Flower Curaleaf® GG4 T23 Gorilla Glue #4

[Dooby Doo]

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My 2 x 10 g of this strain. Definitely a lot healthier looking that the other pictures in this thread, and I believe this is also the strain that had an insects problem in recent history... not sign of that either so far. Though I don't know if I necessarily look close enough to catch anyway.

Will give a proper review once I've had some time with it. Both arrived on the same day but are actually different batch numbers with different expirations so will be interesting to see if there's any discernible difference between the two. They look and smell pretty similar. From the little I've had of the first bag, I will say the smell is very earthy with a subtle spicieness, almost like a subtle aftershave of an older gentleman. Not much in the way of pine/pungent that it's described in Leafly, or the "sourness" that's described on Curaleaf, but the earthiness definitely seems to be consistent across most descriptions. Initial taste is similar with a slight taste of freshly cut grass fading to more of a hay after a few puffs. There's also a slight smell of ammonia from the mouthpiece of the vape after a few puffs, which could be the "chemically"/"gassy" aroma that's sometimes reported with this strain. Quite a few strains derived from Gorilla Glue seem to feature on Leafly's list of strains with an ammonia smell. It does share some of those kushy notes from the Lavender Cake that it's replacing in my script, and seems to go sweet after a few puffs. Can't say I'm getting much of the chocolate or diesel that other reviews say this strain shares with its parent strains.

Regarding the ammonia smell, that's something I have had before with black market weed, and at the time it worried me and indeed online does suggest an ammonia smell can be linked to a poorly harvested/dried/cured batch. But I guess since this is medical cannabis, and ammonia is a characteristic of similar strains (and other strains such as cat piss exist...), and since it only smells slightly that way when vaped, not straight out of the bag, that it's probably normal. Although not something I'm necessarily keen on, so I'll see how it goes with this strain but so far the smell/taste is a little underwhelming and not quite the more natural taste I was hoping for.

So far all I can say about effects is that it's strong and I did sleep very well last night. But more detail after I've had some time with it.

When's that review system up and running? And will we be able to see our own reviews in one convenient location somewhere so the forum can almost be used as a tracker for individuals?

It looks far better than the batch I had a couple of months ago.

 

[GrownHealth]

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[SantiagoOnWheels]

Can't say I'm impressed with this at all really. If you've had experience with the Amsterdam or Barcelona grown versions this doesn't come close. Dry, muted and with my first impression of Curaleaf being this and high silver i will be steering well clear in future. Effects were slim to none

 

[Lank72]

Can't say I'm impressed with this at all really. If you've had experience with the Amsterdam or Barcelona grown versions this doesn't come close. Dry, muted and with my first impression of Curaleaf being this and high silver i will be steering well clear in future. Effects were slim to none

Yeah a lot of the curaleaf ones come crispy dry

Some of them are garbage, some of them are decent to me - but to find out they definitely require serious rehydration

Curaleaf / Find used to be a major part of my repeats, but with new better stuff coming on board at similar or lower prices happily I've been getting less and less of it

 

[Dooby Doo]

Can't say I'm impressed with this at all really. If you've had experience with the Amsterdam or Barcelona grown versions this doesn't come close. Dry, muted and with my first impression of Curaleaf being this and high silver i will be steering well clear in future. Effects were slim to none

The batch I had was the same, this was before Xmas I think, I didn't get it again. Yours looks totally different to what I had, it look better

 

[SantiagoOnWheels]

The batch I had was the same, this was before Xmas I think, I didn't get it again. Yours looks totally different to what I had, it look better

I'm so disappointed i won't lie. When I compare some of the gg4s I've had before to this it's comical.
Between this and the high silver that's £130 well and truly wasted. Gutted to say the least what a long month this will be

 

[Dooby Doo]

I'm so disappointed i won't lie. When I compare some of the gg4s I've had before to this it's comical.
Between this and the high silver that's £130 well and truly wasted. Gutted to say the least what a long month this will be

Feel for ya, there is nothing worse, especially when your paying for it.

 

[addy]

Has anyone had issues with this strain? I put forward to my Clinic today to look into this flower, which they are passing on. For £6.90g it is well overpriced, the flower is very dry and very poor small buds that break up into bits, I tried a 62% humidity pack into it and it made the flower taste unpleasant.

