I have just finished a grow of Critical Mass that is from a very old clone. It is now I believe over 15 years old. Now that it is finished and dried (still needs a cure) it brought back good memories of bud I use to smoke in high school and later.
It finished a dark army green with large plump buds with brick red hairs making them resemble a bunch of little Wooly Mammoth's packed into a ziplock bag lol. The smell was not over powering but mellow and fruity, almost of grapes. The strains I remember from long ago use to look just like this. I am going to date myself, but that was 20 years ago. Yes, I am getting on up there - but not quite 40 yet haha!
Back in the day it seemed all the pots around was like this and always covered in dark red hairs. It was almost as though good pot had to have these massive amounts of hairs or else the majority of smokers would think it was crap. Most smokers also didn't know the tric's were what got you stoned and thought the heavy stone these olders strains possessed were from the multitude of hairs surrounding the buds like a winter sweater. Tric's didn't even have to exist! Also, another funny thing was if it was crap it would be called home grown. My how times have changed.
It seems today (not us of course!) most of the general public believe red haired strains are bunk and relate them to Northern Lights, Big Bud, Hash Plant and the likes, but I know from experience, yes these strains seem to be not up to standards these days, but when they were new they were the creme of the crop and could be as good as almost any strain today.
For some reason there is a lot of crap going around that carries these names and may be it is for good reason, but that was not the case back in the day. It also makes me wonder if people label these mediocre cuts with these names even though they are not the same genetics or highly watered down versions. I know for a fact a good select cut of Northern Lights or Hash plant from back in the day was just as good as any elite I have grown or smoked today.
One thing I do believe has improved and I could be wrong, but taste seems to have increased so that now more strains than yester year taste better on average. I would also like to point out this isn't always so.
So day dreaming of days long past it made me come up with a hypothesis that I would like to discuss or here your opinions on. It seems many strains in the past had much more red hair and I was wondering if this was due to breeders breeding for this because of the thought of the general public that more hairs mean't higher potency? or is this the case because these were the only strains available at the time? This trait of older strains seemed to have changed dramatically over time. Not as many plants have the red hair like they use to exibit and if they do most think they are crap. Also, hardly any commercial strains had purple - that was a rarity. Even in the last ten years I have seen our green strains slowly changing in colour to almost all having some darker colouring. I think this is due to Urkle, Grand Daddy Purple, Master Kush, OG ect. but that is a different story I won't get into because I already wrote an essay lol.
Sorry for such a long post. I smoked a couple bong loads of CM and it has such activity! It makes me want to write, as you can see. I don't exactly know how intelligable it sounds but I guess tomorrow will bring a new day. Thanks for reading and I hope to here from some of you.
TGT
It finished a dark army green with large plump buds with brick red hairs making them resemble a bunch of little Wooly Mammoth's packed into a ziplock bag lol. The smell was not over powering but mellow and fruity, almost of grapes. The strains I remember from long ago use to look just like this. I am going to date myself, but that was 20 years ago. Yes, I am getting on up there - but not quite 40 yet haha!
Back in the day it seemed all the pots around was like this and always covered in dark red hairs. It was almost as though good pot had to have these massive amounts of hairs or else the majority of smokers would think it was crap. Most smokers also didn't know the tric's were what got you stoned and thought the heavy stone these olders strains possessed were from the multitude of hairs surrounding the buds like a winter sweater. Tric's didn't even have to exist! Also, another funny thing was if it was crap it would be called home grown. My how times have changed.
It seems today (not us of course!) most of the general public believe red haired strains are bunk and relate them to Northern Lights, Big Bud, Hash Plant and the likes, but I know from experience, yes these strains seem to be not up to standards these days, but when they were new they were the creme of the crop and could be as good as almost any strain today.
For some reason there is a lot of crap going around that carries these names and may be it is for good reason, but that was not the case back in the day. It also makes me wonder if people label these mediocre cuts with these names even though they are not the same genetics or highly watered down versions. I know for a fact a good select cut of Northern Lights or Hash plant from back in the day was just as good as any elite I have grown or smoked today.
One thing I do believe has improved and I could be wrong, but taste seems to have increased so that now more strains than yester year taste better on average. I would also like to point out this isn't always so.
So day dreaming of days long past it made me come up with a hypothesis that I would like to discuss or here your opinions on. It seems many strains in the past had much more red hair and I was wondering if this was due to breeders breeding for this because of the thought of the general public that more hairs mean't higher potency? or is this the case because these were the only strains available at the time? This trait of older strains seemed to have changed dramatically over time. Not as many plants have the red hair like they use to exibit and if they do most think they are crap. Also, hardly any commercial strains had purple - that was a rarity. Even in the last ten years I have seen our green strains slowly changing in colour to almost all having some darker colouring. I think this is due to Urkle, Grand Daddy Purple, Master Kush, OG ect. but that is a different story I won't get into because I already wrote an essay lol.
Sorry for such a long post. I smoked a couple bong loads of CM and it has such activity! It makes me want to write, as you can see. I don't exactly know how intelligable it sounds but I guess tomorrow will bring a new day. Thanks for reading and I hope to here from some of you.
TGT
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