[Cvh]

When I started toking at the end of the 90's in West-EU.there was only one strain that was worth it.
White Widow!

[Jellyfish]

White Widow hit the USA midwest in the 90's too. Could be an all-time favorite of mine too!

[coconutcurry]

Originally Posted by Cvh

When I started toking at the end of the 90's in West-EU.there was only one strain that was worth it.
White Widow!

I also remember well White Widow in the midst/end 90's. This was not like what is sold as White Widow today. At that time there were many very good weed strains in Amsterdam. White Widow was one of them. I also remember the Northern Light, Jack Herer and some more, which were very strong. It was easy to find excellent weed in Amsterdam at that time. Not like today. It was very easy to find this kind of weed, when you can't say anymore if this weed is more stoned or high, it just knocked you down.

[Bud Green Sr.]

The weed I smoked in Jamaica on my first trip there in '72 was some amazing, mind soaring sativas!

Venturing way up in the hills where I was advised not to go, I stayed with some rastas who took me in like a little brother.
They shared gawdawful amounts of weed with me and then wanted to show me all around the hill country.
It was all walking and serious hiking, a few of them had never even ridden in a car..

By my third trip to Jah in 1981, the weed was all different.
The great sativas could still be found, but most of the Jamaican ganja had been contaminated by all the Indica seeds that tourists from Europe had brought down there and given them...

[Cvh]

Originally Posted by coconutcurry

I also remember well White Widow in the midst/end 90's. This was not like what is sold as White Widow today. At that time there were many very good weed strains in Amsterdam. White Widow was one of them. I also remember the Northern Light, Jack Herer and some more, which were very strong. It was easy to find excellent weed in Amsterdam at that time. Not like today. It was very easy to find this kind of weed, when you can't say anymore if this weed is more stoned or high, it just knocked you down.

I really miss those days. Back then both Amsterdam and the weed was amazing

I still prefer growing the strains from back then.
Check out my latest Jack Herer grow: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=344190.

[OldCoolSativa]

I started smoking in 1973 in South Jersey, near Philadelphia. Never saw any Thai Stick or Hawaiian but had certainly heard of it. Best weed I ever smoked had an unknown pedigree, and was rumored to be laced with mushrooms. I'm sure it wasn't laced (mushrooms are a lot rarer and more expensive than weed, so economics dictate that we'd want normally laced) and was just a really good imported sativa. I don't remember the color, the smell or the taste but I clearly remember the effect. My friend and I smoked a bowl of this stuff in a park and I laid down on one of the merry go round things and my friend started pushing out as I looked up at the sky. The puffy little cumulus clouds started to morph into recognizable shapes. Mickey Mouse started waving at me with a big smile. Then he morphed into Richard Nixon. Then the three stooges. I straight up hallucinated on that weed. It was the best I ever smoked.

[Drewsif]

Wish I was a bit older, all the legendary strain names were cliche by the time I started smoking, so the cool names were just attached to whatever. "Columbian Gold? Ok if you say so.."

This one kid would consistently get what we called "Jamaican Redhair", I have no clue what it really was but you could smoke enough Friday afternoon to still be high Monday morning. The stuff was so resiny, you couldn't see who you were passing a joint to. If you opened a window the fire department would start getting calls. Hotboxing a car was just like in the movies. You would think somone was throwing globs of Pinon on charcoal, compared to today's cloudless stuff. Makes me wonder..


Its funny how many people don't miss the old pot. They must have been buying hemp, trim, and reject bud. In Mexico, if you try to haggle, you end up with the brown weed that was packaged wet. It always happen that way. If you asked for mid price, you got half the good stuff, and half reject bud.I learned quick just to ask for the best and pay the price. There is no lowering price, because its already fair to the farmers. Americans never understood that, youre only going to get a lower quality product if you start haggling,the stuff that would be tossed out if no gullible haggling Americans bought it thinking they were going to make bank when they got home.

The last time I bought weed from Mexico was 2011, out of a loaded camper on a VW Rabbit pickup. Would sell for 35/qtr any time "nug" wasn't around. I have a feeling it was American genetics. Didn't look like the Gold at all. But the high was great being grown traditionally, lightly pollinated under the Mexican sun.

I would rather buy this today for 35/qtr than what most people are buying from dispensaries for 85/qtr. Just don't have any acquaintances in Mexico anymore or Id bring reggie back in style People are getting over bag appeal I think.

[St. Phatty]

Originally Posted by Jellyfish

White Widow hit the USA midwest in the 90's too. Could be an all-time favorite of mine too!

Had a chance to grow and smoke Brothers Grimm White Widow around 2001.

AWESOME !

Great medical weed for pain.

Fed. Romulan was also fantastic. Way better than today's Next Gen Romulan.


I like the seeds we have, but I don't think the plants I'm growing this year are any better than what I might have smoked 10 years ago.

One of the best this year is an Apollo 11 F3 female. It is a particular phenotype that I like - sensitive to nutes, does not like Foxfarm Ocean Forest when it's a baby.

It will be awesome. Comparable to Fed. Romulan, heavier yielding than White Widow.

[superx]

No particular order "if memory serves me correctly"

Soap bar, northern lights / white widow the former would not be a favourite, but was a new beginning. (bright light at the end of the tunnel) many moons ago...

[ThaiBliss]

Back in the day for me was late 60's to late 70's.

Thai Slick, Sumatran, Jamaican Ganja - Super adrenaline rush followed by trippy bliss. Sunglasses required, due to sensory overload. The rocket ride blast off scared most people off of it. Some quit smoking forever after sampling that.

Putting Thai Stick on the pedestal of best ever is not due to nostalgia or tenderness of young mind. I grew a Neville's Haze plant that had the same effect. It was also a bit mushroomy in effect and hit you with a distinct phase shift of consciousness like it had some old school Mexican (laughing weed) in the genetics also. It brought back memories of those Thai Sticks. That killer Neville's Haze was the only good one of 30 Haze seeds I tested. That was 15 years ago. California was growing weed nearly that good back in the late 70's and early 80's until the indica came in and ruined it. It made it easy to grow, but the trippiness was lost. Such a shame.

ThaiBliss