Hi from new Old Timer from the Sixties

[neural]

Hi everybody. I have been snooping for quite some time and wanted to say hello. It is amazing how the technology of the herb has changed over the last several decades. I have learned a lot from this site!

I was blessed with having a mother that grew in the basement and on the balcony in the burbs when I was young, before the growing world went hi-tech. If the parents could only see how far gardening has progressed...

 

[bigherb]

Neural

Where you been ? 2 post in a year

Im looking forward to anything you can share of memories that havnt faded about your past experienecs with strains of yesteryear .


1luvbigherb

 

[PetFlora]

Neural,

I am not a big time smoker < 1 oz/ 6-9 months

I'm 65 and love growing just as micro-brewers love what they do.

Hope you drop by my threads to see how I roll

 

[Hank Hemp]

Neural it was us old timer who did the progressing you know.

 

[Crooked8]

Every older grower has had at least one thing to teach me. Nothing beats experience!

 

[Fly by Night]

Do you plan on releasing a Sixties IBL perhaps homie?

 

[botrytiscinerea]

Fly by Night is wondering if you have held onto any of those ancient head seeds from all of the old school cannabis.. my mentor had literally thousands that were taken from him during a raid in the mid 2000's; the connoisseurs demand oldschool landrace bud!

 

[neural]

Neural

Where you been ? 2 post in a year

Im looking forward to anything you can share of memories that havnt faded about your past experienecs with strains of yesteryear .
1luvbigherb

I am not one of those "everything was better when I was young" types. It should come as no surprise that in the herb department almost everything today is better. The breeding has certainly led to improved strains.

Realistically though, it is hard to compare to almost 50 years ago, when I had no tolerance issues with the herb. After all these years though, I do remember my first smoke, where I was, what I did, who I was with, and the intensity. It was more memorable than the first time I did acid (I don't do that anymore).

There are a lot of us that are going on almost 50 years or more of smoking. This is hardly a "double blind placebo controlled study", but interesting anecdotal evidence on the safety of cannabis.

As for growers compared to decades ago, the nutes are better, the lighting is better, the soil blends and hydro tools are better, pruning, cloning and plant training techniques have improved (no more dumb stuff like nails in plant stocks and other torture), etc. Even the paraphenalia is better (I usually vape these days). In general the laws are much better.

Of course I can't "go down to the Ave and score a matchbox or lid of gold" anymore (I look too old for street dealers, and the matchboxes of gold are long gone), but I can go downstairs and get something better...

 

[botrytiscinerea]

Great story..what are you running this season?

 

[satva]

faded memories

Who knows church better than the Nepalese?

My best college friend, from New York City was a cannabis connoisseur / player in 1960 -1975. In college we smoked his NYC connoisseur stash my homegrown 1973 Maui Wowie. Grown from seed, I found in his sensimilla. His hazes were $3 -$5 / gram when seeded bundles of Highland Oaxacan Gold and Colombian tops went for $1 / gram. I could buy mid-range Dark Moracan has for $0.75 / gram.

Occasionally, I'd taste incense in the tropical sativa's, but the Church incense was always strong in the Nepalese charas, temple balls and sticks, ranging from $12 - $6 gram. I smokoed Nepalese for many years. Daytime I liked my 1972 Maui Wowie and a 1975 Highland Oaxacan Gold, fresh tops, a month after harvest.

The high from all three was transcendental, with a different twist- Oaxacan psychedelic, Nepalese spiritual, and Maui Wowie peaceful. Many of the hazes were too stoney and or mentally active for me.

The quality of the high is my most important criteria. What's in your basement? I've got Chimera's Highland Guerrero x Blueberry. Acapulco is the capital of Guerrero, I"m praying to the Yucatan for a little taste of yesterday, but not too skunky.

 

[wolfhoundaddy]

temple ball hash

temple ball hash

Ahh.....temple ball, we had a good connect to that mid 70's. I got an oz (for 100$) and kept it for personal. We smoked it, ate it, put it on a needle under a glass,and just wiffed it once in a while just to smell it....fond memories.
Ours came to us hidden inside the cover of art books. He was sending levis jeans over in trade! Or so the story goes.

 

[trichrider]

still high.
welcome, what a long strange trip it's been huh?

 

[satva]

what a long strange trip it's been huh?

Colorado recreational marijuana stores open their doors for business in a couple of months.

 

[wantaknow]

welcome aboard the mother ship ,its as good a place to be !and yes its been a long strang trip ,so keep on truckin!

 

[nigel420]

Neural whats is your seed tin?

 

[neural]

Neural whats is your seed tin?

Mainly a cross between a strain that appeared to be clone-only and almost impossible to switch, and other things. It took months with colloidal silver compared to weeks. It was a good producer but very sensitive to nutes. I used it to either self to keep the strain or cross with others that were more hardy.

 

[4smokazONly]

welcome....