As 4/20 Approaches, Remember You Can Support Redheaded Blackbelt by Trying Our Sungrown, Natural Cannabis
Frog and bud [Crop of a 2010 photo by Kym Kemp]
But, just last month HPRC, the longest running dispensary in Humboldt County, and one of the oldest operating dispensaries in the country, began selling jars of our natural, sungrown buds. I am excited at how many of you have gone in and bought our Sherbet Frosting (30% THC from award-winning Happy Dreams Genetics) which we grow in the ground from seed and cure slowly so it tastes as good as it looks.
Folks have sent us the kindest notes supporting what we do and saying how much they love the taste and the feeling they get. I am so proud of my son and his wife who put so much into growing it.
Very soon, Redwood Roots, a Humboldt County Distributer, will soon be offering our product to other dispensaries so it will be available in other areas. (Any dispensary interested can reach out to them.)
And we just keep thinking of cool new possibilities. Just for fun, here’s our sugary Candied Grapefruit from our personal garden that we fell in love with. Next fall, we’ll be offering this delicious strain (also from Happy Dreams Genetics) in local dispensaries.
Candied Grapefruit
We hope that this 4/20 day you celebrate with a taste of home, our Sherbet Frosting flowers, and let us know what you think. Who knows, another 12 years from now all the cool news sites might have their own cannabis brand, but for now, we hope you’ll join us in making history.
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Truly a great idea. Especially because, in this day and age, consuming the news requires at least two honkers of some proper. Prepare for the greatest form of flattery: imitation. Corporate mainstream media conglomerates will sell straight up pressed brick that makes you crazy and stressed just like their news content. Playboy will sell glossy and artificially beautiful indoor nugs that don’t even get you high. And small town provincial weeklies will sell you the most garbage, inbred-homegrown-ravine weed you’ve ever seen. All will claim “headies!”
But if you know you know, real recognizes real. Nothing compares to smart, local, and crafted with love. They might steal your spotlight but they can’t cop your shine. Flame on!
Why is tax day so important it is not like it is 3/14 or 5/4 or 6/19 or even 8/8. It is like all the idiot couples who got married on 2/2 this year. If you need some magic date to celebrate you’re love than you our really not going to survive the journey to gether.
&Freehunter
NLM
Why do stoners celebrate hitlers birthday? 🤔
I thought everyone was celebrating George Takei’s birthday.
🤔🧐But, how could that even be, Kym…
“Hikaru Sulu” wasn’t even born until the year 2237…
That’s not for another…
Wait for it…
215 years…😉😅😁
Nicely done.
Thank you.
“Star trek trivia pop quiz”…
What was the name of “Sulu’s”
carnivorous plant, shown here…
(Bonus points for identifying the “yeoman”)…
I’m only a mild fan. Not an identify the name of the carnivorous plant fan…
I guess this makes me hard-core (I was 14 when Star Trek debuted) Yeoman Janice Rand, and “Beauregard”, IIRC
Nicely done!
I was 4.
To be fair, I didn’t remember these trivia facts…
I looked them up today…
🤔🧐If you recalled these from memory, that’s “fascinating”! 🖖
As a 14 year old boy I was not likely to forget a gorgeous blonde like Janice Rand in a closely fitting Federation uniform…
True that!
Nor was the lucky “Beauregard”, to be forgotten, that she so tenderly caressed…
They didn’t call that episode, “Man Trap”, for nothing…
Let me see if I can find another one of Sulu’s “strains”…
Isn’t she also Mrs Roddenberry (I should know her first name) and the voice of the “computer”, and later, Counselor Troi’s mother?
I seem to remember that Sulu’s prized animate carnivorous plant was named Gertrude…
Interesting, that is apparently also true, “Beauregard” AKA “Gertrude”.
Janice Rand apparently felt the plant was a male, because it purred in her presence…
But Sulu, felt that it was a female, the reason being unclear…
Sulu’s plant, so maybe “Gertrude” is more official?
I love star Wars…
Been a Trekkie since I watched reruns with my Mom in the very early 70s. I do like the idea behind Star Trek and the Federation. However, in all likelihood, the Federation would probably end up being like the Empire in Star Wars. Ever since I stood with my Mom in a line that wrapped around the theater, I’ve always associated more with the rebels, especially as I got older.
Lol nice but they are so similar, was a joke I watched a show on the Smithsonian channel that mentioned his birthday and was like wtf? 4/20
Check out this one of Sulu’s “strains”…
Tap to fully appreciate…
It’s in, like, a five galloner…
Stoners don’t celebrate anything hitler… besides, he’s dead.
no more birthdays.
There are a couple presidents, long since dead, whose birthdays we still celebrate. A lot of folks, especially is this county, still celebrate Bob Marley’s birthday. Technically speaking, dead or alive, it’s still his, their respectively, birthday.
I think you missed my point. The said people you mentioned are legends and should be celebrated. the other… not so much
If you don’t want to celebrate Hitler’s birthday, you can celebrate, or mourn, Jack Herer’s passing: April 15, 2010. The date is easy to remember: 4-15, 415 is police code for public disturbance. He liked to say, “My last name is easy to pronounce, it sounds like terror.” I met the guy once when we were collecting signatures to get the CHI (California Hemp Initiative) on the ballot back in, uh, 1991(?, little foggy). Super nice guy. Can’t understand why the feds didn’t like him : ).
