there's that, but ANY bud that's rock hard is annoying. i was really pissed one time when i got a bud so hard that i couldn't break it apart with my fingers and had to use a box cutter blade on it. we din't have none of them fancy grinder whatchamacallits back in those days. another thing that makes rock bud suck is that it's so dense, there's less room for resin. that rock bud was as dry as cardboard too... i don't remember it being sticky at all.
you know, most everyone agrees that blueberry is one of the best strains in the world, it's just a tastier skunk #1 to me, and that strain's famous for it's leaf curl. looks can be very deceiving with buds, and bag appeal, to me, usually indicates indica hype to me and growers like indicas more than smokers.
you know OP, you never mentioned the color red. one of my skunk #1 comparable masterkush autos was a deep dark crimson red until i panfried it and it turned more of an old penny copper color that i bet would have been more intense with regular curing. back to bag appeal, red hair used to be as big a buzzword as skunk was in the late 80s. it's not my favorite color... too violent, but i'm sure there's at least as many and probably more red strains than purple.
it's cool though these days that there's so much variety in crosses that there's a huge canvas of strains to pick and chose from for buzzes, colors, statures, flowering times and flavors etc. that a lot of great strains will produce eventually in the future.
i agree with the implication jack herer should dominate the streets. many crosses of that are 9 weeks or faster (8 weeks is considered really fast) and the buzzes are way better than all the commercial novelty strains. i want to try pure herer asap, but would clearly have chosen that over boring C99 (45-55 days) if only i could get one fucking smoke report that addressed the stone issue i was so put off by that i wound up with racy and clear headed instead of mellow balanced and trippy with the apollo 11 and super silver haze everyone kept trying to push on me when no one had a words for mids apparently. any grower who really DOES value their customers enough to give them the best REAL quality (growing for money is already a step towards the dark side) should try growing a motivational and or trippy strain besides their usual street fodder to improve the scene, but it ain't happenin'
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