 Welcome to Breeders 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. What's up everyone? So welcome to, I guess what we're calling legit or nah. Which is the review section that we're going to be doing going to different collectives and getting like. Not necessarily old school strains, but strains predating the cookies era. And seeing if modern day collectives have what they claim to have in flower. Because a lot of people that have that are tuning in even are new to growing, never experienced a lot of these clones and are relying on their data and their input. To be from these places where they get their, where they get their opinions to base their judgments on these strains, right? This is where they maybe go get their clones. If it's a, you know, a clone nursery flower place, you know, those places, I think still exist, right? So I thought it would be kind of interesting to do this. You know, I've also been doing reviews on stuff that is modern because I've stayed away from it for so long. And I, you know, it used to be when people would ask me that I just be like, oh, like I don't care. You know, but yeah, I guess there comes a point of where like I need to know because now I've isolated myself from that part of the community for so long that really I just don't know anymore. Like past gelato, I just been like, I don't care. But I need to care because I can't give valid input or anything on it other than it has cookies in it. Maybe it sucks, you know, and that's not always going to be the case. And as I'm learning through these reviews, so without further ado, one of the first things I wanted to check when I went to any collective was OG Kush. I wanted to see, first, I get a lot of messages from people that are newer growers and they ask like, what's the best OG Kush seed line? I've never tried a pure OG Kush and I want to experience it. I want to have, you know, a good data point for it. And, you know, for me, OG Kush has been around so long that it's almost like a second nature thing to know what OG Kush is. And I tend to explain stuff, oh, it's kind of OG Kushy, you know, like assuming everybody knows what that is. When it comes to OG Kush, of course, there are a lot of old clones. So Louis OG is one of the old classic ones coming out of LA, probably an OG Kush bag. As fast as best anyone can tell, it doesn't seem to be, if it's a hybrid, it's so OG Kush dominant that you don't see any, at least I don't see any of the other parents traits if it's a hybrid, you know. To me, it's just a classic, classic version of an LA OG Kush. Our buddy Bitter still holds the cut. Bitter hasn't long held the cut for a long time, past it to me, past it to Bitter, so it's still in our group. And it's something that, you know, we can smoke flour of from the original cut still. So it's also a good reason I wanted to choose Louis OG. It's something that we still have access to the flour, something I'm very familiar with, very familiar with. And with this, it's kind of giving people some wiggle room too. Like this is a review of FTO, which is Free Trade Organics, just one of the many companies that sells locally here. I think they're from LA, but they probably drive it up to Bakersfield or whatever. It says small batch exotics. So that's how you know it's dank. It says exotic. That's a joke. That's sarcasm for all of you. Yeah, it gives a little wiggle room because OG Kush is OG Kush. As long as it's a really good OG, it can look like a good faithful representation of what Louis can express. So it can almost fly out of the radar even if it's not exactly it. It can hit close enough to where it's splitting hairs. That's what's beautiful about OG Kush, right? So I want to see essentially if they have a really decent old school OG Kush. So whether this is truly Louis or not, I could really care less. I want to see if they're offering a decent representation of old OG Kush. And yeah, on their label, they actually list it as, I don't know if it's to King Louis OG and Indica. So you know. And there's the code. You could probably scan it from this if you want to. I don't know if that helps them in any way, but hopefully it does. So first off, I'll talk about the flower. Yeah, I'll show some pictures here, probably going to make it get like pushed into mature audiences, which whatever. I was not necessarily impressed with the look of the flower. The texture felt or the look of it, I should say the look of it looked like it had been handled a lot, if that makes sense. And it looked like it had been handled a lot, you know, by someone wearing gloves. Like I can tell what that looks like. It almost makes the bud look more oily because the the residents being kind of been handled. Right. And that's how it looks. And you can see from the pictures that I'm posting. I don't know where it's going to insert it probably somewhere. But yeah, it wasn't impressive looking. So when I opened this up, I was like, man, man. Okay, well, I'm probably going to be, you know, I figured it was just going to be as expected for a dispensary experience like just low end grow mid-Z OG. But I will say, I will say. I was pleasantly surprised. Looks