rider buddy :tiphat:

hope you can grow again sooner rather than later :smokeit:
 

sir alex

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good to see you around again redrider i seen what you did with them jb's up in the hills.......on a real red what would you rate em at for power if you can remember?????? oh yeah am going threw the same thing with my mrs to whats wrong with em
 

red rider

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again, welcome back red rider.

i feel landraces are making a strong comeback. many of the best landraces are or are near extinct.

combining a great landrace with a great "dutch weed" hybrid is great fun and can produce some wonderful results. point is, we need these pure landraces. especially for outdoor grows.

you have been a very valuable force in the past for strain preservation. thanks for your generosity.
Thank you so much. I love this site and the wonderful people here and its a great pleasure to be back.I love growing and crossing the great Colombian landrace strains with imported strains. The climate here is very good for year round outdoor growing and in the past I was able to grow not only the long flowering domestic Sativa but also pure Indica and hybrids. The Johnny Blaze I grew out in 07 was very good, with a balanced high and very easy to grow. Here's two landrace Colombian strains I grew out in 06. The purple is from a "coastel" lowland bud and the green is from Santa Marta Gold. More will be coming ASAP.

Peace from Colombia
 
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red rider

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Great to have you back, red! Your pictures and stories in RUST were an inspiration for me.:tiphat:

Thanks, I'm very happy to be back! I only wish I could get set up a little faster. But my situation has changed here and I've got to get things back to where I can grow again. Good smoke is not hard to find here but all most all the people I know now don't smoke. The people that I do know here that smoke are young and don't seem to have an interest in their classic landrace bud. They prefer the new super potent hybrids that are grown in the south. So I'm stuck with purchasing and even though it’s cheap by northern standards, here it’s very expensive. Since I returned to Colombia I was able to get in touch with an old contact and he was able to find some nice highland “redbud” for a nice price and he said he would look for more landrace strains for me. However I haven’t seen him since last October and all I can find locally is the new hybrid bud from my new friends. I’ve been so busy working that I really haven’t had time to go out and look myself but I plan to soon. Colombian grown Johnny Blaze!!!!!

Peace from Colombia
 
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