Strain Hunters RAW: Colombia - Behind the scene's with VICE - FULL LENGTH 

With great and enormous love ..dear franco ..cant evn believe ..every puff and evry drag for u bro..RIP FRANCO

The original northern lights x big bud from the late 90's early 2000's along with critical mass and the real pre 2000's white rhino - white widow are all gone nowadays, you used to get a room with maybe 8 plants under 3 600w lights giving off 3-5oz of absolute prime smoke and thats all been replaced with finished in 70 days with maximum 2oz unless you want to veg them along for over 2 months. Its just annoying nowadays getting something you think will be an original of something you did before that had a great return but the new supposedly improved version barely even got 2oz on it as its starting to mature and finish up. I miss walking into a room as a teenager and having a big old 1.2 to 1.5m doorman shaped plant stood there greeting me and not knowing whether or not to pull out my ID. I've tried around 8 different strains and watched about 15 through friends in the last 2 and a half and none of them have been anything near what the yields used to be but again it wasn't only yields. It was unique flavours a heady strength that made you dry at the mouth laugh like youd just seen a fat person fall amd struggle to stand back up and not be able to finish the whole joint you stupidly packed underestimating the strain😂some of the best weed I've ever had has literally smelled like next to nothing but when you grind it and light it up it was completely unreal, thick smoke, brand new tyre smell in the air, severe couchlocking usually rendering us stuck on the mountain on our bikes not wanting to move to get home and a perfect grey ash all the way through, I miss that kind of weed. Stardawg, ammo, gelato, all these fake cali strains and even the real ones are stupidly over hyped. Bring back the real original UK cheese from the 90's the one that tasted like earth, soily-ness, piney, with those amazing citrus afternotes👌until I see something that makes it worth the risk for of even trying to grow personal amounts ive decided to stop as it wasnt worth it anymore. On a small personal room alot of these new strains barely produce more than the electric costs

Love what this man did .. and what he contributed to the world . 🇨🇦✌ . Legacys Always Keep Giviner ! . Especially one like his .

These guys rock, does anyone know the song at 4:06? Thanks! Gracias! Bedankt!!

min. 59, really concerned about the cameraman!

Hola los espero aquí en Paraguay 🇵🇾 el mejor para el mundo

THANK YOU. It would be nice to know what the people are saying. 024 from the south shore of Lake Tahoe. How can I get some of these seeds???

Damn, too bad I can’t speak Spanish and they didn’t translate :( like 10 minutes of this is In Spanish, why would you not translate if the rest is in English? Smh what a shame to put together such a nice video and leave that out for many of us, seemed like some juicy important details .

Colombian probably seeded the planet back in 1970’s, aloha RIP Franco, aloha

Why do the main fan leaves /water leaves only have 3 ? Only the original sour diesel grew with 3 leaves only ,not 5 to 9 fingers . Hmmm makes me think

RIP FRANCO FROM PHILIPPINES

A freind flew to bogato in 1975-6? - took a city bus as far into the santa marta mtns. Got a room over a local bar and waited. Farmers heard of the gringo and would bring him samples. Coke was 125$ a kilo weed was 25$ a kilo. Best colombian i ever had. Small lil nugget buds with every color in the leaves. Red gold brown yellow and blue to purple. The farmer called it santa Marta Low land multicolor. It would be worth searching for...just saying. God what a great time that was.

Que buen relato el del señor campesino, como detrás del cannabis hay una realidad humana que puja aún en contra del poder.

Estilo Colômbia 🔥💚

Where do you can buy that dark hashmaker?

RIP Francisco

40:01 Charley chaplain remix is dope af

There struggle has nothing to do with capitalism vs socialism/communism. It’s a greed problem. Greed exists in every political and economic landscape throughout the world. Unfortunately it’s human nature. Until everyone on the planet partakes in this amazing medicine I think the plague of greed will continue to sicken even good people. I think deep down even Arjan knows what I am talking about 🤨.

The captions in English don't line up with the voices in the video... can't wait for more adventures plz make more after covid we have all been waiting for years for more... hope you guys all the best during this hard time... R.I.P Franco

In loving memory of Franco

RIP Franco.Gone but not forgotten!Love from 🇨🇦

Come to Kazakhstan Kyzylorda and Shu Aspara city, we have very quality landres.

The custom hash maker looks like a meat grinder ???

Franco was clearly a connoisseur, the world needs people to extol the finer virtues of things. Taste and discernment are rare gifts and we are all poorer for his loss.

