(Mango) Kush ... any good?

[Saint Nick]

I think it'd be pretty cool to talk to some people about smoking pot that you never would have guessed smoked weed. Something to bond over, ya dig?

 

[Nik]

 

[bfdd]

^You've never smoked the good shit, I take it.

That's not it, but good try.

 

[Eli]

There are lots of different strains and Kush is a popular group of them.

Basically, when Nixon started the war on drugs and the Feds started to really crack down on pot smuggling, two things happened: Colombian drug smugglers switched from smuggling pot to cocaine, thereby creating the great Cocaine boom of the 70's and 80's, and American hippies and rednecks (and hippie rednecks) started to grow their own weed. This was also the time when the Organic Food movement really took off, leading to many hippies becoming experts in traditional horticultural techniques. Both the weed growing and the organic food growing were centered in the Pacific Northwest. Pot, naturally, benefited from this new found hippie expertize in horticulture.

Weed is very easy to hybridize by grafting different strains onto each other. So, for the last ~35 years hippies have been using hybridization techniques to make stronger and stronger strains of weed. The Kush branch is a family of those strains.

I'm not sure if you just used the wrong term or what, but there is no grafting involved in the breeding of marijuana.

You graft a plant when you want the root stock from one plant, but the foliage of another. There is no intermingling of genetics with grafting.

There are about as many different strains of marijuana as there are people that grow it. Very few are actually recognized world wide as a legitimate strain. I have never heard of Mango Kush.

 

[Maverick2002]

I'm not sure if you just used the wrong term or what, but there is no grafting involved in the breeding of marijuana.

You graft a plant when you want the root stock from one plant, but the foliage of another. There is no intermingling of genetics with grafting.

There are about as many different strains of marijuana as there are people that grow it. Very few are actually recognized world wide as a legitimate strain. I have never heard of Mango Kush.

So in other words "mango kush" doesn't really mean anything, other than maybe it's a decent quality because it's kush-like strain (and a different kind of high), or something like that?

 

[zinfamous]

I'm not sure if you just used the wrong term or what, but there is no grafting involved in the breeding of marijuana.

You graft a plant when you want the root stock from one plant, but the foliage of another. There is no intermingling of genetics with grafting.

There are about as many different strains of marijuana as there are people that grow it. Very few are actually recognized world wide as a legitimate strain.

yeah, I went :hmm: when I read grafting, too. Tends to only work well with woody plants, right?

doesn't have to be just root stock, though. A lot of apple trees will have the male (or is it female?) limbs of one tree grafted to the opposite sex tree of another.

of course, this is very common in viticulture. A lot of the Napa (Sonoma, too?) vines came from plants grafted to French root stock. ...or something like that.

 

[zinfamous]

So in other words "mango kush" doesn't really mean anything, other than maybe it's a decent quality because it's kush-like strain (and a different kind of high), or something like that?

A lot of these names spring from what some dude "Tastes" when smoking a particular strain.

Ever heard of "bubble gum?" ...it's not like the cannabis was hybridized to a, uh...bubble gum plant, heh.

I'm assuming this has something of a sweet, maybe "fruity" taste to it. or simply some insider slang where "mango" is just their way of describing the high. Like, instead of saying "Sweet, bro!" he and his pals might say "That's totally mango, dude!"

 

[Eli]

yeah, I went :hmm: when I read grafting, too. Tends to only work well with woody plants, right?

doesn't have to be just root stock, though. A lot of apple trees will have the male (or is it female?) limbs of one tree grafted to the opposite sex tree of another.

of course, this is very common in viticulture. A lot of the Napa (Sonoma, too?) vines came from plants grafted to French root stock. ...or something like that.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, usually woody plants. Most fruit trees are grafted onto different root stock.

I am sure you could graft with marijuana, but it would be kinda pointless since it's an annual and no genetics are exchanged.

 

[qliveur]

That's not it, but good try.

Whatever. Good weed does not taste like crap.

 

[Numenorean]

Posting in a Heller thread.


Oh wait...

 

[nutxo]

This isn't a fucking drug forum.

Seeing as how its legal in some places now this is no different than someone talking about alcohol.

 

[erikistired]

Posting in a Heller thread.

Oh wait...

he hasn't posted in a few days. i wonder if he's in jail from his drug lab thread.

 

[Numenorean]

he hasn't posted in a few days. i wonder if he's in jail from his drug lab thread.

I don't know. Maybe I will find out tomorrow what happened with the Office Depot complaint.