as mentioned, kali mist is like a dose of blissed out shrooms with a side order of meth. it was the first real "high" i'd had in over a decade when i gave up begging and pleading to buy more than the gram i was gifted at $120 for an eigth, and eventhen i couldn't score it. i had the original kali mist which tasted like you're straight up smoking italian crushed red pepper. it's still one of my top three favorite flavors.
i was expecting a trippy columbian gold style buzz and not the insane energy rush that would not let me sit still at all. i intended to trip out on tunes, and instead wound up cleaning the apartment and my fish tank grinning from ear to ear and humming don't worry be happy. if you want an energetic strain, nothing tops kali mist! nowadays, they flavor's been wussed down to just fruity and spicy for wider appeal, but the buzz is still the same according to the member i compared notes to once. as speedy as it's buzz is though, it's terribly slow at flowering... 17 weeks! the buzz is clear headed, happy as a clam and crazy energetic
a much more practical solution to kali mist is cinderella 99 (aka C99) . it has a similar, though not as intense clear headed motivational buzz, though mosca's phenos are supposed to be trippier than my "textbook C99 buzz" out of circulation joey weed gals, but as it's always had a rep for being racy, you should be able to find something clear headed, but trippy sounds funner to me. it's also a 55 day or faster strain.
i go for more psychoactivity myself. i keep trying to tell anyone that likes getting high to try high quality seeds' haze x skunk. it has more trippiness than generic hazes that are more just upbeat motivational than sensory. it has nice euphoria, but it's motivation is no joke. even after a month of constant blazing, i still never got more stoned than some lead eye where i would have to take a vacation from columbian gold to reset my tolerance every month back when it was around. the buzz is very long lasting too. eventually, it built up in my system causing a perma buzz. the cheesy cigar wrapper skunk flavor is by no means a favorite, but it's mild enough to be tolerable.
it was SO motivational that it finally allowed me to break my 6 pack of red dog a night addiction cold turkey and i'd even say saved my life as i almost choked to death every morning on puke with the wake up burp. not only that, but i lost a bunch of weight in just a month by ignoring hunger pangs. it's not the most refined strain in the world maybe, but it's potent as fuck and for what it does, every bit as good as trippier columbian gold and better in potency, duration, tolerance and couchlock. it's like AK-47, but for getting high. it's a 12 week strain, but would kick ass in a SCROG as it has a cool "single bud every inch or two" budding pattern that would give you tons of little buds if you stretched it out.
if you want something more classy, DNA genetic's sweet haze is the best haze i've tried so far. it's fruitier and stickier and unlike generic hazes, it has some real psychoactivity going on. it just has higher total quality than many of it's fruity jacks, thais & hazes rivals. i expected HQS thai skunk to be better based on their haze skunk, but that one proved more generic. sweet haze is ALMOST real haze, but at 9 weeks flowering, fuck it! it's way more than good enough. you want that real trippy shit, start looking into 12 weeks plus strains. ace's oldtimer's haze is an 18-24 week strain and sweet haze is the stickiest strain i've grown so far, so it has that dreaded "bag appeal" that isn't needed if a strain has a good THC profile to begin with. columbian gold had peachfuzz resin glands you'd be a fool to underestimate and blaze 3-4 nice bong hits with where it would beat you down with the spinning room effect you pray to sleep through asap.
if you want a really fun strain that has a weird, but classy buzz, check mandala's 8 miles high out when it comes back out. it doesn't couchlock at all, but isn't racy either. it's a "clean buzz" for a lack of a better term. you can chill out and watch movies or listen to music on it like you can't on kali mist, but you can do whatever you want too as it has a playful buzz that tries to nudge you into having more fun than you already are. it's not too different from a generic haze, except maybe a little trippier, but another really cool thing i liked about the buzz that it's psychoactivity loves music and dancing. it got me doing the robot and even feeling like one with super precise body control. it's not insanely potent, though not shabby, but i see that as a positive trait as everything it does is "just right" and if i'd bred it, i would have named it goldilocks. unlike hazeskunk which will hit you with the room spinning dizzies if you overdo it, 8 miles has a more laid back personality that won't spank a noob that's never gotten high unless the clear a few big chambers in a row. bottom line, just sip a couple hits, and you're happier than you just were a minute ago and can do whatever it is you want. sometimes you don't want an in your face strain. i like more potent strains better (jack's cleaner 2 is the trippiest i;ve tried with a really cool touchy feely buzz, but has a stoney edge to it, though it's functional for sure), but might be inclined to pick it as a desert island strain as it's right down the middle happy buzz is always a treat.
even being gifted a bud each of kali mist and durban poison in the 90s, up until that point, it was the highest i'd ever gotten last year going all the way back to the 80s when the greedy scum purveyors of addiction that openly bribe politicians to do their bidding and suck their cocks wiped getting high off the map with their illegal paraquat raids i'd like to cram down their vile lungs and watch them choke to death on, for the greater good that is... OK, AND payback for making pure columbian gold extinct except in a few isolated pockets where seeds aren't sold and headstash is all that matters.
you want motivation?
kali mist, C99, sweet haze, haze x skunk & 8 miles high should be on your short list. jack's cleaner 2 should be too if a little bit of lead booty isn't a problem and imaginary ripples of invisible colors radiatiating in tie dye patterns wherever you touch yourself sounds like fun, and it is!
i can't abide by ANYTHING necro in my life so i'm not buying TGA subcool's jack the ripper or sannie's killing fields., but those are reported to be two of the best "indoor hazes" in existence and you should read up on them too. just 50% JTR JC2 is my favorite strain for now. i'm hoping sannie's jack f7 proves even better though. spicy lemon sounds like what i wanted to do with original kali mist with lemony malawi gold and burmese
hope that helps. info on strains that get you high with personality details and comparisons aren't easy to come by, even when you beg and plead for specifics from people who think "man this shit is dank!" & "best shit ever!" mean anything besides the whoever is clueless as to what an adjective is
