[The Hatter]

Originally Posted by StinkyGreen

Keif - I feel the same way as you about smoke reports. For me it's all about the characteristics of the high. That's one thing I really like about Mandala's strain descriptions - they are very detailed in that regard. I respect the fact that others may care more about different characteristics though - it's different for everyone.

I think the reason many people focus on bag appeal and taste is that if you look at the majority of the popular poly-hybrid strains out there, they have pretty generic effects that basically fall into 3 categories, kush hybrids, skunk hybrids, and haze hybrids. It's the taste and looks of the bud that differentiate the popular strains more than the effects which are remarkably similiar.

There are some exceptions of course, but generally if you have smoked one Kush/indica, you have smoked them all when it comes to effects. Skunk varies a bit, but generally it sits somewhere between the Kush and Haze hybrids. Haze hybrids are the only popular strains that really do seem to still have some variety in effect and I think that is primarily because the hazes haven't been as popular in mainstream commercial breeding and growing so they haven't been crossed as much.

It's nice to see the unique land races making their way into the mainstream. They are refreshing a very stale and inbred gene pool that has essentially been almost entirely based off of the original skunk, kush and haze lines being bred back and forth with each other for decades. Most of the smoke I have experienced which was truly unique is at least 50% land race genetics. Breeders like Mandela who are still interested with working some of the old land race lines are doing good work.

[herbgreen]

Anyone know the differences between this and orisha XL ?

[herbgreen]

Anyone up on these nigerian strains?

[herbgreen]

Or any other pure landrace nigerian strains currently available?