[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.

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]

Originally Posted by Bag

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.

Originally Posted by Rinse

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]

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!








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