Cannabis Sativa: The Essential Guide to the World's Finest Marijuana Strains
By Greg Green
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Featuring one hundred strains of amazing Sativa-dominant genetics from one hundred of the world’s best marijuana breeders, this book is a must-have for pot enthusiasts, pot growers, and pot connoisseurs, new and old alike.
Cannabis Sativa features one hundred incredible strains from one hundred different seed breedersmore than all other cannabis strain guides put togetherand strains from such varied countries as Britain, Holland, Canada, Russia, Spain, Chile, Switzerland, Germany, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and throughout the USA. No other guide features this many emerging seed breeders, as well as established cannabis genetics companies. The Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica series of books are set to become the go-to books for connoisseurs and growers looking to expand their knowledge about the plant, and the genetics in their gardens.
Features classic Sativa strains, such as Grapefruit, New York City Diesel, AK-47 and Santa Maria, as well as fascinating brand new, never-before-seen varieties from previously unknown seed breeders. This book also features multiple strain variations on Haze the strain of choice for connoisseur breeders and smokers, and a favorite amongst medicinal users throughout the USA.
Filled with hundreds of beautiful full-color images, this book is ideal for every grow room, dorm room, and living room. Each plant is discussed in detail, with accurate information on genetics and lineage so that readers can become experts on Cannabis Sativa strainstheir aromas, flavors, THC content, medical potentials and growth patterns.
Cannabis Sativa is a true resource for the Cannabis community, providing useful information to enthusiasts and invaluable insights to the seed-buying and pot smoking public. Unlike its competitor, The Big Book of Buds, which features a mere thirty companies that pay to be included and over twenty pages of advertisements, this book is a true reflection of the global marijuana seed breeding movement. Strains were selected based on their relevance to the current market and the strength of their genetics. There are no advertisements in the book and no one paid to be included. Chief editor, bestselling author S.T. Oner, carefully selected all strains based on merit, not advertising dollars. This grassroots philosophy has resulted in the previous release in this series, Cannabis Indica, gaining much attention and praise as well as consistent sales.
With an introduction by Greg Green, the bestselling author of The Cannabis Grow Bible, focusing on the history and origins of the Cannabis Sativa plant, as well as its growth patterns, genetic tendencies, breeding potential and smokeability, this book is every true cannabis enthusiast’s dream.
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Cannabis Sativa - Greg Green
Cannabis Sativa:
The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains, Volume 1
Published by Green Candy Press
San Francisco, CA
Copyright © 2012 Green Candy Press
ISBN 978-1-937866-13-6
Photographs © A.D., ACE Seeds, Advanced Seeds, Alphakronik Genes, Alpine Seeds, Andre Grossman, Anna, Apothecary Genetics, ASG Seeds, Autofem Seeds, BillBerry Farms, Blim Burn Seeds, Buddha Seeds, Cabin Fever Seed Breeders, CannaBioGen, Cannaseur Seeds, Centennial Seeds, Ch9 Female Seeds, David Strange, De Sjamaan, Delta 9 Labs, Dinafem Seeds, DJ Short, DNA Genetics, Don’t Panic Organix, Dr. Atomic Seedbank, Dr. Canem and Company, Dr. Greenthumb Seeds, Dr. Underground, Dready Seeds, Dutch Passion, Ed Borg, Eddie Funxta, Emerald Triangle Seeds, Eva Female Seeds, Female Seeds, Finest Medicinal Seeds, Flying Dutchmen, Focus, Freak, Gage Green Genetics, Ganjah Seeds, Genetics Gone Madd, Giorgio Alvarezzo, Granpa G, Grass-O-Matic, Green Born Identity, Green Devil Genetics, Green Haven Genetics, Green House Seed Co., Green Life Seeds, Homegrown Fantaseeds, HortiLab Seed Company, HY-PRO Seeds, IceToker, JD Short of DJ Short Seeds, Jin Albrecht, Kaliman Seeds, Kannabia Seeds, Karma Genetics, Karmaceuticals LLC, Kingdom Organic Seeds by The Rev, Kiwiseeds, Low Life Seeds, Lowrider, M.Heinrich, Magus Genetics, Mandala Seeds, Ministry of Cannabis, MoD, Moonunit, Mosca Seeds, Mr. Nice Seeds, Mystic Artist, MzJill, Next Generation Seed Company, No Mercy Supply, North of Seeds, Ocanabis, Old Man’s Garden, Original Seeds, OtherSide Farms, Paradise Seeds, Peak Seeds, Philosopher Seeds, Pistils, Pitt Bully Seeds, Poor White Farmer Seeds, Positronics Seeds, Project Skunkenstein, Queen Seeds, Redstar Farms, Reggae Seeds, Resin Seeds, Riot Seeds, Royal Queen Seeds, RYKA Imaging, Sagarmatha Seeds, Sannie’s Seeds, Sativa Tim, Seedism Seeds, Sensi Seeds, Serious Seeds, Short Stuff Seeds, Sin-SemillaWorks!, SnowHigh Seeds, Soma Seeds, Southern Star Seeds, Spliff Seeds, Stitch, Subcool and Team Green Avengers, Sweet Seeds, T.H. Seeds, The Bulldog Seeds, The Original Sensible Seed Co., The Releaf Center, The Wizards of Oz, TreeTown Seeds, Ultimate Seeds, Underground Originals, Unidentified Wisconsin Grower, Vulkania Seeds, Weed.co.za, West Coast Sinsemilla, Whazzup, White Label Seeds, World of Seeds.
