When I first bought seeds, I bought 2 Hawiaans (MrN Spice, and Sativa Seedbank Pakalolo) and 2 'supposed' g13 hybrids (G/Sk and pinebud x g13). From the G/Sk, I got sativa dom skunk plants that had a unique, head pounding high, and a sickly sweet aroma. From the pinebud x g13's I got 1 long flowering tasty indica with a high similar to the Spice - warm, happy, and strong, but not straight 1 hitter. I did buy hype, but my judgements are based on the plants that I grew.
I really don't understand the fascination with g13 from a grower/smoker perspective. We see the weed world as it truly is. Before I grew, I NEVER thought that it was possible for 1 person to grow 10,000 ways. But knowing the little bit I know now, I understand just how simple it can be. So why do people who can buy "Product X", and test it out in every concievable way in a 1yr period continue to perpetuate the hype? I dunno if "G13" ever existed, but I do have opinions on a couple of plants that I grew and was told were G-hybrids. I'm satisfied.
No clone is unobtainable. If the G was just an afghan selection/sport, it has showed itself thousands of times in the (at least) hundreds of thousands of exported and cultivated afghan pot seeds. Who is to say that the G13 was stronger than the indica in many different breeders stables?
BTW, I don't think that my pine bud x g13 (either the one f1 or the one f2) showed any 'G13' traits other than possible budstructure/formation. I haven't grown too many indies, but those plants were quite chunky (bud width vs. plant height). The mothers used in the GN03 line were supposedly different clones (selections done for smoke, not offspring) . I read that the boiling brain was an old school pac NW selection from Nl x blueberry, and the 8k was a british clone. The pine bud MAY be pbud which is a colorado clone. Dood who bought the bud at the deer creek amphitheatre was pbud (named after the strain).
The OG Kush and G-13 hype come together 6 degrees of separation with the creation of pine bud x g13!!! I'm going to work the seeds, and go around smoking people up, and when they passout, I'll jack their wallets. Everyone knows that if you crossed g13 to ogkush, a normal human would pass out after smoking.
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