hazey grapes
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this is a strain to keep an eye on if you're looking for a strain that gets you high without being stretchy or flowering forever at 70-75 days flowering. i was AMAZED at how productive the freebie i tested was. it's a naturally compact plant that virtually stops stretching and starts flowering immediately when you flip it leaving other similar "generic fruity hazes" in the dust. no, it's not the highest quality haze out there and isn't trippy either, but it's a funner buzz than C99 in a tiny space.
i was planning on SCROGging mine and topped it twice. i also bred it with a cindy apollo male. once i flipped it, it started 8-10 buds in a plant not even a foot tall when i flipped it less than a month after soaking it. it made a virtual flat top on it's own. a few branches were a little low, maybe 1 inch, but it just budded like it thought it was a lowryder! after about 30-40 days, i had to cut mine down when everything in my garden got hot spot burned the night i forgot to turn my fan on for about 5 hours. by memory, i'd estimate that each bud was nearly the equivalent 2 grams in a tiny little plant where other plants were just starting on popcorn. that's not even factoring all of the energy it was putting into making seeds either.
the buzz would be familiar to anyone whose smoked a few generic hazes, hacks or thais... fruity with an upbeat and motivational euphoric high. it's quite fun to smoke, but not exceptional when many strains have that buzz, but none in that small or fast a flowering package. it was giving my masterkush autos a run for their money actually and those had a week or two head start on flowering at that as they started budding under my 24h shoplight. the flavor and buzz matched much slower and stretchier strains except sweet haze maybe as that one is not only extra fruity, but has some real trippiness going on too, but that one likes to stretch for it's THC profile.
STL (i like to call it seattle for short) is going to be used in my breeding tinkering for quite some time. a seattle haze would be so much better than all of the NL5, skunk, critical & G13 etc. crosses as it's already way hazier than those and probably more compact too. i want to put some holy smokes malawi up in that next to see what happens, but i plan on also using it for my "instant head stash" strain that i can grow under a shop light and pick at as i did with my masterkush autos waiting for the good stuff to finish.
i was simply amazed at how fast the strain budded for it's size. it would be an awesome sea of green strain whose size you could easily gauge as it doesn't stretch much at all. i'll keep testing other strains for better buzzes, but STL = cash cropping haze to me. i was also impressed at how level the flat top was without training. if i gave it more time in vedge and flowering without seeding it, it could have only been better.
until i find an even purer haze to cross it with, it should be ABOVE AVERAGE when crossed with sweet haze if "normal sized" from short meeting stretchy.
bottom line...
nice happy motivational and clear headed generic haze high with no couchlock, a mild fruity flavor, low odor & buds like crazy. i just recommended it for someone looking for a PC sativa, but thought i should post an open thread just for the strain so anyone curious about it can read up.
come on everyone, i KNOW a bunch of you got those freebies too! let's hear it. share your experiences too. it looks like JS put a lot of selective breeding into that to keep the quality nice and the size down. at least one other member i expect to weigh in as he did in the can grow thread will confirm this is a strain you want for a sea of green or scrog haze and if you get impatient and want to harvest early, you can get bag appeal almost as fast as a lowryder kush, but in a package you can clone! the other grower said it takes nicely to cloning.
PS i was so impressed with it's stature, productivity and even high within those boundaries that buying a $50 or so 5 pack of fems was a no brainer. it will be the very first bean i soak this winter
i was planning on SCROGging mine and topped it twice. i also bred it with a cindy apollo male. once i flipped it, it started 8-10 buds in a plant not even a foot tall when i flipped it less than a month after soaking it. it made a virtual flat top on it's own. a few branches were a little low, maybe 1 inch, but it just budded like it thought it was a lowryder! after about 30-40 days, i had to cut mine down when everything in my garden got hot spot burned the night i forgot to turn my fan on for about 5 hours. by memory, i'd estimate that each bud was nearly the equivalent 2 grams in a tiny little plant where other plants were just starting on popcorn. that's not even factoring all of the energy it was putting into making seeds either.
the buzz would be familiar to anyone whose smoked a few generic hazes, hacks or thais... fruity with an upbeat and motivational euphoric high. it's quite fun to smoke, but not exceptional when many strains have that buzz, but none in that small or fast a flowering package. it was giving my masterkush autos a run for their money actually and those had a week or two head start on flowering at that as they started budding under my 24h shoplight. the flavor and buzz matched much slower and stretchier strains except sweet haze maybe as that one is not only extra fruity, but has some real trippiness going on too, but that one likes to stretch for it's THC profile.
STL (i like to call it seattle for short) is going to be used in my breeding tinkering for quite some time. a seattle haze would be so much better than all of the NL5, skunk, critical & G13 etc. crosses as it's already way hazier than those and probably more compact too. i want to put some holy smokes malawi up in that next to see what happens, but i plan on also using it for my "instant head stash" strain that i can grow under a shop light and pick at as i did with my masterkush autos waiting for the good stuff to finish.
i was simply amazed at how fast the strain budded for it's size. it would be an awesome sea of green strain whose size you could easily gauge as it doesn't stretch much at all. i'll keep testing other strains for better buzzes, but STL = cash cropping haze to me. i was also impressed at how level the flat top was without training. if i gave it more time in vedge and flowering without seeding it, it could have only been better.
until i find an even purer haze to cross it with, it should be ABOVE AVERAGE when crossed with sweet haze if "normal sized" from short meeting stretchy.
bottom line...
nice happy motivational and clear headed generic haze high with no couchlock, a mild fruity flavor, low odor & buds like crazy. i just recommended it for someone looking for a PC sativa, but thought i should post an open thread just for the strain so anyone curious about it can read up.
come on everyone, i KNOW a bunch of you got those freebies too! let's hear it. share your experiences too. it looks like JS put a lot of selective breeding into that to keep the quality nice and the size down. at least one other member i expect to weigh in as he did in the can grow thread will confirm this is a strain you want for a sea of green or scrog haze and if you get impatient and want to harvest early, you can get bag appeal almost as fast as a lowryder kush, but in a package you can clone! the other grower said it takes nicely to cloning.
PS i was so impressed with it's stature, productivity and even high within those boundaries that buying a $50 or so 5 pack of fems was a no brainer. it will be the very first bean i soak this winter