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Dedication
by S.T. Oner
War does not determine who is right; only who is left.
— Bertrand Russell
As always, I wholeheartedly dedicate this book to the fine people at NORML and everyone who has fought against the unjust war on this incredible plant. It seems to me that the drug law revolution is creeping ever closer, and though it may be our nation’s inability to curb its spending on war that leads to it eventually decriminalizing cannabis, and the irony of this will certainly not escape us, there will be no winners of the war on drugs; only people whose suffering will finally end.
Following the success of the first volume in this series, Cannabis Indica: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains, my thanks must go out to everyone who has been involved in any small part in this project. The public’s reaction to the book was nothing short of astounding, so for this, I thank you all.
Once again, without the fantastic breeders and seed companies whose work appears between these pages, I would never have been able to accomplish such a mammoth task. This book features breeders from the USA, Canada, Holland, Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Ukraine, New Zealand, and Belgium, and quite a few other countries which cannot be listed due to certain draconic laws against this most holy of plants.
There are some contributors who wish to remain anonymous, but who deserve recognition and respect nonetheless, as does everyone on the online forums, like the good people at Breedbay.co.uk, Meduser.ca, Riotseeds.nl and Seedfinder.eu
Finally I must thank the growers, breeders and writers who inspired me to learn more about this incredible plant; Ed Rosenthal, Jason King, Danny Danko, Mel Thomas, Mel Frank, Kyle Kushman, Greg Green, and Jorge Cervantes are some big ones, and of course the unforgettable Jack Herer, may he rest in peace. These guys are the pioneers of the movement and it is their work that set me out on my first steps of this wonderful journey. I feel that Cannabis Sativa Vol. 1 provides an accurate picture of the amazing variety of cannabis genetics in existence today. This book would not exist without the years of hard work and effort of everyone featured in it, and for this, I say thank you.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Cannabis Sativa
AK-47
Amnesia
Amnesia Haze
Angel Heart
Apollo Jack
Apple Jack
Arcata Lemonwreck
Auto Lemon Skunk
Azure Haze
Biddy’s Sister
Big Band
Bigger Pine x Haze
Black Maui
Blue Geez
Bubble Fuck
Caribe
Carnival
Cash Crop x Hawaiian
Cetme
Cheese #1
Chem #4
ChemDawg 1991
Cherry OG
Chocolope
Claustrum
Crystal M.E.T.H
Delahaze
Denver Diesel
Diabolic Funxta
Disease Haze
Doby
Dready Cheese
Durban Poison
Dutch Haze
Eclipse
Erdbeer (Original Swiss Strawberry)
Fuma Con Dios
Grapefruit
Grapefruit Fly
Green Crack
Green House Thai
Guanabana
High Level
High Tension
Inferno Haze
Island Sweet Skunk
Jack Flash
Jack Horror
Jack O Nesia
Jazz
Juanita La Lagrimosa
K-13 Haze
Kaia Kush (Sativa Hybrid)
Kaligria
Kaya 47
Killing Fields
Krystalica
Laughingman
Madd Krush
Mako Haze
Margoot
Maui
Maxi Gom
Mekong Haze
Moby Dick
NYC Diesel
Oldtimes
Onyx
Orient Express
OZone
Pablo’s Cheese
Psicodelicia
Quasar
Sage ‘N Sour
Santa Maria F8
Shining Silver Haze
Simbay Moon
Skunk #1
Skunkenstein
Sonoma Sunrise
Sour Amnesia
South African Landrace
Strawberry Crème
Superbomb
Super Haze
Thai
Thai Lights
The Bulldog Haze
The Elephant Magic
The Magician
V2.0
Violet Thai
Virus
Vortex
Waipi’o Hapa
Western Winds
White Haze
Wisconsin Flame
Yummy
Zoid Fuel
Index
Preface
A Trip With Sativa
Welcome, friends, stoners, countrymen! Lend me your ears! I’m glad you made it. Are you comfortable? Then we’ll begin.
