Hey guys! I'm looking for the best og kush style strain in feminised seed form, came across this topic (looking for info on Crokket's lemon 18 actually!) and thought I could chip in my 2 cents.
I have grown 21 seeds of og18 in 2014, from at least 4 different seed packs bought between 2013 and 2014 at different sources (from the DNA shop in Amsterdam directly, and online from different websites). ALL 21 turned out to be among the best of the best I have ever smoked. I grew in soil and hydro, under the blue/purple led lights and (important!) flower 80 days with more than 20 days flush in hydro - for me it needed exactly 6 weeks cure for the TRUE DANK smell/flavor to come out. BTW yields were the lowest I ever had below half of my average, at only around 200g/m2!
I have been to dispensaries in Cali (only like 15 different ones, in 2018, just by looking up on google which were supposedly the best, and bought only their top shelf), and to at least half the coffee shops in the Netherlands. Needless to say the Cali top shelf is better by a long shot! I haven't attended any competitions in Cali so definitely haven't smoked the best of the best and I'm no expert. Anyway the homegrown og18 is the best I have smoked - made me not want to smoke anything else that I grew and 1g would last me longer than 3g of my other stuff (i had some pretty nice tangerine kush but too much wood flavor for my liking, and a bunch a nice haze strains amongst others).
A way of telling it was good is that with bong hits an immense flavor would come through (most stuff i tried has near to no flavor in a bong, at least no nice flavor to me!), it was delicious, would make me want to take hits so fat that they would knock me out for 6h straight, the taste was borderline addictive to me. The effect came on with a strong rush, loads of euphoria and fast 'motivating day dreams', it would make me want to share it with everyone!
> This also got me into trouble, basically, all the neighbors complained about the smell and were pretty annoyed so I had to calm down with smoking indoors. I had been living there for years already and never any complaints prior - and always try to smoke the smelliest stuff I can get!
Now that I can finally grow again, reading about og18 seeds not being good anymore makes me very sad.
--> I am currently growing RP og kush, and will try the Crokket's SSOG and lemon 18 soon hoping to find a killer pheno! I will probably try og18 again soon, I already invested in a 20x overspec carbon filter so this time I'm prepared XD