Actually, they’re celebrating my grandson Spencer’s birthday…
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Awesome Kim! I love your Vanilla Frosting! Can’t wait to try your grapefruit slice this year. You do such a great job everyday bringing us news and stories that are important to us. By me buying your herb I’m showing my respect and gratitude 🙏 for all you do and have done over the years. If anyone is a Redheaded Blackbelt reader and they smoke herb or know someone who does please go to HPRC either in Arcata or Eureka and pick up some of this organic cannabis and help make history!
Yea, but 4/19 is waaaay more fun 🚴🚴🚴😁🤯💩
Best wishes Kym! I suspect this website doesn’t pay well for the hours of work, but it’s an invaluable resource for the community and for this alone I’ll support your family farm. Looks like a quality product too. Keep up the good work!
ITs just old outdoor weed, no one wants to buy or smoke outdoor weed anymore. GAME OVER.
Sun grown, done right, is always the best. Nothing can top working in harmony with nature.
Speak for yourself only Please!!! I happen to prefer outdoor grown over “Hoop House CRAP”!!!
Game is over, lol. Corporate indoor gettin their ass kicked by outdoor legacy growers.
Though I’m quite happy you’re helping, to be fair these assholes didn’t need any help from anyone to screw their investors over.
Every investment pitch I saw for startups was always too ambitious. Some claimed 5 runs in mixed light facilities in trinity hahaha. Even the more conservative business plans failed since the management wasn’t an experienced grower.
Agreed, they didn’t need help they was heading for failure no matter. It was important for us to speed up the process not just for market share but also to shut them up in lobbying politicians. The tax break gave them a few months but next week is come to Jesus time for most. Now they either get another trenche or merge but it will narrow down our target areas and free us up to compete legally. This in turn should help the Triangle legal growers get better position in the industry more than in the past.
LOVE the Medmen chart.
Dumping 300 pounds in and around their dispensaries was a nice push to ensure sales would not meet its target. Harborside should pay close attention cause in this industry it ain’t difficult for the mighty to fall, lol. Donations can reach several tons when asked based on the plight of our mom n pops.
Nothing beats the Sunniva chart though.
$136,000,000 (yes, 136 MILLION) for a new greenhouse next to Palm Springs where it reaches 120f in the summer. Yeah, they couldn’t keep it cool and it sits empty — a testament to the gullibility of greedy investors and corporate scam artists.
You can now buy 100 shares for a penny (down ~99.999% from its high).
I believe that’s called a flatline in the medical field.
Shhhhh, I went down there to see the empty building just two weeks ago, lol. I had the biggest shit eat’in grin ever!!!!
NICE!!!
Aurora Cannabis Inc. ,
(Last 5 years).
I don’t see what point you’re trying to make. What about legacy indoor? What about corporate outdoor? Seems like you’re showing us stock value for a single company.
These are the funds that get investment dollars. These funds are used to control the cannabis industry and limit the number of players. Over 5 billion dollars is what the triangle had to go up against. I post a particular fund that promised to support the small farms of Humboldt. The sooner they get delisted the better it will be for my community.
FYI, no one on the street gives two fucks or even asks if it’s indoor, outdoor or DEP. They take the baggie open it up take a big wiff. They then grab a fat sticky stanky nug then ask how much. Then they usually buy multiples and comment about the shit corporate weed in the dispensary that cost twice as much. That’s the reality of this industry and it all starts with……Where you from?
Not when you can smoke benzene laced hash or mass produced greenhouse plants. Some of us like natural products grown outside, cultivated by hand. To each their own. I see some people have to use a small torch just to get the pipe hot for the hash. Like overkill and a heavy carbon footprint all to get high.
Feel free to buy all the indoor weed, tomatoes, and other veggies you want. You can smoke it in your mom’s basement, tictokking on your xbox. Personally, I’ll stick to good “old” outdoor grown myself.
Old? You are wrong. Indoor is unsustainable, inorganic garbage.
I don’t think people have a problem buying outdoor occasionally from dispensaries, it’s just that knowing the cost of production is less than indoor, they expect it to be a bit cheaper.
Only corporations care about indoor, Outdoor or DEP. Only corporations call it flower and separate nugs into categories called smalls and flower. 80% of this industry don’t give a shit about anything cannabis aficionados think and purchase their products in Ziploc bags.
WOW! Nice photo. I’ve seen herb with purple in it, but, never seen the flower before its dried. Very nice.
Is that how frogs get the psychedelics on their backs? Or would one get a better high by licking their bellies and feet? Or perhaps, that’s how the herb gets it’s qualities?
Great marketing. Shame Humboldt County does not do more for the growers in letting everyone know products. Saw minimal Humboldt brands south of Ventura.
