So I just got the kratom from your guy in the mail. But off the bat I feel pretty strongly that this is not hydro based off the smell and flavor. I’ll explain how I came to that conclusion.
In Indonesia many of the grinding machines are old and gas powered. You can find a lot of posts online about kratom having a gassy/Smokey flavor. It’s quite common. Some ppl have tried to defend the sanctity of kratom by saying the gassy smell is caused by forest fires. But This smell is actually caused by the old grinding machines, sometimes they can jam up and cause smoke, or for all I know sometimes gas can somehow get in. There are even posts online of sharp metal in kratom, sometimes as small as dust bc the machines are so old and delapidated. You can read about both on Reddit. Not the machines, but the metal and the gassy odor. People don’t seem to know why it happens; but it’s from shitty old machinery.
Immediately when I smelled the hydro kratom I smelled a gassy flavor and tasted it too. This led me to believe that this kratom comes from Indonesia, bc i think a hydroponic farm in Dubai would likely have new equipment. Sometimes the gassy kratom can be potent because the farmers are often times the ones using old equipment. In Indonesia you have farmers, but there are the guys who just process powder and export and those guys have much better machinery than farmers, but they don’t get fresh leaf like a farmer does. I make my farmer bring his leaves to another guy to process them, bc his machine is old and crappy. By the way I’m a vendor / importer and also a daily kratom user. I was actually hoping this guys stuff was better than mine. I’m always looking to level up. I tend to evaluate quality off color, taste, freshness, when those criteria are met potency is usually there. I don’t go strictly off potency bc I think it allows for low manufacturing standards. For example, any indonesian can dry a potent leaf on the ground, animals can walk on it; then it’s ground in a crappy old machine, but some users will think it’s fire bc it gave them good effects. The practices in Indonesia are pretty filthy and if ppl saw it, cleanliness would be the biggest concern.
I am happy to send you a free sample of crisp, it’s my new brand and it’s just one strain of the highest grade super green. All I take myself is Crisp. I believe it’s the freshest cleanest and highest grade kratom on the market.
I don’t mean to put your guys operation down and feel kinda bad, but when they advertise hydro from Dubai I’m going to give my full professional opinion. This whole gassy odor thing is the reason I changed from my first supplier about 3.5 years ago.