I took my first trip to Amsterdam in 1999 and Western Winds from Sagarmatha was 1 of 3 strains I got from Tony. IIRC there were about 6 females, all of them tasted the same to me, very stable on taste is what I thought to myself. Out of 6 females 2 of them were grew much different than the rest, one of them never finished flowering, it went 18 weeks with very little bud growth, it was huge, killed it. The other odd one grew huge strings of pea sized calyx's on a massive airy bud. The other four were also large yielders but one of them had the tightest structure and was the one I kept. More than likely it had just a tiny bit of the NL expression to it. I was a greenhorn back then and over the 3 years of growing Westeren Winds sometimes buds would be really tight and other times a little stringy. I thought to myself if I had worked with the others it's possible I may not have kept the best one. A couple of the other phenos were much larger yielding than the one I kept. I was interested in this strain because they said it had no ceiling, that you would just get higher and higher. Not so with my pheno anywho. It tasted like it smelled Sesame Seed oil, maybe a hint of anise to it as well. After burning a joint of this your whole house would reek like a oriental restaurant, smelled just like cooking with sesame oil. It had a soaring clear high, up, up very chatty herb.
