What strain is "Mexican Brick"?

[Cracker08]

Stupid question,😕 I've heard of people referring to bad bud as "Mexican Brick, or stepped on swag weed", ect, ect. Does anyone know what kinds of strains "Mexican Brick " might be? I've never seen "Mexican Brick" for sale at any seed banks!!

[dontknownuttin]

[desertdan]

Mexican Brick is they crap the ship across the border by the multiple ton. It is anything from hemp growing along railroad tracks to sativa growing in the fields and ditches wild or lightly cultivated. Most of this comes from northern Mexico and is complete garbage. There can be good brick from southern mexico but it has always been rare around here.

[Royal Nugs]

Panama Red, Oaxacan, Acapulco gold, and Colombian are landraces from the area. Maybe one of those? All I know is it was brown with red pistils and full of seeds...

[Jibblerjoe]

You know it's brown cause they dried it in piles on the ground in the sun. just like they used to do straw

[9fingerleafs]

I read that they water cure to reduce size for smuggling

[Jibblerjoe]

Drying weed in sun makes it turn brown. The cartels are about money, no time to cure . They grow it, cut it down, get it processed into bricks and over the border.

[Royal Nugs]

Yeah, I've seen the end result of afghani hash makers drying their plants.... looks gross...

[Karlee]

Back in the old days if you bought mexican weed ----> I never! it was a powder no buds at all LOL if you tried to pass a joint of that rag weed everyone knew you had junk LOL

[Jibblerjoe]

The thing is how do dry tons of plants. that's why some bRick weed is stems and seeds. we had a dried out smashed lizard in middle of a brick not to mention chunks of mud and pebbles here and there.

[Karlee]

Yes dirt balls and who knows what else!

[Cracker08]

Kinda like a really bad stoner piñata💩!! Thank you for all the information!! Im a junky for obscure knowledge!!

[Jibblerjoe]

I had a friend that got pounds of brick weed inside gas cans. he had to cut the whole bottom of can open to get the bricks out. I saw like five gas cans cut open in his garage, said brother you got to get rid of these empties.

[kingfish]

Mexican Brick. The shit weed from across the boarder. On another post I talked about some of the crap we used to find in bricks. Trash weed for sure.

[Pankace]

Yeah its more of how it's dried and shipped rather than a specific strain.

[dontknownuttin]

He is the lucky one. He got the lizard I only got the lizard tail in mine

[desertdan]

I talked to a guy in Tucson the other day and he told me he was taking hydro crops to Hermosillo for the new middle and upper class in Mexico. They like the good weed and all there is in Sonora is cartel crap.
I didn't quite believe him. But maybe so? What a great irony if it is true. I would not doubt if the Mexicans can turn it around before we can get our act together. They are as resourceful as indoor growers.

[kingfish]

I had a dead mouse in a brick once.

[NebulaHaze]

I agree, it's the drying and curing that makes it "brick weed" Basically brick weed is what happens when you cure cannabis in anaerobic conditions (ie when the buds are still wet), and then press it into bricks for easier transport. When you break open the brick, often you can barely tell what's bud and whats leaves or stems.

For example some outdoor growers will throw newly harvested cannabis buds in a pile while wet, (leaves, stems, bugs and all) and let it cook in place like a compost pile. After some amount of time, the buds are wrapped up and compressed for storage, often still partially wet, then cut up into bricks. This is considered a type of "brick weed" and is often "harsh" to smoke.

If the starting cannabis is bad, the result will be, too. But some people actually prefer the effects you get from bud cured in anaerobic conditions when you start with good bud. For example, some indoor growers put their buds in jars while at least partially wet on the outside, causing extra bacterial growth.

Example of bud cured in anaerobic (wet) conditions



Any curing process that involves letting buds stay wet and sealed up at the beginning produces weed with a different consistency and different effects, though sometimes buds can be more harsh. Buds become crumbly and they lose their green color after just a week or two, becoming more tan or golden. This type of bud is considered "inferior" by some people, especially in areas with dispensaries (where most of the bud is green and barely cured). However, there are people I've met who prefer this type of cannabis because they like the slightly different effects.

That being said, curing buds while still wet can be unsafe by causing unwanted mold or a bad type of bacteria to grow. If you cure buds while they're dry on the outside and moist on the inside, as with traditional curing, you can achieve many of the same mental and physical effects of anaerobic-cured weed without the risk, simply by giving buds more time to cure.

If you want to safely get the effects of anaerobically cured bud, you can cure buds the traditional way for 2+ months. As regular buds continue curing, they start to slowly get a similar appearance and consistency of bud cured in anaerobic conditions, but instead of being harsh they actually get smoother over time. The mental and physical effects of long-cured buds also seems to get stronger as it's cured longer (up to a point), giving similar heady and body effects that some describe as being a little "drunk." Long-cured buds gives you the same benefits without the harshness or lack of safety!

[rockman]

Wow Nebula...you really came through today with the info! Thanks and hope your Thanksgiving is splendid! 🌻