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What's your local legendary strain of old?
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Re: What's your local legendary strain of old?
When I started it was all just "Weed". Pretty much brick weed from Mexico. But now and then we were able to score Thai Stick. That was a horse of a different color.
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- Cave Hill Cole (Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:01 am)
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Re: What's your local legendary strain of old?
Haha yeah bro I remember Back of the Y well, yup they basically spent all the money they made on drugs and booze over a couple year period. A couple of the guys are still in Kiwi media. Randy Campbell was in the paper last year, he chased down thieves that robbed his guitar and ended up on the roof of the thieves car when it crashed into the cops...crazy but true https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/ ... police-carTreetrunk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 4:32 pmUsed to watch a Kiwi show called Back of the Y. Nut jobs They were always mentioning Te Puke Thunder.Cave Hill Cole wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:39 pmGreetings all,
I'm a bit of a weed history nerd and love hearing about the different legendary strains from the past. Anyways I thought I would start a post to hear everyone's stories...if your interested in sharing. So what's the legendary local strain from your spot
Here's one from my neck of the woods. The "Te Puke Thunder". I had always been told it was brought over from Thailand in the 70s, grown in the Coromandel hills and had become a heirloom adjusted to NZ climate...but who knows, I reckon it was probably just a sweet name that stuck. Here's a helpful little video about a local dude looking for it. To be honest I reckon its long gone, but the doco is fun, a bit of kiwi weed culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRrR385 ... hannel=ATP
Has anyone managed to track any down yet?
I'm going to dig out the BOTY and Randy Campbell DVDs.
Nah man Te Puke thunder was never found. It was like Maui Wowie, as more of a famous name. It existed in the 80s, and the legend remained longer after. To be honest, the main local legends around in the 90s was the Silver Pearl being grown by gangs in the 90s. I also remember the old super skunk. It was light green, like ninja turtle green, orange hairs, powerful stone for the time
The other big thig was a cut of AK47, that was the rage from 2000 to 2010. That was being grown out by the NORML crew, and spread far and wide.
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Re: What's your local legendary strain of old?
Randy was obviously in the zone that nightCave Hill Cole wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:47 amHaha yeah bro I remember Back of the Y well, yup they basically spent all the money they made on drugs and booze over a couple year period. A couple of the guys are still in Kiwi media. Randy Campbell was in the paper last year, he chased down thieves that robbed his guitar and ended up on the roof of the thieves car when it crashed into the cops...crazy but true https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/ ... police-carTreetrunk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 4:32 pmUsed to watch a Kiwi show called Back of the Y. Nut jobs They were always mentioning Te Puke Thunder.Cave Hill Cole wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:39 pmGreetings all,
I'm a bit of a weed history nerd and love hearing about the different legendary strains from the past. Anyways I thought I would start a post to hear everyone's stories...if your interested in sharing. So what's the legendary local strain from your spot
Here's one from my neck of the woods. The "Te Puke Thunder". I had always been told it was brought over from Thailand in the 70s, grown in the Coromandel hills and had become a heirloom adjusted to NZ climate...but who knows, I reckon it was probably just a sweet name that stuck. Here's a helpful little video about a local dude looking for it. To be honest I reckon its long gone, but the doco is fun, a bit of kiwi weed culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRrR385 ... hannel=ATP
Has anyone managed to track any down yet?
I'm going to dig out the BOTY and Randy Campbell DVDs.
Nah man Te Puke thunder was never found. It was like Maui Wowie, as more of a famous name. It existed in the 80s, and the legend remained longer after. To be honest, the main local legends around in the 90s was the Silver Pearl being grown by gangs in the 90s. I also remember the old super skunk. It was light green, like ninja turtle green, orange hairs, powerful stone for the time
The other big thig was a cut of AK47, that was the rage from 2000 to 2010. That was being grown out by the NORML crew, and spread far and wide.
Our favourites back in the day were always hash. Not much flower about then and I didn't grow.
Squidgy black,red seal and gold seal.
That YouTube video made me laugh. Some right characters.
Love to have a smoke and a beer with them
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Re: What's your local legendary strain of old?
It was super skunk and NL around here for good stuff and red/gold seal resin which was rough as but i liked the taste.
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Re: What's your local legendary strain of old?
i was weened on red lebanese sometimes gold leb.... the black hash came later i never liked the chesty stuff myself i`s eat the squidgy rather than toot it see / uncle dewi`s stash 1982 it was a very good year i`d just pinch a spliffs worth off him as + when i liked,then 1 day he rolled me a spliff passed it to me + said boy ive been watching ewe for a long time .... then we never looked back god rest his soul.. we used to get a good morrocan called mirror bar around here nice clean hash it was to.
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