Indica Vs Sativa High - Is it really a thing?

[PadawanWarrior]

Better hurry guys. Only 5 more years until the poll closes.

But seriously. There's a difference.

 

[OutdoorOpps]

ofc there is a difference, 4 or 5 puffs of Golden Tyger and I can't stay in the same place for 1 minute, nor sleep, 4 or 5 puff of Matanuska, and Im ready to get in the bed like a happy baby.

IMHO, hybrids (more or less balanced) can go to the sativa or indica side depending on pheno and buds mature, so it can be more "difficult" to feel it, try pure sativas vs pure indicas and then tell me. There is still another variable (maybe the main one), is not only the strain, but yourself, each one have different reactions, taste, dna, brain, afflictions, etc

There are all kind of grapes in the God's vineyard, and this is really cool IMHO.

best regards

 

[GoatSoup]

IDK if there is a difference in between them but I'm trying Durban Poison this go round to see is a Pure Landrace Sativa is the thing. Had Nothern Lights a pure Indica, Okay but not what I was looking for.
I'm looking for a "Slapped by a Happy Stick" in your face sort of High.

 

[bk78]

I hear if you chop your plant early you get a sativa high?

 

[Rurumo]

Yes, it is a "thing." If you aren't sure, try a tropical Sativa landrace and see what real cannabis is all about. Haze fueled the greatest music of the 60s and 70s. Do you know what fuels modern, mass marketed hip hop? Couchlock indicas. I envy that you haven't discovered this for yourself OP, you haven't smoked real weed yet and the world is your oyster!

 

[Failmore]

IDK if there is a difference in between them but I'm trying Durban Poison this go round to see is a Pure Landrace Sativa is the thing. Had Nothern Lights a pure Indica, Okay but not what I was looking for.
I'm looking for a "Slapped by a Happy Stick" in your face sort of High.

Then you should be smoking sativa dom varieties.

 

[lusidghost]

I hear if you chop your plant early you get a sativa high?

I honestly suspect that this is why most people think sativas are a racy high. Every time I've smoked a premature bud I get a headband-like buzz that quickly fades.

 

[Rurumo]

Wrote similar in another thread but Scientist believe it's the biggest shit show in the industry.

No one has successfully been able to identify indica or sativa in a blind test with a believable sample size.

By all means, link these so-called "blind" tests. I guarantee anyone with ANY smoking experience could tell Malawi from some hype strain indica. You really can't tell a strain that wires you with pure focus, and doesn't get in the way of say, balancing the books, or proofreading technical documents, vs a couchlock indica that instantly stupifies you? I seriously don't know what you guys are thinking. The big myth is trichome stage vs up/down high. A landrace sativa with 50% or more amber trichs will remain an "up" high, the reverse being true of a couchlock indica. People have repeated this nonsense for decades, some old goofball like George Cervantes is probably to blame.

 

[lusidghost]

By all means, link these so-called "blind" tests. I guarantee anyone with ANY smoking experience could tell Malawi from some hype strain indica. You really can't tell a strain that wires you with pure focus, and doesn't get in the way of say, balancing the books, or proofreading technical documents, vs a couchlock indica that instantly stupifies you? I seriously don't know what you guys are thinking. The big myth is trichome stage vs up/down high. A landrace sativa with 50% or more amber trichs will remain an "up" high, the reverse being true of a couchlock indica. People have repeated this nonsense for decades, some old goofball like George Cervantes is probably to blame.

My suspensions come from everyone asking if their plants are ready to harvest or not. It seems like the further you go back, the earlier people were harvesting. Especially before indoors really became a thing and running a 3+ month flowering plant deep into the fall was risky on multiple levels.

 

[lusidghost]

Also I don't think it really has much to do with the color of the trichomes as much as the chemistry within. To me it feels like there is something coupling the thc that causes a slower release when the plant is mature. A sativa high feels like electric and an indica high feels like fire.

 

[DrOgkush]

I 100% agree with that people a decade ago were harvesting early outdoors due to high risk and indoor wasn as popular unless you didn mine the electricity bill.
It was weird to see how the whole legalization thing made it’s turn. People understanding a bit more and the difference from true bomb and mids might not only been genetics. But early picking too.

EVERY bag seed I grew as a kid turned out better than host bud it came out of. Always.
Wasn until recently people are starting to figure out the 2 hard secrets to good pot is
Genetics and patience.

