AK Bean Brains

jimihendrix1

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Most memorable were

Santa Marta Sensi in 72-73. Oaxacan in 72. Vietnam Black in 71. Buddies vbrother brouth back several lbs of it.
Had a good deal of Thai/LOOSE, not sticks in the 70s which was killer. But was expensive. In 74 it was $200ozusd
In my neck of the woods in E Ky in 74 we had a huge imported weed drought over the summer. 3 months. All kinds of LSD, PCP, Tuinal, Black Beauties, Desoxyn, but no weed.

Then in the fall, Columbian started coming in. Mainly it was all high quality Mexican, though it was quite seeded. Was still stupid potent.
The Columbian Gold was the first to start popping up, and then Red, and weed went from $40 a 1/4 to $80. The weed was quite good, but no better then the best of the best Mexicans. Taste was different. Alot had a peppery taste, and some very sweet, and floral.
We didnt get alot of Columbian in E Ky in the early early 70s, but starting in the Fall of 74, anyhting any good was labeled as Columbian, and the shit was Mexican.

I attribute this to the paraquating of the fields in Mexico, and they had to shift to Columbia, and what Mex did get in was mostly contaminated.
I remember my buddies had some shit that smelled of Diesel. As in real deal oily fuel, not the one we all know and love.

I wouldnt smoke it. Paraquat I believe is oil based.

Another time in late 74, same buddy had some shit that smelled like cat food, and thats what they named it. 5 of use were riding down the road, and they were smoking it, agian, no way I smoke anything that doesnt smell like weed, and it burst into flames when they were smoking it.
My one buddies little brother had a stroke in 74, and it was attributed to Paraquat. He was 15 years old. He lived, and is still alive. Drinks. Unfortunately.

All through 75-79, it was mostly Columbian, Thai.

Also Im not counting local grown. Ky has long been a state of alot of weed growing.
We also used to get alot of stuff from Meigs County in the early-mid 70s, and was known as the California of the East. Thats where I first discovered real deal skunk. They also never called it Skunk, nothing more, and to bust some bubbles, all of it was not acrid aka RKS, most of all the very best I ever saw was floral,, skunk spray, with a bit of cat pee. Its all in the sulfiur family. But the earliest skunk in the 70s in Meigs I ever saw reek from 50 feet away, or more, and had a skunk overtones, with flowers, and cat piss in the backround. They were also Sativa Structured plants. BIG plants.
Also by 78 I had started growing with HID.
Early 80s saw columbian going away, and alot of Jamican, with Red Stripe Beer caps pressed into the bricks.
Also around early 80s, seeds started to become available, and the 1st ones we bought were Nevils Mazar. Then we started buying all we could.
By 1979 the Meigs guys got hit hard by the cops, as Meigs is a really small county, though they did survive, alot of the genetics got lost. My buddy lost the skunk to the cops long ago.
My buddy was told the skunk they had from Meigs, had Kerela in it. Buddy still says so to this day. Dont know any of the other genetics.

We bought all kinds of stuff from Nevil/Seed Bank, SSSC, Prarie Fire, Serious Seeds in 90s, Dutch passion, Flying Dutchmen, and several others.
Best stuff I saw in the 90s was NL5/Haze x Hashplant/Sk1. I was given 15 seeds, and F2 all of them, and was overall the best shit EVER. Even my older buddy that had the Meigs connection, says its the best hes ever seen.

All the genes got lost to the FBI in 1997. Except a buddy has some old mothers of a few plants. 90s AK47, 1999 Sensi NL5, 90s Sensi Afghan #1/Smells like grapes.
 
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cbizzle

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Most memorable were

Santa Marta Sinsi in 72-73. Oaxacan in 72. Vietnam Black in 71. Buddies vbrother brouth back several lbs of it.
Had a good deal of Thai/LOOSE, not sticks in the 70s which was killer. But was expensive. In 74 it was $200ozusd
In my neck of the woods in E Ky in 74 we had a huge imported weed drought over the summer. 3 months. All kinds of LSD, PCP, Tuinal, Black Beauties, Desoxyn, but no weed.

