Okay. Before we start it's probably worth noting that I rarely order from new vendors and I've not tested any of these out. I have dabbled with new vendors in the past with mixed success rates. Some were great, some definitely weren't and many of them now don't exist on LB. Generally I order from the same reliable vendors unless I'm specifically looking for something special or something exclusive happens to catch my eye.

I guess it's also worth noting that even some usually reliable and long established vendors have either hiccups or just fall to pieces over time. So age isn't always a complete guarantee of success and happiness either.

Newbie vendors often make their mark by offering us some interesting products and wonderful bargains to tempt us away from our mainstay vendors. Some of these newbies will of course be the big vendors of the future while some will possibly not get the hang of LB.

So please remember we're all grown-up here (hard as it is to believe) and make your own choices. I admire the people who routinely roll the dice on a new vendor. Your payment is protected via escrow of course but, for me, you have to kiss too many frogs to find the prince. If you do like kissing frogs though here's some stuff that might be princely.

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The Wizard of Oz.

Only a month or so in and already flying. I have noted a few interesting bits passing through here and they seem very engaged with the community.

Amongst the loveliness would be this new batch of Blue Nerds. This strain is beautiful when done correctly. A mixed blue / silver flavour that's just divine. And this looks likely to be done to perfection. I've not tried it though. It's a pricey bit but will it be princely - see what you think.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/a5yFhz

They also have an RS 11 that looks spot on in the photos. This is one of my favourite strains as well. It's got a wild mix of sweet flavours when done right.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/cQhysC

A lot of the bud here looks great on the photos and reviews well. I'll have to dive in at some point. They certainly have some tempting options and fantastic looking buds.

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Dapper Dank

There are some interesting products on the menu but the one that's super tempting to me personally is the White Widow x Skunk #1. I definitely wonder what old school flavours may lurk in there. Very tempting to find out I must admit. These are two very familiar strains to me from the early Dam days. I can almost smell the coffee shops just from thinking about ordering it.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/zjU0gT

They've made an enthusiastic start on LB so I hope it all goes well.

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Zaza

Another colourful addition to LB. I noticed they had the L.A. Mousse hash.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/XiAYsv

It's a sort of fancy packaged American version of the familiar Moroccan hash we all know. This has my curiosity as to whether it'll be better or just the same and the price seems very fair to try. While I mostly smoke buds I do like to try various hash out. They have a few nice looking products on the menu.

That's All Folks:

Anyway, that's my quick roundup of some of the newbies that tempt me to be disloyal to GC. It's of course up to you where you order from. Basically don't blame me if it all goes wrong. Currently the vendors listed have a short trail of positivity behind them but as we all know that can change fast. For the bold adventurer there's some interesting bits out there to try.

If I've missed any new vendors off this list it's not personal. These are simply vendors I've come across while looking for bits and bobs. Please feel free to add yourself in the comments so I know you exist.

Thanks

As always thanks for reading my topic. I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining at least. I'll see you in the next topic.

I'm currently looking at different products like the mighty and the ace cup. The bottle of the latter product made me think of what we'd do back in the day to maximise our low strength hash by using a bottle and a bucket or a bottle and hot knives.

For those who have no idea what I'm on about:

Buckets:
A bucket would use a bucket of water - hence the name which I guess shows a lack of creativity of the period - with a large coke bottle with the bottom cut out in it and with a tin foil gauze on top of the open screw thread. There was a knack to lifting the bottle while you held a lighter to the hash to get it burning and fill the bottle with smoke as the water sucks air as you lift the bottle. It was possible to screw this up and have a hash eruption that would fire hot rocks in all directions over your mates parents carpet. Assuming you'd avoided that, you'd remove the gauze and put your mouth over the end of the bottle. Then inhale the smoke as you push the bottle back down into the bucket. This would fill your lungs with thick hash smoke.

Hot knives:
This involves another bottle with no bottom. Best to use glass - like a milk bottle. You'd raid the cutlery drawer and heat up two knives in a gas burner flame until really hot but not red hot. And yes the naming convention was still very much, 'it does what it says on the tin'. There were no ace hot knives or a mighty bucket as far as I'm aware. You'd pick up a tiny bit of hash with the hot knives and squeeze them together inside the bottle. It instantly turned most of the hash into thick smoke which you'd inhale from the bottle.

Other ways of heating the knives involved wedging them into all sorts of electrical appliances where knives probably should not be wedged.

Does anyone still do these? I've not even heard them mentioned for years. Seems a pretty basic and brutal process compared to the fancy devices you can get now. The ace cup looks so civilised in comparison. Like comparing an iPhone to two yoghurt pots on a length of string.

