[pokernaut]

you also list alot of less popular strains. heck... MOST smokers have no idea what they're actually smoking. in my 23 years of smoking, i've only had 4 named strains... thai, kali mist, durban poison & skunk #1 none of which is in your list.

i DO have some cheaper nirvana pure power plant seeds (never grew a single bud in my life yet... just leaflet trim until my plants stress out and die) as well as a few other choice sativa dominants.

definately check my "best strains according to EVERYONE" thread out! according to experienced growers and smokers, blueberry is the best in the world and haze is a close second. haze isn't too practical to grow though as it's a tree sized tropical sativa.

i'd say DEFINATELY consider kali mist! it might not be as well known, but it was NEVER rated lower than #2 in anyone's list that it appeared in and it is the ONLY strain i was willing to pay over $50 to acquire having smoked it once. kwik kali is likely an inferior knock off polluted by indica. real KM has an awesome spicy red pepper flavor and the happiest high i've EVER experienced. it wasn't at all trippy (or paranoid) like the thai i prefer, but it did make me clean my entire house with a stupid grin while humming "don't worry... be happy" when i had intended to trip out on some tunes that i couldn't sit still for. it's also rumored to be a favorite with the ladies and i could see how all of that happy energy could lead to instant nookie from the one time i tried it. you just have to direct all that joyous energy somewhere on kali mist!

more than kali mist though, i gravitated towards cinderella 99 because it's trippy like thai yet tastes like pineapple with a mellow floral odor unlike it's more popular relative super silver haze which has an unsubtle skunk odor. if you think skunk is a good thing, try super silver haze. C99 also grows very fast like an indica despite it's sativalike high. C99 crossed with a pure sativa produces grapefruit which might be even better yet, but there aren't many details on that one. i'd have gone with grapefruit once i learned about it if i didn't already have C99 splash beans.

skunk #1 is definately one of the top 10 strains, but even at 75% sativa, i wasn't impressed with it when i tried some as it was pretty much the same as EVERY other crappy couchlocking indica i'd ever smoked. it could be that the grower chose indy dom phenos as well as harvested too late ruining the buzz though. it's often called a top "euphoric" strain, but i just wasn't feeling it like i was with kali mist.