Bedford Grow Orange Afghani is a solid, tasty Afghani, very familiar tasting, but all cleaned up – smoother and fresher than you might remember. Weed back in the day seldom packed a punch like this.
The reason I’ve gone through so many varieties of legal cannabis in Illinois is I’m looking for hashish, but it’s just not here. (EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s here!) A hash buzz is easy to approximate. It’s the taste and the smell I crave, and I’ve craved it now for forty two years.
“It’s not hashish, but the first hit is smooth, downright mellow. It hits the head quickly, and the goofy smile spreads and the eyes droop a notch almost before the first hit is fully exhaled.”
Aside from a handful of opportunities, I’ve not smoked it for about forty of those years. In southern Illinois, hash went from rare to almost non-existent.
I’d been smoking the Orange Afgani Popcorn Buds from Bedford Grow for a few weeks now. Without thinking, it became my go to weed.
My favorite Hashish is Afghani, and the Bedford Grow Indica by the same name does have some of the same flavors, as well as the buzz. The citrus throws it off though. You get the Orange on the inhale, and the spicy Afghani on the exhale.
The first hit is smooth, downright mellow. It hits the head quickly, and the goofy smile spreads and the eyes droop a notch almost before the first hit is fully exhaled.
I loaded a second and found it just as nice, and I realize this is been one of my favorite Indicas so far.
A note on popcorn buds.
They’re smaller, about the size of a piece of popped popcorn. The generic brand, not Orville Redenbacker. If you want to get technical, they’re not quite as potent as fully matured buds. But the difference is minimal, and it’s unlikely most people can tell a difference.
You save a few bucks and get the same buzz. So don’t be afraid to give them a shot.
On creating a hashish flavored cannabis elixir with a dash of Orange Afghani Crumble
I’d been painting Orange Afghani popcorn buds from time to time with hash oil, which tamed the citrus notes and brought the taste and scent closer to hashish.
Then I scored the Bedford Grow Orange Afghani Crumble.
So the next hit was a bit of flower, a bit of crumble, like the other hits, smoked through a bong. With clean water even, as I had high hopes.
I realized two things simultaneously. The first was the hit was still smooth, still sweet and there was no cough. The second was that the orange tasted even more orange, and less like Hashish. Which makes sense as with the stronger concentrate, you’re accenting the flavor not changing it.
What to do when a body buzz feels just too nice
The buzz from Orange Afghani is euphoric. You feel high, uplifted and yet your brain keeps chugging along. It doesn’t wipe you out in one fell swoop like a lot of Indicas. It’s quite a cerebral high, but the body buzz comes creeping up. After about forty five minutes, sitting back comfortably feels real nice. I mean real nice.
Something else I noticed after smoking the popcorn buds one night when the wife was still awake … things physical feel really nice too. I mean real nice.
But she’s asleep tonight so I wander over to the back window, looking out over the back yard. I can’t see the new garden from here, but I have a good view of the route the raccoons take from the top of the barn on their nightly prowls. One crosses a beam of light for a second on the patio, then shuffles off.
I stand there for much too long, and realize the Orange Afghani makes one easily entertained.
Does a dab rig bring out the hashish taste of Bedford Grow’s Orange Afghani?
It occurs to me that I haven’t fully tested the options here. I haven’t for instance, tried just the Orange Afghani Crumble in the dab rig. I ponder it for a moment. If I keep sitting here, typing this review, I’m screwed. The body buzz will win out and slowly but inevitably, I’ll turn vegetable.
Before I can smoke a dab, I’ll have to clean the nail and dome, rinse that, change the water and that should wake me up. At least till I take the hit.
I cleaned out the rig, added fresh, chilled water and whipped out the torch. Pinching off a small piece of the Bedford Grow Grange Afghani Crumble, I dropped it on the nail. By then I wasn’t hoping for a Hashish taste, so I wasn’t disappointed. It was an itense version of the flower hit, more flavor, a stronger scent, a beefier whallop to the psyche.
Adding the Iranian to the Afghani for a last hope of the hashish taste
I recently picked up an Iranian based weed, Verano RSO Mag Landrace, It has a very spicy, woodsy taste … not like evergreens, but aged wood. I also managed to score the RSO oil version of it. I though that might be enough to overcome the citrus flavor of the Orange Afghani, and give a true Hashish taste.
So I swabbed out the nail, heated it up and managed to get a bit of Bedford Grow Orange Afghani and Verano RSO Mag Landrace on my dab tool. And to drop off together even into the heated nail.
Consciousness reeled before coming back, looking like it had been out on a night on the town. And slept in the gutter.
The flavor wasn’t like hash. At least no hash I’d ever tasted. But it was brilliant. It did push down the citrus overtones and it tasted like something from that part of the world. A wave of exotic middle eastern stereotypes flooded the brain as I exhaled.
Then I’m back at the window, looking for varmints. Directly across from me, about fifteen yards away, there’s a shadow under the eaves of the barn. As my eyes adjust, I see it’s a silhouette. I can see the outline, the skinny head, the big ass.
“Consciousness reeled before coming back, looking like it had been out on a night on the town. And slept in the gutter.”
My eyes are still bleary from the after effects of the dab, and my gaze is stolen by the eye of Sauron, staring at me from above the rooftops behind the house. I stare back, clearly able to make out the ridges and highlights in the iris.
Then my eyes come back in focus, and I find myself staring into a street light.
I think I’m pretty much done smoking dope for the night. I started the evening trying to find that elusive taste of hashish, that sweet smell that haunts my dreams. I got hints of it, and a hellacious buzz. And for tonight, that’s close enough.
The Particulars:
BEDFORD GROW ORANGE AFGHANI FLOWER
THC 20% CBD 1%
BEDFORD GROW ORANGE AFGHANI CRUMBLE
THC 78.4%
VERANO RSO – MAG LANDRACE
THC: 79.095 THCA: 1.929 Total: 80.786733