Tag: GMO

GMO Sherb by Fig Farms

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The GMO Sherb is showing out well. This might have been my last joint of it. I can't recall whether I have previously written much about it/on it. I am awake here late at night, or very early in the morning, and I'm feeling very introspective. It's hard to believe I was at Farm yesterday, I left before six in the morning. It's all a blur. I thought I beat the rain but there is no beating the rain. It's like my dad said a couple weeks ago when one of the OG CNAs was trying to get a rise out of him, making faces at him. When she walked away he said, "She fooled me, I fooled her!" That's the last lucid thing I've heard him say. She fooled me, I fooled her. He smiled and he had a glint in his eye.

Damn. This is the Sherb bite for sure. It's like a wild, wary, unpredictable animal. If you can work with it, get it to cooperate, if you can learn how to ride it, it can be a workhorse, a real mule, a carrying agent, a vector, a viaduct, a way. Let's get back to that water in the duct. 12:05, 5.19.26.

Clouds over western Maries County in Missouri on Monday morning.

I'm still awake, back awake, awake again, re-awakened. This is how I wake and bake. Now also under the influence of alcohol aka vodka. It's been one of those nights. One of those crazy, crazy nights. Somehow

My mind wanders, my eyes sting, this box fan drying them out, allergies, May, fighting off any more sleep. I will crash when I crash. I'm on the fourth bucket. These are my best hours. Unbeset, undeterred, undertaker spread the word. I emailed that guy, that writer Connor Greer, but he never emailed me back. I made a big mistake and lost all my friends. Three Mile Island is back in production. If only we'd gone to the river together, made the sharing glass. Instead I got drunk, lost all my friends again. If only they were peonies. They were monarchs. But I wanted them to stay. They were recluse, they were widows, they were a previously unrecognized kind of salamander, peanut shells, ticks in the high grass.

Did you hear that? The weight of a falling branch. Leaves are so the whole tree doesn't have to fall. My dad on the phone, my mom on the phone. A TWA flight to nowhere delayed forever. One blanket two, Sir Crocs a Lot, that little room he carried around with him. Basement, devil, door...


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OMG by Rythm

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As I smoke, my mind wanders. I stay (somewhat) anchored by putting pen to paper. These strain reviews are not always (just) about the weed but about where my mind goes when the smoke fills the room.

I was gonna say. Life itself is an addiction. If I feel better after or while drinking and smoking, then why should I not try to feel better? Yes, drinking and smoking also are addictions. So is getting up everyday. So are money, fame, career, reputation, social status. Which are all (also) damaging but people go in search of fame and career and money and social media buzz and society just nods its head and understands those endeavors. It's expected and respected to go out and try to make lots of money and tout one's accomplishments in life. I don't care about fame or reputation so I have some drinks and smoke a joint and blog about weed. Weeds of grass!


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Donny Burger by Crops: a strain review

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GMO lemon sponge cake flavor, how I've missed you.

There was a tamper-proof seal on the container but no inner seal. The package date is 2.6.2024. Which means it has been in this jar for almost a year. And yet. And yet. This is the tastiest smoke of recent memory. The tastiest since Proper's Black Maple. But let me back up.

This is a strain review of Donny Burger as grown and sold by Crops in Illinois. I bought this eighth of Donny Burger last March from the Beyond/Hello in Sauget, IL. Goose Lake. I had enjoyed GMO previously but didn't have any in inventory.

Donny Burger's lineage is GMO x Han Solo Burger. GMO is Chem D crossed with Girl Scout Cookies. Source: Seedfinder (click here). Han Solo Burger is GMO crossed with Larry OG. Larry OG is a cut of OG Kush crossed with SFV OG. So there is a lot of GMO, a lot of OG Kush in Donny Burger.

I had heard of the Donny Burger strain, I'd seen it around. I was curious about the name. Donny Burger, it's one of those strains that any time I see it written I have to say it out loud, in a New England or New York accent. Donny Burg-uhh! Drop the "r" sound at the end, and shout it a little.

What's up with the name, Donny Burger? And Han Solo Burger, what's that about? Turns out the breeder, Skunk House Genetics, was making a reference to an Adam Sandler film that I have not seen, probably will never see. It's called "That's My Boy," co-starring Adam Sandberg. Apparently, the lead characters are Sandler (Donny Berger) and his estranged son named Todd Berger, who must have a nickname along the lines of Han Solo Berger? It doesn't really matter but I was curious. Now, onto the review of this Donny Burger by Crops...


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Dispo Review: Star Buds, University City, MO

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I like Star Buds. The building it's in has never had a persistent tenant. It once was a bar but as far as I can remember, the building has been empty for most of the last fifteen years. I would point to Star Buds' tenancy in this previously disused building as one of the early positive impacts legalized cannabis has had on my neighborhood.

There is a small parking lot in front, which is the only place I've ever parked. There is additional parking in back but I've never had to use it. I go in, go up a few stairs, wait for a bud tender to come to the window, then slide my ID onto the metal tray under the thick window. Then in a moment or two they will call your name and buzz you through the door.

It's not a big place but I've never felt crowded inside. There are two main glass cases/counters in which dozens of glass jars of flower sit.

And this is one of the best things about Star Buds. You can buy by the gram. The flower is not pre-packed. You can see the bud, you can smell the bud. The jars have the names of the strain on them. Supply and variety has been pretty good.

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