People in other med markets, do you have issues with your growers mislabeling strains? For example there's 2 versions of Lamb's Breath/Bread you can get in our program.
Grower #1 is the one I get, it's a terpinoline and myrcene heavy strain with fairly pure narrow leaf bud structure indicating most of the genetics are sativa.. Light, fluffy, long slender buds and a long flowering cycle point towards it being a landrace from a climate with lots of long sunny days like say, Jamaica. Mild THC levels and one of the best tasting strains I've ever encountered, it's like a more tropical and sweeter version of Golden goat mixed with sunny delight orange drink.
My best friend just bought Grower #2 after asking me for a good sativa. Grower #2's version is definitely not a pure or pure-is sativa, it's squarely hybrid with denser and rounder, more indica style bud structure. It's linalool and caryophellene heavy and looks and smells like a modern OG kush hybrid. It has no terpinoline and not a lot of myrcene (the two terps which primarily give tropical sativas their happy and invigorating effect). This isn't a pheno thing, these are 2 completely different sets of genetics.
After looking into it and seems like it's not limited to my state, if you search for strain reviews you'll notice its like this in most of the US legal market. So, I started thinking if this isn't just them relabeling some OG or shitty inhouse breeding project then what's going on? I read up on the history of LB a little and it seems like its one of those strains that came to prominence for the wider world via the Dutch coffeehouse scene. I have 2 theories.... One is that during the search for landrace genetics in the 80s and 90s two different growers brought back two different strains from Jamaica and since "lambs breath" is essentially just Jamaican slang for good weed they both thought that's what it was called. The other is a bit more cynical. Tropical landrace sativas are known to be somewhat difficult to grow outside of their native climate, so my other theory is that one of the seed banks brought back actual LB seed and then either hybridized it into oblivion to try and make it more commercially viable or just did a straight up switcheroo with something easier to grow.
I suppose this is where terpene labels and knowing how to read them really helps, but I feel like there should be some degree of standardization, at least in the medical realm. I don't want trademarks or any bullshit like that, just a little common sense in the legislation like if you introduce a product thats named the same thing as an existing product then it should have the same genetic lineage. If Grandma goes to store and buys a jar that says ketchup, then gets home and its filled with mustard I think we would all agree that's wrong, but that's basically exactly what happens if you get Tahoe or SFV or lambs bread or even Jack (I shit you not we have a grower who tries to pass something with zero terpinoline or ocimene as Jack Herer).
And since you can't see or smell the product before purchase you really have to study the terp percents and proportions to get even part of the info you'd get with just taking a whiff. That's fine for nerds like me but most people either don't understand what the labels are and what they do, or they think it's really complicated and feel intimidated by them.
Here's the $20 Jack 47.
Like I said before, I love both parents and the influence is there but this grower is notoriously greedy and does tier pricing by thc level, so if it's 20% rather than 19.9% they charge $10 more. Naturally, this means they just push for THC numbers instead of terps and stress the fuck out of their plants in the process. Then once they realize they hermied half the room they quickly cut it down, trim it with a weed whacker, then hide the immature bud in a black glass jar and charge $55 for it. I would love to see this strain grown by someone who gives a fuck, but these assholes are the only ones who have it here.
Had a rough weekend at work and most of the progress I made in healing my back seems to be gone, so when I go to return that crown royale cart I may end up grabbing some GG4 or Afghani. I've read that GDP and some of the related grape/purp crosses are excellent for sciatica, so I may try to find something like that as well.