So the smell thing I have a theory on. The reason we all remember the smell so much is because they were selling us partially dry/cured bud. Extra weight means extra dollars. Combine that with something that reeks and looks way nicer and you have a money printing machine. Back in the day we had 3 options in NOVA. Mexican Brick, Beasters & 4-way. I saw chem/diesel NYC bud every now and then but mainly it was 4way if you wanted any sort of nice bud.
Never tried the Schuyler skunk or the FFX 4way but we had the VB ghani clone starting in mid nineties for many years along with a wicked origional old AK47 from serious seeds and a NL5 hybrid we created that was super fire . The VBghani grew big huge plants indoors and did well outside also. It is still to this day the strongest Indica we ever tried and we’re talking in 40 years of hunting, unreal expansion. She was a spider mite magnet when we got her , came in a cube of rockwool for 20$ . He actually gave us 2 of em for 20$ a piece. The 90’s were the pinnacle for ganga in our opinion, , todays weed is all the same with flavor and canibanoids bred out for potency. But the weed is no more potent now if not less potent . The highs are bland and one dementional. . The VB ghani was vigorous and never really got rid of the mites but she just powered through them . We trashed her (regrettfully ) because of the mites .. She is still talked about and around VB but held tight because the man who created it got broken into and ripped years ago at his grow. She is still around but hard to get . He had a nasty Super skunk and another hybrid we never got to try. I always wondered if that Super skunk was the one used by chemdog and crew for the sour deisel .. A lot of great weed on tour with the Dead . Wouldnt be surprised if its the same.
My buddy down in VA Beach has been trying like mad to track down the VB Ghani. I know a few breeders still work with it and its kept on lock and key which I get. I have found some excellent plants from recent seeds I have bought. Crickets and Cicada, Lucky Dog, Coastal seem to have that 90's type of buzz somewhat nailed down. I think people just want instant gratification these days vs actually hunting through making some selections and then running them all again.
I don't believe they have the same lineage,
Yeah the original 4way was skunk x south Indian x north indian x Pakistani if my memory serves me right
That is correct from everything I have read or heard on various podcasts. Key being old Sensi Stock pre bust days while Neville was still with the company. Apparently post bust the seeds where never the same as they had all new breeding parents. I've not bought the current Sensi Seeds offering to compare. And it's been like 20 years since I had the FFX 4way so who knows. I do remember how it grows and Adam Dunn sums up the plant pretty much to a T on his pod cast
Yeah ive seen that ep ive tried the 4way years ago wasnt the Fairfax but from the same stock no doubt it was a good strain idk what sensis ones like now lots arent the same but i know some things they have arent so different there hindu kush and mli are still good i know that from my own experience there shiva shanti used to be pretty good too i wonder if that one still kicks out the garlic bud pheno like it did years ago or if thats different now too
Well I know this is an old post, but the ffx 4-way is back in town. You can buy the seed locally. Your so right it stunk up everything. The genetic are solid I'm from the area and remember it well just back from tech 03 and boy didn't think I'd find anything but beasters . Great strain.
Where locally? Are these S1's? The seeds that made it have to be around 30+ years old. Hopefully they revived via tissue culture.
Check the manassas grow shop on 28 the owner should be able 2 help
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I'll check them out for sure thanks! I've been collecting and growing anything that has 4way in it and all have turned up not even close to the cut that went around here in the late 90's early 2000's.
I'm hoping it's going 2 come close. . It was great in the past if it even comes close I'll be very happy
I'm not holding my breath. Would be a nice trip down memory lane.. But the modern stuff I've been growing is just as potent and nicer looking than that old 4 way. Maybe doesn't have the stank of that stuff.. But I swear the commercial guys that were slinging it in the 90's were selling half wet weed. My buddy used to get LB's of the stuff.
I hear that. She will still be fun to grow.
