 Welcome to Breeder's Syndicate, the only cannabis show breaking down the myths and history in cannabis. I'm Matthew, seed maker for over a decade and a half, and this is my journey into finding my truth in this wild world of cannabis. I invite you to join me and the Canaluminati by strapping into the passenger seat. But be warned, it's not always pretty. With the invasion of corporate culture into cannabis, it's getting even more muddy. Which is why I've made it my mission to have a permanent record before all of the history is lost and buried under a pile of cookies. We're the traditional market. The Syndicate is a collection of seed makers that want to push back against all of the smoking mirrors. In doing so, we will continue to ruffle the feathers of those who oppose. And my personal mission has become much bigger than myself. Welcome to the cannabis underground. This is The Revolution. Hey, what's up, everyone? Welcome to legit or nah. It's where I go to local or otherwise dispensaries with a goal in mind. My only goal is to see, can we find some of these old school legit clone-only's in modern dispensaries nowadays? Can a person that is new to the community or within the past five to ten years reasonably expect to go to a collective? Place an order for one of these old clone-only's, a flower. And either have it delivered or grab it there and be pretty confident they're going to get what we would have seen originally. So, you know, I really couldn't say either way. My first assumption was always going to be that probably that's not going to happen. We've already seen in some cases, OGs that were so poorly grown, they couldn't be identified as OGs. Or, oh, geez, I had great flavor, but we're grown kind of, we'll grow well, but handled shittily. Today, I chose a really weird one for me. A lot of you that stick with the show and have been with the show a long time know that I have one strain, mainly one strain that I regularly won't smoke. I won't smoke hybrids of it more often than not. I mean, there are exceptions to everything. But it flips me out. It gives me hella anxiety. It just has never hit me right. And I can almost always identify a strain with this plant in it because not just from smell or taste, but because when it hits me sideways, I immediately know. And I don't know why it is. I don't know why it revolves around this specific strain. However, I do like breeding with it. And that's not to say that I have to enjoy everything that I breed with smoke-wise. But I know it's a valuable tool for breeding. And I know that a lot of other people enjoy it for their particular needs. Though it may not be for me, I know there is a need for it if that makes sense. So, with that said, today, we are looking at Purple Hercal. That was my semi-drum roll. Anyway, so yeah, I hit up the same place as I did last time. And notice there was a Purple Hercal on the menu. So, I thought there's no way. There's no way because this cut faded out for so long. Very unlikely to see it nowadays. So many things are called Purple Hercal that aren't related. Anything purple, anything grapey usually is called Purple Hercal. Or, you know, I've seen lots of green stuff called Hercal that doesn't remotely resemble it. So, when it arrived, the first thing I do when I get Hercal is I, you know, smell it. And there is an unmistakable grape, skunky undertone to Hercal that is very, very hard to replicate. GDP has something similar, but not quite. Grapeape, similar, not quite. But Hercal is pretty distinctive. Now, to me, I would probably guess this was outdoor just based on looking at it. And I'll toss a picture up here, even though it's probably going to get us kicked into some other category. But it is not, again, it is about what I would expect from mid-Z collective weed, right? Like, just is what it is, is what you get. So, I'm going to use my trusty flower mill grinder here. And we're going to do the same thing we did last time. And we're going to go ahead and, you know, get a sense for the flower once ground, dry, unsmoked. See how it smells there. And then we're going to try combustion for flower, smoking it that way, flavor, assessing high. And then we're going to go to the rip, which is essentially vaping, vaporizing. Yeah, and that seems to give me the most well-rounded idea of strains. There at least grows of strains, I should say, specific grows of specific strains, because you can't really judge a whole strain by one grow. I'm sure most of you know that by now, but just in case you don't, that's something that you want to really pay attention to. You know, a lot of people, they'll go get a cut from a collective and then, you know, someone will comment about online. And they'll be like, yeah, I agree with that. It sucks, bro. It sucks. And realistically, they don't even know if they agree with the same damn cut. They're just assuming, and maybe it was just not adapted to their environment. Maybe they aren't even the best grower, you know. You have to take all that shit into account when you hear people's opinions online about stuff. All right, here we go. Flour mill, Erkel, Erkel nugs. With the outdoor, just the look of it too, but the pricing also told me there's a good damn chance this is outdoor. One thing I was surprised about, though, is that it had decent smell. And I know outdoor people are like, of course it did. It was fucking outdoor. But you know, like, I just don't have that experience with outdoor. I smoked a lot of outdoor too, so just don't have that experience with it. Anyway, here we go. First smell, ground. Man, that's such a rich grape. Sweet, but there, hold on. There's another smell in there that I