Then in the fall, Columbian started coming in. Mainly it was all high quality Mexican, though it was quite seeded. Was still stupid potent.
The Columbian Gold was the first to start popping up, and then Red, and weed went from $40 a 1/4 to $80. The weed was quite good, but no better then the best of the best Mexicans. Taste was different. Alot had a peppery taste, and some very sweet, and floral.
We didnt get alot of Columbian in E Ky in the early early 70s, but starting in the Fall of 74, anyhting any good was labeled as Columbian, and the shit was Mexican.

I attribute this to the paraquating of the fields in Mexico, and they had to shift to Columbia, and what Mex did get in was mostly contaminated.
I remember my buddies had some shit that smelled of Diesel. As in real deal oily fuel, not the one we all know and love.

I wouldnt smoke it. Paraquat I believe is oil based.

Another time in late 74, same buddy had some shit that smelled like cat food, and thats what they named it. 5 of use were riding down the road, and they were smoking it, agian, no way I smoke anything that doesnt smell like weed, and it burst into flames when they were smoking it.
My one buddies little brother had a stroke in 74, and it was attributed to Paraquat. He was 15 years old. He lived, and is still alive. Drinks. Unfortunately.

All through 75-79, it was mostly Columbian, Thai.

Also Im not counting local grown. Ky has long been a state of alot of weed growing.
We also used to get alot of stuff from Meigs County in the early-mid 70s, and was known as the California of the East. Thats where I first discovered real deal skunk. They also never called it Skunk, nothing more, and to bust some bubbles, all of it was not acrid aka RKS, most of all the very best I ever saw was floral,, skunk spray, with a bit of cat pee. Its all in the sulfiur family. But the earliest skunk in the 70s in Meigs I ever saw reek from 50 feet away, or more, and had a skunk overtones, with flowers, and cat piss in the backround. They were also Sativa Structured plants. BIG plants.
Also by 78 I had started growing with HID.
Early 80s saw columbian going away, and alot of Jamican, with Red Stripe Beer caps pressed into the bricks.
Also around early 80s, seeds started to become available, and the 1st ones we bought were Nevils Mazar. Then we started buying all we could.
By 1979 the Meigs guys got hit hard by the cops, as Meigs is a really small county, though they did survive, alot of the genetics got lost. My buddy lost the skunk to the cops long ago.
My buddy was told the skunk they had from Meigs, had Kerela in it. Buddy still says so to this day. Dont know any of the other genetics.

We bought all kinds of stuff from Nevil/Seed Bank, SSSC, Prarie Fire, Serious Seeds in 90s, Dutch passion, Flying Dutchmen, and several others.
Best stuff I saw in the 90s was NL5/Haze x Hashplant/Sk1. I was given 15 seeds, and F2 all of them, and was overall the best shit EVER. Even my older buddy that had the Meigs connection, says its the best hes ever seen.

All the genes got lost to the FBI in 1997. Except a buddy has some old mothers of a few plants. 90s AK47, 1999 Sensi NL5, 90s Sensi Afghan #1/Smells like grapes.
That skunk you talk about back in the day gets me excited to pop these authentic genetics original skunk and original haze beans.
 

GrassBurner

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Man yall were lucky. The weed my generation got was a mixture of seeds,stems,leaves,and flower in equal ratios. If you were really unlucky you got some that smelled like ammonia or windex, and you just had to throw it away. This would have been early 2000's. It did have 1 quality that I enjoyed. The buzz took 15-20 minutes to hit, and it came out of nowhere like a freight train. Was like a jack in the box :lol: And it was cheap, like $20 a quarter. Then all the sudden it was just "dro". Any and all good looking flower was dro :lol:No more brick weed to be found, and it was up to $100 a quarter. It was fire, but fuck, i couldnt spend 25% of my paycheck on smoke. Finally we would get some stuff we called mids, decent smoke at a decent price.
 

