The Cali Connection reviews 2020

TeW33zy

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This entire thing seems very confusing to me. There are loads of bad reviews on Cali connection seeds spanning back almost a decade; with a few good reviews mixed in there. I decided to run a few of thier strains to find out for myself.
Right now I am running the OGesiel, Grape OG, and Purple Chem strains. The OGesiel only popped 2/6, but I got 5/6 and 6/6 on the other two strains. We are in week 4 of flower now and everything seems to be absolutely perfect. Great trichs already out to the ends of some fan leaves and overall seem to be extremely healthy. Anyone else running Cali connection? Maybe they have turned things around?
I am a Executive Master Engineer and their strains are trash and nobody wants it. It doesn’t carry over to the final product I can’t do the strains I bought from them again. I won’t buy the Purple Diesel, Purple Chem, Pre 98 Bubba anymore. They were trash. The Purple Crack and Strawberry Tiramisu Is a Rerun Just To Reverify my results. I over dried them by 1 day so I’m running it back to verify because they were trash and nobody wanted it so I’ll rerun it. I am currently growing their SFV OG and Bellini, if these are trash I am done with Cali Connection the quality is not their and I’m not a low level grower I am a master engineer so I give you the results grown by a engineer. I dried the Purple Chem, Purple Crack, Pre 98 Bubba, Strawberry Tira and Purple Crack 15 days at 55-60F @60-65% RH. I cited to 61% for 60 days and still was garbage. However, the Strawberry Tiramisu and Purple Crack over dried to 51% so I’ll redo those correctly then give a review. I am disappointed in Cali Connection. Also, their photos are not what the product looks like so I feel scammed and soon all this will come out of instagram soon.
 

AlaskanAutoGrower420

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My 9 years of growing their corleone kush was good out of all their strains. Been years since ive ordered them and wont go back. Im sticking to seed junky and the other brands. Ordered their sour diesel and it was still subpar.
 

TeW33zy

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My 9 years of growing their corleone kush was good out of all their strains. Been years since ive ordered them and wont go back. Im sticking to seed junky and the other brands. Ordered their sour diesel and it was still subpar.
Yes, I am very disappointed at Cali connections strains. I thought their strains were exotic high THC and potent and it’s not. It’s more mids and cure with very low terpene profile. No matter how good I grow it I just can’t get it better. I have 3 remaining strains Bellini, Purple Crack and SFV OG growing. If these are Bust I will throw it or sell it for Pennie’s and eliminate CC as a vendor for my breeding program. I’ve asked them several times over and over via instagrams why they don’t provide THC or terpene % for there strains. As a sales advantage you would lead with that to sell however they just give me excuses on Instagram saying people say they lying about the THC % so they stop posting it. I thought that was BS, infact I call BS. As a sales advantage you wouldn’t care what people say about your THC and Terpene % analysis, simply post the lab results on your website along with the lab and certifications for that testing facility. That would end any hater. Instead, they opt to eliminate it which I think is BS. They don’t want u to know because I believe it’s trash and low THC. Instead they have been working and releasing Strawberry Delight type strains instead of improving their OG lines which smell nothing like OG. Once this last group is over and if I get garbage again I will 100% dump them and post everything on Instagram, I don’t like being played for a fool. I’ll take a lot but I don’t play about my time, I can’t get it back. Don’t ever grow the Purple Diesel, Purple Chem and Pre 98 Bubba, they trash. The Purple Diesel herms 55% of the time, I throw 5 of 10 each rip.
 

TeW33zy

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Don't believe any reviews for anything cannabis related. Many are fake and the industry is so cutthroat that many target the competition with fake reviews. The same thing happens with other industries and products but the cannabis industry is one of the worst. The only way to know for sure if anything cannabis related is any good is to try it yourself. That doesn't apply to products like blurple lights pulling 100 watts that claim to replace a 1000 watt HID but that's obvious. As are nutrient company claims of an increase of 20% or more if you use their product. False claims and outright lies are prevalent in the cannabis product and seed industry and without any real regulation there's absolutely nothing a consumer can do.
Or simply send them to my instagram page as I do exactly what ur saying. As a Executive Master Engineer and Biosystems Algriculture Engineer I grow it twice to eliminate variation and post the results pros and cons of each strain. So far, Cali connection gets 3 of 10 in quality. Sad but true.
 

