hazey grapes
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i've finally tried enough named strains to have an easy top 10 favorites. my interest in strains is ONLY about getting high, and i'll just leave it at that.
if you haven't tried 10 strains yet, then just name however many favorites you have. it'd be nice if everyone listed them in order of preference or state that you simply like "all of these" if you don't have particular favorites. i'd like to get a heads up on some new best of the best strains myself and would hope everyone finds new inspiration for their grows or shopping.
it would also be nice if you shared the "why"s behind your favorites to let people know what stands out about your favorite... super fast flowering time? delicious whatever flavor? unusual effects? just whatever makes them different from everything else.
1. jack's cleaner 2 (TGA subcool) - a really fun trippy buzz with sensory effects, nice euphoria and a moderate stone. the flavor was nice enough and more lemongrass than lemon maybe. it finishes in just 9 weeks too unlike a lot of 12 weeks plus strains that get you high like this. the only complaint i'd have was the amount of stone in early flowering at least, but the fun effects were way more important so it's minor griping. trippy ass columbian gold was stonier than haze skunk, so a little stone that doesn't actually impair you is fine with me if a strain has nice laughter factor and sensory effects. this one gave me a weird "sensory ephasia" effect that i could "sense" invisible ripples of tie dye like color in my skin wherever i touched at one point that had me stop and laugh good. i don't know yet, but i might be inclined to call it as good as gold some day. i like the light floaty feeling you could get from gold, but feeling colors is some funky shit for sure. oh wow! i bet this one rocks for fucking!
2. haze skunk (high quality seeds) - not quite as sensory as JC2 and real columbian gold, but it has some cerebral activity with a stone that's little more than lead eye in an otherwise SUPER potent high. it's like an AK47 of hazes without the stone. the high is long lasting & clear headed enough to be amazing motivational weed. i didn't care for the cheesy hints of cigar wrapper in it's flavor, but the high is very nice and is the most potent high i've ever had. the flavor was milder and less disgusting than diesels, cat piss, and even sickeningly sweet lavender though and bearable. once you get high, it's really good for tuning distractions like hunger pangs out though by focusing on whatever. like columbian gold, it will get you dizzy if you go crazy on a few big hits. it's really well behaved though if you respect it. the beans are cheap too.
3. 8 miles high (mandala) - it won't be back until '13, but it's an awesome fun light buzz that gets everything just right kind of like a typical clear headed euphoric haze maybe with a little extra dose of playful nudging. it liked music and dancing maybe a little more than anything else i've smoked and just 2 light hits had me happy as a clam. i'd smoked energetic but clear headed C99 before it, but that was the first REAL as in involved in one's senses high i can name a strain to that i'd had since original kali mist & durban poison once and columbian gold back in the 80s. it wasn't racy like C99 can get or especially kali mist, but had zero stone too with a perfectly centered energy level focused on just chilling and having fun whether it be relaxing to jazz on the radio or activities. it might be more similar to common fruity hazes than i remember, but it's buzz just had this "clean" quality that made it classy to me. i remember feeling like i had precise muscle control doing the robot on this. it's the kind of bud you could smoke all day every day. i don't know how well it does the tolerance thing, but the THC profile was just right for me. can't wait to see it back in circulation again. if you want to get high, this is a great start
4. sweet haze (DNA genetics) - this haze is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! i mean literally. it leans more towards sativa & stretches, but it doesn't skimp on bud weight or resin or fruitiness. this one had the attention to details in it's QUALITY you don't get from slower flowering strains clinging to their afghani sides. i liked short stuff's autoflowering super cali haze for this kind of bud last year, but think it might have gotten it's delicious grape notes from using a halide light as i got milder grape notes out of joey weed C99 (that was just fruity under sodium BXed) & barney's farm LSD too with the latter having cat piss pheno showing in early flowering. i think on a level playing field, this one would outclass that one too as it really went to town making above average bud. i'll test the 2 side by side in the future if i can, but this haze is just fine by me if it wasn't as grape as fruity as i think it had more psychoactivity.
