youd be amazed how much resin those african sativas pump out in the right environment josh ,,
absolutely stunning ,,
and very small trichomes ,, tiny little guys , but millions of them ..
the first contact i had on the net was a pretty lass in south africa ,
she sent me seeds ,
herb , and hash ,
we did a bit of trading back and forth ..
the hash she sent ,, mostly was the usual afghani stuff ..
but ,
the swazi charis she sent ,,
wow ,,
i d not had hash as resiny and oily before ..
the plants i grew from the seeds varied ,,
the nicest came from the swazi ,,
we had some durban poison ,
transeki , etc ,,
Oh I know Donald.
In Africa, I used to get this stuff in its natural environment, not the strains you are talking about, but other strains, for my own personal use.
They looked really bad. basically I would get what was generally referred to as a "stone", for the equivilent of around 3-5 us dollars.
Now the stone was probably around 2 to 4 ounces, but by the time I finished cleaning all the stems and seeds, I would usually be left with something that looked kind of like brownish oregano, and probably like around a half ounce.
Now these buds were so scrawny in most cases, that it was almost hard to call them buds. and they did have some kind of resin on them, but not copius by any means.
Of course the way that they dry and cure the buds probably doesn't help too much.
When I first got one of these stones I was skeptical because honestly, the worst mexican brick(non moldy) would look a lot more appetizing than this stuff.
Even the local ditch weed I used to get as a kid that gave me nothing much but a headache looked better honestly.
But this stuff was different. All of it was hands down stonier than any Mexican I used to smoke. And every once in while I would get lucky and come across something that was truly out of this world.
But it all looked basically like crap.
Now many years previously(almost 20 years ago) I had gotten some stuff in a different region of Africa, by the "Cob". This is the only stuff I had a chance to grow, it was Malawi gold.
We were able to bring a small pack of seeds back to US.
Malawi gold when I grew it, looked very a lot better then the cob of it I had gotten, but it was covered in trichomes, when I grew it myself, not like a modern cultivar, but it definitely had resin.
Aside from a few of its progeny crossed with my Haze hybrids, this Malawi, was hands down, the stoniest shit I ever smoked.
I also more recently smoked some stuff which was simply referred to as "Black" which totally blew my mind, as well as some other misc. strains that were mind crushing.
I think if you grew a lot of these strains out yourself they would look very different then how they look in their indigenous form, that was certainly the case with the Malawi.
But even in their indigenous form, while they look really bad, looks are very decieving, because some of these seedy stemmy ditchweed looking varieties were much stonier then the stoniest of modern cultivars I smoked in Amsterdam shortly afterwards.
