Solid Gold Butt Plug wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:58 pm
IMO the extra week thing is for outdoor growers because it’s a lot harder to use a calendar and you need to rely on your own judgment, people in general are impatient and tend to pull early.
For me I aim for the best taste and don’t care what kind of ride the flower takes me on.
There are certainly some tasty strains around these days but for me it's always been about the high. Perhaps it's physiology, but I'm sensitive to different types of effects and steer clear of anything that gives me even a slight tinge of paranoia or muscle-tension headache. My wife's the same. She's has no interest in the recreational side of cannabis but takes CBD for her fibromyalgia. If there's too much THC in her oil, or the wrong ratio (a small amount THC has a synergistic effect) it does more harm than good.
Everyone's different and I have friends who can smoke the most paranoid-inducing (to me) strains and think they're great, but I steer away from them.
It's also interesting that when I smoke with a lot of the younger crowd these days and offer them a nice, soaring sativa dom (like a Nev's Haze or SSH or cross thereof) they say they've never smoked anything like it. Everything is hybrid these days. Some are quite uplifting and pleasant to smoke, but they all have some body to them. There aren't many (if any) modern strains I've tried that have been all in the head, with that clear, dreamy high that takes a long time to creep up on you and then let's you slip in and out of it like you don't even know you're high sometimes – that's how high you are!
Perhaps it's a cultural thing. I grew up exclusively on sativas - mostly Thai "Buddha" and the local sativas we used to grow outdoors in Oz that were descended from SE Asian strains brought back by the 60s and 70s hippies and Vietnam War servicemen. I never smoked an indica until I started travelling in my early 20s and came across hash that was mostly produced in Central Asia. Later I started growing indoors and discovered all the different effects of the hybrids.
All my jars are now sorted into whatever mood I'm in. I have pot that I only smoke before I go to bed; pot that I only smoke in the day or early evening; pot for socialising; pot for the munchies (when I'm not really hungry but have to go out to dinner with people); pot for getting shit done; and pot for relaxing on the couch when it's not quite time for bed yet.
If I was only after taste, I'd invest in a dab rig. I really like extracts but it's also a lot of hassle compared to hitting a bong or joint. I mostly dab with friends because I can't be fucked doing it on my own. Maybe I'm just lazy.