5. sativa trans love (john sinclair) - i've recently tested a lot of jacks, hazes and thais that had similar sweet fruity berry flavors and that all shared similar buzzes with this strain, but this one takes the fast flowering & resin making cake. it makes 55 day C99 look like a giant and has more of a haze like light cerebral side. for getting high practically and in small spaces, you can do far worse than this. it flowered faster than stony sour cream and made resin asap. it had a funny hints of silicone worm lure odor in it's early flowering under the fruity odor that faded after a couple weeks. the later odor was much nicer. once i flipped this strain, it just stopped dead in it's tracks and budded to the flat top i'd pruned and had harvestable sticky bud in just 30 days even making seeds. i don't know what the actual flowering time was, but this plant had acceptable buds when others were just starting to flower. i bet you'll start hearing some positive reviewing of the other freebie strains JS sent out. indica viper i think and i might still have his skunk amsterdam still that might be nicer than the unimpressive one i was getting for a minute in the late 80s. well, unimpressive for me maybe, but better than everything else around by a fair margin.
6. amnesia haze (rokerij) - a really nice bargain haze that's as good as many of it's haze, jack & thai rivals but at a bargain basement price. if it was all i had to smoke, i wouldn't complain. nice fruity motivational & euphoric high that's clearheaded. more expensive gear i've tested was no better other than sweet haze and maybe super cali haze though one person that's tried SCH claimed that it had a short lasting buzz. i was just wowed by how my my SCH tasted like straight up grape juice under a halide. that's where my handle originated. SCH was only my 3rd fave at the time, but it just had a delicious authentic flavor and nice buzz making it well rounded and classy.
7. kali mist (serious seeds) - i was lucky to get a gram when it still tasted like crushed red pepper on not the toned down fruitier strain that it is now because i thought it was delicious. the buzz is still the same though from comparing notes... a soaring blissed out almost shroom level euphoria with a clearheaded thought provoking can't sit still motivational buzz that's a blast. it's EXTREMELY fun high quality smoke, but just too energetic to sit still on. it's all about constant happy activity and not kicking back and tripping out on tunes like you can more neutral energy and trippy sativas. the original especially for the flavor too would be a no brainer keeper strain as long as you have another strain or two that aren't racy available. i begged and pleaded to no avail to score an eigth until i quit bidding at $120 when i was gifted a gram. i like trippier buzzes like haze skunk and especially columbian gold and JC2 more though. they're all also more mellow in their energy levels if varying degrees of slightly stony too. at 17 weeks flowering too... KM takes it's time telling you to hurry up nonstop
8. C99 (joey weed) - was the very first bud i grew and though i was disappointed that it's buzz was similar to kali mist's with a mildly grape flavor under halide because it wasn't trippy, it's a nice high especially when you factor in JW's 45 day flowering time while other C99s take 55 days. i think tripper and more neutral A11 would be funner, but i love C99 for activities. mosca's A11 genius and bodhi's C99 are both getting positive word of mouth and might both be trippier. anything that doesn't get you stoned is good enough for me
9. full moon (nirvana seeds) - even though it lived up to it's fussy highland thai IBL traits, it also lived up to it's tutti fruity flavor making it extra sexy just in that department making it smell just like a rainbow lollypop (juicy fruit gum) incense. it turned hermie on me when it finally decided to flower and the tiny bud starts were nothing but potent stone, but according to a grower who finished it, it does live up to it's trippy rep when finished. i'd really like to try to tackle it again when i can give it the extra care it needs to be done right. it might be top quality, but i still hold a grudge for it fighting me on flowering.