never really paid attention to. This flour mill is great for smelling ground flour. Gummy bear front. White gummy bear front, grape back. That's the smell. White gummy bear front, grape back. And some skunkiness is there, and it always will be. I've talked about it before, skunk. The purple oracle and poodle nut specifically, which is very oracle dominant, have the strongest skunk smell and veg that I've ever smelled. And, you know, I always hear people like, ah, rub this, this veg bro. It's so skunky. It makes me skunky. And that's not necessarily, again, it doesn't translate like that. It's not how shit works, but it is duly noted, you know, like something to note. Like when something has such a strong distinctive smell and veg, you can identify it in veg later usually. So yeah. And it has, it has very specific growing traits. Circle likes to grow very bushy, short squat. It needs a long veg time, broad leaf. Sometimes outdoors though, it can go more narrow looking. It surprises people. Yeah. White gummy bear front, grape back. And that's the first time I've ever like picked up the ground with gummy bear part or even thought of to say that, but like it just hit me all at once. What that smells to me is on this specific row of it. I'm sure people argue with me that have grown all the real Urkels on earth and they all have a different state of it. Also, just to be sure, because I was pretty sure that I knew that this was going to be legitimate Urkel, but I ran it by CSI as well. And granted, it's hard to tell legitimacy from any, you know what I mean, but we're pretty sure that this is Urkel. And I trust his opinion on Urkel much more than mine. I have experience with it, but he has more experience with it. And no matter how much experience you have with something, if someone has more experience with it and they're intelligent, it's always best to double check yourself. Check your own bias. All right, so just for y'all, let me give myself a goddamn panic attack on camera. Like maybe not, maybe not. Maybe it's, maybe my body chemistry has changed, my brain chemistry has changed. But I've actually been dreading this review quite a bit because of it. And yeah, that's another thing that I did want to address in this. A lot of males specifically are very, what's the word, chained to talk about when cannabis sends them into dark holes or dark places. Right? Like some people take that as a, oh man, you ain't got no fucking tolerance, bro. You ain't got no tolerance. You must be a noob if you're doing that shit. And you know, like I was one of those dudes when I was young that would say shit like that and just be like, ha, watch them freak out amateurs. But as you, as a man especially, I can come in as a man, you know, I mean maybe some people would call me that bit. As a male, your hormones can change as you get older. Things that never really affected me like this when I was young. But after I quit hard drugs, something changed in my brain chemistry I feel like. And certain things could send me on really, really painful dark mental paths. Cannabis is not a cure-all. It is not a catch-all. It is not the snake oil that will heal all that ails you. It's one of my main points for this season in explaining about the name game and why it's so important to find a way to educate the end user is it necessarily in a growing of strains that they cannot rely on collectors or dispensaries for their reliable medicine? None of that seems to be repetitive. I just had a recent experience and I'm going to do a second review on the Louis OG because I ordered a second batch from the same place a week later. As you would expect, and I'll talk about in the review, there's more to talk about. You cannot reliably hope that your collective will have the same thing and the same packaging twice. God forbid you're someone like me that goes and picks up a blueberry and they switched it out because that can send people, that could have serious consequences depending on where people are at mentally, how their day is gone, what's going on in their lives. I just don't think people take it serious enough. People laugh at me all the time for how serious I take this. Yeah, it's goofy. It's real goofy. There's not a lot of people this far into stranger that care this much about history or provenance or any of that, but the fact is people relying this for medicine and if they can't rely on it for that, you can end up hurting them. That's the overall reaching point with a lot of what I'm trying to illustrate. However, this is circle. I think it's circle and we're about to find out if my brain chemistry has changed in a few years since I've smoked it. Here we go. Let me try combustion first and see if we can get a good flavor profile, scent profile. I've already gone over it. Like white gummy bear grape hint of skunkiness. Here we go. And of course, using my breeder syndicate branded piece from C2 custom creations last by C2.com. I trust no one else from my glass ever, ever. And that was before we were even sponsored. Even agreed to do this. I agreed to do this because I love their glass and I only work with products I stand by. So you know how that goes. Here you go. Do I want it? Do I want me? All right. So with combustion, it's really hard to identify that flavor. It's great. There's a lot of earthy flavor. It's a circle, not a lot of sweet, not in combustion. It's that flavor. It's just earthy. Like Urkel and granted this is an outdoor grow. Urkel can be very flavorful indoor. I don't get the same flavor profile that I'm used to with Urkel. The scents there, the looks there. I'll know in probably five minutes whether the high is there that I'm used