I posted this on Breedbay, I'm going to copy past it for y'all. reports on the tester strains.
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I've been really really enjoying these herbs and so has some of my family. I've sampled each plant separately for the first half of the day the past 10 or so days.
I'll start with the A35. A pleasure to grow. She gave me no problems being the novice that I am but requires support after week 6 on some of the plants. I didn't find a single banana or ball sack on any of these plants during growth or trimming.
There's not a whole lot of variation between the plants in each strain in regards to flavor and high. despite there being obvious visual differences, I couldn't tell them apart in the jars.
I'm finding the A35 to be a great daytime smoke. I get a nice effect in the head. Imagine if you could feel a beam of energy connecting your temples running inside your head. It's great. To me it's a quite distinct and consistent effect. Potency is not too strong yet not too weak. It's not a strain you want to smoke to get facewrecked and fall asleep. Very little burnout. The taste and smell is amazing but the flowers just aren't that pretty and they were a little difficult to trim compared to some strains. It's not about the strength or look though, it's about the vibrations and this herb has a great vibe. I get a fairly strong presence of black licorice in my vaporizer but my smoker combustion family members don't report the same thing. One of the plants had an underlying but noticeable sweet smell once I would crush the flowers, more akin to the UW flavor/aroma. Possibly traits of the dad?
No shortage of trichomes and super sticky. I had fun picking through the flowers extracting the seeds. I'm very excited to make ice water hash with this strain because of the flavor/aroma profile.
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Here's the UW Black x 88 g13/hp. She seemed quite easy to grow as well giving me no serious problems along the way. They all produced wonderful fruits. Again, there's not a whole lot of variation between each individual in regards to flavor, potency and effects. The live plants all looked quite similar as well with exception to the one that was a bit taller than the others. 5 specimens isn't a very big number to test. Can't tell the difference in the jars.
I experienced some intersex traits in this strain in both male and female. Out of the 3 males I had a single male that threw out a couple pistils or stigmas? not sure on the correct terminology. The male had 2 pairs of white hairs amongs all the balls and that's it! I also experienced a decent amount of balls on one of the female plants I believe around week 3 or 4 which I snipped the flowers in that region off. Upon trimming the dried flowers I found quite a few more male flowers tucked away and some selfed seeds on that same plant. I also found a couple random banana ballsacks on lower larfy nugs in a couple of the other ladies. I'll report back if I experience the same thing with the flowering clones.
The smell on this cross is delicious! EXTREME and I mean EXTREME sweetness with some kind of mild fruity not-orange creamsicle but creamsicle aftersmell. Very hard for me to describe. I can't pinpoint exactly what it is. I have a sweet tooth so it's almost aromatheraputic burping the jars.
Strangely though it doesn't carry over into flavor very much. The taste in the vape is rather not noticeable?
The flowers are absolutely beautiful. The smell coupled with the appearance, it has mega bag appeal to me. They are covered in nice big juicy capitate stalked trichomes! Every millimeter of it. This will be killer for making hash. I hope the flavor carries over a bit stronger in the hash.
How to describe the high? It's not overly complex. No strange effects which are blatantly obvious or anything but it's definitely potent. Not like knock me out vegetable on the couch powerful but I found myself going down for naps around 3-4 pm on my UW x 88 g13/hp sampling days which would usually start between 8-10 am. Decreased focus. Increased appetite stimulation I had the munchies like a mothafucka!
I think each day on that strain I ended up going to the grocery and buying a small box of my shitty vegan gluten free chocolate chip quinoa cookies. bahahahaha.
I'm quite sad I didn't make seeds with this strain so I could try growing out the progeny. I collected pollen from all of the males but I didn't freeze it. I could try pollinating the clones but not sure if it's still viable.
picture time!
She is still hanging to dry. Pretty uniform as for the rest, a super intense spice and hash smell and flavor, hints of pine, incredibly dank. I loved Synergy from the second they germed so i am having a lot of fun with this little project. Up next, F3's ut gods know there are still many, many, many F2's stock to work through lol. If I end up with semi decent results and meet half my goals I will be extatic. Don't think I have the room to take things too seriously though which sucks. For playing with beans I can see myself usng vast amounts of room lol. This is addictive as all hell.
