Albert Walker

Clone only Albert Walker is a phenomenal, indica leaning, and fairly rare clone from the Pacific Northwest that’s thought to be descended from a very rare (possibly extinct) African Skunk landrace sativa - that I’ve most often heard it said was either Nigerian or Congolese - crossed with U Dub, but possibly another American Indica from the Emerald Triangle. Whatever its origins, it’s a beloved plant, as much for its unique, electric lemon forward and skunk terps as it is for its calming, euphoric relaxation without any hint of couch lock. An excellent evening smoke for after work or for a barbecue and blunts party with friends and loved ones over the weekend. Not great for a late night smoke before bed or a treatment for insomnia as it’s only slightly indica dominant, but it shines for binging your favorite show or getting lost in a video game. While I personally prefer sativas for social occasions, this is a good choice for those who can’t handle sativas or just don’t enjoy having no control over their imaginations, which is the main reason that some people get so paranoid when smoking a really heady sativa hybrid or heirloom topical / sub-tropical pure sativa. Most people don’t realize this, but believe it or not, sativas actually have anti-anxiety and antidepressant effects. But their intense, mind quaking abilities do indeed lead to an often uncontrollable burst of imagination overload. Creatives love sativas precisely for these thought trains that can lead anywhere, giving them incredible depths of inspirational energy. But for those people that aren’t used to smoking cannabis very frequently, or tend to avoid sativas for fear of panic attacks or induced anxiety, don’t realize that the heady high sativas bring on - racy or clean - lead one’s own mind to overflow with incredible imaginative energy - something abundant in children, but that has been suppressed as we grow older; as we become adults. The raw creative energy can’t really be controlled, which is why it can be so exceptionally valuable to writers with a block, or musicians who’ve allowed the mathematical nature of music to unconsciously give their creative abilities too much structure. While this boundless creative energy that sativas let loose upon their minds can’t be controlled in the traditional sense, it can be directed to commingle with conscious thought and to take on the hybrid duality of conscious thought, as well as unconscious imagination. One who is unaware of these things, and who often allow their minds to go to a negative place when getting high. Whether it be a deeply personal sense of shame for wanting to experience something pleasurable and desirable, the voices of so many people telling them that drugs are for losers, or claiming they’ll fry their brains, or perhaps they are so afraid of breaking the law, of the authorities, and of being punished. Unbounded imagination combined with negative emotions and thoughts is a recipe for disaster. It’s no wonder that people associate sativas with intense anxiety. What else could such an endless amount of imaginative energy, unintentionally pushed to imagine images of law enforcement agents hiding in the rose garden, about to burst through the doors and windows, or of causing themselves irreversible brain damage, or of losing their freedom - of serving jail time, which is, for most of the population, something they’ve only imagined or seen mostly inaccurate depictions on TV. Albert Walker, that like most hybrids lies basically in the middle of the pack: either 50/50 sativa/indica, or 60/40 - 65/40 in either direction, but particularly those that lean indica, are excellent for those who really can’t stand the couch lock that can be caused by more heavily indica leaning cultivars or even pure indicas like Moroccan Hashplant, Sinai, Syrian, Lebanese Gold, Iraqi, Iranian, Uzbek, Hindu Kush, Pakistani Chitral, Pakistani Black, and almost all other Pakistani cannabis plants, with only a handful of sativas from the country, or one of too many Afghani varieties to name, almost all of them pure, indica hashplants, like Balkh HP, Lemon Balkh, Afghani Black, and the mystery Afghan landrace that would eventually be come to be known as Northern Lights #1. They can’t stand couchlock but also can’t handle the intense mind high of even sativa dominant hybrids like Tangie, Clementine, Pineapple Express, Tropicana Cherry, Tropicana Cookies, Sour Dubb, Silver Pearl, Silver Kush, Stardawg, Green Crack, Cheetah Piss, Dirty Sprite, Gelonade, Lemon Skunk, Blood Orange, Candyland, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Golden Pineapple, Strawberry Cough, AK-47, Jack The Ripper, Chernobyl, Agent Orange, Jillybean, Vortex, Mimosa, Wedding Crasher, Pink Lemonaid, Starfighter, Bruce Banner, Bay 11, XJ-13, Candy Jack, Pineapple Jack, Orange Velvet, Orange Daiquiri, Limoncello, Pine Rosa, Jelly Rancher, Golden Goat, Light of Jah, Schrom, Ed Rosenthal Super Bud, Lemonheads, Sour Diesel, ECSD, NYCD, or very nearly pure sativas, with only 15% or less indica genetics, such as Acapulco Gold, Modern Durban Poison, Chocolope, Cinderella 99, Pineapple Fields, Big Sur Holy Weed, Kali Mist, Lambsbread, Amnesia Haze, Cannalope Haze, Mango Haze, Neville’s Haze, Super Silver Haze, SSSDH, NL5/Haze, A5 Haze / Cuban Black Haze / NYC Haze / Piff, and most other Haze hybrids, or pure equatorial and sub-tropical sativas like the Haze Brother’s 1969 Original Haze aka O Haze, Tom Hill Haze aka Positronics Haze 19, Old Timer’s Haze, Panama Red, Panama Gold, Honduran, Santa Marta Colombian Gold, Colombian Punta Rojo, Colombian Mango Biche, Brazilian Back Bay, Chocolate Thai, Pineapple Thai, Juicy Fruit Thai, Destroyer, Malana Cream, Kerala Gold, Nepalese Annapurna, Watermelon Hashplant, Laotian, Vietnamese Black, Vietnamese Silver Tip, Burmese, Filipino, Zamal, New Caledonian, Papua New Guinea, Congolese Black, Banghi Haze, Ethiopian, Kilimanjaro, Kwazulu, Malawi Gold, Lesotho, Zambian, Nigerian, Angola Red, Pure Durban Poison, Maui Wowie, Kaua’i Electric, Kona Gold, or one of so many less well known Hawaiian Sativas, virtually all native Mexican cultivars Highland Oaxacan Gold, Oaxacan Negra, Guerrero, Michoacán, Purple Zacatecas, Chiapas, Mexican Red Hair, or King’s Breath aka Blue Mountain Good Good aka Jamaican Longtime, etc. JJ from Top Dawg has bred a phenomenal sativa leaning plant using the clone only Albert Walker x his extremely well regarded Sour Diesel Bx4, Sour Albert, which is truly the very best of both worlds.

Absolutely my favorite of all time. Haven’t been able to find it anywhere in years. Super distinct aroma I could definitively pick out of a crowd if it was being smoked nearby. Same with my ride or die.

Very one-note... relaxing/ sleep inducing. Great for insomnia.