I hope that some of you have found yourselves here after reading my first book in this series, Cannabis Indica: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains, Volume 1. Some of you might have been given this book by a friend, while others might have stumbled upon it in a bookstore and been intrigued by the cover. How you got here doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you’re here.
If you’ve read my first strain guide, you’ll know that this series is a celebration of all things cannabis. In the first indica book, I compiled 100 of the best indica strains available today, and to do so I scanned the globe for the very best breeders and genetics. I found myself conversing with growers from never-thought-of places in small-town Russia and researching the origins of such big names as Hindu Kush and Blueberry in cities from Northern California to Northern India. I was honored to feature some small time but hugely talented personal growers throughout the USA and Europe, whose passion for the plant has resulted in some astounding hybrid strains.
Now, it’s the time for sativa to step into the spotlight.
The sativa renaissance has, I think, been long overdue. As the culture of indoor growing has spread across the USA, sativa strains have had to take a backseat in the minds of many cultivators. While indica-dominant plants tend to grow small and bushy, the mighty sativa is often tall and leggy, going well beyond the tiny grow space that graces many a dorm room, closet or third-floor balcony these days. The opinion that became prominent was that only indicas are suitable for indoor growing.
However, the last 20 years have seen some amazing leaps forward in both breeding and growing techniques that have made this claim obsolete. Hybridization of strains means that a mostly-sativa plant can have indica genes that curb its growth, while a supposedly small indica plant can shoot up in height thanks to the influence of sativa genetics. In a world where most strains are now hybrids, anything can happen! The Joint Doctor’s Lowryder plant also threw a curveball by bringing ruderalis genetics into the game. Cannabis ruderalis has long been ignored by the cannabis community due to the species’ inability to get you high. However, The Joint Doctor recognized that its auto-flowering capabilities would greatly benefit the indoor grower, and so bred his best indica plants with ruderalis varieties to create strains that not only stayed small and manageable, but needed no change in light cycle to get themselves to maturity. Recently, ruderalis plants have been bred with sativas, to create plants that enjoy shorter flowering times than pure sativas and also stay relatively small compared to their pureblood sisters. With such strains as Maxi Gom and some stellar auto-flowering AK-47 varieties on the market, indica’s stronghold on indoor growing has been challenged.
The rise of more complex growing techniques has also turned more indoor growers on to sativa strains in the recent past. Whereas outdoor growing can be as easy as letting your huge plant get as wild as it likes, indoor cultivation may necessitate a little more ingenuity, especially if your plants are growing larger than your grow space. Although the Sea of Green (SOG) technique has been around for donkeys’ years now, other processes such as LST, topping and FIM-ing have made indoor and outdoor sativa cultivation that little bit easier. LST, or Low Stress Training, focuses on how to make your plant grow in a way that suits your grow space by careful use of string or twine, whereas both topping and FIM-ing (with the FIM standing for Fuck I Missed) deal with how to force your plant to create new growths that better suit your garden. All three of these methods can help growers to utilize the space that they have, whether that’s 40 acres of greenhouse, a tiny closet or a 5x5 box room.
We often take it for granted that new techniques and technologies crop up repeatedly, and we pick and choose as to which new methodologies will benefit us. We shouldn’t forget, though, that every new growing idea is the result of years of tireless effort by some innovative cultivator who, instead of keeping his creative styles to himself, shares his knowledge with the community so that everyone might find growing easier and more enjoyable. To those growers, we say Thank You.
Of course, outdoor growers have long enjoyed the pleasure of watching a crop of sativa plants grow into veritable monsters – and have enjoyed even more the final harvest and the piles upon piles of fresh, high-quality bud that these plants create. Breeders and commercial cultivators have long held the names of Diesel and Haze to be sacred, and everyday tokers often won’t smoke anything but. The pure sativa Haze family in particular holds a special place in the hearts of all serious stoners, and whether it be a joint of the Super, Amnesia or Mekong type that you’re smoking, you’ll know the Haze high when it hits you: an almost psychedelic, soaring fantasy of a trip that takes you places that indicas never can. For me, however, it’s the Diesel strains that are the real sativa stars. The strains in regular rotation in my stash include any variety I can get my hands on, with Denver Diesel and Soma’s famous NYC Diesel being particular favorites. Within these pages, you’ll find dozens of strains that might not have the Haze or Diesel tags in their names but still count themselves as extended family. Breeders everywhere know the benefits of hybridizing Haze and Diesel with other varieties: from Amnesia to Sage ‘n Sour, some of the best sativa strains come from these two superstars, somewhere along the line.
So why do sativa strains have such a revered following by the breeders and growers who smoke