Northern Lights #5

Northern Lights #5 BudsWhat 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 has been exploring many of the legends including Puna Buddaz, Durban, Chocolate Thai, and this round dropped some NL#5.
“I grow in living soil with occasional teas, under LED lights. The seeds were sent to me from Greg McAllister, #oldemarine, who along with the Seattle NL crew created the strain in the early 80s. These seeds are from BEFORE they were sent to Holland.”
The buds are tight and the taste is rich and pleasing. Pinene is certainly up front, fruity (terpinolene), floral, slight earthy undertones (Myrcene). Peppery aftertaste. There is no hint of the diesel flavor of Limonine. This could easily be a daily dose just based on the satisfying flavor profile. But as with any quality smoke the real measure is where it takes your head. This NL#5 takes me right where I want to be, though I might forget where that was or how I got there. A nice, long lasting stone that seems to build like a slow motion avalanche and had me hold a lighter in each hand trying to remember if I was going to light the bowl or the joint.
 Northern Lights #5 leaves in veg state

Dank Research – Northern Lights #5. #oldmarine

 

Northern Lights

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’
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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.Emoji - Smoking Weed Stock Photo, Picture And Royalty Free Image ...

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Agent Carter

StrainAgent Carter
TypeHybred
Growing Medium?
Lighting?
Nutrients?
CultivatorR.C. Tinderbox
https://www.facebook.com/pages/RC-Tinderbox/171359577130387
Appearance Nice Light Green sugary buds
SmellFlowers growing in the back of a truck stop.
Tasteexcellent 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.
ExhaleExxcellllent…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.

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So this clown walks up and hits me with a big Green Hammer…

Grower: Art Tic Jester
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

Surprising Facts About THC

Surprising Facts About THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) – What Is It and Where Is It Used For?

THC is the acronym for tetrahydrocannabinol, the main cannabinoid in cannabis that gives users the sensation of being “high.”

The history of THC dates back to 2727 BC, when records indicate that it was used by the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung.

THC throughout history was used for various purposes by the ancient Romans and Greeks, and in the Middle East and throughout the Arabic lands down to North Africa.

Read more at…

http://redeyesonline.net/thc/

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

“Space Rip is a special phenotype of JTR. [Jack the Ripper] It is a space queen dominant throwback, so different from traditional JTR (which we grow and is great) that we gave it a nickname to differentiate it from JTR”
Greatland Ganja

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 nutrientsG⅁

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.

Weed 101: A primer on cannabis consumption.

There are many, many ways to consume cannabis. Historically it has been burned, concentrated into hashish, distilled into oils and pressed into cakes dating back several thousand years.

  1. Burning: Combustion of dried cannabis flowers, or Buds, is by far the most common use. It is also one of the worst methods due to the gasses and by products of burning plant material and breathing it. Placing burning cannabis in a bowl and placing a “tent” over it used to be a medical treatment. Rolling “joints” is quite popular, small hand pipes, chillums and even tin cans and fruit can be used to toke up. Water pipes help reduce some of the transfer of heat and combustion gasses and range from under $10 to several thousands of dollars. Vaporizing is the process of raising the plant oils to their vaporization temperature which is below the combustion temperature of the plant material, eliminating the CO2 and other combustion by products.
  2. Hashish: The THC and CBD and many other terpenes are concentrated in trichomes, small capsules of oil that give the cannabis flower a sugar coated or frosty appearance when grown properly. These capsules are on small stalks sort of like mushrooms. Traditional separation of these trichome nodules has been by placing the plant on a fine screen and beating or shaking it.
    Water extraction of trichomes has become popular with the introduction of graduated silk screen bags market under the trade name “Bubble Bags”. They use the same silk screen method used for hundreds of years only they incorporate water and ice to facilitate transfer of separated trichomes through the successive silk screen sizes.
    Trichomes will, when mature, be 120 microns (triple the stalk diameter), to a maximum upwards of 135 microns. Knowing this it is then possible to utilize just a 120 micron screen to isolate the separated heads. Placing the plant material in a freezer and then further reducing the temperature with Dry Ice will cause the trichome stalks to become brittle and break off. Then a minute or two of agitation will move most of the trichomes through the silk screen.
    At this point, using dry sift, bubble bag or dry ice you will be left with “kief” which can then be smoked or eaten as is or further processed into Hashish by applying heat and pressure. Heating also “carbolizes” the THC increasing the potency.
  3. Concentrates: Concentrating cannabis removes most or all of the crude plant material. The primary method is Solvent Extraction and the two main types are Critical CO2 and Butane.
    Critical CO2 extraction produces an opaque oil retaining more terpines and therefor flavor and the interaction of various terpines.
    BHO results in a translucent “honey oil” or Shatter or opaque “crumble” depending on the processing after extraction. BHO is certainly the most common method due to the low cost and small learning curve required to create a usable product.
    The process of pressing “Rosin” from fresh or dried cannabis has been gaining in popularity as it requires nothing more than a way to apply high pressure and/or heat. From simple hair straighteners to elaborate heated presses people are creating excellent rosin with minimal risk or expense.
  4. Eating: Perhaps one of the first methods of getting THC in the body was to just eat the cannabis plant. The entire plant is edible, seeds, roots, stalks, leaves, flowers…there are no know toxins of any consequence in any part of the plant when properly grown (not using toxic chemicals). Cannabis can be made into healthy drinks, cooked into almost any food, used as a marinade, fresh leaves/buds used in salads, concentrates can be added to almost any thing. 5 to 10 milligrams is the recommended starting dosage for those new to edibles and their potentially greatly increased effects.
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