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jungo87

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What is that red and yellow string you get with this variety? or is that put on to hold it together?
 
I was hoping it wasn't and i could have smoked it as i've no buds left. I'm just going to have to smoke hash now
 
People still sell Thai Sticks?

My mom used to smoke thai sticks in the 60s, supposedly it was the danks lol
 
damn thats wild. i thought thai stick was a thing of the past.. my friends dad told me it was buds tied on a stick dipped in opium... sounds delightful..
 
Some times they would dip Thai weed into a weak opium solution ,and sell it as Thai Stick with opium, and it did have some opium,just a "diluted" form from all I have been told and read about, and Thai Stick was around till the 1980's a lotta places, more popular in the 70's and early 80's than in the 60's..It was not as available as much then as in later years,and as far as i know there is thai stick in the UK, but I have never seen it in the US,but they get hash and all that stuff in the UK and Europe that we do not get in the US for whatver reason,probably because we are seperated from the old trade routes and are not close to Africa and the middle east as Europe is so I suppose thats why hash is more common there,although people I know in the UK say the most common type is "Soapbar" which is a nasty combination of hash mixed with all kinds of garbage,so i prefer to smoke killer buds,and some bubble hash or hash oil or something...
 
I bought leaf wrapped around sticks in Bali 20 years ago. Tied down with some kind of cotton/twine.
 
Since American troops first returned from the war in Vietnam, the Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese strains have been regarded as some of the very finest in the world. Currently most Southeast Asian Cannabis is produced in northern and eastern Thailand. Until recent times, Cannabis farming has been a cottage industry of the northern mountain areas and each family grew a small garden. The pride of a farmer in his crop was reflected in the high quality and seedless nature of each carefully wrapped Thai stick. Due largely to the craving of Americans for exotic marijuana, Cannabis cultivation has become a big business in Thailand and many farmers are growing large fields of lower quality Cannabis in the eastern lowlands. It is suspected that other Cannabis strains, brought to Thailand to replenish local strains and begin large plantations, may have hybridized with original Thai strains and altered the resultant genetics. Also, wild stands of Cannabis may now be cut and dried for export.

Strains from Thailand are characterized by tall meandering growth of the main stalk and limbs and fairly extensive branching. The leaves are often very large with 9 to 11 long, slender, coarsely serrated leaflets arranged in a drooping hand like array. The Thai refer to them as "alligator tails" and the name is certainly appropriate.

Most Thai strains are very late-maturing and subject to hermaphrodism. It is not understood whether strains from Thailand turn hermaphrodite as a reaction to the extremes of northern temperate weather or if they have a genetically controlled tendency towards hermaphrodism. To the dismay of many cultivators and researchers, Thai strains mature late, flower slowly, and ripen unevenly. Retarded floral development and apparent disregard for changes in photoperiod and weather may have given rise to the story that Cannabis plants in Thailand live and bear flowers for years. Despite these shortcomings, Thai strains are very psychoactive and many hybrid crosses have been made with rapidly maturing strains, such as Mexican and Hindu Kush, in a successful attempt to create early-maturing hybrids of high psychoactivity and characteristic Thai sweet, citrus taste. The calyxes of Thai strains are very large, as are the seeds and other anatomical features, leading to the misconception that strains may be polyploid. No natural polyploidy has been discovered in any strains of Cannabis though no one has ever taken the time to look thoroughly. The seeds are very large, ovoid, slightly flattened, and light brown or tan in color. The perianth is never mottled or striped except at the base. Greenhouses prove to be the best way to mature stubborn Thai strains in temperate climes.
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used to get lots of thai bud in the bay area in the 80s. Don't have time to go into it but this is an excerpt from a thread i started a while back

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=458663

isn't about thai specifically but has info in there. Will post more later.
 
DavisK4high247 said:
Some times they would dip Thai weed into a weak opium solution ,and sell it as Thai Stick with opium, and it did have some opium,just a "diluted" form from all I have been told and read about, and Thai Stick was around till the 1980's a lotta places, more popular in the 70's and early 80's than in the 60's..
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Yeah my best friends dad was in the Navy during Vietnam and would tell us stories of getting Thai stick. He said when you would get it from them they would ask you which kind you wanted and they would have an assortment of Thai Sticks dipped in different chemicals. He said his favorite was the "elephant" which he described would be Thai rolled in an opium/heroin solution. He said for how much of a difference it made the price was only a little bit more for the laced opposed to the non laced. But, we all know how war stories go...
 
We used to be able to buy them in Southern California in 73-77. I bought many, many thai sticks during those years. I can't remember how much they were, but a regular oz, which was just basic weed, seeds and stems and so forth, in a baggie four fingers deep, generally called a four finger lid or just a lid, for $10. Thai Sticks were great and made great gifts. I got my best friend one for her birthday every year we were in high school.
 
