I grew out three of the Dominion diesel and have been testing the results, they are months into cure at this point. I did keep two of the plants. I wanted to try and select towards the sour diesel, I’ve not seen it with my own eyes and grown it however so I made an assumption that the more spear tipped budded smaller plants were likely the diesel leaners. The chem/skunk leaning plant is pretty obvious as it’s much more stout and was a dark green during veg whereas the diesel was more of a lime green and seemed to just not be doing as well, generally small and not exuding obvious vigor. The more robust plant has rounder buds that are more towards a fuel rank funk with a tinge of an acidic note. They both smells like a tangy mustard, I have never smelled it before, but the stout has a fuel thing with some acid and the other, pointy budded plants have a more pronounced acidity with a different sort of sour rancid gas and seems more zesty.
effect wise they are similar potency wise but the stout plant is more sedative with an alert but somewhat slow or meditative drawl like state and the spear tipped more foxtaily buds give me a sativa like come up with a sustain in focus with a positive energizing alertness and a relaxed body that is slightly rooted down but in calming way not really a tiring or super narcotic way.
I am not a big fan of narcotic weed in general (I think) And have mostly been growing sativas or hybrids and making some seeds for my own purposes nerding out, I don’t actively smoke them. However I now understand what people mean when they say gas or fuel really gets you stoned and works all the time. Either of these phenos(Geno’s?) is a go to for “will get me high in the full sense of the word, way” The diesel leaner is not so night time friendly I guess and is very nice during the day. Kind of like being a kid, gives a similar energy boost to the Panama red I’ve got but maybe in a more amplified “energetic” way, the Panama is clear headed but a little hallucinatory whereas the diesel energy is more purposeful and directed, more like a shot of energy in a motivating way, I suspect the less refined side of this high would be “racy” or “anxiety inducing” but it doesn’t do either and is by no means too psychedelic to disrupt your ability to function. I really like the diesel leaner, if anyone has more info about actual sour diesel as it would pertain to choosing a plant out of these seeds that expresses diesel traits I’d be stoked to hear about it.
I have heard that diesel/chem/og are finicky and I am only just recently trying them out for myself, with the dominion diesel, and two silverchem phenos I popped that are currently growing. At first I was skeptical because I’m growing organically etc with teas and ewc etc and generally never really think to hard of plants individual needs other than in the general care/love of the plants. But these two diesels on the lighter green side are definitely weird. A friend who has the diesel leaner growing amongst other varieties has many others just crushing on the deck but the diesel is lagging, I suspect there is something I don’t know about. I have heard that Chems/og are mineral hungry or possibly hungry in general? I was going on the lighter feed side as it seems duke warned against over feeding.
Both were revegged at the end of flower and did so quite quickly around a week or so if I remember correctly. I ended up killing the very runty diesel leaner and kept one chem/skunk and one diesel. They both clone easily with what I assume is the chem/skunk leaner being more robust in general.
I’m not sure which representation aligns with what duke intended effect wise but both are good and are strong, with one being more sedative couch meditation chill weed on the narcotic side and the other being a well balanced positive motivational energy that also keeps you relaxed that is more focused and clear minded. When I was younger I really did not enjoy electric forceful energy from weed but this is a perfect balance of clean energy and relaxation for your nervous system. Like a jitter/scatterbrain free coffee.
I also am baked(elevated) on it now and can’t seem to stop rambling, so there is also that. Thumbs up, I want to keep these around and learn how to grow the diesel a bit better if anyone has tips or suggestions about its particular quirks. Or OG/Chem also as I am growing skunk_va’s silverchem as well. Most unique plants I’ve grown outside the pure sativas, very cool structure and general vibe.
I did manage to pollinate the chem/skunk leaner with some Space Monkey and will probably try out those seeds looking for a very gassy heavy hitter just to see what that’s all about.