A fella asked earlier for tasty hash recommendations and I suggested this. Then it got me thinking about writing about why. So here we are.

The PK Gold Seal, which I've routinely been calling Afghan Gold Seal for some reason, has been one of my favourite hashes on LB. I've bought this about 4 times now which makes it all the more remarkable I didn't remember the name correctly. I've not been able to resist a little side order of this nostalgic but hard to name hash with my regular main weed order from GC.

Solid Body Stone:

While it's a better grade of hash than many of the commercial hashes available, it's not LA Barz. It's not the Piatella. You've not found a secret cheap rocket fuel hash. It does however have a solid stone that slowly wraps itself around you like a comfort blanket and a beautiful exotic flavour of the past.

In terms of power and effect, while it's nicer than many basic commercials, you wouldn't have to go that far to find something that benchmarks much better.

Why Do I Love It?

So what's the deal here? Why am I loving this apparently average hash? Why has this been one of my most popular products? What am I getting from this?

I don't exactly know all the answers. I do know that it's the exact hash that I'd been searching for though because since I first tried it I've ordered it on repeat. I've been through a lot of cheap commercial grade hashes to get to this point. So let's explore together. I'm going to roll one up to start figuring things out as we go.

Cannabis Stress Putty:

It's very satisfying to roll up with. As it's squidgy it's quite therapeutic to tease into a snake. Like a cannabis stress putty. This leaves your fingers smelling of spice and herbs as though you were a chef or you worked in a medicinal herb garden. It's not super sticky so you don't end up with fingers like Spiderman like with some fancy hash.

It takes me back to some of the first hashes I bought. We usually got red seal and it usually wasn't really that good. The quality here is a long way from how it was back then but it definitely pulls at the nostalgia strings and makes me think back to simpler times (digital watches etc).

Ready For Action:

The pre-smoke rolling phase is important. Well, not important like world peace, but core to the overall ritual of smoking. And with this gold seal I feel well prepped and smelling like a spice farmer who's finished a tough day, erm, farming spices and is going to sit and have a cuppa. This is a strong pre-roll phase. I'm excited before I even light up. No I don't know much about either farming or spices. I got out of my depth very quickly there I'll give you that.

I'm rolling the gold seal up with some Cherry weed and a small bit of tobacco. The cherry adds a fair bit of the power but I find hash is a bit crap rolled in joints on its own. This is a lovely combo with the added contentment of rolling the hash snake so it'll be nicely nestled in weed and tobacco and take a nice central position like a hotdog in a roll.

Back to the Future:

This smokes like a dream. The hash boils into clouds of distinctive tasting smoke that you only seem to get from a handful of traditional old hashes. This vastly overpowers the cherry weed flavour. You don't tend to get a red glowing fire snake poking out the front as the hash all burns away cleanly into smoke. It really is lovely stuff. The unique taste is medicinal, like a Victorian cough remedy or a botanical drink. It's dandelion and burdock but as a smoky medicine. A really truly divine flavour that simultaneously takes me back to the past and forward to the future.

Flavour Craver:

It's arguably got some strength - it is cannabis after all - although I feel it's the slow burning taste I'm loving the most. This is a flavour-craver. It's not just THC going into my bloodstream. I could achieve that with tablets. This is why I smoke. It's a whole multi-sensory experience.

Indiana Jones Scent Vision
(yes really, stay with me here):

Certainly, every one of the gold seal smokes I've rolled I've enjoyed immensely. Hence why I keep buying it. The aroma as it smoulders away is incredible.

As I inhale and absorb that spicy scent, I'm instantly transported to a bustling market built on sand in some exotic place with a blistering climate. People are haggling over prices of carpet and pottery. If Indiana Jones rocked up he'd not look out of place inside of my scent vision. Although I might leave at that point. I have seen the movies. Shit will kick off.

I've not had any commercial level of hash that I love as much as this or that I could write about at this length or that would make me invoke Indiana Jones as part of a vision of how great it is. This is like the holy grail of cheap retro flavoured hash. Maybe. I've not tried them all to be fair. It's nice though.

Spliffs / Pipes / Bongs

I've had this hash in my pipe and my bong as well. They had been in storage for years but I couldn't resist trying this out as it just burns so clean and tasty. It's lovely with thick smooth clouds of smoke.

Finally:

So there we have it. If a hash induced Indiana Jones scent vision is what you're after then you'll likely love this hash too.

I hope as always this topic was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining at least. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time.

