Quote Originally Posted by MMJinColorado
This strain recently won 2nd place at the Aspen Cannabis Crown. I feel sorry for anyone who was up there judging, based on these pics. It's either some really severe and weirdly web-like powdery mildew or an equally bad mites problem... what do you experienced grower types think?

I want to make clear that I'm not in the business of disparaging any dispensaries or anyone in general for that matter... I am, however, in the business of spreading information to MMJ patients, especially where safety might be involved. Judge for yourselves if this is something you wouldn't mind smoking (it's a bit hard to capture it well, as retaining focus on something so small and with depth is near-impossible with my microscope)..

Perhaps the bigger worry to MMJ consumers beyond the fact that tainted meds were supposedly good enough to win the Crown (I didn't smoke any of the sample I have for obvious reasons, but it smells great and I could certainly see it placing in a competition) is that from my understanding, the samples competing were supposedly all tested by Full Spectrum for mold and pesticides. If that is true and this strain got through their testing regimen, I don't even know what to say, and I will be uber-paranoid about everything I smoke, tested or not...

Just had to put this out there somewhere... I hesitate to publish the pictures and the info on my blog without giving the dispensary a chance to respond, but at the same time, I worry about anyone who is going there to purchase "prize-winning" Grape Ape and end up with a collapsed lung after the vaporize their purchase and don't kill the spores...
That is a shame, but it so common with most product out there today, this is what happens when every one is a grower, and on large scale grows without proper attention given to each plant, ya know like a production line, I like to reference this way: What is better, a slow meal prepared for 2-5 people, or a massive meal prepared for 100 people, same food, same prep, but the larger meal will be nowhere as good as the small meal, IMO this applies to a lot of areas, meds being one of them. Also why would anyone in this state patronize a show or event put on by Cali big money disp. or read their magazine (it may be Kush Colorado but it is Cali owned), they are the ones working with Romer who just recently fucked over the patients of Co.

So I say Boycott the the large dispensaries, do not assign a medical center on your paperwork unless you know for a fact they are local long term Coloradans, or find a caregiver who grows multiple strains. It is time we take our state back and boot out the money hungry political liars like Josh Stanley with peace in medicine and the Cali owned Farmacy.