Green Vein huh? I never tried that. How does it feel? I usually use red borneo and mango da. hehe stupid spell check.
I do really like Green Malaysian but to be honest I'm not even sure how much of my thinking theirs a real difference between all the strains might not just be placebo.
For the one vendor I use I've tried every single one of his plain leaf powders except one which is always sold out (I forget which, I think maybe Green Kapuas or something like that) and even a few of his extracts.
Overall in the end, the biggest difference I noticed was that a few of their white strains (not Maeng Da, I forget which ones they were) were very weak and required me to use more than other strains.
Other than that, I never noticed a big difference overall between strains and I think that probably a lot of my loving Green Malay is just sheer habit but honestly I can't be sure.
There's so much speculation regarding how much difference there even is between strains.
Some people think there's a lot, some think there's very little.
I remember about a year ago that Sekio the mod ran some chemical tests on some different strains of Kratom and found that the alkaloid compositions were nearly identical and I think he seemed to conclude that a lot of the differences people notice are mostly placebo...but I'm still not sure anyone can say that that's the case indefinitely.
I don't think anyone's going to be able to 100% PROVE that it is or isn't the case, so everyone will just have their own opinions.
However, IF I were to say I did notice a difference, I'd say I BELIEVE that Green Malay is a nice combo of stimulating and anxiolytic/relaxing, more stimulating than red veins and more relaxing than white.
However, i was told that was the case for ALL Green veins to begin with before I ever even tried Kratom so that idea was always in my head and I'm really not even sure it's the case.
My 2nd go to strain is Red Bali and I recently tried another vendors Red Indo, and honestly they don't feel THAT different (if different at all) from my vendor's green malay.
Many people say the main difference ISN'T strain but rather your vendor, which I DO believe makes a difference as many vendors have very weak or sub par Kratom as do most head shops.
Other people will say strain isn't as important as the region it comes from, usually either Thailand (Maeng Da), Malaysian (Green Malay) or Indonesian (Bali) as some examples (I'm not really aware of Kratom strains that come from anywhere other than those 3 countries, is anyone else????)
I could probably buy that region makes more of a difference than strain though.
I'd say the differences in Kratom go in this order in my opinion: 1) Vendor makes the biggest difference 2) region makes the 2nd biggest difference 3) actual strain makes the least difference.
That's just my opinion from my experience, and I haven't used many different vendors, just like 3 or 4, but I've used many strains and strains from all three aforementioned countries.