Growitpondifarm

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Just chopped the stardawg/NL-1x skunk plant I had and man the thing REEKS. It’s nasty, I get mostly burnt rubber or asphalt type smell, with hint of skunk. all of the AKBB plants I have grown have such a refreshingly different smell than pretty much everything else being hyped this days. I can’t wait to try this stuff. Medium-hard buds, insanely vigorous plant. Classic green leaves with big pine cone buds. Not as photogenic as some some of the hyped stuff I’ve been growing but I’m stoked, and a freebie at that. Here’s the most recent photo I have from couple weeks ago, will update once it’s done hangingF361B47F-04C7-4B59-B148-35D4FFCCA64D.jpeg
 

mindriot

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Just chopped the stardawg/NL-1x skunk plant I had and man the thing REEKS. It’s nasty, I get mostly burnt rubber or asphalt type smell, with hint of skunk. all of the AKBB plants I have grown have such a refreshingly different smell than pretty much everything else being hyped this days. I can’t wait to try this stuff. Medium-hard buds, insanely vigorous plant. Classic green leaves with big pine cone buds. Not as photogenic as some some of the hyped stuff I’ve been growing but I’m stoked, and a freebie at that. Here’s the most recent photo I have from couple weeks ago, will update once it’s done hangingView attachment 4765244
Looks good, I had 2 phenos, one was lemon/pinesol, and the other was wet gym socks in a musty basement.
 

Bakersfield

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I moved to Alaska in 83 and started smoking pot then and there one week later. :lol:
Weed was $10 a gram through out the 80's, which was very expensive compared to the dime bags in
Bako, Cali, but you didnt find anything but quality for sale, no brick weed, Alaskans pride themselves for having the best weed in the world.
It seems everyone has finally caught up.
Great weed was imported here from Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Thailand and some excellent shit was grown in the "valley" or anything that kicked ass was called MTF to sell it.
Lots of drugs and big wads of money back in the boomer - pipeline years in the Ak.

Here's the Americanna.
After hanging a couple of weeks, the
campho phenique smell has changed over to citrus.
She now reminds me of a bag of rotten oranges, minus the moldy smells.
This one is dense, and she is extremely rot prone, the bx might have similar issues.
This one is lightly seeded from a brief encounter with a Mac Stomper male.
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SYZ

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4/8 females from the Skunk Qabbage/Mimosa
2/2 from the Blue Steel/Big Skunk (on the right)

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All getting topped down to the 3rd node tonight, allowed to recover for a few days then potted on to 9l finals.
Blue Steel/Big Skunk still looking freaky with mottled, twisted leaves and TMV traits. One has whorled phylotaxy. Will probably flower just one of these.

@Bakersfield that Americanna looks delicious and deadly. Think I might run them and the NL5/Haze next.
 

The Mantis

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4/8 females from the Skunk Qabbage/Mimosa
2/2 from the Blue Steel/Big Skunk (on the right)

All getting topped down to the 3rd node tonight, allowed to recover for a few days then potted on to 9l finals.
Blue Steel/Big Skunk still looking freaky with mottled, twisted leaves and TMV traits. One has whorled phylotaxy. Will probably flower just one of these.

@Bakersfield that Americanna looks delicious and deadly. Think I might run them and the NL5/Haze next.
Really cool looking setup you have there @SYZ and the plants look nice and healthy. Can't say I've seen a hydro setup like that before. Does the water spray up or flood the whole table?
 

SYZ

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Thanks @The Mantis. At the moment the veg tent is run as Drain To Waste, hand-watered - I just let the run-off hang around in the trays to raise the humidity.

I will be converting this soon to Flood & Drain for an easier life. The tent is elevated on a wooden table so it's easy to fit a tank underneath, and the wire racks will be cut down so they can sit at the bottom of the trays so the blocks can get soaked, but still drain well.