Lastly....

Hash Buyer Top Tip:
If you buy a soft sticky hash like this and it's stuck in plastic, pop it in the fridge for a while and then it's easy to peel off.

As a keen follower of the orange products available on LB, I've noted an uprising. Like a cult movement. The orange love is rising up like a wave washing through the LB vendor menus.

I wished for 2025 to be the year of the orange flavours and that dream is slowly starting to become reality. This is it folks.

Let's start with the Mimosa. It does seem to be the one most people love. A sort of Goldilocks mid-point of orangeness that people have deemed to be just right. Not too much or too little orange flavour. And to be fair it's a good compromise point. I like it despite it not being my number one orange strain - but I believe we can do better.

Tasty Mimosa Variants
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SOTL has a Mimosa Evo:
https://littlebiggy.net/link/VlmRH0

I've not had this one but I've had the strain before and it's a lovely variety. SOTL are a super top reliable vendor with next level stealth. Like military bomber levels of stealth.

MJ has a Mimosa x Orange Punch:
https://littlebiggy.net/link/OvIuwt

I've not ordered weed here before but if something is going to tempt me to then it's this. If this is available on payday I'll likely order. Double orange. Hard to go wrong with orange genes on all sides. Part of me has to know has this tastes. Could it be my new number one? Plus I'll get a live resin cart I suspect as the menu here looks pretty good.


Tangerine Dreams (of Being More Orange)
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The Cannibals have an entry here with their Tangerine Dream:

https://littlebiggy.net/link/0hVlKB

Tangerine isn't my favourite orange strain but it's welcome at my party for at least wanting to be orange - and I like those cannibal guys.

Orange Bud Descendants
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GAW has a descendant strain from the original Orange Bud with their Passion Fruit:

https://littlebiggy.net/link/R5Jpqh

I had this ages ago. It was nicer than some reviews suggest with hints of the old orange flavours.

On that same note, my favoured weed vendor GC do also have a descendent strain from the hallowed California Orange Bud in the form of Tropical Cherry:

https://littlebiggy.net/link/bIx7EM

It's not a hugely strong orange flavour, as the name would also suggest by virtue of it being called cherry. But you can taste the orange linage.

And More Orange
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TGFB is bringing up the rear, so to speak, with an Orange Tree grow with a few seeds in. Not perfect but discounted.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/EheuGk

I've not had this and I don't know the strain but I've always liked their enthusiasm on LB.

Worthy of note are the bud bars by SK.

https://littlebiggy.net/link/JobMLq

I've not had these but I'm tempted to see how orangey they are for a budget item. They seem to review well and the price is great. I might jump in this month and see if it's a bargain smoke. Anyone had these?

Fancy Orange Hash
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As a fan of fancy hashes there's a couple of orange versions worthy of being on this list. I don't expect they'd bring so much orange flavour to the party but I think they're worth noting.

Firstly the Orange Cannoli WPFF from RD:

https://littlebiggy.net/link/UQW5hY

Expensive bit of hash but I remember Mr Rux stating one of the WPFF hashes was the strongest thing he'd smoked so if you're rich or celebrating then maybe it's worth a little treat to see if it's the full space rocket variety.

Next up is Orangina from BS:

https://littlebiggy.net/link/EbFlLp

Another fancy hash at less of a fancy price than the WPFF.

While I doubt they would add much of that dank sour orange flavour, they are orange in spirit so are welcome additions to my list. Who doesn't like a fancy hash - I know I definitely do!

A Short List
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Okay, so it was a short list. What I described as a wave of orange was in fact just a few items. More of a splash than a wave.


Become an Orangetarian
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If we all jump in though the splash will grow and before you know it every vendor will offer an orange option to satisfy our cult desire for that old sour dank orange flavour of the past.

Back in the 80s they didn't have vegetarian options in every restaurant but after enough people adopted the diet choice they are offered everywhere now. We need to be proud of our Orangetarian status.

Mystery Disappearing Orange Strain
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There was another nice looking orange strain from a well known vendor on here - Agent Orange - but both it and they seem to have disappeared from LB. I've no idea what happened there but overall I hope to see more people get on board and ride the orange train with more orange on more menus as the year rolls on.

More Orange to Follow
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I bought a small mimosa treat from TGS recently and I believe there's more of it incoming next week. I might do a separate write up of the nice bits I'm accumulating.

We can make it happen folks. Buy orange, support the cause and help liberate the orange flavour from oppression. Become an Orangetarian.

Thanks LB Folks
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Thanks as always for reading my topic, I hope the links are useful for you to have your own orange party, and if not I hope it was entertaining to read at least.