10. durban poison (unknown breeder) - like the kali mist, i was gifted a gram of this and couldn't buy any of it either. it WAS the 1st genuine high i'd had in 10 years though it was only as potent as a "top of the line" mexican commercial and no more trippy than haze skunk, but it had a really distinctive black licorice taste that made it exotic. i can't stand licorice and every expansive hit i took gave me dry heaves, but it got me high and i'll grudgingly give it the 10th spot for it's authentic though nauseating flavor and being an actual high. i'd rather get dry heaves off this than doze off on anything ever
what strains have impressed you and why?
if you haven't tried 10 strains yet, then just name however many favorites you have. it'd be nice if everyone listed them in order of preference or state that you simply like "all of these" if you don't have particular favorites. i'd like to get a heads up on some new best of the best strains myself and would hope everyone finds new inspiration for their grows or shopping.
it would also be nice if you shared the "why"s behind your favorites to let people know what stands out about your favorite... super fast flowering time? delicious whatever flavor? unusual effects? just whatever makes them different from everything else.
1. jack's cleaner 2 (TGA subcool) - a really fun trippy buzz with sensory effects, nice euphoria and a moderate stone. the flavor was nice enough and more lemongrass than lemon maybe. it finishes in just 9 weeks too unlike a lot of 12 weeks plus strains that get you high like this. the only complaint i'd have was the amount of stone in early flowering at least, but the fun effects were way more important so it's minor griping. trippy ass columbian gold was stonier than haze skunk, so a little stone that doesn't actually impair you is fine with me if a strain has nice laughter factor and sensory effects. this one gave me a weird "sensory ephasia" effect that i could "sense" invisible ripples of tie dye like color in my skin wherever i touched at one point that had me stop and laugh good. i don't know yet, but i might be inclined to call it as good as gold some day. i like the light floaty feeling you could get from gold, but feeling colors is some funky shit for sure. oh wow! i bet this one rocks for fucking!
2. haze skunk (high quality seeds) - not quite as sensory as JC2 and real columbian gold, but it has some cerebral activity with a stone that's little more than lead eye in an otherwise SUPER potent high. it's like an AK47 of hazes without the stone. the high is long lasting & clear headed enough to be amazing motivational weed. i didn't care for the cheesy hints of cigar wrapper in it's flavor, but the high is very nice and is the most potent high i've ever had. the flavor was milder and less disgusting than diesels, cat piss, and even sickeningly sweet lavender though and bearable. once you get high, it's really good for tuning distractions like hunger pangs out though by focusing on whatever. like columbian gold, it will get you dizzy if you go crazy on a few big hits. it's really well behaved though if you respect it. the beans are cheap too.
3. 8 miles high (mandala) - it won't be back until '13, but it's an awesome fun light buzz that gets everything just right kind of like a typical clear headed euphoric haze maybe with a little extra dose of playful nudging. it liked music and dancing maybe a little more than anything else i've smoked and just 2 light hits had me happy as a clam. i'd smoked energetic but clear headed C99 before it, but that was the first REAL as in involved in one's senses high i can name a strain to that i'd had since original kali mist & durban poison once and columbian gold back in the 80s. it wasn't racy like C99 can get or especially kali mist, but had zero stone too with a perfectly centered energy level focused on just chilling and having fun whether it be relaxing to jazz on the radio or activities. it might be more similar to common fruity hazes than i remember, but it's buzz just had this "clean" quality that made it classy to me. i remember feeling like i had precise muscle control doing the robot on this. it's the kind of bud you could smoke all day every day. i don't know how well it does the tolerance thing, but the THC profile was just right for me. can't wait to see it back in circulation again. if you want to get high, this is a great start
4. sweet haze (DNA genetics) - this haze is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! i mean literally. it leans more towards sativa & stretches, but it doesn't skimp on bud weight or resin or fruitiness. this one had the attention to details in it's QUALITY you don't get from slower flowering strains clinging to their afghani sides. i liked short stuff's autoflowering super cali haze for this kind of bud last year, but think it might have gotten it's delicious grape notes from using a halide light as i got milder grape notes out of joey weed C99 (that was just fruity under sodium BXed) & barney's farm LSD too with the latter having cat piss pheno showing in early flowering. i think on a level playing field, this one would outclass that one too as it really went to town making above average bud. i'll test the 2 side by side in the future if i can, but this haze is just fine by me if it wasn't as grape as fruity as i think it had more psychoactivity.
