
Originally Posted by
mrbig1
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All these new strains are all much of a muchness. Thirty to forty years ago they started crossing old original landrace strains (Agfhani/South Indian Indicas crossed with Thai/South America/Jamaican Sativas together to create hybrids like Skunk and Northern Lights.
Then they crossed the hybrids with the hybrids and now we're many branches down the cannabis family tree with a bunch of hundreds of basically indistinguishable high-potency high-yield short-flowering-period hybrids. The original genetics are being destroyed.
For instance, Jamaican growers are importing seeds so that they grow much bigger crops in a shorter period (harvest it before it gets found by the law) and the hybrid pollen is floating off and fucking up the entire island's cannabis stock.
The best products, and I speak as a world class connoisseur of cannabis, are the original landrace strains. There's an Afghani Indica that produces
purple buds that is the ultimate stuff for a heavy stone, like being buried under several tons of feathers, that isn't a commercial strain because it doesn't yield quickly or produce alot ( although the purple thing has massive potential, why breeders who have access to it don't try and hybridise the purple into a high yield strain is beyond me).
There's a Jamaican lambsbread Sativa that is amazing for sex, especially if you vaporise it ( I don't smoke any cannabis at all apart from a bit of purple Afghan bubblehash a couple of times a year). But for even people with access to Amsterdam and the dispensaries in America it's impossible to get the really good stuff.
The Cannabis Cup stuff in Amsterdam is just a big commercial event and the cups are up for sale to the highest bidder every year.
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