Rip Franco smoking one for u bro 😎

FRANCO NEVER FORGET

It pains me. *Escobar* didn't have much sentiments towards most Mexicans. 1st impressions are everything! So shame!! On the nob-head that gave us a bad rep with him. Anyways, just wanted to write.. Thank youu, for not skipping the kind legit hardworking gentleman towards the end of the video. This struggle... The Colombian Struggle, we know too. 1

These plants are cultivars bases on a landrace. If you let the plants grow naturally and dont interrupt, this will become a landrace. As soon as you select and "manipulate" the plants for your own interest, it becomes a cultivar strain like these farmers use them

Franco's Lemon cheese is By Far the best strain I have smoked from Green house seeds...RIP Franco you're a Legacy

Colombian gold the best it make you laugh like crazy and the color is so beautiful I wish I can find some of that the last time I found some was in Puerto Rico in 1990.

back in middle 70s most weed came from columbia and it was brown never got that but also always had seeds which was good and bad depending on who you got it from ,but loved the seeds because we grew from them but had to hide them because its was jail time if caught ,the brown columbian weed had a very distinctive smell and taste ,then you had columbian gold which only came around at certain times usually no seeds and was gold in color just wanted to pass a little of my story along but now dont know why it was so brown ,some said they buried it but had buried weed before and tasted like dirt (dirt weed ) when late summer came around september ,october you wouldnt get any weed i guess because they were being harvested,but I tell ya will never forget the taste of the weed and still searching,im 60 years old now and stopped smoking for awhile because of my job but last year grew my first grow in 34 years and its a medicimal thing now ,hats off to the internet and all these cool people that didnt give up and made the plant so much better we just didnt know what we know now so our grow from the seeds wasnt very good usually so we smoked it when we couldnt get the columbian

I've noticed calyx size getting smaller and smaller over the decades. I prefer colas with massive calyx's. We used to get amazing lime green mid-grades that were perfectly cured with fat calyx's. I feel like breeders are neglecting certain aspects of gene selection in the hopes of getting really high THC ratios, and I wish they would focus on things like calyx size, and terps, instead. I miss the illegal cannabis market. It was more diverse, more heady.

the captions are doing my head in they're like 15 minutes out of sync

colombian gold is a rare strain to find these days. i have 1970s colombian gold seeds. i also run a seedbank. but i only do landrace strains and Heirloom strains. i dont do modern Hybrids

Let this places to the natives, you have your country

Been watching Ur videos for a while now . In UK in the far behind system over here. Rip Franco , government are dumb . Lovely videos love it

We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost… Charlie Chaplin.

Legaliza Brasil :(

VICE getting involved really took that special something from the video. so much editing. RIP Franco

I watch, green house foundation india expedition ,I understand how much important is cannabis, 4 moths ago our government legalize cannabis cultivation now we have paradise here ,

Wow nothing like that natural cannabis I've been smoking since I was 14 now I'm 36 I still remember the original strains with seeds

Man Franco lives on in all this footage which is quite remarkable not many people will have there life documented rip Franco

Seed it

No offense how come we never get close ups of the buds ? Like jeez everything looks great & all but I mean can we at least get a 5sec still shot of the buds ? I would love to see the actual buds I'm disappointed

Lmao @ 9:06, pure comedy gold (he said maybe u gonna get a m16 in ur fanny)

So Sad about Franco was one cool dude He sure Lived the Life... Life is so crazy we just dont know when our time comes! Live everyday like its your last,because one day it will be our last.. so mysterious life is...

So let me get this right?! You decided to "choose" a bus full of kids for cover to get where you were headed bc it sure looks to me like you used kids as a cover. Shame on you. Snakes are worse than cowards

Is that hash machine at 27:10 a meat grinder?

I haven't had a chance to visit Holland . It's on the "bucket list". I got lucky and got to speak with Franco while he was at Spanibis via the computer. Finally got to speak with someone, I admired and as usual, I couldn't think of what I wanted to say. A little star struck. lol . Being he was such an easy guy to talk to there was never silence in the air. It's hard not to feel selfish and not to feel he was taken from us. I loved when a new strainhunters show would come out. Watching this Columbia series is a treat But I really learned a lot watching Franco and Arjan's individual plant growing vids. You have to remember your history. Arjan and Franco were doing, what they do, all the way back in the 90's long before anyone else started. I still don't know of any company that travels the world looking to add to their extensive library. Most pot companies just push pot down your throat just to make a sale. Arjan needs to have kids to carry on the legacy . LMAO !!!!!

QUE EN PAZ DESCANSE FRANCO SIEMPRE HA SIDO UNA INSPIRACION PARA MI EN ESTE HERMOSO MUNDO DE LA CANNABIS

That hash maker though, search is on! Thank you for documenting your journey and rest in peace to your friend Franco. He seemed like a very intelligent and passionate human.

Pakistan grows some amazing Indica guys I'm currently living here this Indica is King of Indica's I have tried.

What a fabulous trip, after having seen the original video, it's like a trip back in time, I really felt like part of the expedition. God bless all the people who work and fight for this incredible plant, which has infinite possibilities in the fields of medicine, food, construction, recreation and much more. Franco your dream, your legacy continues in the hands of your friends and of all of us who believe a better world is possible!

notice how the Columbian Gold is not the big fluffy foxtail cola. It's a nice tightly braided structure. THAT is superior landrace weed

Too bad Arjan wasn't born yet in the 60s and early 70s when the true strain hunters were traveling the world collecting and preserving landraces. I doubt there were any left in 2013 but looks like a fun trip. Good promo for your seed co.