can be deceiving. Definitely looks can be deceiving. And obviously they were the bottoms of the bottoms of the bags. Not much love give it to me. They were manhandled, but it did. It did have some good qualities. And I'm going to, I've already smoked it. Done all that, but I'm going to try to see if I can bring up anything else right now while I have it here. And since I'm going to be doing these reviews and it's the first video, I'll talk about what I'm using to do the review since this is important too. I have my C2 that beautiful breeder syndicate edition C2 custom creations pipe. And then I have, of course, my ash catcher, my lovely ash catcher should have cleaned the bowl, but it was pretty fresh. And my ash catcher from C2. I love this thing. The easiest ash catcher I've ever cleaned. And you should have your shit, you know, pretty clean, at least clean your water, right? They can flavor or whatnot. And then I have for the second way, because that was, of course, combustion method, because you're only going to get so many flavors that way. Frankly, the high is less complex than using what I call the, or not what I call what is called the VripTec ripmaster. It is a vaporizing wand that there's a hole in the bottom here. And there's a rubber gasket that seals to the bowl. And then there's holes on each side in each direction that make this, the air kind of spin up through something like that. The heat goes through it, it works. And honestly, I, you know, I've owned volcanoes, like really nice volcanoes. And I've given them all away after getting this because I really think this is the most perfect smoking device for me, for me, in my opinion, for me to evaluate high and flavor. Nothing's more accurate for me. It doesn't just go popcorn, you know, you get full ranges of experience. If you've never smoked blueberry through one of these things, I highly recommend it. When I say blueberry, I mean real blueberry, you know, blueberry tastes like blueberries, which is, I guess, rare, unless you're having fun at stuff, of course. Anyway, I also wanted to give like a less, less experienced smokers take. So I'm having Bryn kind of my lady chime in on some of this. She's, she's smoked most of her life, but it's always been on and off. And once we met like she never paid attention to any care for strains or, you know, of course, most people don't, most people don't. So once she met me, she got, you know, introduced to the weird world of giving a crap about strains and all the weirdness that comes along with that and the complexities. And slowly I've been trying to get her, you know, to try these different things or remember what's what, what she likes, what helps with what. And I got some of her input on the smell, taste, high as well. And I found it kind of interesting because usually we experience things so different. Like I smell blueberry and she'll say, ooh, peppery, you know, or that's bright, sharp. Like different words that I like don't work for me when I describe smells. She's an artist. So she, she has a whole different way of thinking. And she thinks in terms of like color, texture, it's very unique. When it came to the Louie, this was her input. The smell she said it smelled like someone with bad breasts, wished lemon floor cleaner, which I mean that's fairly accurate. Like I get lemon floor cleaner too. So, yeah, the bread thing I would associate more GMO, but like whenever she smells GMO, she just goes, you know, like, like she wants nothing to do with that. So this one she does, this is she actually really, really likes this case coated my tongue like the syrupy stickiness of lemon heads, which I thought was awesome and hella descriptive. And the high calms me down enough to focus but doesn't put me to sleep with no anxiety. Or doesn't put me to sleep and it has no anxiety enough that I was able to sit down and read 12 chapters which her sitting for longer than five minutes is an insane idea. And it's getting her to the point where she can sit and focus and read, which is great for her. So yeah, I don't know. Like, hopefully maybe some of you guys out there, your ladies may take some input from that if they're not like as super into this and as dorky as we are about it. Like maybe that might resonate with them some more. I'm not sure but I wanted to bring that in because I thought it was really interesting how much it aligned with mine. So I'm a sparkable. And I'll tell you what I would I taste through combustion method. So, like I said, looks can be deceiving. This has exceptional old traditional mouth coding, OG Kush flavor. It's exactly like I would have wanted. I've gotten other OGs from collectives, even the same, same place I ordered from which was called highway 99 collected in Biggersfield. They were offering a Mars OG and it was going to be the first review. But I felt that it was such a piss poor representation of Mars that I didn't like smoking it. And it just got kicked to the side. Like it was that bad. I was super unimpressed with it. This while it's obviously not the best grow of it. I shouldn't say that it's not the best handling of it. It might have been an amazing