Thailand part 3
After 10 nights in Bangkok I flew to Koh Samui planning to island hop for the next few weeks over the holidays.
I stayed about a week on each island. Koh Samui, Koh Pha Ngan, and then Koh Tao.
I didn’t visit any farms on Samui, but I did randomly motorbike by a sign in Pha Ngan that stated “Organic Weed Farm”
Let’s check it out!
I had no idea what to expect, but I was excited to see an organic outdoor farm.
We pulled up the dirt driveway to see a few people hanging out under a shade structure with some jars of herb on the table.
A soft spoken woman greeted us and started showing off her herb stating different prices.
They ranged from 60-500 baht per gram. $1usd = 35 baht. These were by far the cheapest prices I had seen since arriving in Thailand.
So many of the shops I saw in Bangkok were tourist traps offering all the strain names we know and love, but were not those strains by smell. The prices started per gram at 300bht all the way to 3,000bht for moonrocks! (kief covered nugs)
That’s $85usd per gram! hahahaha! wow
Most of her weed was very old, signs of mold, and smelled pretty bad. Like moist grass that had a notes of mildew and funk.
Though, it wasn’t all awful..I picked up a couple of grams from her to donate to the cause. I didn’t smoke it though.
I asked to see the farm and she led me off to the side of the property where some dilapidated green houses rested in the overgrowth.
These next images are from the still standing greenhouse.
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I asked questions about her cannabis experience, growing processes, and how she obtains genetics.
She’s been cultivating for about 2 years. She uses clones received from someone else on the island. She doesn’t grow from seed either. I didn’t get any info about feeding or watering of the plants.
Though I did see seedlings, so some of the information she was telling me wasn’t adding up.
A Thai friend was with me doing the translating, but things can easily get confused with translation and apps.
There’s definitely insect issues, powdery mildew, and appeared to have some virus —just speculation.
They had no smell and were under developed. I’m not sure how long ago they were planted.
Greenhouse across the wayShe led me to another greenhouse across from the one in the images above. She explained that a rain storm took down the roof and they weren’t able to save the plants that were in there.
The dead plants were still standing tall, colas and all. Some had even started a little regrowth!
I din’t get a clear answer to as why she started growing just two years ago not being a cannabis consumer.
She told my friend something about government funding and assistance for her property being an educational center too.
That has been an ongoing theme when it comes to asking “how long have you been growing, what’s your experience?”
The answer has always been when it became legal…until I met Loung Dam, a third generation grower on the tiny island of Tao in the gulf of Thailand.
I’ll be sharing about his property and work in my next blog.
Loung Dam & me