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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: daveh0we on August 06, 2013, 02:45 pm
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I noticed weed menu has new subcategories.
Very professional.
The blends is confusing though. Some think it means Hybrid, some think it means two different strains mixed in one bag. I think of Incense blends myself.
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I noticed weed menu has new subcategories.
Very professional.
The blends is confusing though. Some think it means Hybrid, some think it means two different strains mixed in one bag. I think of Incense blends myself.
I am currently categorizing listings in the Weed category; I'm open to suggestions on what we can call the 'Blends' subcategory though. It's being used for strains that are pretty much a 50/50 Indica/Sativa mix, and I called it 'Blends/Hybrids' at one stage but brought it back to 'Blends' for simplicity.
If people could chime in here with their suggestions for this category, whether 'Blends', 'Hybrids' or something else entirely, that'd be great. :)
Libertas
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Mixed Strains or Multiple Strains
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Great idea. I have been trying to find high CBD concentrates for a friend's father, who is terminally ill with brain cancer. Yeah, it's a felony in my state to do this....How fucked up can it be to give relief to a dieing person? Anyway, thanks Libertas!
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I would call it hybrids. That seems to be a more used term. Never heard someone call them blends.
And it should be sort of obvious that those are more or less 50/50s since there are also sections for sativa/indica dominant hybrids.
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I would call it hybrids. That seems to be a more used term. Never heard someone call them blends.
And it should be sort of obvious that those are more or less 50/50s since there are also sections for sativa/indica dominant hybrids.
I second hybrids. To me having been involved with both marijuana smoking and K2 and synthetic smoking when I hear hybrid I think part sativa and part indica weed. When I hear blends though, I think of spice blends like K2 or any of the other synthetics.
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Yea "blends" sounds like spice
My suggestion:
"pure sativa"
"sativa-dominant" (hybrids)
"indica-dominant" (hybrids)
"pure indica"
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Yea "blends" sounds like spice
My suggestion:
"pure sativa"
"sativa-dominant" (hybrids)
"indica-dominant" (hybrids)
"pure indica"
This, thanks libertas
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Yea "blends" sounds like spice
My suggestion:
"pure sativa"
"sativa-dominant" (hybrids)
"indica-dominant" (hybrids)
"pure indica"
This, thanks libertas
yeah this is awesome. Hope to see all vendors using this. Would make my life easier when looking for those dank sativa's.
EDIT: also might want to add 50/50's
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Mixed Strains or Multiple Strains
I would call it hybrids. That seems to be a more used term. Never heard someone call them blends.
And it should be sort of obvious that those are more or less 50/50s since there are also sections for sativa/indica dominant hybrids.
Yea "blends" sounds like spice
My suggestion:
"pure sativa"
"sativa-dominant" (hybrids)
"indica-dominant" (hybrids)
"pure indica"
yeah this is awesome. Hope to see all vendors using this. Would make my life easier when looking for those dank sativa's.
EDIT: also might want to add 50/50's
Thanks for all the suggestions! I've renamed the category 'Hybrids' to remove any 'spice' confusion, and all 50/50 Indica/Sativa strains will go there for now. I will leave the other categories as they are for the time-being; I'm running through each listing manually to determine where it would be best placed but when I'm running through them again I'll see if we can justify a 'pure sativa' and 'pure indica' category.
Libertas
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The "dominants" are hybrids, so, maybe "balanced hybrid", "balanced Indica/Sativa", "Approx. 50/50 Indica/Sativa", "near 50%Indica/50%Sativa", "Indica/Sativa non-dominant", "equal-cross hybrids", "balanced-cross hybrids",...
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Now it's just up to the vendors to get it right. I was browsing through sativas just now and noticed someone had an ounce of og kush under that category. I always thought it was a pretty heavy indica based strain. It was always listed under indica at the dispensary I went to. And it def. felt that way. But when I looked it up I'm finding conflicting information.
I guess it's not that important, I'm just wondering if the vendors identify by selecting either sativa or indica themselves or do they select their strain and then the SR software automatically categorizes the strain?
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Automatic categorization would be problematic because, as you noticed, OG Kush, depending on which breeder's version it is, has different qualities. There are quite a few other strains like that as well.
The other thing is that there are (almost) no strains that are not actually blends. Even a super trippy sativa will usually have at least 10% indica. Now I understand customers are mainly interested in the actual experience of the smoke rather than some rigid classification system so its not a huge point. I only make it to suggest that whatever terms are settled on, they be approached from the customers' viewpoint so that a hybrid or blend is a balanced head/body stone, an indica is a heavy body stone and a sativa is a heady, energizing stone, regardless of what the strain is called or technically classified as.
Perhaps the headings could have rollovers that describe the different categories in greater detail?
I'd like to add a thanks to Libertas for making this happen, its totally cool ;).
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I agree that pretty much everything is a hybrid unless it's a land race like Afghani or Thai. Sometimes it's hard to classify a strain also because some of the high quality weed in my area didn't come from the breeders in Holland. For example, the "Mean Green" I have right now supposedly came straight from the growers in Hawaii (and was not bred in Holland). My supplier told me it was "a Sativa" but I don't know if that means 100% sativa or simply sativa-dominant. Also the Northern Lights strain that is one of my regulars is supposedly the Pacific Northwest strain and not from any breeder in Holland. I am told that the NL strains from Holland were bred with something else.