I'm using dutch 'Eazy' plugs and blocks which are superb. The plants stay in the blocks until they're ready for their finals - the first time they see loose coco.
 

jimihendrix1

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Id look for the most vigorous, fastest growing, using the most water plant. Id also go by stem rub. Its hard for me to describbe what Im smelling for, but I know it when I smell it. Id expect they may have a floral smell. I only smoked what I consider real Panama Red 1 time, in 1971. The main thing I remember about it is that it was really good pot, and had a sweet smell, and taste.

Columbian Gold was also sweet floral, the Red Columbian was more cedar, and pepper, but was still sweet floral.

I myself would look for sweet floral smells, and fast growing, and using a good amount of water. But also consider Ive not grown this particular type, and dont know water consumption abilities. Id also look for more longer flowering examples, or at least leaning towards the longer middle end of the spectrum.
 

GrassBurner

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Hey man I appreciate it!!! I've got one leading the pack right now. Ill keep an eye on them the next month or so for growth habits. Thanks for the info :blsmoke:
 

cbizzle

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Id look for the most vigorous, fastest growing, using the most water plant. Id also go by stem rub. Its hard for me to describbe what Im smelling for, but I know it when I smell it. Id expect they may have a floral smell. I only smoked what I consider real Panama Red 1 time, in 1971. The main thing I remember about it is that it was really good pot, and had a sweet smell, and taste.

Columbian Gold was also sweet floral, the Red Columbian was more cedar, and pepper, but was still sweet floral.

I myself would look for sweet floral smells, and fast growing, and using a good amount of water. But also consider Ive not grown this particular type, and dont know water consumption abilities. Id also look for more longer flowering examples, or at least leaning towards the longer middle end of the spectrum.
Thats what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure.:?:
 

jimihendrix1

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4/8 females from the Skunk Qabbage/Mimosa
2/2 from the Blue Steel/Big Skunk (on the right)

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All getting topped down to the 3rd node tonight, allowed to recover for a few days then potted on to 9l finals.
Blue Steel/Big Skunk still looking freaky with mottled, twisted leaves and TMV traits. One has whorled phylotaxy. Will probably flower just one of these.

@Bakersfield that Americanna looks delicious and deadly. Think I might run them and the NL5/Haze next.

Those are really nice looking plants. Great Secondary branching structure. To bad you cant bend them over, and train all the secondary branching to grow towards the light(s).
Keeping the growing tip, bending them over, not mucking with the growing tip, and pulling them over from about 10%-20% from the growing tip and letting it keep producing secondary growth from veg- flowering, and after a point the plant will not need to mucked with, and all secondary growth will not have to be trained to grow Vertically anymore, and the plant wont need to be bent over anymore.

Looks to me like those stems are very stiff though, and may not be suitable for bending. Many plants will snap like a pencil, and those types would have to be started very early, before the stiffen up.

But I know people like to do what they do. Just a thought.

Those are nice structured plants though. Like many of the AKBB strains seem to have good/strong secondary branching, and as I remember many of the older 80s, and 90s genetics.

Beautiful plants though. Green all the way down.
 
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jimihendrix1

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Got 4 Darians Gap 11 days old on the left here. Planning on finding 1 female to flower. @jimihendrix1 Once they begin growing, what characteristics should I be looking for in these plants to determine my keeper?
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Id also look for strong secondary branching structure, narrowest of leaves. Also remember many times the MALES, will be the best looking, fastest growing plants.

Also depends on if one is looking for a more Sativa Pheno, or the Triangle Kush???? It says 63 days flowering. The longer flowering, the more likely leaning towards Sativa, but isnt a sure thing. I believe the male in this cross, is TK Dominant but there will be variation..... Not sure, but I think male is more TK dominant.. More NL5/Haze-Sativa leaning will probably also produce more.
 
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