DavisK4high247 said:
Some times they would dip Thai weed into a weak opium solution ,and sell it as Thai Stick with opium, and it did have some opium,just a "diluted" form from all I have been told and read about, and Thai Stick was around till the 1980's a lotta places, more popular in the 70's and early 80's than in the 60's..It was not as available as much then as in later years,and as far as i know there is thai stick in the UK, but I have never seen it in the US,but they get hash and all that stuff in the UK and Europe that we do not get in the US for whatver reason,probably because we are seperated from the old trade routes and are not close to Africa and the middle east as Europe is so I suppose thats why hash is more common there,although people I know in the UK say the most common type is "Soapbar" which is a nasty combination of hash mixed with all kinds of garbage,so i prefer to smoke killer buds,and some bubble hash or hash oil or something...
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Yeah i think opiated thai stick is definitely a thing of the past....

Soapbar has definitely given hashish a bad name in the UK and many people turn their noses up at fantastically nice hash as a result.
 
Yeah many war stories are true tho...

J@germe1ster said:
Yeah my best friends dad was in the Navy during Vietnam and would tell us stories of getting Thai stick. He said when you would get it from them they would ask you which kind you wanted and they would have an assortment of Thai Sticks dipped in different chemicals. He said his favorite was the "elephant" which he described would be Thai rolled in an opium/heroin solution. He said for how much of a difference it made the price was only a little bit more for the laced opposed to the non laced. But, we all know how war stories go...
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Well some war stories are added to over time,but many are the truth.My uncle and some other guys i Know were over there in the late 60's and a few in the early 70's..The guys like my uncle that were there in the late 60's talk about Thai sticks and vietnamese weed that was so strong one or two hits had you too high they would say..but I guess they meant to high to maintain while in a war situtation.The guys there in the early 70's all said that heroin was the drug of choice then,being as it was the SEA #4 white powder and very very pure,and very cheap.They said for $2 you could get a vial of heroin and snort a little bit and be really loaded,many got hooked on smack there and came back here and it took them 10 times the amount of heroin used IV to get high ,since the heroin in the US then was 10% pure or something..weird how soon SEA #4 showed up in the US during the 1970's tho...CIA I bet and some smuggling US troops..anyway back to Thai Sticks,My uncle said there were 2 or 3 types of Thai stick they could buy,the regular Thai stick or the Opium dipped Thai stick and another kind he said he neve rbought so he does not know what it was laced with.Anyway wish good Thai Stick was still available here,but I guess we have enough high grade weed here,and high costing weed at that normally,unless you grow it yourself or are close freinds and family with a grower..
 
Wow - thai sticks. We used to get them in the early eighties - they were wome of the best quality around (hydro wasn't 'invented' yet).

As well as I remember, the string used to be a single hemp fiber... (but certainly not worth smoking)...
 
In the Bay Area in the mid 80s, there were 2 types of buds generally available. Thai bud and green bud or killer green bud (KGB) or kind bud. The Kind bud commanded a higher price and was fresher and often more potent. It was typically from Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz, or Big Sur, grown outdoors. It was of excellent quality but indicas and especially hybrids were prized.

Thai buds back then were considered kinda like schwag8o What I would do to get ahold of good thai buds. They were 20-25/ 8th in 85-86 while kind was 30-35 an 8th. Thai sticks weren't widely available but they consisted of buds on the stem tied with small leaves and other plant products.

There were different types of thai: golden thai, what many call juicy fruit had a fruity taste and a mellow, relaxing (as opposed to stimulating) sativa high.

Chocolate thai was dark brown to black and actually had a chocolate taste. That had a good sweet/earthy high to go with it.

A few times I got buds that tasted like mint chocolate that I nick named "mint chocolate thai."

During the mid to late summer between harvests we had to settle for homegrown- actually shity mexican dirtweed most likely I found out when I moved to Southern CA. For the price of kind- people were desperate, these were real between season droughts that don't happen any more.

Buddah thai was often sold and claimed to be dipped in opium but I doubt it because my pupills didn't pin and i had smoked opium so was familiar with the effects. Good buds alond juicy fruit line.

I smoked golden brown dope from Bali which brought back sweet memories of that @ a dead show in 90' (Dominguez Hills, CA.) on a sweltering summer day.

The irony is that we considered thai bud inferior to CA grown green even though it was of good to great quality sativa by today's standards. It tended to be stems with small, compact buds, or a small stalk with buds growing on them, were light to dark brown typically, compact buds had few seeds mostly or were occasionally seedless.

The Bay Area was a great place to grow up in in the 80s. Southern CA in the 80s and early-mid 90s was flooded with mex dirtweed. The cool thing was I could get a quarter for 1/2 the price of a kind 1/8 in 85. The price of kind skyrocketed from 86-89/90.
 
I get thai bud with loads of seeds in there, it's wrapped in string like a ball of it.
 
Got some Thai back in the days which wasn't in sticks, just plain old bomb Thai. Drools...
 
Thai don't hit the spot for me too many seeds sticks and string.


However Howard Marks claimed it was his favourite, of course Taiwanese prostitutes procured his for him.
 
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