i've got FOUR holy smokes seeds' malawi golds sunbathing! cross your fingers for me. i hope it's the real deal! i KNOW already that despite it's description for being indoor bred, eldorado likes to stretch. that's my other IBL, but i've got a lot of theoretically sativa doms in their too and am gonna SCROG it all.
haze skunk might not be an IBL, but it sure smokes like one to me. it's trippier than kali mist big time and less speedy if not as trippy as columbian gold. i'm hoping that my thai skunks are in the same ballpark and would really be happy if they either tasted better or were trippier. i think the haze skunk at least was bred with something close to a cheese pheno.
i also hope that jack's cleaner acts like a trippy sativa as per it's description. at 9 weeks flowering time with a lemony flavor, i think that will become my workhorse replacing haze skunk.
i just can't wait to get on to the sampling phase! oh... both of my mulawi gold freebies and one of my mozambique poison freebies that i got along with 2 extra malawi golds got wiped out by drying out or mold (i gotta get another humidity dome and quit cramming 30 or so pellets in one at a time & give everything more buffer to start) but i stil have 1 mozambique regular i'm hoping has a vagina.
i'll let y'all know if holy smokes is HOLY SHIT! asap
asia too has some of the most bitchin' sativas between highland thai, vietnamese blackseed, cambodian and even burmese. it's just that IBLs are only sought by the small minority of us growers who don't give a flying fuck about how fast & much a strain yields and who only want the best buzz possible. even then, many, like me, are willing to settle for sativa dominants for practicality sake.
some day, i think i want to test drive gage green's columbian gold. at up to 17 weeks, that sounds like the real deal and i'd put real gold up against anything the entire eurasian continent has to throw down. i haven't had any other IBLs than gold, but love that lighter than air feeling buzz it gave that NOTHING i've smoked since including some prime gear has offered no matter how potent or trippy.
it's looking like all is not lost yet. besides gage green's gold (isn't that called alliteration?), there's an auction site that might have already been mentioned here that has had real panama red as well as a sick strain called black haze, both of which are in the 17 week range. add the "his shit's for real!" feedback i've seen for ace seeds' gear, and there's reason to hope that there's still time to preserve the titans.
first up for me though is getting a headstash. if my malawi gold, mozambique poison and eldorado all deliver, so much the better, but when i have surplus... i wanna upgrade to highland thai, columbian gold, black haze, panama red, or cambodian. i'll give cheap mekong haze a 2nd chance now that i have a humidity dome as i don't think sativas like the cold much and have seen much better sprouting rates now that i have one.