I'll see you orangetarians in the next topic.

The Beginning

When I started smoking pot, the UK options were various types of commercial hash or basic landrace weeds.

The mainstay hash was usually a Rocky which I believe was nicknamed from Moroccan and was a heat n crumble hash. Often we'd get a Slate which as per the name came in thin slabs which fluffed up when heated and crumbled - anyone know what the origin of that was? Squidgy Black of various but often low grades would often be available. We'd usually get red seal but gold seal and other stamps did turn up. It'd roll into snakes. Plus we'd get other basic, and often poor quality, hashes with some variations like soap bar or double zero. Often you'd find hash cut with something unpleasant like henna or plastic. Although equally you'd sometimes get a lovely treat like a temple ball.

Weed tended to be Thai sticks or similar dry stuff with more seeds and sticks in it than weed. I'd hear about sensimelia but I didn't ever see any in my town. It was all pretty basic.

This was universally true across life in that period. Channel 4 was brand new and edgy and digital watches still seemed like a pretty neat idea. It was a simpler time. You couldn't even buy fancy long rizla at Tesco.

Original 90s Hash

Honestly, if you bought the cheapest rock solid hash on LB, wrapped it in plastic, smashed it up with a hammer, then stuck it back together so the plastic was on the inside, you'd be a long way towards creating an authentic 90s hash. I don't recommend it but the option is there if you'd like to experience it. I'm hoping some old stoners will confirm to the younglings that I'm not making this up.

The Dam

During my first trip to Amsterdam my eyes were opened to a new world of cannabis. Which was ironic considering they were half shut for much of the trip. I think many of us brought back a piece of Dam with us (quite literally in my case) and the sharing of those experiences seemed to progress everything forwards. We wanted to be more Dutch.

I loved the weed out there of course but it was more than that. It was the open and tolerant culture that allowed it all to happen that really hit home for me.

Slow Progress

Although the four channel options on TV and digital watches seeming a pretty neat idea persisted for some time, we gradually got better at growing weed here until we reach the point today where we're comparable to much of the rest of the world - and now smart watches seem like a pretty neat idea instead of the digital ones.

In between then and now I've had a wide range of oddly grown weed and lack of flavours. Even as we made a bit of progression, for long periods, everyone would seem to have the same grow.

It'd be cheese, then blue cheese, with lemon haze phases, then stardawg. Variety, as a concept, seemed to take a while to bed in. There were of course highlights and exceptions but the mainstay weed was very samey for years - at least locally - and definitely below the quality and variety abroad. This period developed my loathing of lemon haze. I've simply had it one too many times.

LB Quality

Now, all these years later, I'm ordering high quality buds delivered to my door from a menu of a thousand products. The difference in the cannabis now to then is almost immeasurable.

We've got strong, tasty and exotic weed with new strains on a regular basis. We've got fresh frozen hashes and powerful extracts. We've got vapes and dab pens. We have clean D9 edibles and decarb products. It's a golden age of cannabis consumption with a bigger crowd of us than ever before. I'm excited by it - by all you loons in the LB community.

While attitudes have certainly progressed, we're still a wee bit behind when compared to the tolerant attitude to cannabis use we're seeing in the US and parts of Europe.

Channel 4 Cannabis Night

The afore mentioned Channel 4 once did a cannabis night back when they were still keen to be edgy. All night they showed a stream of cannabis TV shows which sent shockwaves through the mainstream UK of the time but was of course dynamite viewing for my generation. It felt like part of a culture shift. A line in the sand between the stagnant and repressed old folks versus the new, dynamic and hedonistic youth.

In one of the programmes it showed how a legal cannabis future might look. I remember that it showed designer prerolls in professional looking cigarette looking packets. Funnily enough even our cigarette packets don't look like that any more! It'd be an interesting clip to watch again actually.

As a 80s/90s stoner I don't think I'd have predicted how the cannabis market looks now. Firstly the sweetshop flavour names and youth-styled graphics on the packs are a naming convention and style that's a world beyond stuff like skunk and white widow. But also the products available expanded far further than I could ever have imagined. It all leaves me as wide eyed as Charlie was stepping foot into the chocolate factory.

I don't know where we go from here but it'll be fun to find out. I hope the UK will ultimately find a more tolerant and legal status for our favourite plant just like many of our friends abroad have.

Thanks

As always, thanks for reading my topic, I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining in some way.

I Stole it.

And yes, for the astute Douglas Adams fans, I did steal one of his lines for this piece. Twice in fact - to try and get good value from it. My grandma would be proud.

Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to worship hash mastery at its finest. There is Spanish Piatella hash available on LB (linked).

Look at the divine fudgy goodness & rich fawny colouring. Just looking at it, every cell in my body yearns to have its stoney and spiritual wonders racing around inside and filling all my senses with joy. Will it submerge my brain with the bliss it looks to my eyes?

Someone has put an awful lot of time and care into an artisan process to produce this stuff. And it's a long haul process from what I've read with a number of key stages that really need to go right.

It's hard for me to justify the spend on this at five times the cost of the best hash I've ever had, I have to admit. Literally I have to admit it before I spend what I can't afford. Don't do that folks. If I was a rock star or had more disposable income I'd be all over it though. Unless my lottery ticket is luckier than it usually is there'll not be a new BigRoo review incoming for this.

Please can one of the LB high rollers out there buy some - take the pilgrimage on behalf of us all - and write an in depth review so I (we) may live vicariously through your thoughts, words & feelings. Thank you.

As we reflect upon the past year and countdown to the new one it's customary to get completely spangled and propose a radical shift in your life that you have no real long term intention of committing to once your brain is back at it's regular capacity to function. This year though I think I've come up with something manageable.

So, in the style of a reality TV show announcement, my new years resolution for 2025 is... [add tense music] [extensive pause] is... [additional long pause] is... [one more pause for added tension] is... [deep breath] is... to keep getting stoned. We have a winner.

It's predictably more business as usual than an actual resolution but I like smoking weed and it helps with pain. I'd like to claim it's medicinal use only but I definitely enjoy blazing far too much to fully convince anyone of that. However, as resolutions go, I've a high chance of sticking to this one.

So What's for 2025?

I'll likely keep picking at Green Cats bud menu. It's hard to fault price or quality with some truly exceptional bits popping up regularly.

Orange is Nice

However, the one flaw in the GC menu, as well as many other vendors offerings, is a lack of Orange flavours. There's Gelato or Kush crossed with everything but, in my opinion, a lack of Orange.

I get that I'm quite lonely in my Orange Bud Fanclub but I'm not completely alone. There are others. Mimosa is not the only orange strain either so LB vendors please open your hearts and your shops to the orangeness ticket. List it and they will come. Possibly. Don't quote me on that. They might not come. I'm copying a line from a film. It's probably a poor indicator for weed vending. Blame Kevin if in fact they don't come.

What Else?

I missed getting Piatella from The Hash Collective at Xmas as I'd overspent already when it came online so I'd hope to pick some of that up and some top spec WPFF hash as well later in the year - is it the strongest stuff ever? It's a question worth exploring.

I Am Old

I've really enjoyed having some old school gold seal over Xmas from GC for that taste of nostalgia. It's a perfect example of that old sticky black hash and probably much nicer than back in the day while retaining the essential essence of the past. Yes, it won't hit you like a cold cure jungle boys hash or a barz LA but it's still a lovely enjoyable smoke. So I expect some further old school sessions throughout the year when I see an old man's product listed and can't help but take a stumble down stoner memory lane.

You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

I'll likely update my dabbing equipment and also my vape this year. I'm liking these modern devices and chilling out like a cool kid. I'll probably try some other carts this year too although I'm less convinced by these.

More Extracts

I'll be on the lookout for the tastiest and smoothest extracts at decent prices of course. I still like a bargain. Currently I favour wax in my dab pen but I should probably experiment more.

What About Edibles?

I'll definitely continue on with my RSO and D9 cookies. That's the theme this evening in fact. It's hard to beat when you really want to be blasted into space. Which I do.

I've actually got a new recipe for cookies that I'll likely write about in the new year. It started when I didn't have a cookie mix packet so I listed the stuff I did have in the cupboard onto Chat GPT and asked it how to make cookies with it. So AI can even help you get baked it turns out. It really will take over the world one day.

Happy New Year - 2025

So that's it, happy new year LB folks. This has been my first year on LB. I like it. Cheap quality weed and a community of potheads; what more could you want?!

I hope, just like a stereotypical Miss World contestant, for world peace in '25. Try to enjoy whatever you are doing - this is good advice all year round not just tonight. Let's make 2025 awesome.

Thank You

Thanks as always for reading my topic. I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining at least. I appreciate all the interaction with you fellow stoners throughout the year and look forward to three hundred and sixty five more days of it before another post like this.

I'd love to hear your stoner plans for NYE and for 2025 so jump into the comments below and gimme the good stuff.

HNY.