🤙✌️💪💪🇺🇾 Uruguay

Plundering or preserving??? I gotta be honest,l cant tell....

Franco We love and miss you thank you for all you did and for sharing with us your adventures in strain hunting. MUCH RESPECT

See this on my tv in 4K is just a dream comes true!

that driver of a white truck, at minute 2:29, is about to partake in the great passionate, exhilarating sensorial adventure of driving while very high. May Philips, the arch-god of Light, help guide him into the lush and muggy Colombian night he's decided to make the continuing event of his immediate life.

Legalize the ganja and mushrooms! Legalize shamanism and bring the peyote and ayahuasca to our culture! We want results! This is a really cool thing. I burned out all the grows. I still like to watch them though. My mom used to get this sativa in Hollywood that was so dank smelling. I never forget that smell. This makes me want to learn Spanish. I have been in the Seattle area for 20 years.

Franco would be proud of the legalization in America and how scientific these grow ops have become... I'm still passing the knowledge and spreading the word since 2007.

You have some really good content would be nice to see some future updates it's unfortunate to see close friends pass just like new plants evolve the tide turns RIP

why the editor didnt fill in with translations... or maybe a way to deal with the heavy breathing literally into the mic going up the mountain. maybe next time! (Imagine they took a drone next time)

Fuck I would love to have your job! RIP Franco. Keep the dream alive legends.

Holland did go backwards, banning tourists from the coffee shops.

52:27 up in the clouds. Colombia truly is one of the most beautiful places on earth ❤️ The grittiness also keeps the mass tourism away 😅

More ppl need to be like Franco’s quality

it's really beautiful to see these fields, those leaves are so skinny that you could guess it's native sensimilla from Columbia and that it belongs there

SELAMAT DARI ACEH

R.i.p Franco onelove

That dude keep asking them stupid questions like he has no idea what weed is

one of those guys looks like the clerk at my bank counter

Rest in weed brother. Smokin one for u 🙏🏽

You guys need maxtracks for uphill driving on slick surfaces

Rest in peace Franco 🙏

Damn man, RIP Franco, Wish you could still be here.

Chaplins speech from great Dictator... great!!! Thanks guys!!!

really pure sativas really do make you laugh for no reason. I feel like smoking the first pure sativa i ever grew, was like smoking for the first time again. Its quality over quantity with them though

RIP franco but Strain hunters never released a single landrace strain that they hunted for, more like strain hoarders... very shady practice folks. FREE THE LANDRACES we want some terps !

Ci vorrebbe un Film sulla storia di Franco, Arjans e la loro creatura Green House nonchè sulle spedizioni degli Strain Hunters ... Franco per me sei stato un ispirazione. R.I.P Amico

Queria que o franco realmente estivesse vivo 😞

KEEP MAKING STRAIN HUNTER VIDEOS

I would like to know what those poor people get

Salve guerreiros,amo seus trabalhos,tens meu respeito,é nois

Rip Franco

The videos with Franco……… what a great legacy he left behind.

People tried to sell paraquat weed as Columbian Gold back in the day the bastards! When I started smoking weed Columbian pot was $100 a quarter pound... I remember getting high as a kite off it...It was brown and had seeds but I was never really disappointed in the high. Sometimes you'd get a crappy batch that was weak and tasted bad. Most of it would get you wasted...

It’s crazy but I bet a lot of these people probably went to jail and got nothing in return 😬🇺🇸

Bring back mid 90's kind bud before it's too late!!

Would anyone be kind enough to translate the Spanish part from minute 46-minute 51? I wish someone just had made subtitles in general for all these videos.

1:03:49 the kid says he uses Poison for bugs inside the hole that's been dug for the seed but I thought they said it was all natural 🧐

1:04:50 so is no one gonna talk about how the kid is involved in weed? Like little do y'all know, he gonna be puffing on the forbidden broccoli ifykyk. 🍃🍃🍃💨💨💨.

love you guy, inspired me to so what I do meet Ajun at emerald cup last 2019

All that bud was trash lmfao...

Me gustaria trabajar para Green House asi sea barriendo sus instalaciones

the subtitles at the end with the boy funny AF so out of synch watch it again lol

Lmao camera man is whoooopped from walk-in up there at that altitude lmao 🤣 just hear him panting 😮‍💨 dying lol get in shape boy!!

I love landraces they are my preferred it’s hard to grow them where I’m from outside due to summers only being 4 months average then it’s snow time. I’m running g some east Manipur Burmas and vietnam landraces right now be awesome to find a good source for proven landrace seeds from a place that doesn’t bs

cannabis does not have to be illegal ... thanks franco for all the research and you will always be the mariahuana king in my eyes =)