We need more long flowering Sativas in the clubs!
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Kaendar
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you have been at the wrong clubs then.
obijohn
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There is plenty of variety in most dispensaries of Indicas, sativas and hybrids.
It may seem there is an emphasis on Indicas simply because for most bonafide medical patients, indica effects work well. Having said that, plenty of sativa strains have great medicinal effects for pain, etc. I think heavy sativas may make some people anxious instead of relaxed
It may seem there is an emphasis on Indicas simply because for most bonafide medical patients, indica effects work well. Having said that, plenty of sativa strains have great medicinal effects for pain, etc. I think heavy sativas may make some people anxious instead of relaxed
Kaendar
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Down here in LA we got all the classic sativas. The Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, Jamaican Haze, etc..
UncleNasty
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Lol sac
Those clubs are ok. Better than surrounding areas. But, You want good stuff? Go 200 miles oPposite
Those clubs are ok. Better than surrounding areas. But, You want good stuff? Go 200 miles oPposite
I agree. Well, I can only speak for up here in Washington State. But yeah, long flowering sativas seem to be non-existent. However, there seems to be no shortage of fast flowering Indicas and/or hybrids. Although, I don't even consider these strains "marijuana" as the high simply aint there.
I remember the pure land race sativas in the 80's produced AMAZING highs. I wish these dispensaries up here would realize if they just grew the fun high weed, people would probably pay 4x the amount per gram. If I was in the cannabis growing community, I know how I would make my fortune. Grow only long flowing pure 100% land race tropical sativa's. The weed that produces the best high. People would be crawling over each other to get your store! It's kinda sad, but the cannabis market has created the need for heavy indicas and hybrids. Those that don't know better believe they are smoking good weed. It might be strong and potent...but it's not a fun high by any means.
Mithrandir420
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The reason you have a harder time finding the long flowering sativas than the indicas is because they are long flowering. From a growers standpoint it isn't worth the time to grow. You get less yield as well since those sativas are generally less dense than an indica. During the 80's and 90's as growing really went indoors people realized that those long flowering sativas were tough to grow indoors, while the indicas we're perfectly suited. Thus began the era of the hybrid. "Smokes like a sativa, grows like an indica" was the holy grail. (Still is for some people)
People think we have a lot of indicas right now because that's what people want. I think it's because the growers of the 80's and 90's conditioned the market to accept it by only growing indicas. And back then you didn't have the choice that you have today. Back then you bought whatever your dealer had. Now that we have outdoors in the mix again, we're seeing more and more of these sativas.
People think we have a lot of indicas right now because that's what people want. I think it's because the growers of the 80's and 90's conditioned the market to accept it by only growing indicas. And back then you didn't have the choice that you have today. Back then you bought whatever your dealer had. Now that we have outdoors in the mix again, we're seeing more and more of these sativas.
Dan Kone
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lol. Make it happen.
There is a reason everything is hybridized. No one wants to spend 16 weeks growing some landrace sativa that will foxtail to hell only to get paid less money.
Dan Kone
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Actually there is not. There is hybrids, hybrids, and more hybrids generally. The only pure genetics you get is an occasional afghanica. Pure Indcas don't get you high, pure Afghanicas don't yield (generally, there are exceptions to this), pure
sativas take too long to flower.
The descriptions of sativa, indica, and hybrid are getting outdated. My Casey Jones which is as close to a pure sativa that dispensaries will sell has a canabinoid profile of what people think of as an indica. My afghan kush profiles as a sativa. You've got kush plants with skinny leaves and jack herer crosses with fat leaves.
Sativa, Indica, and hybrid are better descriptions of how a plant grows than their medical effects.
Grandpapy
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There is a shortage of safe outdoor growing areas, and at $450-500 a month for electricity, we can only hope someone besides Monsanto comes up with a 8 wk landrace. Soon!
ReefBongwell
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As long as dispensaries pay shit for pounds, you are definitely not going to get landraces at dispensaries in general. What Mithrandir and Dan said were spot on. If you want a landrace strain, you need to pop one outdoors and grow it 
BustinScales510
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Even if it wasnt cost prohibitive to grow,it probably wouldnt sell well. People buy weed based on how it looks and the name,and pure sativas look wispy and gnarly and dont mean much to people that want to have the "in" weed like cookies or og.
ReefBongwell
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That's true bustin... but it's also about education and the only good thing about a dispensary is that they can try and eductate and steer people towards more than just the OGs/etc (assuming they have that goal and don't just care about only what sells the most). A lot of people will go for the pure sativa over the regular stuff if it's THAT good and the dispensary people let'em know it's the shit. There's a lot of people who buy the popular shit, but there are also a lot of people (like me and OP) who want the best quality high and don't really care if it looks like a turd as long as it takes you to the right place (like on your knees, because you can't stand, because you're laughing so hard, and maybe you can't even breathe because of it)
Nightmarecreature
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I had this same talk with a friend who runs a dispensary. Basically he said his patients need pain relief. They get that by using Indica's or Indica hybrids. He said not that many people come in wanting Sativa's. On top of all that, growers get paid less for something that takes longer to grow.
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