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I just want to say how much this package of genetics actually means to me, and how important it feels.
I was a punk ass kid who was already getting kicked out of school and smoking weed at a young age in a suburban middle class neighborhood. First smoked weed when I was in 12 in 1994 with my older sister after we found a stash and a pipe in my dad's toolbox. Got caught, too. Lol. He didn't tell my mom. It was Bammer, Schwag,(our slang for Mexican brick weed with seeds and stems, sometimes smelled like gasoline, once I found a baby shoe compacted inside of a pound I bought off a guy for dirt cheap lol.)
In1995 I was skateboarding in a park. Saw some dudes at a bench clicking lighters and blowing smoke, so I asked them for a cigarette. They said, "we don't smoke tobacco, but hit this."
What happened next blew my mind. Firstly, they handed me a glass pipe. Had never seen one. Was carrying a good ol' double chamber metal pipe with screens. Fucking wild to see this magical pipe with color and warts. Lit it up and took a rip, and I must've coughed for a minute straight. Like the biggest, gagging, drooling kinda ugly coughing. My buddy did the same. Dudes were laughing. Everyone was laughing. I was so fucking high. Had never even thought you could get that high off just one hit. They told me it was "kind weed*" and "green bud."
Dudes became my dealers and I was buying shit like "G13, man, it was grown in a government research lab for cancer patients. Top tier," Trainwreck, Chem D, Sour D, etc. Being where I was at in close enough proximity to Humboldt and Frisco, my guys were getting shit in waves: Alaskan Thunderfuck, AK-47, Og Kush, Bubba, Purple Kush, Purps, Dog Shit, Cat Piss, Headband, Urkle, GDP, Grape Ape, etc. Obviously not always the same guys. But same story.
I didn't start growing until a few years ago for my mental health and chronic pain. It just never happened. Always wanted to. Now I do. Being able to have access to cultivars like this that have remained pure and in safe hands of people like Matt and Caleb who care so much about provenance and authenticity is insane. Like these guys are part of the reason I can grow the shit I was buying as a kid and know that it's legit and real.
Hats off to someone who seriously probably had a direct hand in the chain of command for all my 21st century weed. Lol. Kind of a crazy thought, and listening to the stories of them trading clones and posting online from random Wi-Fi because of (justified) paranoia, chasing down the person who sold the weed to a guy that sold it to the other guy to get the plant from the original guy (and then maybe finding out it's your cousin lol iykyk) and what it took to preserve these things that seriously could've been lost to time, like teardrops in the rain, makes me appreciate it even more.
I'm beyond excited to be relatively close enough to drive to his new dispensary and seed bank and support this man and his work in the near future. You can't tell me that he isn't also one of the most generous people as well. Ordered Trainwreck S1. Got everything else. Nuff said. Money is tight, bruh. I've spent far less on gear than a lot of people I'm sure, so each purchase is very important to me, and holy shit, man. It's like Xmas came early.
Some of these seeds will be hopefully used for personal breeding projects in the future as well. In the meantime, I'm hunting keepers in the CA sun next year! (Only autos indoors for reasons or I would be popping beans into water right now lol.)
Maybe I'm just lucky, because I would've waited however long it took and been perfectly content, but, I ordered and sent cash via priority mail on Aug 5th, emailed the tracking number, it arrived on the 7th, label created the 8th, shipped on the 14th, and received today (8/17). Pretty painless.
TL;DR: Sentimental middle-aged autistic stoner gets to grow his childhood weed because of the Nspecta and the Docta.
* Saw a video interview with DJ Short who claimed that the term originated with people buying his blueberry. Just thought it was interesting and only recently watched that and chuckled to myself. "I want that kind."
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