TeW33zy

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I grew their Tahoe and it hard straight jack Herrer terps. I was pretty disappointed, not that I don't like jack but I was expecting a good OG and got jack.
Yes their OG likes are not OG, they lied. Infact I’m figuring that out now. Nothing so far has any smell of OG. I have the SFV OG in flower and if that bust I’m done.
 

Antidote Man

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I'm willing to bet their strains produce some real nice smoke...

The problem is every strain you order is bx'd, or f2 with some other strains. I.E. you order SFV OG Kush and its SFV OG X Green Crack. Almost every single strain they sell is like this. I don't know how they can bag seeds in professional satchels and sell them like that... and people still buy it!

total joke...
 

TeW33zy

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I'm willing to bet their strains produce some real nice smoke...

The problem is every strain you order is bx'd, or f2 with some other strains. I.E. you order SFV OG Kush and its SFV OG X Green Crack. Almost every single strain they sell is like this. I don't know how they can bag seeds in professional satchels and sell them like that... and people still buy it!

total joke...
Yes they cross they Pre 98 Bubba to almost all they strains. When I grew those they all cured and all looked and smelled identical. Plus, the OG smell is not OG. Smells like Mids and Pine. They won’t post THC results or Terpene profiles but that’s ok. I do on my Instagram executive_master_engineer. I just called them out on instagram. I don’t know what u mean when u say professional sanchels
 
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Antidote Man

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Yes they cross they Pre 98 Bubba to almost all they strains. When I grew those they all cured and all looked and smelled identical. Plus, the OG smell is not OG. Smells like Mids and Pine. They won’t post THC results or Terpene profiles but that’s ok. I do on my Instagram executive_master_engineer. I just called them out on instagram. I don’t know what u mean when u say professional sanchels

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professional seed packaging...
 

Antidote Man

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Oh I see. I really don’t care about the packaging as long as the quality is their. However, this SFV OG is in week 4 of flower and tbh I’m liking what I see.
I'm sure its good smoke..

But it isn't the real SFV Og Kush.. The guy could have taken all these rare clone only strains and selfed them, and a lot of us would be happy

The fact he calls them by their pure names and they're not is real sketchy IMO

Imagine all the people that purchased his strains, made clones and shared them at dispensaries - now where are the original cuts? Likely quickly disappearing..
 

wigsplitta713

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I'm popping some old beans I s1 of Tahoe og,Buddha Tahoe og,and 22 from caliconn.10 years ago with ga3 got a few tails it's working cause water was not.
 

hockeybry2

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I'm popping some old beans I s1 of Tahoe og,Buddha Tahoe og,and 22 from caliconn.10 years ago with ga3 got a few tails it's working cause water was not.
Where'd ya get the ga3? Never used this method but may when I start popping some old seeds. Thanks!
 

TeW33zy

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I'm sure its good smoke..

But it isn't the real SFV Og Kush.. The guy could have taken all these rare clone only strains and selfed them, and a lot of us would be happy

The fact he calls them by their pure names and they're not is real sketchy IMO

Imagine all the people that purchased his strains, made clones and shared them at dispensaries - now where are the original cuts? Likely quickly disappearing..
Tell me more because I’ve already messaged thrm
On instagram very pissed at all the hermies I’m getting, low quality of all there strains and my customers highly pissed off at me. I don’t want that stigma on my name. I have a few more strains getting ready to go through flower like the Bellini and strawberry tiramisu but after that I’m never bringing anything back from Cali Connection. I feel played like all they pictures on they website looks nothing like the strains they are selling us. They misled me and not 1 strain came out looking like the photos. The Pre 98 Bubba, Purple Diesel, Purple Chem is garbage. I over dried the Purple Crack on accident so I let it off the lost but have more in flower. If those are garbage they going on that list. So tell me more about the SFV OG? You saying it’s not real because I have 5 Moms in flower and 1 Hermed on me. Infact, follow me on Instagram and I’ll follow u back. See what I have going on instagram: executive_master_engineer
 

TeW33zy

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I'm sure its good smoke..

