The best m.j. ever?
July 6, 2008
headband
A strain called headband has quickly become the most sought after strain in Humboldt County. Similar to Sour Diesel and O.G. kush, this strain smells amazing and is incredibly strong. I would have to say that this is the most desirable srtain of marijuana that I have ever come across. It’s exclusivity makes it pretty hard to find. Supposedly this strain is a mix of the O.G. and the Sour Diesel. A blueberry headband has also been propogated as of late.
Eric, I’m guessing you’re going to be my go to person for details.
I assuming this is an indoor variety with a parent strain of Sour Diesel. Is the Blueberry Headband more purple?
There has been suggestions that one of the best ways (besides legalization) to diminish the damage marijuana grows do to the environment is to encourage more outdoor–with strains like Headband coming from indoors, will outdoor be able to gain back lost market share or has it forever lost its primacy.
It makes you feel like you have a headband on, too. I don’t really know how it does that- but it does and I like it. The taste reminds me of my first mushroom experience!
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part of the benefit of prohibition has been the suppression of hemp pollen, and the creation of an amazing environment for strain breeding. If we could keep the hemp pollen out, and continue to create and produce quality medical strains like this we can still have a viable economy.
I assume you mean “707 Headband” and not just “Headband.” 707 HB is o.g. kush crossed with sour diesel and then those progeny backcrossed to the parent sour diesel again to retain the “elite” genes contained in sour diesel which is a mexican sativa x chemo hybrid.
All those who attribute prohibition with good breeding practices are kidding themselves. Humans have been doing selection with backcrossing and interspecific hybrids (e.g. indica/sativa) resulting in introgression ever since… let’s see… there is this plant called “corn” that comes to mind which is theorized to have been produced in more or less the exact way that “707 Headband” was. Interestingly enough, there is a theory out there that humans come from such an interspecific backcross, lending some credibility to the Aztec metaphorical notion that “humans were created from corn.”
From a breeding perspective, prohibition has set back the clock on _Cannabis_ as well as slowed new innovation. That is, _Cannabis_ strains had more interesting traits when they were still hermaphroditic landrace varieties developed to match a particular micro-climate. Think “heirloom” varieties.
A breeder of some socially acceptable dioecious plant with one sex being the target, such as asparagus, is able to grow a known strain using tens of thousands of seeds just to find the slim percentage of plants with the recombinant genotype that express the desired phenotype. 99 (or 6!) plants is not enough to do any serious selection. Note that asparagus has lovely California hybrid varieties, such as “Purple Passion,” which result from the same type of purple phenotype selection that is employed with _Cannabis_.
Prohibition has increased demand for high yield and easy to grow strains of cannabis which has poisoned the gene pool with less than desirable pharmacological traits. This is due to the fact that it is very difficult to perform a backcross which is intended to increase quantity. One has to go the other way and perform F1 hybridization with a plant that has known quantity e.g. “Big Bud” and risk losing some or all of the “elite” characteristics of the original specimen. Tetraploid (4N) varieties are often sought after simply because of their massive growth with little regard to the physiological or psychological effects of the plants. As well, tetraploid and triploid varieties often revert to diploid after some time, causing new cuttings to exhibit poor characteristics.
A quick look at Mendellian Punnett Square Predictions through multiple generations reveals how truly rare the successful isolation of elite genes is and why there is so much enthusiasm for these genes. All of the truly successful innovations in _Cannabis_ genetics have either been stumbled upon by chance (e.g. purple urkel, trainwreck), in countries which don’t send people to prison for 40 years for having ten thousand seedlings (Switzerland, Holland), or by extremely brave individuals in the USA.
Is there a strain called simply “Headband” Or is it all “707 Headband”?
That is something that I deal with and I have ran into two forms of this sought after crap that is a bitch to trim. The often is that it is OG x Sour D. but I have seen it as LA Confidential x Sour D.
head band was offical its the defintion of a one hitter quitter i paid 150 for a quarter and 600 for the ounce it was the dankiest ive ever come across it does the job and is most def worth ever cent spent on it
getitright said:
That is either a guess, bad information, or a different strain called Sour Diesel. People on the East Coast have Trainwreck as a seed strain because a seed company bred a plant and decided to call it Trainwreck.
The cannabible says Sour Diesel and OG Kush come from the same set of seeds or from crosses from those seeds. Sisters is the word used in the cannabible to describe the pair. Keep in mind that the cannabible is more photography than accurate information.
This is entirely incorrect. Maize being produced from this type of breeding is a theory. Another problem with this statement is Cannabis sativa and C. indica are the same species.
Necrolytic said:
The above quote is reality. Bubba Kush was supposedly bred with trimming in mind. Bubba Kush is impossible to verify because of look-alikes. Headband is little more than a name used for marketing purposes. There may be a real strain but there are also several look-alike strains. The same can be said for OG Kush and Sour Diesel as far as marketing and look-alike varieties.
Names with the suffix Kush are popping up everywhere for marketing purposes. Master Kush is supposedly a clone-only strain and a seed company claims it is their strain renamed from High Rise. Either none of the above or both are true. “Woody” developed Woody Kush which is supposed to be a Master Kush, Hindu Kush, and OG Kush strain. Soon there will be Eric Kush. I’ve even heard of a “Kush Collective.”
I don’t like any of these Kush or Diesel strains. None of them last more than a few minutes. I remember the effect of the Chem/dawg-like original strains before it was called Chem/dawg from Grateful Dead concerts. The stuff on Shakedown Street was superior and more varied than what we have today (or maybe it was just the music). The original people who supplied this particular kind most likely did not grow clones bred from random hermaphroditic bagseed.
It is time to move on from these five minute strains.
There us the 707 and the real “headband”. The real one is like putting your head in a vice, unfortunately the 707 doesn’t match up. Unfortunately I cannot share how or who aquired it.
what is super norcatic? and how do i get seeds