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Northern Lights #5
What can you say about Northern Lights #5 that has not already been said since it first arrived around 40 years ago? It entered into the Cannabis Cup competition in 1989 and dominated the event, winning in ’89, ’90, and ’92. This legendary strain has been a favored cross for many of the greats that followed it. The legends of its genesis include “The Indian” from one of the many islands west of Seattle who grew 11 plants, which he named Northern Lights #1-11 with #1 and #5 being the picks of the litter. #5 was discovered some years later by Neville Schoenmaker, a famous cannabis breeder from Australia, somewhere in the early 1980s. Neville took female clones of all the plants back with him to The Netherlands and started crossbreeding it for the Seed Bank. As with most legendary strains you can find any number of seed sellers claiming to have various offshoots of the original.
Dank Research – Northern Lights #5. #oldmarine
Black Domina Taskenti x Opd
Strain: Black Domina x OPD
Type: INDICA
Origin: Chosen Few Genetics.
Growing Medium: Soil black with the blood and souls of a thousand slain enemies. (I think)
Lighting: LED
Nutrients: See ‘growing medium’
Cultivator: DANK RESEARCH
Appearance: Dark green with purplish hues. Nice not to tight buds and by no means “fluffy”.
Smell: New mown hay curing in the sun after snorting a couple rails of Black Pepper.
Burn: Gotta keep a flame to it mostly. zero nute flares.
Taste: Dank, this tastes organically grown, suspect a very high Myrcene level, some Pinene just under that along with some notable Linalool but Caryophyllene gives it the peppery hint mostly noticeable in the sinuses after exhaling.
This strain hits hard all on it’s own but eat a Mango before or during and the added Myrcene will top it off very well.
Pain relief: Excellent, as it takes your brain deep down under the pain and lets you ride there for hours, safe from the storms lashing the surface. This is one of those “Don’t operate…machinery, on people, in buzz kill situations etc.” strains the Church Ladies warn you about. INDICA… IN DE COUCH!
But…I’ve been trying to write this review for a fucking week and every time I smoke some I wander off into that indica induced haze and around 4 AM decide I better get to it tomorrow. It takes me down, just not enough to overcome my natural insomnia, I think I’d need to make some hashish out of for that to be a thing.
Exhale: Residual light pepper with a slightly sweet savor.
High: Sort of the wrong word in play here, Sativas and Hybrids get me “high”, this shit gets me STONED.
Manicure: Nicely hand trimmed, no shame here, a connoisseur’s trim and cure.
Overall: Highest recommendation for an Indica.I tend to gravitate toward Sativa dom but then along comes a serious Indica like Black Domina to remind me why I started smoking weed in the first place, it takes you to nice places.
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Agent Carter
| Strain | Agent Carter |
| Type | Hybred |
| Growing Medium | ? |
| Lighting | ? |
| Nutrients | ? |
| Cultivator | R.C. Tinderbox https://www.facebook.com/pages/RC-Tinderbox/171359577130387 |
| Appearance | Nice Light Green sugary buds |
| Smell | Flowers growing in the back of a truck stop. |
| Taste | excellent taste, this is a strain that I can smoke for the high and also just because it has an awesome taste. The kind of weed you roll as pin joints to enjoy the taste ’cause your already high as shit from the first bowl. |
| Exhale | Exxcellllent…the best part of the exhale is it provides room for another inhale. |
| High | “Tinderbox proudly offers their Agent Carter flowers, the result of crossing parent strain’s Pinapple Express x OG Chem D F 3. These buds possess an incredible flavor profile thanks to Agent Carter’s sweet relatives.” Yea, it takes me to where I want to be, and the Pineapple Express is well complemented by the OG Chem. Yea, Agent Carter really is a fine top shelf strain when grown right, good job R.C. Tinderbox. https://weedmaps.com/brands/r-c-tinderbox/products/r-c-tinderbox-agent-carter |
So this clown walks up and hits me with a big Green Hammer…
Strain: Green Hammer
Type: Indica Dominant
Origin: Alaska Sacred Fire Genetics
Growing Medium: Pro mix hp
Lighting: 1000w hps
Nutrients: Advanced nutrients A n B
Green Hammer
Appearance: Light green, red head with lots of glitter.
Smell: Interesting, is that a Mango? Sweet and fruity like a bag of gumdrops.
Burn: Clean, tight bud holds good flavor many hits into the bowl.