Ofc mate the dominant terpine is carylponone
Mycrone and lemonine xx.
Tilray is the real gorilla glue 4 not cureleaf

 

[addy]

I'm so disappointed i won't lie. When I compare some of the gg4s I've had before to this it's comical.
Between this and the high silver that's £130 well and truly wasted. Gutted to say the least what a long month this will be

Fake
Dominant terp is caryl , mycrone and limenone all 3 major no other terpenes

 

[GrownHealth]

Fake
Dominant terp is caryl , mycrone and limenone all 3 major no other terpenes

Steady on dude he's offering his opinion and we like to treat each other with a bit of repect mate as we're all patients in this forum and more importantly people

 

[SantiagoOnWheels]

Fake
Dominant terp is caryl , mycrone and limenone all 3 major no other terpenes

Whats fake? The gg4 or me

 

[BudGuy]

Okay, I'm down to my last 10 g of this stuff, so thought I'd give my thoughts on it:

Smell: I switched to this from Lavender Cake hoping for something less sweet/dessert like and more natural/neutral. It definitely is a more natural/neutral smell, but unfortunately still not what I was looking for. I'd say the scent profile smells like a subtle man's sandalwood-based aftershave with lots of muted earthy/grassy/hay smells, and sometimes but not always it gives me the slightly hint of vanilla? Curaleaf described it as "Earthy scent with strong notes of pine and a hint of sourness". I'm not getting any strong notes of pine - that certainly would have been more up my street I think. The sourness/pungentyness/diesellyness comes out slightly more in the smell when you grind it up, and I prefer the ground smell to the bud smell.

Taste: Very muted taste, does almost have a hint of the chemicallyness that you might expect from something called "gorilla glue", and a slight ammonia aftertaste but yeah it's so subtle you kind of have to do that thing where you flap your tongue against the roof of your mouth to get a sense of it!

Effects: Effects are a bit meh. Definitely didn't feel as strong as the 23% level might have suggested. Not strong enough to knock you out for sleep, and for the most part this did feel a bit like "filler" cannabis, i.e. just something to vape in the evenings, rather than being a particularly potent/noticeable alleviator of symptoms. I think I enjoyed the Lavender Cake effects more - offered a lot of introspective moods in the evenings, but it's difficult to say since that was my first strain on MC! Still GG4 hit the general spot in that it's cannabis, but I think I will suit a different strain a lot better, just haven't found it yet.

Buds: Buds are a good size, quite dense, not leafy at all, especially compared to my High Silver which is a lot less consistent and lately has been quite leafy and not very dense. More of a pale green than a dark rich green, probably due to the coating of silvery white frosty trichomes, with dark orange pistils.

Vapour Quality: No real complaints here, it lasts a good while in the Mighty+ and produces a decent amount of vapour in the Volcano. It's not harsh at all.

 

[utopiate]

I think I have read all I need to form an opinion of Curaleaf. GG4 is a high quality Sativa Hybrid strain that should reach a good 22-25% in even the most basic garden. It's a staple around here being available for approx £150-180oz street price, less if you have the right connect. From what I have read over the past few months I'd stay clear of curaleaf and would not recommend them to any new patients coming here for advice. Those of you putting up with this do think about changing clinic as it is easy and there are much better clinics available.

 

[BudGuy]

I think I have read all I need to form an opinion of Curaleaf. GG4 is a high quality Sativa Hybrid strain that should reach a good 22-25% in even the most basic garden. It's a staple around here being available for approx £150-180oz street price, less if you have the right connect. From what I have read over the past few months I'd stay clear of curaleaf and would not recommend them to any new patients coming here for advice. Those of you putting up with this do think about changing clinic as it is easy and there are much better clinics available.

Yeah, I actually started looking into moving this week and I've got a consultation with Mamedica® next week. I'm assuming that's a good choice? Although seeing scary stuff on their bit of this forum so maybe not???

Anyway, yeah, Curaleaf were a fantastic introduction to medical cannabis, and going from not using medical cannabis to using medical cannabis via them has been transformative, so I can't fault them for the whole life-changing medicine side of things!

But, at the same time, they have been more restrictive in terms of strain selection than I'd like, and some of the explanations I've been given as to why aren't really cutting it with me as they go against both my experience and what the science seems to be, and because they're restrictive and you start out on their brand of medicine, you are beholden to their quality issues. And as someone who doesn't really trust my BM use, I feel like I'm very inexperienced with medical cannabis, so I'm not really sure what good and bad quality is yet, so I guess it makes sense for me to at least try another clinic and see if what's out there.

To me it seems backwards, if anything I'd expect you to go through a lot MORE different strains at the beginning of your MC to hone down on the ones you like, then later you stabilise into what works for you. But if things are very restrictive and limited and you're buying 20 g of something before you even know if you like it and that can go on for months on end before you've tried enough strains to know what you like and it can lead to a lot of time spend with sub-par medicine for your condition.

They're probably doing it out of an abundance of caution, preferring stability and simplicity over patient satisfaction, because that's what all companies do as they grow and want to keep their liabilities limited. But still, I wish they'd just say that rather than try to hide it behind what I suspect is bad science.

