Traditional Sativa Pics

[Rinse]

Traditionally produced sativa, wether imported or local, fermented or any other cure method, post your pics and descriptions I would be very interested.

Here is some super nice Thai, very peppery taste, perfectly fermented. You'l find about 1 seed per gram in this, possibly hermie. The high is a strong, wavey sativa effect, but you only feel its true power in a bong. Spliff is more mellow.

Next we have some wild looking stuff, no seeds, was told its from Thailand or Cambodia. Taste is a little more minty, herbal, not as refined as the above Thai. High is strong, but can leave you tired, I hear this is more common with lowland varieties. Lovely colour.

 

[Bag]

looks like mexi, ya checked out the ultimate sativa thread?

 

[Rinse]

Next up we have some Jamaican black.
Its so fermented that it has changed the bud structure and it crumbles more like very old compost than herb.

Some of the best tasting stuff, very smooth, slight vanilla, chocolate, anise,
smells a bit cat pissy.

Potency medium, but very smooth happy ride, not extreme like the Thai.

 

[Rinse]

looks like mexi, ya checked out the ultimate sativa thread?

Hey there, yes and yes, the ultimate sativa thread has given me hours of reading. I have yet to try Mexican stuff, it doesn't make it up here in U.K. but lucky for us we get Thai and African herbs (sometimes).

There is still a market for traditional herb as many prefer it to the indoor grown bud.

 

[gloryoskie]

Hey there, yes and yes, the ultimate sativa thread has given me hours of reading. I have yet to try Mexican stuff, it doesn't make it up here in U.K. but lucky for us we get Thai and African herbs (sometimes).

There is still a market for traditional herb as many prefer it to the indoor grown bud.

True, that. I started growing my own sats due to only heavy indicas available in my market. As you may know, many members swear by their heavy varieties to the exclusion of all else. Almost a religious devotion if you will.

Nice pics by the way!

 

[Mullabor]

We had some similar looking weed to your first pic of the thai back in the late 80's. We locally referred to it as 'mud weed'. Same sort of high as you described. A very wavey and giggly feeling where you would forget what you were saying mid sentence lol.
I think i may have been the highest i'd ever been smoking that weed with a nice sprinkle of png hash. Tis one of those wonderful weed sessions of life that i'll never forget- what a blast man lol

 

[inquest]

Gorgeous pics brother!

Curious, How does one go about fermenting their buds? I worry about mold and such... :/

 

[yoss33]

Mold takes several days to develop on healthy fresh bud.
If you put fresh buds in a jar and keep it closed for, say, 3 days and then bring it out to dry, the buds will have a darker fermented color but the mold will still not having taken hold. Of course, it's a bit tricky and depends on many variables, temperature, etc. So don't try with a full jar for the first time

Here you can see 2 buds harvested at the same time but the bigger bud was put in a jar for 5 days after having dried only in half, after the 5 days in the jar it was taken out to continue drying.

As far as I know, farmers here used to harvest a whole field and form big piles of plants that are left to dry under the sun. In the middle of such pile temperature and humidity rise and so the weed is fermenting for 2-3 days before becoming too dry for fermenting to continue. This process is not intentional but is result of the easy and quick drying.

 

[RandyCalifornia]

I love the old flavors that used to come around California before home grown. Back in the 60's and 70's
Those chocolatey, earthy, hashy, spicy, Colombians and Thais and those fresh piney Mexicans.
I've experimented with fermentation and have had some great successes.
With small amounts I've had my best luck with really dank, pungent, resinous buds packed as tightly as possible into an old tobacco tin or even as small as a Altoids tin and left in a dark place for about a year.
Like Rinse says, it looses it's bud structure and if it's resinous enough and it dries out enough it becomes almost rocky.
Simply delicious.

 

[red rider]

Lovin it

Lovin it

What a great thread! When I started smoking in 1974-5 there was no such thing as homegrown buds in my area. All our “bud’ was imported and pressed/bricked sativa. We did have HG but it was just leaves and a last resort to the imports. Mexican bricked sativa was the order of the day and came in many varieties, most was hemp like and wasn’t even worth the $10 a lid. We would buy a lid of this then clean it and roll all of it for one smoking session. Maybe four of us would smoke joint after joint, getting higher and higher or most times just buzzed. Then at times there were the very good Mexicans with names of where they were from. These Mexicans were more expensive but more than worth the five or ten dollars more per lid. They were still bricked and seeded but the effect was epic with stellar energetic sativa highs. But they were rare and not something found every day. Then I was introduced to the love of my life, she was from a country that to me is the most exotic in the world, a tropical paradise filled with happy beautiful people. The first Colombian Marijuana I had blew my mind, it was pressed not hard brick like I was used to and was a rich sandy brown color. The smell was strong and unique denoting potency in a way no other cannabis had to me before. The effect was overwhelming, giving me a total cannabis experience that was not found in the commercial lids before it. For years this love affair continued, I moved to south Florida in 1978 where I found her again but there she was fresh off the boat and even better. Then sadly I strayed from her because I joined the service and was stationed in Europe where I met Hashish. For three years I smoked only hashish as there was no bud to be found where I was stationed. And after my discharge I raced home only to find the great Colombian was gone, replaced with shitty mersh, still from Colombia but nasty and more expensive. It was in the early 80s for me when I saw the first real home grown buds. Bright green non compressed seedless buds at $100 an ounce, I was sold but I never forgot my Colombian love affair. I would find her again!

Colombian high altitude pressed sativa 2012!

Reunited

More comming from Colombia!

 

[OLDproLg]

Hey me too!!!

