De-carbed or raw on that pizza?
But when dispensaries use cute hybrid names, it makes it very hard to identify the underlying strains. The concept of a sour diesel crossed with a mellow Indica makes sense. But I've seen Sour Kush, Purple Diesel, Purple D., and several others, all basically the same, but not identical. Leafly is inconsistent as to which hybrids are listed as distinct strains. There should be a way to label one-off experiments as distinct from ones that have stood the test of a few generations, no?
And BTW, with the diesels being decidedly energizing, these Sour Diesel Indica hybrids can be better for pain where there's opportunity or desire for a more laid back time, but not indicouchlock or sleepy. A smidge foggier, but so ... optimistic!
Blending flowers of different strains seems unfortunately unpredictable. What works by genetic crossing, like that Purple Diesel idea, does not seem to work reliably "after the fact" the way tobacco is blended for flavor. Too much interaction and agonist-antagonist pharmacology. You never know how they will balance out.
Has anyone gotten useful results blending buds?
Shouldn't everyone try to discover their optimal fundamental strains before even considering growing? That's the OP subject, and t'is a noble quest! Thank Heaven for MMJ dispensaries. Took me a couple dozen gram buys to get oriented and narrow it down.
Great if you can carry your "primary colors" to apply as needed. For some (of course we're describing hypotheticals) a nice
Portable Medical Cannabis Kit in a pocket eGo case might include, say, Original Diesel for up, Purple Kush for down-down, and Master Kush for mellow level. If you have no need on the go for deepest sedation, Red Congolese as up-up makes a nice #3 in that rescue kit instead of a heavy Indica ;-)
But of course YMMV. I have a friend who has elevated thyroid. His whole spectrum is shifted, so that for him all Sativas are useless and too up, he feels a Master Kush as nicely up, and a strong sedating Indica as center mellow-level.
Reminds me of (very) deep divers doing maintenance on military stuff or on the North Sea oil rigs. I don't know the latest advances but they used to carry racks of syringes with anticonvulsants, stimulants, sedatives etc on their belts. That's in addition to complex gas mixtures. There was a light that reminded them to breathe, as the CO2-driven breathing reflex starts getting suppressed deeper than 1000 ft. Dangerous but well-paid work.
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