Long Time Growers !Wanted!

[D3STRUCT]

hey all you growers out there..this one is mainly for ppl who have been growing since say 60's (if theres any on here) onwards or any longtime grower...whoever ..neway my question is...have you seen any noticable differences in mj itself? since whenever you can remember i.e. looks? stature? potency? flowering times? avoiding the fact that technology has changed the way things are done nowdays, crossbreeding etc i suppose this question is leaning more to the outdoor grower but still don't hesitate to wack your story down!
hope to hear from ya'll!

D3STRUCT Reviewed by D3STRUCT on 12-01-2004. Long Time Growers !Wanted! hey all you growers out there..this one is mainly for ppl who have been growing since say 60's (if theres any on here) onwards or any longtime grower...whoever ..neway my question is...have you seen any noticable differences in mj itself? since whenever you can remember i.e. looks? stature? potency? flowering times? avoiding the fact that technology has changed the way things are done nowdays, crossbreeding etc i suppose this question is leaning more to the outdoor grower but still don't Rating: 5

[Jkrustie]

I'm not 50 years old, but I can tell you that the difference is the strains.
We have had access to many different strains since the 60's, what was available back then were less potent strains. It's jsut a simple development of genetics and harnessing plants with the traits we want most.

[keeko]

i once read a statistic that mj is now like 3x more potent then back in the day.......im guessing with all the tech advances like HID lights, back then all they had were sunlight and flouros. Also with new nutrients and crossbrieding i would imagine its a lot better

[Jkrustie]

It's all genetics
Lights and technique aren't really the reason MJ is 3X more potent

[catsenroute]

I've been growing for about 30 years indoor and out the last few all indoor. The newest weed is no stronger than say the old panama red or columbian gold both of which gave me couch lock. Both sativa plants but grown in the tropics. During the Vietnam war was when I was introduced to Indica. Thai stick and the like was all pure Indica. I kind of like the hydrids but nome of them is any better than my orange bud that was developed as a strain in the early 80s. Been smoking the weed for 50 years. During the 60s I smoked some powerful stuff but I'm sure it was laced.

[Dutch Pimp]

I've been growing for about 30 years indoor and out the last few all indoor. The newest weed is no stronger than say the old panama red or columbian gold both of which gave me couch lock. Both sativa plants but grown in the tropics. During the Vietnam war was when I was introduced to Indica. Thai stick and the like was all pure Indica. I kind of like the hydrids but nome of them is any better than my orange bud that was developed as a strain in the early 80s. Been smoking the weed for 50 years. During the 60s I smoked some powerful stuff but I'm sure it was laced.

Been there..done that. Rock on cat man!

[Opie Yutts]

Well, I haven't been growing for 50 years, but here's my two cents worth:

i once read a statistic that mj is now like 3x more potent then back in the day

Weed that is 3 times more powerful now was also three times more powerful then too. It probably just wasn't available. Plain old suckie dirt weed sucks now and it sucked back then. There was potent strains back then, and there are even more now, due to crossing, and breeding out bad traits and breeding in good ones. Any one strain will not increase in potentcy over time.

I would agree with that statistic if it said that there were now three times more strains available that are potent. Probably more like 30 times though.

[Jdog7000]

Alot of this has to do with selective breeding.
And cross breeding.
Sometimes when you cross 2 strains you get something better then either one on it's own.
So people have been growing ,picking the most potent strains and then cross breeding them.
It's actually pretty simple.

[Methyl3]

I've been growing for about 30 years indoor and out the last few all indoor. The newest weed is no stronger than say the old panama red or columbian gold both of which gave me couch lock. Both sativa plants but grown in the tropics. During the Vietnam war was when I was introduced to Indica. Thai stick and the like was all pure Indica. I kind of like the hydrids but nome of them is any better than my orange bud that was developed as a strain in the early 80s. Been smoking the weed for 50 years. During the 60s I smoked some powerful stuff but I'm sure it was laced.

I have to whole heartedly agree with this posters comments. Although I wasn't smoking in the 60's and 70's, I was smoking in the 80's and growing. Early eighties and preceding that time, Most of the marijuana in the USA was imported. Jamaican brick, thai sticks, chocalate thai, panama red etc. There were some people growing for themselves, but nothing like today. The marijuana then was just as strong as the pot now.

The differences are optimizations of plant growth. The old wives tale that pot is so much stronger now is just not scientifically supported. Genetics does not change that drastically over only 30 years. With selective breeding and hybridizations, we have ben able to optimize the potential of old strains and new strains, but killer pot now was just like killer pot then.

Also keep in mind then that when you talk of getting pot then like acupolco gold, cloumbian gold, chocalate thai etc most of these plants were grown in large fields just out on their own. It was a cash crop and provided awesome smoke.

[Jdog7000]

Thats true.
But selective breeding and hybrids are responsible for some amazing strains.
You can't deny that.
But like you said killer weed is nothing new.
Just grown better.