Taste: OK, this got my attention. what was hinted at in the smell delivered big time on the inhale. This is a fine desert to be served by candle light, and indulgent treat that you hide in the back of the desk drawer. At this point getting high will just be a bonus, it has won me over with the taste!
Exhale: Do I have to?
High: I’ve hit the 9# Hammer, and it hit back hard, I suspect those genetics are given away in the name. Seems to have a energetic head with a powerful urge to not get up and move. And as that seems to close to my natural state anyway I’m happy to be along for the ride. Don’t be surprised when you can’t find your lighter.
Manicure: I’m going to take .5 points off here, just because I gushed all over the taste, there was almost 1/6th inch of stem.
Overall: This is one of my favorite strains this year, and I’m passing it ahead of some really excellent bud I’ve already tried, I hope to see a lot more of this popping up!
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Abula
TYPE: Hybred
ORIGIN: Pacific NW Roots (Original Strawberry Diesel x Alien Kush F2)
MEDIUM: Promix
NUTES: UNK
GROWER: Calm ‘n Collective
APPEARANCE: Tight, dark green buds with a hint of purple.
SMELL: Fruity, citrus, just a hint of the diesel parentage.
BURN: Clean
TASTE: earthy and solid, some nice fruit undertones.
EXHALE: A little more pronounced fruity, sweet.
HIGH: Right to the head, no creeper here, comes in like Ron Bass himself, large and in charge.
MANICURE: Excellent.
OVERALL:A top shelf strain, excellent savoring flavor and rapid onset high. Slight drymouth but no real dry eyes like I get from many strains.
Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass! (Aka: Midnight X-press)
I once again got some of this quite delightful ganj today, and while I have met her several times before before it is always a pleasure to meet old friends again.
“A legendary Kashmiri / Bubble Candy cross, Midnight Mass is like a call to prayer for all those who worship at the altar of the Ganja Gods.”
“A sweet, fruity fragrance gives way to earthier undertones, enveloping the senses.” Yea, yea, screw all that yuppie crap, this shit will knock your dick in the fucking dirt!
Just opening a bag of this will have your THC receptors salivating as the terpines crawl up your nose and give your sinuses a hand job.
This is at least this growers third crop and his game is really coming together, huge, tight buds and a great cure.
Limited run available only via select Valley connections.
Art Tic Jester, ya done good, Bro.
Strain: Midnight Mass
Breeder: Heavyweight Seeds
Location: MatSu
Type: indica/sativa
Grower: Art Tic Jester
Silver Buckeye
I had to take a friend to Anchorage to get his handlers card and after we visited Alaska Fireweed on 4th Ave.
As I and my friend are both friends with Ron Bass he selected one of his Calm N Collective strains to try.
Silver Buckeye has a very good appearance and delightful aroma when you open the bag, which at $75 for 3.5 grams was the most either of us have EVER paid for Buds, but that is what it is.
We were told by the delightfully attractive bud tender that this was a “Dummy” strain, that after a few hits you would start feeling dumb. OK, what the hell, we had all the important stuff finished so we could afford to get a little stoopid.
We went down by Ship Creek and found a quiet place to park (BECAUSE THERE ARE NO ONSITE CONSUMPTION AREAS!!) and loaded a bowl. Nice purply and sparkly goodness and the first toke was “Mmmm…OK.” and then on the second toke we both caught a good cough and decided that three hits was going to be just about right for the first go.
15 minutes later we were both well satisfied with the purchase (me more than him because he shelled out the dough!) and went about some Anchoraugua shopping for an hour or so. Before leaving for the Valley we pulled into a secluded spot that will go un reported (did I mention there is NO PLACE to legally smoke in Alaska other than YOUR HOME?) and finished off the bowl with a small kicker of fresh Silver Buckeye added in. Two good tokes and I was in the zone, a couple more and I would have been out looking for mushrooms in the woods for a while.
A hat tip to Ron Bass and the crew at Calm N Collective for a very nice strain, JDK Brands for good packaging and to Alaska Fireweed for having one of the best shops in Anchorage. We’ll be back! (My second time there now)
Greatland Ganja’s “Space Rip” from Bad Gramm3r
Strain: Space Rip
Type: Sativa Dominant
Origin: 
Greatland Ganja from the Kenai through Bad Gramm3r just OUTSIDE of Wasilla. (No tax for you, BAD Wasilla! >:P)
Growing Medium: Hydro
Lighting: “Those ladies basked in the light of T-5s for veg and 1000 watt air cooled HPS for bloom.” G⅁
Nutrients: “We used General Hydro for the nutrients” G⅁
Cultivator: “Arthur Abel and our Cultivator Kenny were the primary cultivators. It was grown with love.” G⅁
Appearance: Small buds, as to be expected from a hydro Sativa Dom I suppose. Some nice sparkle.
