The first time the word diesel was used to name a plant was when someone didn't like the name chemdawg and decided to rename it "diesel" in new york city. This is sometimes referred to as the original nycd but it is actually the mysteriously fathered offspring of chemdawg. Apparently the person who was growing the buds from the bag on the grateful dead tour that the chemdawg or diesel seeds came from was only growing chemdawg.
Chemdawg was from collorado, spent some time in masseteusetts fuct if I can spell that, where it was also bred into other varieties some of which are also called diesel, original diesel, diesel#1 etc and many others. So diesel is possibly the same thing as chemdawg and there are many different plants called diesel.
In 1997 soma got some beans that came out of a bud of what he was told was sour diesel crossed them with a afghani-hawaiian male from shantibaba and bred (soma's)nyc diesel. I have never seen or tried somas one but it seems to get mixed reviews, some say it lacks potency. It seems some have been confused by somas naming as somas nycd is not what is in the vernacular as the original nycd. The original diesel or chemdawg or original nycd or whatever else ppl call it, however was/still is something of a building block for much of todays popular genetics, somewhat of an enigmatic strain...
It is a very confusing topic. I got this information from cannabibble#3, soma's book and this website:
www.beanboyzgenetics.com/chem-dawg-history.html
I challenge anyone to now re read dinafem's description and be able to tell what the hell they are talking about! Lol
Although dinafem is a great company, unfortunately their non native english explanations are at times so vague and ambiguous that the reader is unable to understand exactly what they are getting.
My attempt at deciphering the diesel write up has resulted in me assuming that they are trying to say that this is the original renamed chemdawg, what is sometimes referred to as "basic diesel" (or do ppl mean something else when they say basic diesel?) or perhaps what beanboyz are referring to as original diesel, and the references to the components of other diesel hybrids are incidental. But i could be wrong.
I have never had any previous experience with diesel/chemdawg but I do know that the 1 freebee seed of "dinafem diesel" I got from tude is a squat, slow veging, glossy wide green indica leafed, VERY grower friendly, VERY hard to overfert, VERY high bud to leaf ratio, beautiful beautiful beautiful unique looking plant somewhat reminiscent in looks of a strawberry bush. I monster cropped one recently and it looks like a little medusa.
When grown under full spectrum led it produces the tightest nugs of any mj plant I would think possible. Try to squeeze one of the main heads, it's like trying to squeeze a piece of wood. The individual buds along main stems actually wrap around the main stem so that when you snip their branch stem at harvest the buds remain clinging on wrapped around like a blob of blutack.
It is the smoothest smoke ever and has a great well balanced long lasting effect, leaning towards the euphoric. Everybody I know who has tried it loves it much more than anything else. Someone on here mentioned that they felt a hangover from it. Infact it is not a hangover. It's just that your still stoned and personally I feel that I am still in a very good mood for several days after a night binge on it.
If anyone has experience with the original/basic diesel/chemdawg strain can you pls let me know if this is sounding like that same thing??
Or maybe the spanish speaking guy could try ask dinafem for some clarity.
I'm going to use it for crosses regardless of whatever it actually is but it would really be satisfying my curiosity to know.
It is strange that some ppl are saying they are getting a fast vegging plant from the same feminised seed, I would have thought feminised would be extremely uniform. Gh are also offering a "chemdog" and they have a grow video where they show some huge plant.
I have been growing in coco up til now but next i'm going to try dwc in an attempt to get it all moving along a bit quicker. ..