I like the history. Keep it coming. The biker story seemed right out of "sons of anarchy", good shit.
What do you think of the "sativas" of today? Are any of these new strains spittin images of their ancestors?
I think sativas get a bum rap... I feel like most pure sativas which are almost impossible to find anymore lean toward more equitorial very thin leaf plant from damp jungle environments, However I think plant like some Mexican strains may not be actual landrace strains but thru breeding and adaptation some of the strains have became invasive strains adapted to their environments. These sativas can have fatter leaves but this is my speculation. I ve said the term hemp is used incorrectly. Now with DNA mappinng of cannabis we found out that I was correct about sativas. I notice in my seed bank that I had certain strains that would sky rocket,,, many labled,
From Valley of the Giants... river bottom bud , grew with 40' trees
Jack & Bean Stocks, bent over woven into the corn fields and weeds and fence lines
Jolly Grn Giant and others
I notice that the 30' - 40' plants would have 2 distict Genotypes . Each genotype common to its own strain.
Many of the sative strains broke down into 2 different commonalities in traits.
The ones that grew 25- 30 ft were brachy and not as limber. Lemon smells. mediocre toughness.
The 2nd strain had genotypes 30- 40' and 7 - 10ft to first branch, delicate plant and other traits.
So it came together for me in 1983 when I germ some seed from a Boat Ppl person that gave 2 strains of seeds, One he said was grown on a chinese river and the other was a strainn from Nam. The grew EXACTLY like he described. I realized what was in my seed bank from HS, 2 distinct sativa strains were appearing
So we had cannabis naming wrong and it kept messing me up trying to figure this out. We had the nomenclature of Cannabis incorrect. I knew something was wrong in the naming convention and I knew we were missing some break down in classification and I knew that the name new scientific name of Hemp class was made up by the Gov scientist and that botanist traveling with Exporers made mistake in Hemp naming. The indians told the Explorers and his botanists that Hemp is not cannabis , those plants are Indian Red Hemp , its not cannabis, Botanist got it wrong long time ago. We figured it out and renamed Indian Red Hemp to cannabinus,, but they didnt fix the cannabacea family until very recent. There are now Trees , berries and many palnts in the Cannabis Classifications. I noticed saw tooth leaves on all these plants,,, huh,,, this was a massive shift in the family and naming.
The Chinese strain ive worked with is my 'Ancient Chinese Secret', 40' 10ft to first branch, delicate smaller buds and one massive top cola. Long gangly and out grows some predictor zones but very difficult to grow in most areas. I finally grew it rite in 22' foot green house. The new name, kinda (actually the old name) assigned to this strain is:
Cannabis chinensis Delile.Ancient Chinese Secret CV
The Vietnam strain
30' branchy and lemon tougher sativa and other traits but those are good indicators you have Vietnam (Indo-China) this strain is named:
Cannabis gigantea Delile ex Vilmorin CV LinoLemonator
I dont want to go into my giant Thai pures and cultivars rite now but this WAS a controversial nomenclature here also. So glad to see em starting to get it rite.
Haze, well all these sativa' have a commonality that I think gives them a bad rap. They're Very HARD to grow. Its hard to replicate their native environment. I find it hard to get pure sativa's produce with potency like they can produce in thier native environments. 20 weeks in a tent and they get sick if your not on your game... And who the hell does that for some gangly plants that hard to grow... But if I were in Cali or Florida I'd be breeding them and it would still be hard to get them to produce proper.
@MandyJane , how bout posting that fancy named Hawaii sativa, she a good a example of what I like about sativa. Sativas can be the shit if you grow it rite,.. I,ve noted some sativas thriving under LEDs. taking notes ...