Being a newbie I was wondering.

Blue_Focus

Blue_Focus

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Does Skunk weed smell like skunks?

What's up with all the crazy names?

Back in the day early 80's there was only like two names of weed.

Also I've never smoked a bud. I've only smoked the leaves. There was two price ranges. The cheapest was the leaves. The buds was out of my price range.

How much stronger is the buds vs the leaves?

Sorry for all the questions. But I want to learn.

Thanks :D
 
Tolerance Break

Tolerance Break

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Skunk is a complex question. Some say skunk was bred out of skunk, some say that people who don't smoke are more likely to smell the skunk in regular weed with a higher thyol level.

Weed names started (more or less) as land of origin. Kush from the Kush mountain region, afghan, aucopoco gold, Columbian, Mexican, etc... that evolved as lines started being worked in the west, like Haze, skunk, blueberry, etc. So it moved from land of origin to scents and effects. There were always exceptions, Northern Lights for example, but imo the last big popular strain with meaning behind the name was Blue Dream (blueberry x haze). Then people just started naming shit whatever moved best. Cookies really started the sweet food naming convention, and a lack of creativity with a need for new flavor of the month weed a couple times a year did the rest.

Bud vs Leaves is like Muhammad Ali vs A particularly unskilled in boxing bus driver.
 
Blue_Focus

Blue_Focus

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Tolerance Break said:
Skunk is a complex question. Some say skunk was bred out of skunk, some say that people who don't smoke are more likely to smell the skunk in regular weed with a higher thyol level.

Weed names started (more or less) as land of origin. Kush from the Kush mountain region, afghan, aucopoco gold, Columbian, Mexican, etc... that evolved as lines started being worked in the west, like Haze, skunk, blueberry, etc. So it moved from land of origin to scents and effects. There were always exceptions, Northern Lights for example, but imo the last big popular strain with meaning behind the name was Blue Dream (blueberry x haze). Then people just started naming shit whatever moved best. Cookies really started the sweet food naming convention, and a lack of creativity with a need for new flavor of the month weed a couple times a year did the rest.

Bud vs Leaves is like Muhammad Ali vs A particularly unskilled in boxing bus driver.
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Thanks, That helps. :D
 
DeadHeadX

DeadHeadX

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@Tolerance Break explains it well. I’d add that a lot of the names are just marketing in a new industry. Are you sure you’ve never smoked bud before? I never really recall leaf for sale in any era, as it’s pretty ineffective. No comparison in potency. It’s like root beer vs whiskey. One will do nothing but give a headache (maybe a mellow buzz if you’ve got good sugar leaf). But, yeah, flower is where it’s at, and the genetics are improved considerably since the 80s, when in my experience we simply bought what we could get, though by that time there were already many more than a few well established varieties, if you could get your hands on it (Acapulco gold, Thai stick, skunk, Northern Lights, Afghani…) all these and more were names I remember hearing in the 80s. First trip to Amsterdam was like heaven. We’re in a golden age now.
 
Blue_Focus

Blue_Focus

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DeadHeadX said:
@Tolerance Break explains it well. I’d add that a lot of the names are just marketing in a new industry. Are you sure you’ve never smoked bud before? I never really recall leaf for sale in any era, as it’s pretty ineffective. No comparison in potency. It’s like root beer vs whiskey. One will do nothing but give a headache (maybe a mellow buzz if you’ve got good sugar leaf). But, yeah, flower is where it’s at, and the genetics are improved considerably since the 80s, when in my experience we simply bought what we could get, though by that time there were already many more than a few well established varieties, if you could get your hands on it (Acapulco gold, Thai stick, skunk, Northern Lights, Afghani…) all these and more were names I remember hearing in the 80s. First trip to Amsterdam was like heaven. We’re in a golden age now.
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As far as I know I've never smoked buds. The seller would say when he got buds in. Which wasn't very often.

I just don't want to be knocked off of my rocker when my grow is ready to smoke. ‍
 
DeadHeadX

DeadHeadX

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Blue_Focus said:
As far as I know I've never smoked buds. The seller would say when he got buds in. Which wasn't very often.

I just don't want to be knocked off of my rocker when my grow is ready to smoke. ‍
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Cool, we all do our own thing for sure. Just seems weird. You can simply grow less potent weed and smoke less of it also. Fwiw, leaf tastes awful, smokes harsh, and provides little psychoactive effect compared to bud…imo.
 
