What strains were popular in the 60s and 70s?

[VILLAIN]

What kind of weed did most people smoke in those days?

 

[ace720]

Swag......

 

[ciscoin313]

Texas "Shoreline"

 

[mtgeezer]

Matanuska Thunderfuck, Thai Stick/Weed, Colombian Gold or Rainbow, Maui Wowee, Kona Gold, Oaxacan, Michoiacan, Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, Purple Kush, Purple Humboldt and on and on and on.

 

[jimdandy]

Acapulco Gold, Columbian , Redbud, Panama Red. Probally the last time I had landrace Sativas that just took you to the stratosphere.

 

[weedmastatx]

Haha I wasn't around but my moms said she had some shoreline back in central Texas

 

[theexpress]

all landraces ive tried were schwaggy has fuck.....

 

[EZmooover]

Santa Marta Redbud. Circa 1978. Absolutely outstanding!

 

[growone]

there were some very memorable mexican weeds from the 60/70's, memorable but names weren't always attached
there was plenty of crap, lot of mediocre, and some that was magical

 

[zack66]

Columbian red and gold. Panama red, thai weed. Mexican crap and good old Afghani. Started growing the Afghani in the 70's and haven't stopped.

 

[ace720]

Come on now guys. Where y'all get these names from the movies?
As far as I know 95% of the shit that was on the streets in the 60s,70s,&80s
was from Mexico. Straight up bagseed And I'm from Chicago a really big
city we should have been getting some of this good shit y'all talking about

 

[bwest]

Come on now guys. Where y'all get these names from the movies?
As far as I know 95% of the shit that was on the streets in the 60s,70s,&80s
was from Mexico. Straight up bagseed And I'm from Chicago a really big
city we should have been getting some of this good shit y'all talking about

We had the same everyone else listed, lots of Colombian Gold, Panama Red, and Thai stick.
Maybe you need to get out of Chicago more. How could you not have heard of those strains?

 

[yesum]

Columbian red and gold. Panama red, thai weed. Mexican crap and good old Afghani. Started growing the Afghani in the 70's and haven't stopped.

Wish I had gotten some Afghani with seeds back in the 70's. I was 'stuck' with sativa for the most part. Never even heard of Afghani buds back then. Except the hash of course.

 

[Natural Gas]

We had the same everyone else listed, lots of Colombian Gold, Panama Red, and Thai stick.
Maybe you need to get out of Chicago more. How could you not have heard of those strains?

Hawaii, Jamaica, Laotian, Thai, Cambodian coming back from "Nam" equatorial type sativas...Indica was mostly hash form in my neck of the woods...I think I was ordering from Nirvana in the late seventies...Mexican came from Michoacan, Acapulco, Jalisco...That's where I got my bag seed start...FWIW

 

[althor]

99% of the bud was so bad you barely caught a buzz. It was not uncommon to smoke 2 big fat joints down to your finger tips back to back to get a decent high going..

Yes we had "named" buds but it was like once a year something worth smoking would come around. Even then, if you take the best of the 70's and compare it to less than average today, less than average today is much better than the really good of the 70's.
If you could take a bud of something as weak as Big Bud back to 1971, you would be hailed as the king of MJ in the 70s.

 

[RockyMtnMan]

I'm a bit over 50 years old and I grew up in San Diego Ca.
Most of what we smoked was mexican schwag. Flat compressed brick weed.
Being a child in the 60's and a teenager in the 70's, I didn't really smoke in the 60's, but the 70's were fun.
Once we got to know some hippies,(usually a friends older sibling) we started hooking up with this outdoor weed from the mountains around 80 miles Northeast of San Diego. It was called Fallbrook Sensimilla and it was my first real look at a green bud that wasn't compressed and brown.
We got Thai sticks though. Those were brown also and extremely compressed and tied on the sticks, but would send you to the moon.
In the past 15 years or so, with the addition of the internet and information sharing, weed quality and strain development really have improved. I grew for many years in my 20's and stopped when I got married. I just started growing again 2 years ago and the seed banks, internet, MMJ shops, grow shops sure make it a lot easier than it used to be.
Before, you were stuck with whatever clones you could get or create yourself or bag seed. It is a hell of a lot easier to grow good quality weed when you have unlimited resources to attain any and every strain you could desire! Oh the marvels of modern technology!

 

[lilroach]

Rockymtnman....I was in San Diego in the mid-70's and while the weed was not-so-good, a kilo was $125. Hashish was pretty reliable for a good buzz, ounces of pot were $10, thai-stick was around often. I remember walking down Newport avenue and stopping by the "Newport Hotel" where dealers were all perched on the front porch and it was like a drug-flea-market.

I remember scoring some weed from a guy and about 5 minutes later saw the same guy in hand-cuffs running down the street with two cops chasing him. I didn't wait around to find out if the cops were looking for me or not.

 

[Baywatcher]

I'm staring closely at 50. Growing up in the south, it was all about Mexican brickweed for the most part. Occasionally I'd run across Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, Thai Stick (crazy rare where I was, the closest thing to kind bud I smoked back then), Maui Wowie. But mostly it was brick -- the top end brick was sinsemilla, with very few seeds. Hash was a rare treat. It was the mid-80s before I got to smoke some real quality bud.

 

[Po boy]

the great smoke from Cambodia we smoked in Nam!! talk about giggle weed!

 

[RockyMtnMan]

Rockymtnman....I was in San Diego in the mid-70's and while the weed was not-so-good, a kilo was $125. Hashish was pretty reliable for a good buzz, ounces of pot were $10, thai-stick was around often. I remember walking down Newport avenue and stopping by the "Newport Hotel" where dealers were all perched on the front porch and it was like a drug-flea-market.

I remember scoring some weed from a guy and about 5 minutes later saw the same guy in hand-cuffs running down the street with two cops chasing him. I didn't wait around to find out if the cops were looking for me or not.

Lilroach, I remember the gaslamp district in San Diego, they re-vitalized that area in the late 90's and they call it Horton Plaza. Took out all the tatoo parlours, bars, weekly hotels and moved all the hookers up to Point Loma and National City.
I grew up near Mission Bay, (while they were still dredging and building it) so I scored most my weed in P.B from the surfers and older brothers of friends. I remember buying lids. The amount of weed it took to fill a plastic coffee can lid for $15 dollars. I think it was prob. around a 1/4 oz. The Thai sticks would go for $10-$15.