Mendo dope boys ..

Back in the late 80's we would get amazing weed only known as "Mendo" which only came around at Christmas time.

Usually the regular weed was $35-$40 for an eighth, the Mendo was $100 an eighth and well worth it.

Never tasted anything like it before or since, haven't seen it around in 25+ years... miss those days....  

what was the flavor profile like? late 80's is only a few years before the chemdog legend, where a group of tour kids were getting what they named "dog bud" from the mendo/humbolt area, sold an ounce to a guy who now goes by "chemdog" at alpine valley '91, he found some seeds, popped them and they became the legendary strains chem 91, chem d, chem sis, and chem 4. the folks involved have since come forward publically and the story is confirmed - im sure many of you have heard this story in the meantime...almost 30 years ago now.

was the flavor profile gassy, chemically, or diesel-y at all? have you ever smoked 100% confirmed chem 91/chem d/chem sis/chem 4? curious if perhaps this "mendo" you mentioned, due to its price, apparently great flavor, and the timeframe you gave for when it was available makes me wonder if it could have somehow been connected to the original source for the "dog bud", which is still a total unknown...we know what happened after chem got the seeds, and how he got the seeds, but really all that is confirmed about the buds the seeds were found in is that they came from norcal and it was expensive. according to the story chemdog bought the fateful ounce for $500 in '91.

what area of the country was this in, if you dont mind me asking? any kind of info on the sources themselves, where they came from, etc could be valuable, albeit unconfirmable, info.

Back at NYE 88 I scored a zip of "mendo." That's all the dude called it. To this day, even with all the shit out there now, it's in the top 2 buds I've ever had. The buds were perfectly round little orbs, and it stunk like a mofo. I got a new bowl, and after one hit there was oil dripping out the back. A joint would coat your entire mouth in oil.

Those were my heavy, heavy smoking days. Over the course of 4 shows and a day off in between, I went through less than an eighth. It was impossible to take more than a hit or 2.

The rest of that zip lasted me and my friends in college  over a month. A couple of very seasoned timers ended up in the ER having panic attacks. I fully attribute that mendo to my failing out of school. I'd wake and bake, and be too fucked up to move. That shit was the bomb!

I can't remember the flavor profile, but it was beyond pungent. I had the first flight from SFO to JFK on New Years, and shoved it down my pants. I thought I was going to get popped. The woman in the set next to me, all dressed to the nines and gussied up, said, "great show last night! Whatever you have shoved down your pants smells great!" She pulled out a bowl and we got high. That really kicked in my sunrise puddle, and I was flying all the way back to NYC.

So far that makes two.

Two what, Bss?

Oh yeah, I paid close to $300. For late 1987, that was an astronomical price, unheard of.

 Two zoners with expensive ass mendo weeds.

Daylight obviously would like to crack the code. 

I’m just chillin son with my 91.

Flavor profile is very hard to describe... very unique compared to anything else I've tried. Skunky/Fruity taste? It definitely did not have the gassy/fuel type smell that is common today.

This was in the suburbs of Pittsburgh... and he was the only one that had Mendo, only at that time of year.