to. But yeah, the flavor is lacking on that. So we're going to try the old, the old rip tech. Now I'll go over this again for the people that haven't seen view one. I'm using the rip master rip tech wand. It is a vape wand that uses, there's a hole in the bottom. It sits on top of a pole. This grommet plugs it, creates an air suction thing. And there is holes on this side right here and this side. It creates a vortex of air, of hot air that goes through the bowl. This never makes contact with the bud. And yeah, there is a heat setting part right here. As you can see, I mark it with a sharpie where I like it. And that tends to be perfect for all weeds. And yeah, this is my favorite, my favorite device ever for smoking. For really assessing turps, high, it doesn't kill all the volatile turps. You should just get burned off through combustion. But yeah, you can taste a lot of sweet notes that you normally wouldn't taste. Like blueberry tastes like sugary, sweet blueberry. And you would never taste that through your combustion. Anyway, here we go. I just wish it was more portable because this gets in the way pretty hard. And the idea is you let this sit on there for 5 to 10 seconds. You'd have a little bit. And then you hit it slow to allow everything to kind of slowly dry in. So I always exhale first. There's the flavor. There's the grape. Oh yeah. You know what's funny is the sweetness hit the back of my throat as opposed to like the front of my tongue. I can really taste it in the back of my throat. That is bizarre. Definitely great flavor all day through this. And of course, like there's always a really soft flavor that comes through with the drip. And it's very hard to explain, but it's a soft flavor. If that makes any sense. But it's with every plant. So I think that every cannabis plant. So I think that that's just the flavor of cannabis when you use this stuff. But the grape is the overall flavor. That's impressive through this. Hey, yep. This is our cool. This is fucking article. So yeah, even at a Bakersfield dispensary randomly, like I didn't choose other. I didn't like go through to several oracles, find one that was real and just go with that. And say, Hey, if that one, it's real. This is the first one I went with. I was positive that it was not going to be legit. One price to rarity. Three age. Most people got rid of Urkel. Most people have thought they had Urkel had something else in the first place. So yeah, I am, I'm shocked. Highway 99 collected in Bakersfield, California. Decent job. I don't know who you're sourcing this from and I'm not going to ask that they did a good job. Shout out to them. Yeah, I do think it's outdoor, but the price reflected that so it's not like anything crazy. What else would I add on to this? If you have a brain chemistry that really, really likes blueberry and it brings you a lot of anti anxiety type high. You might be the type of person that responds to Urkel the way I do. And it takes a lot to keep it together and just be like, you know what I mean? Like it'll put you in a very awkward position. Some people like that. Some people, especially some of my elders in the community, they love what they call roller coaster weave, which is something that gives them the fear of God, you know, way at the top thing goes. Those are the kind of highs I run away from. Anyway, yeah, I hope you enjoy these reviews. I just started out kind of wondering for myself if these things were out there also while trying to learn about some of this new stuff that neither me or any of my friends grow. Right. Like some of the newer hype stuff, the lemon cherry gelato, the RS 11 stuff like that. And I figured while I was already doing that, I wonder if any of these old strings that I love are still out there. Can these people reliably get them that aren't experienced with them? Can they expect to get them? So I'm going to keep doing it. I think you guys seem to like some people seem to like it. Some people seem to hate it. And that's great because if you hate it, leave comments, you know, it's still interacting and helping. Yeah, go check out our discord. We interact there a lot. We watch movies. We do all kinds of stupid things. And yeah, it's awesome. There's amazing people there every day. New people come in and you never know who's next to you. You just never know. There's people from all sorts of different parts of the cannabis industry there. Even even major corporations during breeding for them. They're just amazing people. Absolutely amazing people. So yeah, please go check that out. Check out riotseach.com. We're about to bring in some more high and lonesome stuff. We have this Kendi VX. I believe there is a Sauer D Appalachia and Kendi App F2 and some other stuff. And we're going to have Ms. Jill stuff going up soon, which may surprise some people. Me and Ms. Jill have been friends for a really long time. Me and Ms. Jill have been friends for a really long time now. And I'm really stoked for a year and a full. So be sure to check that out and show support to Ms. Jill. And I think that about wraps it up. Don't forget to go watch our C2 glass episode season nine episode one. It's one of me and thousands favorite episodes we've ever done. It's not just about glass. We talk about strains in it as well. But I learned so much in that episode and those two dudes are fricking characters and hilarious. And I think you'll all enjoy them as well if you haven't seen it. So go check it out. And with that, thank you for watching. Be sure to like, share, subscribe, all that stuff. And we'll see you Friday for the next episode. Cheers. One second. 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