What are the top 3 strains you've ever grown and why?

Wastei

Wastei

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Kali Mist - The benchmark sativa. Clear, motivating high. One of my favorite Sativas

Herijuana - Real deal herijuana. Still the most potent indica I ever grew. Best sleeping aid there is. One of my favourite Indicas

And everything in between..

I love a lot of strains and I need to sprout some of my old stock. Strains aside, all the best cuts have been own crosses from F1's and polyhybrids.

Ms. Universe is probably the most beautiful plant I ever grew with very unique structure and terp profile. Tones of haze, pineapple and vanilla, delicious!
 
Bakersfield

Bakersfield

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My tops 3 and subject to change as I'm constantly growing new strains.
1. Silver Haze (Silver Pearl x Haze) Sensi Seeds.
Not to be confused with Super Silver Haze, that I acquired in Amsterdam, smuggled back and grew in 1994.
This could send an elephant to the moon, I haven't had anything quite like it since.

2. TK (NL5XHAZE) Ak Bean Brains. A super nice cross of two heavyweights.

3. LVTK S1 (Las Vegas Triangle Kush x Las Vegas Triangle Kush) Eso Seeds. These were testers.
Incredibly potent frosty spears of TK goodness.
 
Gemtree

Gemtree

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Headbanger- Most sour, coat your mouth awesome taste and high from day one dried.

Durango Og- Most funky tennis ball rubber alien cross with trichs for days

Old Kosher Kush- Think it was just my pheno but I got the most meaty og garlic tasting pheno with a knockout high. Used to pass out with the bowl and lighter still in my hand miss that strain.
 
speedwell68

speedwell68

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1. Shiva Shanti by Sensi Seeds. It was the first strain I ever grew. I bought the seeds whilst wasted in Amsterdam. It had a lovely Purple phenotype that I cloned for years, it was back when I sold it to make extra cash. People would pay extra for the Purple.

2. A "California Orange" I got as a clone off a mate. I cloned that plant hundreds of times.

3. Banana Frosting by Sensi Seeds. A new for 2020 strain. Seriously good. It gives a nice cerebral high mixed with a good body buzz. It is a strange one to grow, once you think it is done it starts putting on weight. It's a 10 weeker for sure, but is well worth the wait. I got 9oz from 3 plants. I have a whole bunch of seeds to put on and some new strains just finishing. Next year I plan to do a full dozen of them and keep the best one as a mother, shes a keeper.
 
speedwell68

speedwell68

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Wastei said:
Kali Mist - The benchmark sativa. Clear, motivating high. One of my favorite Sativas
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I smuggled a glass of that back from Amsterdam to the UK back in the early 2000s. We went all over Amsterdam looking for it. I hid it in the pocket of some dirty jeans at the bottom of my back pack, my theory was that if I caught I could claim I'd forgotten it was there. All was well, until the plane was delayed on the runway at Schipol. I was shitting myself.

Then when I got back to the UK the airport was on high alert because of some terrorist threat earlier in the day. The cops at the gate had big ass guns. At a UK airport you have a red channel if you have goods to declare and green channel if you don't. One of these cops stopped me and asked me if I had been to Amsterdam, I said yes and he told me to go into the room for the red channel, my buddy came with me. I got in the room, there was no one in there and I turned to my Buddy and said "Run", so we pegged it and didn't look back. My Buddy had no idea what I had on me, he went mad when I told him.
 
Renfro

Renfro

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Shiva - Landrace strain, strongest indica I ever smoked. Heavy yielder and truly ripe at 60 days of 12/12. Couldn't build a tolerance to this strain, everyone commented on that. I would pay good money for real Shiva seeds, not the Shiva Skunk or Shiva Shanti but straight Shiva. I picked it up off Nirvana back in the early 2000's.

Kandy Kush - The Trainwreck pheno. Lemony, piney smell with a gassy note as she got ripe. Mega yielder with huge dense nugs. Very frosty and yummy. Very up beat energy high, good daytime smoke for me.

GG4 - Because it's the glue, had my cut tested at 31% and the yields are almost as good as the Kandy Kush.
 
Hobbes

Hobbes

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Good story Speedwell!

1. Kali Mist: soft spice taste and smell. I don't remember the high except that it was spectacular. Have beans for it now, waiting for a garden spot to open up in the new year. Haven't been growing it because it's a 13 week flowering strain.

2. Blue Dream: I love the musky taste and smell. I'm vaporizing it now, have a plant in flower IK'm not keeping, ordering from Dr Greenthumb to go on a pheno hunt.

3. Flo: Beautiful grape taste and motivating high. Haven't grown it in years, seeds are regular and it has a very small yield.

I'm growing Gorilla Glue now and later Motivation by Serious Seeds, looking for a new favourite.

