Sativas are always energetic and Indicas are sleepers?

Scaccia450

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Sometimes this is true but other times not. For example Green crack strain, coming at Sativa Dominant Hybrid 65% Sativa / 35% Indica 27 THC and 1 CBD. This strain to me is always energetic no matter even if I try deffrent version. Next time I tried chocolope 95 sativa /5 indica 27 thc cbd 0. No matter times I try this strain it feels like a indica to me wich is strange. I feel a sleep on the couch all day. Next I tried sour pineapple 70/13 25 thc..The most emergetic strain ever tried it feelt like I was drunk.
Now the question is it true the more Sativa are the way to look for energetic strains or is it terpense example more lime or pine.
 

Rocket Soul

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I think it works the other way around; peeps smoke the weed, get either up or down, and then depending on the high they say its sativa/indica leaning. Or look at the leaves and same. Everything is a hybrid nowadays the only real sativas are those old landraces some seedbanks deal with. Its not so much sativa/indica genetics that define the high, its the high that makes us define the weed a posteriori.
Maybe who ever smoked that 95 sativa had a weird day, smoked and got all jittery, and put it down to weed genetics rather than their own nervous state or disposition.
 
I've been struggling with differences between indica and sativa as well. I'm 62 years old and have been smoking for over 45 years. I've grown for about 28 of those years, even in the 90s when we only got cuts from other growers or seeds from Holland.

As mentioned above, most strains nowadays are all hybrids. The genetics are bread for high THC, and terpene profile is a secondary consideration.

I've been chasing landraces for years, trying to use simple, two-way crosses, or pure land race strains. Ace Seeds does pretty good with some of these. Sensi seeds sells some classic, beautiful skunks, and sativas. Coastal seeds used to do some as well. Right now, I'm growing strains from the 80s and 90s and two land race strains.

these convoluted genetics these days are crazy! Look at seed finder and try to follow all those branches! People find a rare phenotype in a batch of seeds, breed it, add to its already fucked up genetics, and think they are making another great strain! Most are just, "one offs" rare phenos that showed a different expression.

I have gotten VERY high, smoking 17% THC, weed, as much as 26% weed!
I think a lot of the individual characteristics of indica/sativa, have been muddled together.

I believe terpenes have a MUCH greater impact on the "buzz" than people realize.
 

VaSmile

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General trend not a hard rule. I agree with @MeOhMyOhio about terps being more indicitive of effects then indica/sativea liniage classic blueberry is 80/20 indica and puts my head in the clouds and so do most of the berry terps. Deisle strains are heavey sativa and tend to put me on my ass
 
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