everything i grow is headstash. not too much a fan of the middy buzz of masterkush, but i'm keeping the red pheno of that around for breeding, but it's an auto and not cloning material
my favorite strain is trippy jack's cleaner 2 by TGA. it has a stony edge, but also a nice warm euphoric buzz that's touchy feely and i got a weird effect where i imagined ripples of invisible colors wherever i stroked my arm or chest. i've had a nice euphoric touchy feely buzz off short stuff's diesel based onyx, but it was nowhere near that trippy and diesels are a crime against nature.
DNA's sweet haze is the nicest fruity haze i've tried in a shootout with a nunch of jacks, thais and hazes that had simiar clearheaded light highs. sweet haze was just fruitier, stickier and higher up than everything else including high quality seeds' thai skunk which wasn't as potent as their haze skunk. it's the trippiest "true" fruity haze i've tried so far. i'm looking to try some slightly more IBL hazes and some others with reputations like mamgo haze, but for now, sweet haze is my fruit strain.
HQS haze x skunk has a yucky cheesy cigar wrapper flavor that's at least smokable, but it's some really potent shit. it's kind of like a more generic haze with the potency turned up. it wasn't the trippiest i've smoked, but it had some effects including a bit of dreaded room spinning dizzy when i took 4 straight light bowl hits the first time i blazed it. it's euphoric and motivational with a very long lasting & medicinal buzz that doesn't fade to stony after it builds in your system. i ended up dieting on it by ignoring hunger pangs as well as kicked my nightly 96 ounces of red dog a night addiction. it's less refined than JC2 & sweet skunk, but more potent i think. i'm going to test all 3 under the same conditions this winter. as a, 87.5% sativa 12 week strain up against a pair of 9 week hybrid ones, i could see why it might be more potent. it's definitely less stony than JC2 as all i ever got out of it was lead eyelids where JC2 has some body thump to it. haze skunk's good for activities and focus though maybe not memory.
i've bred some with cinderalla and apollo on the low odor fast flowering highs front and got a nice generic haze out of a cross with super cali haze. i'd expect my cross that has trippier apollo and sweet haze would be clearly better.
i'm playing around with strains i'm testing as well as preserving the crosses for a back stock of genes to tinker with, especially when disasters like forgetting to turn the fan on and polka dotting all of one's plants happen and replacements are needed.
i want to see how cindy apollo crossed with CH9 jack turns out. it's a potent strain that looks very indica, but smokes on the high side of mid. that should produce something potent, probably dense, lightly trippy, with a functional high and possibly very dense and worthy of shrinking IBLs with with low odor and fruity flavors.
i want to breed everything with a malawi gold male. i hope that holy smokes gear lives up to MGs reputation for lemony and trippy. that could be my top headstash strain. i'm looking to test and breed that to lemony sannie's jack f7 and DNA's lemon skunk. if the malawi has a truly trippy buzz, that crossed with lemon skunk should be just that much better than haze skunk in flavor and THC profile as lemon skunk is nice in it's own right though just euphoria and motivation, but very low stone. i'm also hoping the sour lemon flavor and trippy motivational high of MG works magic with the stony sour cherry tasting TH seeds' buddha's sister i'm looking to find mates for. a non dominant fruity haze with an extra trippy and motivational buzz would be ideal, but chocolate and cream cheese flavors could be interesting too. sour cream might make some kind of cherry cheesecake flavor i could imagine for example. i'm just not a fan of blueberry. it's a bitter fruit. i do have a blue dream haze freebie and a pair of joey weed C99 x blueberry i'm keeping for a cross, probably with a sweet haze male when i do a flavors grow and i'll just test the freebie. those 2 should at least be less stony than pure blueberry.
i'll be testing CH9's jack 33 against TGA's 3rd dimension to see if either is a nice apollo 11 substitute with a mellow euphoric, possibly trippy high to use as my speed breeder or variety in buzz alternative. i'm hoping to get a really nice pina colada pheno out of the 3D. that alone is breed worthy. i'd like to see what those sweet flavors do with the sour cherry flavor of buddha's sister. it's sounds like a nice flavor pairing to me.