Humboldt County government did nothing for the growers who made it famous. Here was an existing multi-billion dollar business- that WE built- where the name “Humboldt” was the most-recognized worldwide. They threw it all out the window. Instead they devised a punitive system to grab every last dollar they could and continue backroom schemes to increase their personal wealth. They ran out the 4/20 celebrations and then they ran out the Cannabis Cup! Still they pretend to care and some suckers still hope…It was our #1 economic boost and they just assumed it would all leave so better grab what they can- quick! That became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now we still have a fierce abatement program and the drug-addicted riff-raff in the streets and they want to blame all that on growers while taking zero responsibility for torpedoing the local economy! Talk about some morons and scammers…talk about shooting a gift horse in the mouth…that’s Dumboldt County!
Agreed, I do like what Mendo is doing lately for their small growers. Humboldt will never progress until groups like HCGA and other gro-bro/gro-gal entities disappear. We are gonna start a marketing campaign here shortly in the southern part of the state on our own, grassroots shit, lol. I’ll let ya know how it went successful or not.
I’m definitely going to pick up a jar next time I’m at hprcin arcata. That grapefruit looks incredible,I always loved the grapefruit diesel that used to be around in the early 2000s, love those grapefruit terps, nice work !
Can you ship to Texas?
No they cannot. I on the other hand have no issue in support of free duty trade. We will be in the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio areas in May. Just start ask’in for Humboldt weed and thou shall receive, lol.
You don’t need no stinking rules!
It’s an easy choice when the pricks are still doin this shit. They were legal which goes to show the plant ain’t free. Let the war rage!!!
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/feds-agree-to-return-1-million-in-marijuana-dispensary-cash-seized-from-armored-car-transports/
Are you saying you’re a traveling black market weed salesman?
Nobody is saying anything like that whatsoever and never. Don’t ask such questions
lol, I support is what I stated. I then offered a suggestion which is to ask specifically for Humbold weed. I made no such offer to sell weed to anyone that is illegal. Yes, I travel to Texas as well as Florida, Michigan, Indiana and many other states as do most Americans.
I’m a Texan in LA we need to free trade fr
Hangin out and hangin on
A patient can get their medicine easily. I can offer a few legal cooperatives that are patient friendly if you would like.
Much respect to Kym for being able to hit that 30% stuff and spell.
Cannabis makes me hungry…and I don’t need any encouragement there. So I’m a rare smoker.
Heheheh. I see you there Kym. I’ve been known to clear the fridge in my day.
A friend once made spaghetti with cannabis. That was an impossible combination to resist…
I heard Kym smokes three hog leg doobs in a single puff
Been a lot of Smokey buds out of the humboldt area for some years now. There’s a lot of great quality indoor out now for rock bottom But that real granddaddy,black lime reserve and others still fetch a premium. Just instead of shipping to the east now you need to find a line out the country. The USD ain’t what it used to be.
Is this an article or an advertisement?
You should hit the “sherbet frosting” it will answer said question… 💨💨💨🫶🏼
I’m so glad you like it!
It’s a press release and a gentle mention from this website owner that readers can help support the news that I provide for free if they choose, by buying our brand of a product they use. And, we think they’ll love it.
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I’d like to try your weed.
You say it’s “natural.”
Does that mean it is or isn’t “organic?”
(I have 20 lbs of weed I don’t know what to do with
but it doesn’t look as pretty or sparkly as yours.)
We can’t say organic because that is a federal designation and cannabis is still federally illegal so we can’t go through the process to get the designation.
But I can tell you that we don’t use anything inorganic. We basically use a little chicken shit, a nitrogen fixing cover crop, and little Dr. Earth (All Purpose in the early months and Bloom later). Then not much else (I’d say for sure there was nothing else but I think there might be a few more OMNI approved inputs before we plant.) The garden has, for the approximately 45-50 years our family has owned it, never had chemical inputs. And probably before that as it appears to have been untouched since modern history.
My son is the gardener so I don’t have all the details. The family just helps with planting, harvest, trimming, etc.
I hope you are using your own chicken poop that you composted yourself, or a friend’s. The store bought stuff like Stutzmans is a dangerous gamble. I had a few plants wilt over and die after dropping low branches most of the season. Got the soil tested in those holes and the residual chicken poop left on a bag, sure enough, positive for both pythium and fusarium.
That was many years ago, but figured I would pass on a word of caution.
Thanks for the heads up. We do have our own chickens though we do supplement. I’ll let my son know to check it out.
Just grabbed an eighth from HPRC great smoke for only $25 out the door
Wahoo! I am so glad you like our buds!
Any sativa you are growing i love the indica but man ive got shit to do lol
We love our Lemon Spice that is mellower that my son developed but…trying to get dispensaries to buy unknown genetics and more inspiration type of buds is really hard.
Well hopefully soon we can get farm to bong like they do farm to fork i live here in hydesville so hopefully i can buy direct soon
Wouldn’t that be lovely! I would love to see a farmer’s market for our cannabis farmers.
Just curious are they doing wholesale in mendo?
There is a cannabis farmer’s market in Laytonville.
We’ve got a dispensary in the works — when the time arrives we’d love to carry your product.
You’re a good soul! Broadcast where you open and my group will help push refferals your way.
Thanks LL. Appreciated.
That’s very kind. Thank you!