Mibri said:Did you guys see those Arjan's Ultra on youtube?
The plants they grew really look nice.
Nightshade is a strain that Reeferman cooked up, however he declined to pursue it any further due to it's tendency to hermie. I believe Arjan still has the female side of all their old lines, however he does not have the males, Shanti does.wick650 said:WTF...
How does a thai strain win 2nd place in the Indica catagory...
Also, the barney's Night Shade is either superdawgXpineapple or A5xG13haze, hardly indicas. I was actually lucky enough to get clones of a few phenos of Barney's superdawgXpineapple from the owner of a local Californian Medical MJ disp. whom got seeds from the dudes at Barney's, and I can tell you guys that cross is no Indica LOL
P.S
Can anyone tell me if the Barney's superdawgXpineapple is this Nightshade strain BTW? I have also heard it go by the name "Honey B"...
good post thanks for breaking it donw for us from your persepective. so how does the cup work you buy tickets as a judge and u get to smoke all the samples or what? you said you coudlnt even fiind the place? whats up with that? they keep it secret?NorCal said:the cup was really a learning experience for me. I wasnt happy at all but all I can say is if you grow your own and have the right genetics you may as well stay home. I got to realize the politics involved in winning a cup and how these high times people seem to have the market in their hand. The cup is nothing more than a few friends that "work" for high times, get a pos venue (cold as hell and about the size of a very small warehouse) and market the hell out of their annual event courtesy of their national publication,great idea!!!! lets do the math $200 to be a "judge" and atleast 5000 people = a cool milion. then theres the vendors who were reportedly charged about $2k a table, and in the end the tables ended up being smaller than a school desk as some werent even accounted for and had to share w/ others.
anyone could put one of those events on and im sure they could do it a lot better (such as ICMAG). We werent even told how to get to the event much less where it even was. if i wasnt w/ a celebrity judge I can guarantee you I would have never made it to the actual event (which wouldnt have been a big deal anyways)
and IMHO the g13/haze killed everything there, the only bud I found worthy of my money and time (I had to walk a bit to get it) and I stayed right nextdoor to the greenhouse! Arjan won because he is the "self proclaimed" king of cannabis (I thought kings were nominated/appointed) and he markets himself better than anyone out there, you couldnt walk down the street w/o seeing someone w/ his bags full of goodies (made in china BTW) He even gets high profile people to buy into the hype which just helps to fuel it, when rappers/actors/famous people show up hearing the best dank comes from the greenhouse they get their picture taken and it gets put up on a wall. shit when I was there, the kottonmouth kings and the roots were in there sitting down, if that doesnt help publicize you, I dont know what will...
im ultimately glad I got to go and atleast realize the GH strains were crap, if I was in the states like anyone else those would probably be the beans I would be eyeing the most (as a result of the markketing) and id sure as hell be pissed when i recieved my flashy package and waited 12-13 weeks for some bs to flower.
howcan you say that theres still no evidence of the competition being rigged?
did you go and smoke the strains each and vote?
well if you did youd put 2 and 2 together and realize theirs somethig wrong when some commercial grown bud was entered into the competition to find the best cannabis strains in the world. its like most peoples idea of bc being entered ( iknow theres outstanding buds in BC, but it doesnt always get sent to the states :sadit just shouldnt happen, I tried to give em the benefit of the doubt as the GH weed looked shitty so I bought some to smoke, I wasnt impressed at all. hell I wasnt even high.
I will say however, the greenhouse is one of the more hospitable cafes and arjan is really a nice guy, he may not be the king in my book but I gotta give him that as all I got in adam was bunch of attitude from people, so ultimately I probably would go back there to hang and have a drink.
BTW the judges that pay $200 are the ones who pick the peoples choice award, the real cups get chosen by a panel of celebrity judges whom im sure get comped left and right courtesy of certain cafes, HTH