Smell: A citrussy floral, inviting, nothing to worry you over carrying a bag in your pocket. The terpines are not trying to claw their way out of the bag. But they are there, where they belong until you come for them.
Burn: Nicely, seems to be clean, I’ll try and update after I try it in a joint. Bowl burned down to fine, white ash. >
Taste: Very good, sort a flowery affair that plays pleasantly over the taste buds.
Exhale: Earthy…quite different than the inhale, like all that flower power got sidetracked. Some peppery nummy goodness lingers long after the exhale.
High: Oh, that’s where that flower power went! Right there…right now…two hits in and “Uhm I forgot what I was going to say…”, “Oh yea, that…uh…what were we talking about?”. High, pleased to be here, it’s a good place…once I get accustomed to this one it might prove to be an excellent working mans high.
Manicure: Well done, Greatland has been doing very well in the trimming from the few samples I’ve seen.
Overall: I was hoping to find a good, uplifiting Sativa with the brightness and clarity that I love about good Sativas and it has it. The taste is very nice, those terpines that hang around mouth for a while reminding me that two hits got me to a good place and I should resist the temptation to go back in…aww, hell, I have to give the exhale another look…as long as I’m doing the Overall I really have to try just one more for the “overall” toke.
22.91% THC-A…Eeaaaaa yea…it works. 20.62 total THC so this should be an excellent vape strain. I’ll get back to you on how that worked after I squish and vape a bud.
Sour Diesel CO2 Concentrate
Strain: Sour Diesel Concentrate
Type: Mainly a Sativa – (believed to have descended from Chemdawg 91 and Super Skunk.)
Potency: Estimated 80% to 90% THC
Origin: Art Tic Jester
Creator: Northern Botanical
Method: CO2 Critical Extraction
Apeks Supercritical 1L machine, extracted at 1300 lbs, decompressed at 420
Yield is anywhere up to 25% of the dry weight. The system will process up to 1/2 lb at a time.
Grower: Art Tic Jester – MatSu
Appearance: Think Caramel Carrot Soup
Smell: Bright and citrusy with more than a hint of carrots.
Taste: Excellent, milder than any BHO I’ve tried.
High: Just a Dab’ll do ya. This hits with an immediate impact, right to the brain.
Overall: A really exceptional product and perhaps the best use of trim that I have seen so far. I’m going to get a fresh coil for my dab pen and see how this does. It is a lot more viscous at room temperature than BHO so there will be no laying the dab pen down when it’s loaded. I’ll be striping a paper and rolling up a nice joint of this and it’s parent Sour Diesel for the weekend.
Sour Diesel
Strain: Sour Diesel
Type: Mainly a Sativa – (believed to have descended from Chemdawg 91 and Super Skunk.)
Potency: Estimated 19% to 22% THC
Origin: Crop King Seeds
Medium: Soil
Lighting: 1000w HPS
Nutes: Sensei bloom
Grower: Art Tic Jester – MatSu
Appearance: Tight bud, very dense trichome representation.
Smell: VERY nice heavy earthy, absolute diesel aroma.
Burn: Clean and even
Taste: Sweet, earthy, you can feel the THC rolling over your tongue.
Exhale: I didn’t make it that far on my first good hit. It knocked me the hell out! Sweet and citrus, very flavorful.
High: OK, I’m up! Let’s go do something! I want to clean the yard at 3 AM! This strain delivers just about the ideal combination of brain enervation and body stone, great stress reliever which I enjoy just as much as the general pain relief aspects, both of which it has in spades.
Manicure: Very tight hand trim
Overall: This could easily become one of my favorites. Art Tic Jester has really stepped up his grow game with this one and I’m hoping he keeps it in the lineup (and shares some cuts, hint, hint). Certainly not a bed time bud, this is a wake and bake wonder if I ever saw one. I tried a clean pipe hit and decided this needed a joint. I started breaking up the bud and there wasn’t any crumbling involved, this was more like reducing a wad of sticky playdough to tiny bits. I’m going to have to try squishing one of these beautiful buds as soon as I can remember where I put my Norelco Rosin Press.
I’m going to give this one 8.5 out of 10 leaves!
