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Seeds were rare in the 90's here in the USA....at least in my circle/area (Colorado). The first seed I ever purchased (in '98) was "Durga Mata" from Paradise seeds. 2nd order was Flying Dutchman "Thaitanic" and Mr. Nice "Great White Shark". I went on to buy quite a few other selections over the years until things opened up here in the early 2000's.To be fair Simon from Serious did some banging regs. AK 47 was one hit. The Flying Dutchman Pot of Gold what a money maker, in a flood and drain, and like nice afgan hash. Sensei Seeds NL5 was tops. I wish again. Dutch Passion White Widow. Crystalline. As in anything filthy lucre becomes involved.
The genetics coming out from your side of the pond are the "next level". Like Heisen says if you have a table with a 1000 cuts and have the luxury to choose the special one.
My first time in Holland I had Colombian and the just out Super Skunk for breakfast with an Amstell and was flying. Paid in Guilders. The Super Skunk minged to high heaven. Fruitily.
Agreed there is a lot of pond weed seed sold as primo.
I know where I will be sourcing from now on.
from Mr H.
The "Durga" was very sought after. It had a nice, spicy thing going on and was muy stoney. The Thaitanic grew huge, medium density buds. It had a bit of an up high and a woody/earthy/spicy flavor. It was a challenge for me because at the time I was growing in a crawlspace with >barely< a 4 ft high ceiling under HPS with giant reflectors taking up space in the mix. I bent it over and kept it low but it was a good 6 ft tall. LOL. The Great White was one of my favorite smokes of all of the seeds I bought across the pond. It was the frostiest pot I'd grown to date...hard, hard nugs.....rivalling many strains of today on both accounts...and the taste was off-the-hook. Cleaner/nail polish/pungent/hashy...just a crazy good offering across the board.
We certainly have some frosty pot over here...but things are bottlenecking hard to the point where when you go to look at lineage...you see a lot of "Unknown" in the mix and you travel through history from past to present. However...almost everything started with the Skunk #1 (Thai/Afghani/Brazillian/Columbian) in the mix...which is tell tale here. Lotsa goodness in there, for sure. We wouldn't have the modern strains of today w/o all of those old heads...and old strains. I'm sure...just as happens here.... there's some stuff held deeply in certain circles there that has far more going on than most of the commercial offerings available.
I hope yer seeds arrive soon. I remember "the wait"....LOL. Checkin that mailbox...checkin that mailbox...