 

[node]

Yeah, I actually started looking into moving this week and I've got a consultation with Mamedica® next week. I'm assuming that's a good choice? Although seeing scary stuff on their bit of this forum so maybe not???

Anyway, yeah, Curaleaf were a fantastic introduction to medical cannabis, and going from not using medical cannabis to using medical cannabis via them has been transformative, so I can't fault them for the whole life-changing medicine side of things!

But, at the same time, they have been more restrictive in terms of strain selection than I'd like, and some of the explanations I've been given as to why aren't really cutting it with me as they go against both my experience and what the science seems to be, and because they're restrictive and you start out on their brand of medicine, you are beholden to their quality issues. And as someone who doesn't really trust my BM use, I feel like I'm very inexperienced with medical cannabis, so I'm not really sure what good and bad quality is yet, so I guess it makes sense for me to at least try another clinic and see if what's out there.

To me it seems backwards, if anything I'd expect you to go through a lot MORE different strains at the beginning of your MC to hone down on the ones you like, then later you stabilise into what works for you. But if things are very restrictive and limited and you're buying 20 g of something before you even know if you like it and that can go on for months on end before you've tried enough strains to know what you like and it can lead to a lot of time spend with sub-par medicine for your condition.

They're probably doing it out of an abundance of caution, preferring stability and simplicity over patient satisfaction, because that's what all companies do as they grow and want to keep their liabilities limited. But still, I wish they'd just say that rather than try to hide it behind what I suspect is bad science.

Have you paid any money to Mamedica yet?

 

[BudGuy]

Have you paid any money to Mamedica® yet?

Unfortunately yeah, paid the initial £75 - I have rushed in a bit I'll admit, could definitely have done a lot more research first lol.

But I don't mind saying no and losing the £75 if they're not going to be right.

 

[node]

Unfortunately yeah, paid the initial £75 - I have rushed in a bit I'll admit, could definitely have done a lot more research first lol.

But I don't mind saying no and losing the £75 if they're not going to be right.

Cool. See how u go, @JR52 Knows more,I think happy there, they are getting all good meds, quickly Free to transfer to CB1 Medical, Alternaleaf mate if your not. Be sure to explicitly state: No restrictions, absolutely none, you also want access to oil, edibles, vapes or anything else you want.
Increase your allowance by 20g, to cover 15g curo meds or if you find cut price meds, these swines (sorry fellow members lol) are getting pink diesel about what I pay for tobacco.
Well done making a change tho mate + good luck this week

 

[GrownHealth]

Cool. See how u go, @JR52 Knows more,I think happy there, they are getting all good meds, quickly Free to transfer to CB1 Medical, Alternaleaf mate if your not. Be sure to explicitly state: No restrictions, absolutely none, you also want access to oil, edibles, vapes or anything else you want.
Increase your allowance by 20g, to cover 15g curo meds or if you find cut price meds, these swines (sorry fellow members lol) are getting pink diesel about what I pay for tobacco.
Well done making a change tho mate + good luck this week

Only thing here is CB1 are consistently overcharging for Meds with no sign of it stopping with some £15-£20 dearer per pot so should we still recommend them when they continually do this as this is far more expensive than any postage or clinic fees? Not that I'm recommending Mamedica® just expressing frustration at this ongoing practice.

 

[node]

Only thing here is CB1 Medical are consistently overcharging for Meds with no sign of it stopping with some £15-£20 dearer per pot so should we still recommend them when they continually do this as this is far more expensive than any postage or clinic fees? Not that I'm recommending Mamedica® just expressing frustration at this ongoing practice.

I have no loyalty to ANY of these obscenely greedy companies. I'll review everything come September, if its still the current feeding frenzy on us patients, then I'll be advising peeps to join 2 or more "free"/peanuts clinics, same as BM. I couldn't give a shit about what some might say about "double dipping" when the parasites behind this are 10x dipping our pockets - and at the current cost, like many, I feel I will always be poor..
To be absolutely clear I feel its almost at racketeering level UK wide, and unsurprisingly we were doomed from when the establishment saw their next expensive con, and like others here, I see high potential for a big scandal. I promote any clinic or pharmacy that demonstrates reliability, performance + value, thats all.

 

[JR52]

According to Mamedica® website they are the cheapest clinic charging £75 a year.after the first year. I think it's £400 for the first year. I am on the access scheme though so it's just £200 for life
They are ok with me and I phone up 4 times a month as I get 2 deliveries a month and I nearly always get next day delivery
They do charge £10 to go to another pharmacy but they seem to have loads of choices at there own and seem to get a lot of stuff before the other pharmacy's get it in stock
I have not ordered from another pharmacy yet and I have been there 14 months as there are only 4 strains that I like what they don't stock anymore but if I wanted these I would tell mamedica to use Newgrove and newgrove would refund my £10