Remember the Parraquat days.......nixon an his thugs.
the red i smoked was great too,it was light red in color an had a beautiful
incents taste to it.....i remember the flip top bags of mex for 10 bucks too!
How about the Boones farm wines also,blueberryhill an a big bag of mex...hahaha.
Cool memories!!!

 

[Rinse]

True, that. I started growing my own sats due to only heavy indicas available in my market. As you may know, many members swear by their heavy varieties to the exclusion of all else. Almost a religious devotion if you will.

Nice pics by the way!

I actually prefer growing indica's due to their short height and (usually) better taste, when it comes to buying bud however its import sativa's all the way.
The indoor commercial is getting worse and the price higher, £10 for 0.7 Gram of damp green bud that tastes like shit, but it still continues to be sold and is the most in demand cannabis product in the whole of the U.K.

We had some similar looking weed to your first pic of the thai back in the late 80's. We locally referred to it as 'mud weed'. Same sort of high as you described. A very wavey and giggly feeling where you would forget what you were saying mid sentence lol.
I think i may have been the highest i'd ever been smoking that weed with a nice sprinkle of png hash. Tis one of those wonderful weed sessions of life that i'll never forget- what a blast man lol

Wavey and giggly is spot on, sounds like the stuff!
Great they still growing the same (or at least similar) stuff 30 years on.

 

[OLDproLg]

THE ABSOLUTE STRONGEST SATIVA EVER PERIOD!!!!

THE ABSOLUTE STRONGEST SATIVA EVER PERIOD!!!!

Here it was in 1983 with me!!!!!!


This plant could stone you so bad that you couldnt get out of a chair!!!
When you smokes a joint,it blocked up 1 third the way down from black resin.
You couldnt smoke it anymore....it felt like a stick of tar.
THere is a HUGE story about the way i got it,but the scariest part was halling
it from one ebd of the counrty to the other in the back of a rider truck right by
the back door.Sadly i was a youngster and didnt keep the male to make seed...
NEVER in my 40 yrs of smokin will i ever find another one like her.
The best shit grown today doesnt even come close?
its all in the cannabinoids folks!
old strains ROCK.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment.php?attachmentid=203421&stc=1&d=1358527534

 

[Rinse]

Gorgeous pics brother!

Curious, How does one go about fermenting their buds? I worry about mold and such... :/

Ive attempted some home fermenting (sweat cure) but had limited success due to impatience, I did get bright green herb to have a golden hue and smoother smoke, but didn't get to the brown stage.

As far as I know, farmers here used to harvest a whole field and form big piles of plants that are left to dry under the sun. In the middle of such pile temperature and humidity rise and so the weed is fermenting for 2-3 days before becoming too dry for fermenting to continue. This process is not intentional but is result of the easy and quick drying.

Yes that sounds similar to methods Ive heard,
this is the initial "sweat", after this there are further curing methods such as burying.

I love the old flavors that used to come around California before home grown. Back in the 60's and 70's
Those chocolatey, earthy, hashy, spicy, Colombians and Thais and those fresh piney Mexicans.
I've experimented with fermentation and have had some great successes.
With small amounts I've had my best luck with really dank, pungent, resinous buds packed as tightly as possible into an old tobacco tin or even as small as a Altoids tin and left in a dark place for about a year.
Like Rinse says, it looses it's bud structure and if it's resinous enough and it dries out enough it becomes almost rocky.
Simply delicious.

Your taste description is the sort I love, wether sativa or indica.
I must try your tobacco tin method, sounds simple yet effective.

Here is part of an article on fermentation by burying from "skunk magazine":

"Materials:
1) plastic 60 gallon trash can

2) 9 cubic feet of dirt

3) cornhusks

4) 1/2 ounce Malawi or equiv. Amount of sativa ( immediately following harvest buds should be hung dry as normal.
5) hemp fiber or twine

Process:

1) Cut or drill drainage holes in bottom of can. Fill trashcan 25% with dirt.

2) place the 1/2 ounce in the corn husk.

3) roll the herb back and forth in the corn husk ( somewhat like rolling a joint) compressing it into a cylindrical shape.
4) tightly wrap husks in the twine applying even more pressure to the herb.

5) place cobs on top of dirt in trash can and cover them with remaining 75% dirt.

Once per month pour a half a gallon of water on top of dirt. ( don't worry if weeds grow just pull em)"

 

[Rinse]

Redrider, love it man, glad you are reunited with your Colombian lady, I would have to travel far to find her so doubt I will try any time soon. The highland grown looks even more special with its grey/blue color.

OLDproLg, its incredible isn't it, we can breed all we want but we never gonna match those old school strains and sun scorched terpenes!

Gonna roll up some Thai now folks be back with some more pics in a bit.

 

[red rider]

Colombian Corinto

Colombian Corinto

Here's some Colombian Corinto from cali. It's not compressed or bricked but it came from a "clump" of sweat or sun cured domestic weed. Great incense flavor with a strong soaring high that last for hours, great all day smoke.

This cost more than the local sativa but its worth ever centavo.

Viva Colombia!

 

[OLDproLg]

SWEET!!!

Cool bro,it does look a bit better than bail pot...

 

[Rinse]

Looks tasty indeed red, here is some more Thai, this is a lower quality than the one in my first post, still has a soaring high, just burns a bit rougher and leaves you tired on the comedown.

 

[red rider]

High Altitude Punto Rojo

High Altitude Punto Rojo

Wow Rinse that Thai looks beautiful with its golden brown color. And it looks to be seedles as well, very nice. Here's a "clump" of very nice Colombian Punto Rojo I had back in 2005. I haven't seen this quality since although I have found other "reds" here nothing compared to the high for this Punto Rojo.

Peace from Colombia!

 

[RandyCalifornia]

Beautiful pics, they are bring back so many memories of buds and times and smells and tastes.
Thank you for sharing them.