5. sativa trans love (john sinclair) - i've recently tested a lot of jacks, hazes and thais that had similar sweet fruity berry flavors and that all shared similar buzzes with this strain, but this one takes the fast flowering & resin making cake. it makes 55 day C99 look like a giant and has more of a haze like light cerebral side. for getting high practically and in small spaces, you can do far worse than this. it flowered faster than stony sour cream and made resin asap. it had a funny hints of silicone worm lure odor in it's early flowering under the fruity odor that faded after a couple weeks. the later odor was much nicer. once i flipped this strain, it just stopped dead in it's tracks and budded to the flat top i'd pruned and had harvestable sticky bud in just 30 days even making seeds. i don't know what the actual flowering time was, but this plant had acceptable buds when others were just starting to flower. i bet you'll start hearing some positive reviewing of the other freebie strains JS sent out. indica viper i think and i might still have his skunk amsterdam still that might be nicer than the unimpressive one i was getting for a minute in the late 80s. well, unimpressive for me maybe, but better than everything else around by a fair margin.
6. amnesia haze (rokerij) - a really nice bargain haze that's as good as many of it's haze, jack & thai rivals but at a bargain basement price. if it was all i had to smoke, i wouldn't complain. nice fruity motivational & euphoric high that's clearheaded. more expensive gear i've tested was no better other than sweet haze and maybe super cali haze though one person that's tried SCH claimed that it had a short lasting buzz. i was just wowed by how my my SCH tasted like straight up grape juice under a halide. that's where my handle originated. SCH was only my 3rd fave at the time, but it just had a delicious authentic flavor and nice buzz making it well rounded and classy.
7. kali mist (serious seeds) - i was lucky to get a gram when it still tasted like crushed red pepper on not the toned down fruitier strain that it is now because i thought it was delicious. the buzz is still the same though from comparing notes... a soaring blissed out almost shroom level euphoria with a clearheaded thought provoking can't sit still motivational buzz that's a blast. it's EXTREMELY fun high quality smoke, but just too energetic to sit still on. it's all about constant happy activity and not kicking back and tripping out on tunes like you can more neutral energy and trippy sativas. the original especially for the flavor too would be a no brainer keeper strain as long as you have another strain or two that aren't racy available. i begged and pleaded to no avail to score an eigth until i quit bidding at $120 when i was gifted a gram. i like trippier buzzes like haze skunk and especially columbian gold and JC2 more though. they're all also more mellow in their energy levels if varying degrees of slightly stony too. at 17 weeks flowering too... KM takes it's time telling you to hurry up nonstop
8. C99 (joey weed) - was the very first bud i grew and though i was disappointed that it's buzz was similar to kali mist's with a mildly grape flavor under halide because it wasn't trippy, it's a nice high especially when you factor in JW's 45 day flowering time while other C99s take 55 days. i think tripper and more neutral A11 would be funner, but i love C99 for activities. mosca's A11 genius and bodhi's C99 are both getting positive word of mouth and might both be trippier. anything that doesn't get you stoned is good enough for me
9. full moon (nirvana seeds) - even though it lived up to it's fussy highland thai IBL traits, it also lived up to it's tutti fruity flavor making it extra sexy just in that department making it smell just like a rainbow lollypop (juicy fruit gum) incense. it turned hermie on me when it finally decided to flower and the tiny bud starts were nothing but potent stone, but according to a grower who finished it, it does live up to it's trippy rep when finished. i'd really like to try to tackle it again when i can give it the extra care it needs to be done right. it might be top quality, but i still hold a grudge for it fighting me on flowering.
10. durban poison (unknown breeder) - like the kali mist, i was gifted a gram of this and couldn't buy any of it either. it WAS the 1st genuine high i'd had in 10 years though it was only as potent as a "top of the line" mexican commercial and no more trippy than haze skunk, but it had a really distinctive black licorice taste that made it exotic. i can't stand licorice and every expansive hit i took gave me dry heaves, but it got me high and i'll grudgingly give it the 10th spot for it's authentic though nauseating flavor and being an actual high. i'd rather get dry heaves off this than doze off on anything ever
what strains have impressed you and why?