some of the strains i want to test and/or breed with include: DNA chocolope & cannalope haze, mr nice mango haze, ace oldtimer's haze, DJ short's grape krush, TH seeds' da purps, delta 9 labs' mekong haze, buddha's sister, critical jack, pineapple express, wreckage, & satori.
my head stash will continue to be the best highs and flavors i can find or DIY. i'm hoping some of that delicious sour cream flavor remains in my cindy apollo cross and that the latter clears out some of the sour cream stone. that's my top contender for flavor strain as it's very distinctive.
eventually, i'd probably keep about 4 strains around unless i came up with something perfectly balanced with a full range of effects and a delicious flavor of my own. i used to dream of a trippy orange flavored curry strain with the crushed red pepper kick of original kali mist.
i'd like to make a trippy purple haze with a grape flavor just for the challenge of crossing and selecting for those traits, but really, the tutti fruity flavor of highland thai is just too delicious and brings back memories from when the flavor was still around in juicy fruit gum etc. god has some pretty cool tricks up his sleeve. way smarter than the corporate addiction machine. the IBL is a fussy hermie prone annoying diva to work with though. no pain, no gain.
potent pineapple is just one C99 pheno. apparently mosca's version is bred for that, but has several others including a stony one. my joey weed C99's phenos leaned more towards the jack herer haze and were lightly fruity. textbook C99 is low odor fruity and floral. under halide, JW's C99s were low odor with a slight hint of grape. super cali haze tasted even more like grapes, but the cross of the 2 i made only tasted fruity under a sodium. i intend to test the effect lighting has on flavor in my next grow as i have one 400w of each. i'll give up yield and grow for quality if that's what i get on the halide side.
i like C99 and all, but trippier strains with a more neutral, not necessarily stony though, buzz are funner. typical C99s are 8 week strains, but i'll tell ya, 9 week sweet haze and jack's cleaner 2 are so much funner & trippier to smoke. maybe mosca's trippy phenos live up to the hype, but JW C99 delivers the textbook clear headed, even racy, motivation similar to kali mist high one would expect. but it's just not fun to try and chill out on where mellower and trippier strains, A11 genius too probably, are just more fun to chill out on tunes or get tripped out on watching movies. that's what i consider a true high. i just use C99 for breeding, but JC2 & sweet haze have much funner highs and SH has a really superior flavor even against other hazes. it's stretchy, but worth it, especially with LSTing & SCROGging. i'd bet CH9 jack 33 & TGA third dimension smoke funner than C99 too. i think even with some stone in the body, CH9 jack might have been funner than C99 even. it got lost in a mix of other generic fruity hazes, but all of those were funner than C99 for their light psychoactivity. i'd take cinderella over almost anything i've bought in several decades, but the more psychoactive strains are funner to me. even as much as i dislike the concept and flavor of diesels, onyx with it's touchy feely buzz was funner than JW's C99 too. if you had at least a stony mid, or preferably something really trippy in your garden to contrast the C99, it might be worth keeping around more, or if you want a strain you can work & function on. JC2 & sweet haze had more goofy laugh your ass off happening. i'm the first to complain about being stoned, but if it doesn't get in the way of functioning, a little can be OK or even funner just as sleeping is the opposite of chilling out, so to can racy be. i wouldn't put C99 in my top 5. i might put apollo 11 genius there if it's not too stony and lives up to it's rep for trippy though.
perfectly energy neutral euphoric 8 miles high is a really nice example of a "true" mid buzz that has no stone at all or raciness either where some strains can have both at the same time. it's a strange "clean high" that's very fun. it wasn't overpowering either, much like a generic haze high actually. clear headed, functional, motivational, euphoric. it just had some extra psychoactivity that made it a nice playful buzz. i felt it giving me precise body control too when i danced the robot on it. it's what i was expecting C99 to do. it's a longer flowering strain, but i can't wait for it to return next year. it's a very well rounded high that isn't too much of anything but fun. more potent and trippy strains are funner, but not in more stressful situations where mellower is more relaxed. it's a good noob strain to get high on with less chance of a paranoid meltdown unless a person blazed a lot really quickly maybe. otherwise, just a couple light hits makes everything funner.