 

[BudmanTX]

it all depends on the chop time...imo....indica late chop will give you couch lock and early chop will put on the couch but at least you can do things. Sativa...is the same early chop will give you that get up and go experience....a late chop will give you almost paranoia or an eratic behavior high.....very uppiedity.....pay attention to the trich when doing this.....

 

[xtsho]

Yes, it is a "thing." If you aren't sure, try a tropical Sativa landrace and see what real cannabis is all about. Haze fueled the greatest music of the 60s and 70s. Do you know what fuels modern, mass marketed hip hop? Couchlock indicas. I envy that you haven't discovered this for yourself OP, you haven't smoked real weed yet and the world is your oyster!

Many people today are not old enough to have smoked a real Thai, Columbian Gold, Panama, Haze, or anything similar. All they've ever had are hybrids or some auto version which is a hybrid as well and nothing at all like the real thing. Many never will either because so many growers are never going to take the time to grow a plant that takes 16 weeks to flower. They'd rather jump on some hype train and wait for some "Drop" of the latest Purple Space Monkey Cookie Cake Candy pollen chuck strain trending on Instagram.

These are also the same people going around telling others to harvest an indica early to get a sativa effect. They are completely clueless.

 

[hotrodharley]

From my experience with old school Mexican and Taiwan saliva. They send you into a soaring high. Second to none. Try a pure saliva land race if possible these days and a Northants lights pure indica and see for yourself. I just wish I still had the saliva seeds I was growing some40yrs ago to send you some.

I maintain an IBL Durban and it’s as pure a sativa as there is. There is a difference.

 

[lusidghost]

Many people today are not old enough to have smoked a real Thai, Columbian Gold, Panama, Haze, or anything similar. All they've ever had are hybrids or some auto version which is a hybrid as well and nothing at all like the real thing. Many never will either because so many growers are never going to take the time to grow a plant that takes 16 weeks to flower. They'd rather jump on some hype train and wait for some "Drop" of the latest Purple Space Monkey Cookie Cake Candy pollen chuck strain trending on Instagram.

These are also the same people going around telling others to harvest an indica early to get a sativa effect. They are completely clueless.

I want to spend a day going through your posts to make a collection of all of your hybrid names.

 

[xtsho]

I maintain an IBL Durban and it’s as pure a sativa as there is. There is a difference.

I'll take some good Durban genetics over all these cookie cutter pollen chucks so many are chasing these days.

 

[lusidghost]

And I'm not suggesting chopping your indica early to get a sativa high. I'm suggesting letting your cannabis plant fully ripen to get a proper cannabis high. I feel the sativa high is all treble no bass.

 

[Rurumo]

Many people today are not old enough to have smoked a real Thai, Columbian Gold, Panama, Haze, or anything similar. All they've ever had are hybrids or some auto version which is a hybrid as well and nothing at all like the real thing. Many never will either because so many growers are never going to take the time to grow a plant that takes 16 weeks to flower. They'd rather jump on some hype train and wait for some "Drop" of the latest Purple Space Monkey Cookie Cake Candy pollen chuck strain trending on Instagram.

These are also the same people going around telling others to harvest an indica early to get a sativa effect. They are completely clueless.

Very well said my friend! Xtsho, have you tried the Ace Honduras yet? It has become one of my favorite of their strains, gives me flashbacks to the old Columbians, I'm determined to keep a stash of it in my house at all times. I'm holding off on popping more of them and a pack of Oldtimer's haze for when I have an increased grow limit next year. I do enjoy some of the modern strains from GOOD breeders, who breed their plants with a clear intent and vision, but that stuff is purely for pain and night night time. But random FOTM pollen chucks...pass

 

[xtsho]

Very well said my friend! Xtsho, have you tried the Ace Honduras yet? It has become one of my favorite of their strains, gives me flashbacks to the old Columbians, I'm determined to keep a stash of it in my house at all times. I'm holding off on popping more of them and a pack of Oldtimer's haze for when I have an increased grow limit next year. I do enjoy some of the modern strains from GOOD breeders, who breed their plants with a clear intent and vision, but that stuff is purely for pain and night night time. But random FOTM pollen chucks...pass

I have a pack of Honduras that I haven't gotten to yet. I need to do a reproduction seed run sometime soon though. Same thing with their Guatemala, Malawi, etc... I'm booked up solid.

 

[DWCgrower406]

One thing to consider, since sativas take so long to fully mature, im sure its much more common for them to be harvested early, therefore giving more of a head high