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I'm a new indoor grower. Doing organic soil with 120 watt LED. Grow for medicinal reasons (Chronic arthritis and back pain). I have a medical card in Cali, but was in east-texas visiting friends and I ran out.
I picked up a few bag seeds out of some mid-grade stuff bought from a guy in east texas. I think we paid $100 for an oz. Took the seeds and grew them since they were free and I wanted something to practice on. The batch went to seed because I didn't pull the males out in time. Even after cleaning the seeds out of the bud an oz went to an experienced buyer for $300/oz and said he would happily pay $500/oz for better quality bud of the same strain (aka, stuff that didn't go to seed). The buyer was from houston so I guess that's par for the course in their market. I wouldn't know.
This is the same popcorn from the dallas area. The guy we bought it from said he gets his supply from there. I don't know if the "popcorn" refers to a strain or just small budds from the bottom of the plant, but the buds we got were small and popcorn like and bright green with brown hairs.
He said he considered it low-grade dro, but i'm not really all that familiar with how this stuff is rated in the streets. I only grow for myself and only sold an oz to this guy as a personal favor cause his normal supply had gone dry.
The high lasts 2-4 hours and takes about 20 minutes to kick in. it's a good 80% head high and 20% body. If grown properly crystals are easily visible on the buds and leaves. In fact, they glisten in the light. The stuff I grew was easily 4x more potent than the stuff the seeds came out of (Nature vs nurture). The buds and leaves turn a dark purple right before harvest. The hairs turn brown. I'm guessing my buds turned purple because I let it mature longer than the previous grower? The original dried pot the seeds came from was bright green. My stuff is distinctly purple.
I have absolutely no doubt that on my next batch that i'm germinating now I'll be able to get some exceptional crystallization. Even on the seeded stuff I grew you could look under a 30x mag and it looked like Xmas in colorado. Now that I know what to look for in males that won't be a problem and the batch won't go to seed which will lead to even bigger stickier buds.
the picture posted earlier on this thread looks like the exact stuff i've got, both the pics of the dried stuff and the pics of growing plants. The smell of the cured bud is especially potent. You can open a small sealed container and someone across the room knows you opened it within seconds.\\
btw, the guy who said stuff grown hydroponically doesn't have seeds doesn't know *** he's talking about. Seeds only form in the presence of pollen and has nothing to do with the method the plants are grown with. Hydro setups generally grow more weeds faster because it's more nutrient dense method of growing but it's also more expensive and takes more skill. You have minutes or hours to fix problems in hydro grows as opposed to soil grows you have days. You can get damn good top shelf weed with snow on the leaves from soil grows. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about cause i've seen it with my own eyes.
