Rva White Bali review + thoughts on blending

[thisisthehaunt]

so I'll start by saying two things:

1.) I'm not and never really have been a "white vein" kind of guy

and

2.) I got kind of panicky last year and bought like 15 kilos and tried to get as much as I could as fast as I could which led me to buying a lot from RVA due to pricing and *availability* of different stock.


I made a long post reviewing a bunch of strains and would say that the majority of what I got was better than average with some being fucking fantastic and some being pretty meh in addition to the average/good ones. So, just want to point out that I know most of my review posts have been about rva but I don't have any affinity towards them besides thats just what I have a diversity of on hand (at least current stock.. I've got some botanical bunny, canopy, and Gaia from last year I'm sitting on but find there's no sense in reviewing old stock).


Onto the white Bali.

like I said, I am not a white vein person at all (possibly because I drink a lot of espresso/coffee and it makes me tweak and jitter to add white vein on top), but I got 2 whites in my last purchase... white hulu and white Bali.

The hulu I ended up giving to a friend that was asking for help in attempting to kick a speed habit and also because I found it to be personally unenjoyable due to the fast spectrum effects, but the white Bali is something really unique I felt I should expand on.

I've tried it a few times on it's own and it mostly feels like a faster end of the spectrum green, and quite enjoyable in the morning. No sedation and quite mood lifting. Color is very light green and powder is fluffy and *seems * fresh. But the thing that I have found to be really interesting and useful is the ability to add a strain like this to blends and the effects that it produces.

in the past, adding a white would almost always just end up cutting through the euphoria and feeling like I took a caffeine pill on top of my dose, but this really seems to just help bring out the faster side of other strains. For instance, a premium maeng da or green hulu, which of my current strains I find to both be mid spectrum euphoric greens, sometimes they can fade into slight sedation or just overly relaxed, but adding a gram of this white Bali seems to just increase focus /motivation and almost like it just highlights or prolongs those pieces of the experience present (to a lesser degree without the blending of the white Bali) in the strains already.

Just thought that was interesting, especially because I would never really take this white Bali on its own, as it's still a bit fast for me, but it does something magical in a blend.

Also white Bali seems to be kind rare among vendors.

Anyone else have a similar experience with either, a.) a white Bali from any vendor, or b.) a strain that they don't necessarily LOVE on it's own but when used in a blend does something unique or remarkable? I do not get this experience with any other white that I have on hand nor do I get it from just blending different greens.


.6 g white Bali
.6 g red hulu
1.2 g premium maeng da

is my early afternoon - mid day blend and I have to say it's the best feeling that I've had from daytime kratom consumption in awhile. blends are neat, eh?

[jabro70]

I first tried RVA’s White Bali last year around February. I just bought 100g of it along with a bunch of others - Green Hulu, Red Bali, Gold Bali, Royal, Plantation, PMD, etc.,etc. The White Bali was probably the last strain I tried out of that big order. Turned out to be probably my favorite strain I’ve ever gotten from Jonathan (well, that and the Gold Bali from July). I’ve still got some (I immediately reordered a bigger bag) - I’d have to dig it out from my doomsday stash to know the batch #. I’ve got probably 3/4 of a kg of White Bali from that batch and the following one put up. Bought another one around May, but the potency had dropped off. To me, the White Bali was the most euphoric white I had ever tried up to that point. It didn’t make me jittery at all. I rarely blended it because it was just so good on its own to me.