Best buds of 77 + 95

[VAHomegrown]

These have been online forever, most of you have probably seen them. Neat to see the old landrace and heirloom strains from 77', a little before my time. By 95' things started to fatten up considerably (hps, hydro, selective breeding)

 

[PlumberSoCal]

These have been online forever, most of you have probably seen it. Neat to see the old landrace and heirloom strains from 77', a little before my time. By 95' things started to fatten up considerably (hps, hydro, selective breeding)
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I started puffing in 75. Graduated 77 in so cal so I know most of these. Hawaiian was $10 gm when it was around. Thai sticks were $10 ea, the small ones and were 3-4gms. There were larger ones like #10 and opium drizzled over the top $25-35.

The Mexican, gold and sinsemilla were the daily available strains $10-25 bag 0.5-1oz with seeds.

Good friend went to Berkley in 76 after high school and comes home for Christmas with paper grocery snacks full of leaf and bud of skunk. Couldn't hide the smell. He tells me they just toss the leaves out and let me tell ya, got me high af back then, he gave me a bag, lasted for months.

Brings back some great memories and makes me feel old at the same time.

We had what it took back in primitive weed times?

80's were a lot better due to local growers and new strains kept it interesting and the San Fernando Vally just 30 min up the highway started producing tons of killer bud and ounces shot up $200-400 and $35-50 eights. It was very good smoke but dang, expensive.

After a while most of the other from south of the border was gone. No market and that has continued other then a few nostalgia buffs or breeders looking for landrace strains. I don't wanna smoke any of those, they don't compare to today's strains and the trichs feeling like sand when breaking up buds.

 

[VAHomegrown]

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I started puffing in 75. Graduated 77 in so cal so I know most of these. Hawaiian was $10 gm when it was around. Thai sticks were $10 ea, the small ones and were 3-4gms. There were larger ones like #10 and opium drizzled over the top $25-35.

The Mexican, gold and sinsemilla were the daily available strains $10-25 bag 0.5-1oz with seeds.

Good friend went to Berkley in 76 after high school and comes home for Christmas with paper grocery snacks full of leaf and bud of skunk. Couldn't hide the smell. He tells me they just toss the leaves out and let me tell ya, got me high af back then, he gave me a bag, lasted for months.

Brings back some great memories and makes me feel old at the same time.

We had what it took back in primitive weed times?

80's were a lot better due to local growers and new strains kept it interesting and the San Fernando Vally just 30 min up the highway started producing tons of killer bud and ounces shot up $200-400 and $35-50 eights. It was very good smoke but dang, expensive.

After a while most of the other from south of the border was gone. No market and that has continued other then a few nostalgia buffs or breeders looking for landrace strains. I don't wanna smoke any of those, they don't compare to today's strains and the trichs feeling like sand when breaking up buds.

What I wouldn't give to have been able to smoke in that era and in California as well!! Legendary stuff for sure!
I started smoking in the mid 90s and import Mexican brick was the norm until 98/99 we started getting beasters in bulk. By 2000 we had some "headies" lol mostly what I would know now to be blueberry crosses, skunks, early OGs and romulan. My dad was a smoker until recently (graduated in the early 70's) and always speaks of the good old days, even when smoking the newest cuts.

 

[manthatreeks]

Haha, nice. A little before my time as well, but from what I'm told, some of it was pretty damn good. I mean it had to be right?

Of course that's long before we started putting so much emphasis on what things "look like".

I'll never forget going to a dispensary to offload some "overages" and the clown behind the counter said Wow, smells amazing but its foxtailed" He wanted to lowball me over a natural trait of a specific strain. It was a sativa dominate wall climber. He couldn't differentiate between a trait and somebody's stressed out indica grown by someone who couldn't control the temps or ran out of height to the light. I knew I was wasting my breath as he claimed his customers woudn't buy it... I politely told him "Then you'd do well to better educate you customers" and walked.

Seriously though, I've scraped dog turd infused grass clogs from underneath my mower deck that looks better than some of that. Yowsa!

edit^ wouldn't buy it

 

[manthatreeks]

Good friend went to Berkley in 76 after high school and comes home for Christmas with paper grocery snacks full of leaf and bud of skunk. Couldn't hide the smell.

What I wouldn't give to have been able to smoke in that era and in California as well!! Legendary stuff for sure!

I have very fond memories of California spent 10 years of my life in NorCal, stationed at Travis AFB for 6. Used to drive to Berkley to chase college broads. Speaking of stinky herbs, my first gifted clone was an original blueberry, supposedly off a 30 year old mother, man that thing was a lingering stinker. I used to sell zips to my girlfriends manager, I'd throw it in the glovebox and just from the short 8 minute trip my ride would REEK like overly sweet, overly ripe blueberries. Id have to roll the windows down to get rid of it.

I held that cut for about a year before I left California for the midwest... I gave it back to my first mentor who gave it to me. I'd give my left testicle to get that cut back. It was a bitch to trim but man, haven't smelled anything that matched it's name like that since.