bodhi's
Chem Kesey Evaluation & Smoke Report
Chem Kesey is Chem 91 (Skunk VA) x 88g13hp.
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Grow Environment
I didn't grow this, but my buddy gave me a few details when he shared it with me. Ebb & flow running in a perpetual room under HLG Quantum Board LED lighting.
Notes & Flowering Time
Keeper found in one pack of bodhi seeds. Cloned and typically harvested at day 68-70 of flowering. Could be taken at 63, but better with the extra week.
Density & Bag Appeal
8/10 Density & bag appeal are on point, as you can see from the 3.5g nug above. It's clear the grower has a pro drying process. The buds are sticky but not wet. A couple of days after opening the ziplock samplers the first time, they've reached the perfect consistency for my taste.
Very good trim job. The frost is obvious. It's a little amber; looks like she went long, but the buds from this Goldilocks weed are not overly dense. She's just right.
This stuff destroys grinders, hinting at what's to come for me. (Samples equaling about 9 grams were compared.)
Aroma Level & Description
8/10 Smell is pretty loud, an herb & flower garden combined with sweet citrus, with a back end of sea breeze and swamp gas. Has an undercurrent of pro greenhouse hydro smell. Clearly not moldy or anything close, but kinda smells like a high-humidity environment. I wouldn't call it fuel, but it smells flammable, again like a swamp. (I sealed the nugs in a jar, then alternated sniffing a jar of organic whole coffee beans, then the jar of Chem Kesey.)
Taster Ratings & Smoke Report
7/10 Taste is again very familiar, and pretty strong. First vape hit was delicious perfume & kinda chem dryer sheets, but more perfumed than anything else. Almost like a men's cologne. 2nd hit is more of the same, but then a citrus top note appears with dirt / earth beneath. Definitely chem...that dryer sheet flavor is vaguely like bandaids smell. Not really strong, but there's something to it.
Just like the smell, the flavor really has an undercurrent of how a pro greenhouse smells. Left a peppery, gassy, and sorta sweet mildew flavor in the mouth. That sounds gross but it's not. Bowl had a savory, stinky, almost salty hash smell when cleaned out. (
@Thor’s hammer I vaped @ 388F from Flowermate V5.0 Pro convection handheld vaporizer. 392 is where the compounds in cannabis start to become carcinogenic, or so I've read, so a few degrees below that seems good to me.)
9.5/10 Effects & potency are really spectacular. I never thought I'd say this, but I deducted half a point because it's too potent for some people. (Actually had one lady complain about it from a few vape hits LOL.) The effects aren't a creeper, because you notice the warmth in your face & head immediately, but do come on gradually over the first 30min. Then it's a thrill ride for the next 30. Body feels electric like I drank a couple shots of espresso, but I'm disoriented, glued to the chair. I felt like Bobcat Goldthwait.
I thought my mind was pretty unaffected, then I realized I was holding my breath the last 30sec for no reason. LOL (This happened repeatedly.)
After the first hour of balls to the wall thrills, she chills out to merely very baked during the last hour or so, for a total duration of about 2hrs. (3 vape hits + 1 to cool down the chamber after it was off.)
Medicinal Value
No pain relief at all, just ripped to the gills.
Overall Impression?
I thought I'd wait before posting this, give it some thought, let the Chem Kesey sink in while also sampling the other varieties in my care package. I didn't need to.
Chem Kesey is intense weed, up front and in your face from the word Go, but what would you expect from a strain named in honor of the legendary countercultural author, psychedelic guru, and weed activist? (Not to mention her epic pedigree.)
Her unique bouquet smells and tastes like dead tour. We got a lot of weed like this in Oregon in the early/mid 90s, and on dead tour during the same period. Never knew what it was, just "kind bud" or "snow bud." I wasn't heavily connected like some.
Everything about it is strong. Smell. Flavor. Potency. Effects. Who knows if it would test high, but who fucking cares when it gets you this baked? I'd love to give her a shot in an organic soil environment. Not for novice smokers.
Keeper?
Yes, absolutely. No hesitation. If this isn't a keeper, I don't know what is.
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