Blue_Focus

Blue_Focus

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DeadHeadX said:
Cool, we all do our own thing for sure. Just seems weird. You can simply grow less potent weed and smoke less of it also. Fwiw, leaf tastes awful, smokes harsh, and provides little psychoactive effect compared to bud…imo.
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Leaves just burn a little during inhale. :lol:
 
Dboybudz

Dboybudz

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Blue_Focus said:
Does Skunk weed smell like skunks?

What's up with all the crazy names?

Back in the day early 80's there was only like two names of weed.

Also I've never smoked a bud. I've only smoked the leaves. There was two price ranges. The cheapest was the leaves. The buds was out of my price range.

How much stronger is the buds vs the leaves?

Sorry for all the questions. But I want to learn.

Thanks :D
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It depends on what type of cannabis you grow you can get a stinky plant that smells like a skunk sprayed your bag or ones that smell like fruit literally. Pineapple,lemons, floral that goes with taste also. Leaves has no taste bud grown right rolled with a paper and filter on and will taste hopefully what strain is like blueberries will taste just like a blueberry flavor so many options. It's great you want to learn welcome here bud. I'm lost also on names way to many stick with basics till get experience when paying 20 bucks a seed.
 
Blue_Focus

Blue_Focus

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Dboybudz said:
It depends on what type of cannabis you grow you can get a stinky plant that smells like a skunk sprayed your bag or ones that smell like fruit literally. Pineapple,lemons, floral that goes with taste also. Leaves has no taste bud grown right rolled with a paper and filter on and will taste hopefully what strain is like blueberries will taste just like a blueberry flavor so many options. It's great you want to learn welcome here bud. I'm lost also on names way to many stick with basics till get experience when paying 20 bucks a seed.
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Great , The auto I'm growing is a Skunk variety.

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Dboybudz

Dboybudz

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Blue_Focus said:
Great , The auto I'm growing is a Skunk variety.

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At least it's auto not as big and finishes faster. You'll smell skunk smells hopefully not to bad. I had a seedling three weeks old I could smell from that baby thing.
 
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Blue_Focus said:
As far as I know I've never smoked buds. The seller would say when he got buds in. Which wasn't very often.

I just don't want to be knocked off of my rocker when my grow is ready to smoke. ‍
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You will be. Smoke the buds, purge the leafs. Bho is real easy to make. Any glass blower will make you an extraction tube for like 20 bucks. Stuff your sugar leaf in it tape a coffee filter over the open end and blast a can of butain though it until it runs out clear onto a Pyrex dish set it on a hot plate between 95-105f and wait for the gas to boil off and whip it up with a skewer. Wear insulated gloves or use a wash rag as it comes out cold af don't want to see ya get frost bite on your hands you'll get a waxy substance that's about 90%thc. Takes about 500ml of butane to purge a oz of plant matter. Butane is combustible so no flames or heat over 200f in the extraction area. Seen a few people catch their kitchen on fire acting stupid.
 
conor c

conor c

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Damn op what country you from like ive seen some swaggy import stuff more common before the name game strains and at one point here hash was more common than bud but i cant imagine only ever smoking sugar leaf im guessing your countrys strict in the uk where im at it aint legal either but its not so bad as where your at clearly as for smells yeah cannabis can smell like almost anything from skunky stuff to proper rank stuff like sulphury rotten meat to sweet or fruity or a million other things cannabis has so many possible smell and taste combinations anyway good luck with your grow man
 
Tolerance Break

Tolerance Break

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VaSmile said:
You will be. Smoke the buds, purge the leafs. Bho is real easy to make. Any glass blower will make you an extraction tube for like 20 bucks. Stuff your sugar leaf in it tape a coffee filter over the open end and blast a can of butain though it until it runs out clear onto a Pyrex dish set it on a hot plate between 95-105f and wait for the gas to boil off and whip it up with a skewer. Wear insulated gloves or use a wash rag as it comes out cold af don't want to see ya get frost bite on your hands you'll get a waxy substance that's about 90%thc. Takes about 500ml of butane to purge a oz of plant matter. Butane is combustible so no flames or heat over 200f in the extraction area. Seen a few people catch their kitchen on fire acting stupid.
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As someone who has been on fire and created a 2 foot long glass tube flame thrower on separate occasions, and someone who doesn't smoke often, I would save the BHO for special occasions. It's powerful voodoo magic in that there oil. It also trashes tolerance quick.
 
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