Smoke Report – (White Lotus x Genius Thai)
Smell: muted, metallic, slight fruity/florally
Taste: savory, peppery, gravy, metallic
Effect: starts couch locked (not sleepy), then soaring energetic (not racy) ~2hrs
Growing: Stats collected over 2 runs and averaged from 4 phenos
Stretch: doubled initial flowering height
Flowering Time: 65-72 days
Nutes: Light feeder, but don’t back off calcium
No pest or mold issues
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Taste
On the exhale, the taste is most evident as savory, peppery, and slightly metallic. My immediate thought was gravy. Imagine putting a penny underneath your tongue and swallowing a gulp of KFC gravy and you’ll get a feel for the taste. Enjoy it while you can because this has a very clean finish that does not linger.
Effect
After the exhale, you are greeted with immediate buzzing around your eyes and head. It felt like I just took off a tightly fitting pair of goggles. This persisted for about 20 minutes.
This cross has a quality multidimensional effect. In my experience, sativa hybrids that are not one-trick ponies usually start with the energetic sativa qualities and finish with more relaxed indica effects. Here, I experienced the reverse. Within about 5 minutes from first inhale, I had a solid couch lock (but not sleepy) effect that would crescendo in intensity becoming disorienting. This “down” effect last for 20-30minutes.
After about 30mins, it felt like my mind was has coming out of hibernation and the high turned very energetic. There was not that uncomfortably racy, “
just breathe” aspect of more landrace sativa cultivars. It was a very clean “up” effect, but it was difficult to stay focused on anything for more than a minute. I was just pacing back and forth throughout the gardens in a good mood with a goofy smile. This more sativa latter half of the high lasted for ~1.5hrs.
I took my notes over a few days smoking in different scenarios (wake-and-bake, after dinner, sandwiched between other strains in a single session) took see how it performed. When smoking multiple strains back to back, the energetic aspects of this cross cut through the high of the other strains. It seemed to shine as a wake-and-bake.
Overall
Great cross, the unique taste and effect offers something you don’t come across often. It was a very manageable indoor growing sativa that doesn’t concede effect for faster flowering time. I had three other phenos that had more fruity/floral notes to the consistent metallic quality across all phenos. This cut definitely set itself apart with the gravy taste and surprising effect. Thanks again for the freebie beans.
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