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jonnynobody

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Renfro said:
Shiva - Landrace strain, strongest indica I ever smoked. Heavy yielder and truly ripe at 60 days of 12/12. Couldn't build a tolerance to this strain, everyone commented on that. I would pay good money for real Shiva seeds, not the Shiva Skunk or Shiva Shanti but straight Shiva. I picked it up off Nirvana back in the early 2000's.

Kandy Kush - The Trainwreck pheno. Lemony, piney smell with a gassy note as she got ripe. Mega yielder with huge dense nugs. Very frosty and yummy. Very up beat energy high, good daytime smoke for me.

GG4 - Because it's the glue, had my cut tested at 31% and the yields are almost as good as the Kandy Kush.
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I think that's the second mention of Shiva so far. I'll have to read up on her. Kandy Kush sounds pretty tasty too! I've never actually grown a kush. I've got girl scout cookies in the flower room right now which is OG Kush crossed with Durban Poison. I really don't know how I feel about this strain yet. I think she's going to go 11 weeks because she's nowhere near ripe yet. Not a single amber hair and the density is just beginning to increase at week 7 of flower. It might just surprise me in the end. Jager looked like a spindly plant that wasn't going to produce hardly anything, and now it appears to be the heaviest yielding strain I've ever grown. I like it when the ladies surprise me in a positive way like that. Calilfornia Hash Plant was a surprise in the other direction. If you ever have a chance to grow it take a pass :)
 
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jonnynobody

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Can someone tell me what "landrace genetics" are? I hear it mentioned, and am just as clueless today as I was 10 years ago.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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rkymtnman said:
it seems like my next strain is always my "new" favorite.

one i smoked but haven't grown is Super Silver Haze. back when I used to spend some time in Amsterdam.
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The dutch super silver haze was awesome! It was everywhere in Amsterdam, along with the Silver Bubble. I only went once but it was some of the most fun I've ever had, met many wonderful people. It's funny you posted this, I've been thinking about Amsterdam a lot lately and I'm going to be growing out some of the strains I had there, for a nostalgia trip. Pheno Finders is the breeder associated with Coffeeshop Voyagers, where I had some excellent lemon bubble (lemon haze + silver bubble) and purple strawberry bliss. I shared a monster lemon bubble spliff with two German backpacker girls, then we ran around the city and I jumped into a canal... I'll probably do a grow journal, hopefully they are as good as the stuff I had at Voyagers. I rarely see Pheno Finders mentioned as a breeder, but the bud I got at Voyagers was much better than the average dispensary bud here-the cure was very professional-so I'll try growing out a few of their strains as a test run.
3 best strains ever? That's tough because I had better stuff in my youth than is commonly available now. I had an electric pink pistilled bud in Hawaii that blew my mind and I've searched for more ever since-best bud ever by far. It was so resinous it would stick if you threw it against a window (I only did this the once so I'm not sure if it's a big deal LOL). Cherry Bomb is supposed to have Hawaiian origins, so I'm growing some out next year just to see if it's similar. I had a Grape Ape mommy that produced the purplest, grapiest, sugar coated buds ever, but the yield was awful. I grew at least one per grow for five years until the mommy died while I was on vacation. I actually hate all purple strains now because nothing comes remotely close to this plant, they're all watered down genetic mistakes (same situation currently with blueberry). #3 is hard to say....does kief count? I had a connection to get real Lebanese kief and hash when I was in college (ahhh the pre-911 era). They came in these paper packets, and they had a melted wax seal with a sheik's face and some Arabic writing. It was the most lovely blond kief I've ever had, and was a testament to old time ways of kief production. We have all this technology and high grade screens, but the average kief producer can't come close to the methods and final product that the old world masters produce. This Lebanese kief had the most intense, happy sativa high, I'll never forget it.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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jonnynobody said:
Can someone tell me what "landrace genetics" are? I hear it mentioned, and am just as clueless today as I was 10 years ago.
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a landrace is a traditional marijuana crop that was grown in a certain region over hundreds or thousands of years. There are so many traditional drug cultures throughout history and on each continent, and these were the strains that these communities developed together, both intentionally, and through natural selection. Look up the history of Malawi Gold for example, or the many wonderful Himalayan charas sativas, that were cultivated by both Hindu and Buddhist monks. Another example of a landrace would be the "strain" of corn used by a particular American Indian tribe or community. ALL landrace crops are part of our heritage, and are priceless in terms of the genetics they contain AND THEY ARE ALL DYING OUT. You haven't smoked cannabis until you've sampled pure landrace sativa. My cousin has smoked "dispensary bud" all his life but when I gave him some of my outdoor malawi gold, it blew his mind...it's just so different from the muddled hybrids that are so common, it's like a different drug. Now he's a landrace convert!
 
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