grow. I think it was probably a really good grow because the flavors there. I think it's probably not the best manhandling of it. But the flavors there, the highs there, it's got a nice relaxing anxiety free OG Kush high because OG Kush tends to be anti anxiety for me. It's not always for everyone. But it is for me. But the most important thing is that floor cleaner mouth coding. Lemon floor cleaner, I guess is the best way to put it pledge some people go pledge some people go like soapy. Like floor cleaner to me is soapy. So I often use soapy to describe it, but floor cleaners for furniture polish is more accurate, maybe. If it doesn't have that to me, it's really hard for me to call it a good OG Kush, because that's what I want out of it. That's how I feel. OG Kush expresses best. Now there's people who feed it heavily, you know, get OG Kush to be more earthy smell more fuel gas. When I, when I get OG, I want furniture polish like this. I want it. I want it mouth coding. It needs to be completely unique. You need to know that's OG Kush. There's plenty of things that aren't OG Kush that are earthy kind of cushy, you know, but that don't have the furniture polish aspects to it. Anyway, so that's that's it for the flavor portion of the combustion overall. It tastes like OG Kush should when it's combusted. But there is a whole nother level you can take something. When you use vaporization techniques, especially vapor wands, heat wands. You know, I'm not sponsored by these guys at all, you know, like everything's been bought and paid for from them. This was actually a gift from my buddy IRI eyes. Back in the day, he was the first person to turn me on to this. And I made fun of him. I thought it was his, you know, torture device. I still think it is. You know, we all use it for that at times, but it works great for for this too. It also doubles and we're great for this. But I do think that the design could be improved on a bit. And it's really hard to get a hold of now, these things, which is a shame. So hopefully, and I know some people are working on some new wands, because these these things are that good. So we'll see what comes in the future. But for now, we are using the grip tech and I highly, highly recommend any one devices if you want to experience flavor and the high complexity of any strain. So I'm going to give this a go with the old Louie. And with these, you want to let it kind of heat up for a second and then you draw in really slow. Like it's like it's your dad. And there's a world of flavor and oji kush that unless you vaporize it, you won't experience. There's like candy. There's like a lemon heads candy in there. It's super sweet, citrus, almost an orange. The complexity is so far away from the harsh tones of gassy fuel and what we expect from that. It's just a world apart. And yeah, this is definitely whatever cut they have is an old oji kush cut, whatever it is. And I dig it. And I'm glad that at least some people, you know, if they got lucky enough to buy bud from this cut, they got to experience oji kush here locally recently. There's something indescribable about the flavors you can get out of vaping. There's something that runs through all of them that I think is probably just the flavor of cannabis in general, but it's super pleasant. And I never experienced this with a volcano. I never experienced this with any of those devices. My friend Warren brought a Storrs Bickel, like portable thing, but he had this device attachment on top of it. It looked almost like a Puffco or a Karta type top. It's more like a Karta type top. And it was bigger. And with that, you are able to get some pretty good flavors that were similar to what I saw with the RipTec. Like it's the closest I've seen, closest, but it still had some of the Puffco stuff. But it was close. It was close. But this is a next level. And for the piece we are using for the RipTec is another C2. And this one's a double ratchet. They actually talk about this in the C2 episode that we did recently, season nine episode one. It got stuck into the mature section, you know, for the adults. So go check that out. What else do I got to get in here? Go check out our Discord Patreon. I'm going to try to do more of these. But yeah, if you have access to FTOs, King Louis, like I said, this specific batch looked like someone maybe hands these it up a little bit too much. But it's not bad. It's not bad. I don't regret it. I regret the Mars OG. I regret that. I fully regret that. I don't regret this. So shout out to them. They did a great job with the growing of it. Really good job with the flavor. High is great. And overall it was a pretty good value too. I mean, I think they're charging 35 and eighth, which is probably standard for nowadays. I don't know what people charge for weed now, but it wasn't. I'm not mad at it. You know what I mean? Like I was mad when I looked at it, but I wasn't mad after and that's what counts. So anyway, that will be it for this edition. You're not going to be that freaking long. It's just me rambling stone. So maybe maybe it'll be the last one. I don't know. 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