But it isn't the real SFV Og Kush.. The guy could have taken all these rare clone only strains and selfed them, and a lot of us would be happy

The fact he calls them by their pure names and they're not is real sketchy IMO

Imagine all the people that purchased his strains, made clones and shared them at dispensaries - now where are the original cuts? Likely quickly disappearing..
So u said he could of selfed them and kept them by their pure names so tell me what are they? Give me the tea of the BS genetics by Cali Connection. I like how they ignore me on instagram as if it makes the issue go away. Proves they do not care. Had he reached out to me saying “hey look your an executive master engineer and your analysis means a lot to us here’s what we got going on and we apologize that our genetics aren’t where we want but what do you think we can improve on and in exchange we will make changes based on your analysis if you agree to stop bashing us on instagram and instead message us direct and we will do our best to make it right, given all the time and energy I put into there strains. I thought it was something I was doing then found out F no they just have trash genetics. The Pre 98 and Purple Chem is Hot Garbage. It was so garbage I sold 1-1/2 lbs of it for $400 just to get that shit out my house. I told them their strains are trash and to stop crossing everything using Pre 98 Bubba, that Bubba is garbage. Infact, I said stop creating new strains in its entirety, instead focus on fixing your current strains. The current strains are weak, herm a lot especially the Purple Diesel, she herms 30-50% of the feminized lineage therefore I know the parents are passing down hermaphroditism tendencies and the Cali Connection is so garbage they didn’t even stress test their Lineage for breeding otherwise they would of found the mothers who are not sexually stable.
 

Antidote Man

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So u said he could of selfed them and kept them by their pure names so tell me what are they? Give me the tea of the BS genetics by Cali Connection. I like how they ignore me on instagram as if it makes the issue go away. Proves they do not care. Had he reached out to me saying “hey look your an executive master engineer and your analysis means a lot to us here’s what we got going on and we apologize that our genetics aren’t where we want but what do you think we can improve on and in exchange we will make changes based on your analysis if you agree to stop bashing us on instagram and instead message us direct and we will do our best to make it right, given all the time and energy I put into there strains. I thought it was something I was doing then found out F no they just have trash genetics. The Pre 98 and Purple Chem is Hot Garbage. It was so garbage I sold 1-1/2 lbs of it for $400 just to get that shit out my house. I told them their strains are trash and to stop crossing everything using Pre 98 Bubba, that Bubba is garbage. Infact, I said stop creating new strains in its entirety, instead focus on fixing your current strains. The current strains are weak, herm a lot especially the Purple Diesel, she herms 30-50% of the feminized lineage therefore I know the parents are passing down hermaphroditism tendencies and the Cali Connection is so garbage they didn’t even stress test their Lineage for breeding otherwise they would of found the mothers who are not sexually stable.

I will try and explain more for you. First off, it seems to me like you're new at strain shopping, or I would say, it seems like you aren't aware of the beginning of the OG Kush craze. I remember back in 2012, toward the end of the craze, there were many OG Kush strains floating around. SFV, Tahoe, Alien, King Louis, Diamond OG, Face Off OG, Abusive OG, Ghost OG, Godfather OG, True OG, The Planet OGs, The Star Wars OGS, etc. I would pick them up as clones at various dispensaries all over the south west counties of California. Some of them were likely passed around for some time, and i think some of them were mixes themselves of the origional OG Clones, etc. Skywalker OG was supposedly SFV X Skywalker from DP, just an example.

Cali Connection made a business out of the craze. He must have purchased or traded for a lot of the same OG clones. Along with Green Crack, Granddaddy Purple, Headband, OG LA Affie and who knows what else. He was one of the first selling those strains in seed form. But he didn't do it right.

When I said they should self it, this means stress a female into a hermy, so it pollinates itself, and the progeny seeds will be copies of the mother. They didnt do that. They didn't even back cross them. This is when you pollinate a female (in this case SFV OG Kush) with a male of another kind (because you only have the female clone) so lets say The Purps.. Now you have seeds that are 1/2 of each parent. Then you take the seeds, grow plants, look for another male and cross it back to the original mother. The longer you do this, the more the seeds will show the mother's traits.

I usually stay away from bx's. Purity is great, would rather have FEM seed copies of a clone only parent than something mixed. But again, Cali Connex didnt even do that.

They literally crossed every clone only OG Kush strain, and Green Crack, and the rest of them with some other plant and sold the offspring labeled as the mother plants. If you read their descriptions it even says that's what they did.

https://thecaliconnection.com/sfv-og-kush.html

If you read it says it was SFV OG Kush clone X Afghani

So I guess I'm wrong - it says they are BXing it now, but who knows. I have heard so much neg about them I wouldn't buy their stuff. I think I have some freebie shit of theirs somewhere in my seed storage but I'll probably never grow them..

https://thecaliconnection.com/seeds/all-seeds/louis-xiii-og.html

^^^ thats what I'm talking about!

Their King Louis OG Kush is half King Louis and half Tahoe OG. Fuckin lame... Anything original about them is gone. Pollen chucking, they are. And have been caught..

hope this helps
 
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