Fruit of the Gods

Mostly Sativa
Origins - Northern Lights 5 Haze x Skunk #1
Flowering - 66-77 days
Harvest - Mid September

Many cannabis fans may feel that marijuana is ambrosia for the mind and soul, a gift from above for weary mortals. The type of weed that creates such gratitude and adulation is certainly a part of Delta-9's breeding goals. Their strain Fruit of the Gods is sativa-dominant hybrid with a narrow profile and a satisfyig yield. This variety's effect can be summed up in a word - uplifting! The nickname "FOG" also evolved from the thick white fog of sweet exhale after a big bong hit of this bud.

When grown indoors in a controllable flowering environment, Fruit of the Gods takes 9.5 to 11 weeks to finish, depending on whether she is grown in soil or using hydro methods. This variety can also be grown outdoors in many regions. Warmer outdoor climates will result in yields that are 25-50% higher than indoor or temperate grows. Delta-9 uses neem oil for pest control with this strain, although FOG is naturally quite bug-resistant, and resilient under many growing conditions.

When Delta-9 grows out their strains, they use soil exclusively, with organic nutrients. However, FOG will do well in any indoor system, and may even be more prodigious and ripen in slightly less time with a hydroponic setup. While her height will depend on the length of the vegetative period, FOG is a moderate grower. She starts stretching out a bit in the first two weeks of flowering, and doubles in height by week three. These plants create many long side branches that hug the main stem. Her leaves are short and wide, like the leaves on her Skunk #1 poppa. They are narrower than a typical sativa leaf, so the end result is a broad elongated leaf blade. Overall, FOG looks like a small bushy plant with many branches close to the mainstem. Even when kept short and grown in small spaces, Fruit of the Gods produces well: in an average-sized room with proper ventilation and lighting, FOG will give you a minimum of 30-50 grams per 3 foot plant.

The "fruits" of this strain are light and airy as they fill in during the first 5 to 8 weeks. Then in the last 3 weeks they harden. Their calyxes swell up and become tight, creating small but very dense buds. FOG tastes sweet, with a hazy, floral perfume that lingers throughout the room in the thick white cloud of its exhale. The FOG high is clear-headed and uplifting. As such it is very functional and easy to maintain even during a period of work or socializing. As soon as the buzz reaches your head, it creates a momentum to get things done, and motivate with friends or focus on a project.

Ducksfoot

Indica / Sativa
Origins - Ducksfoot x sativa
Flowering - 60-72 days

Harvest - Late October

Ducksfoot is named for its unique leaves, which have webbing between the leaflets, evoking the feet of waterfowl, rather than the fingerlike morphology of the leaves that has become one of the most recognizable icons to identify pot.

In Australia, Ducksfoot is an outdoor variety only. This strain seems more at home in warmer climates that don't suffer frosts too early. Several outdoor grows in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere showed good growth but the quantity and the quality of the buds were poor when compared with its native climate of Australia.

Ducksfoot is a large growing plant that likes to get its feet in the soil and spread its roots to support branching. Wally Duck grows this strain in a natural sea of green, for both stealth purposes and increasing yield. it is a very heavy feeder and will take all the fertilizer you care to give it - nearly double the amounts most plants prefer.

As the plants mature, the odd leaves spread out, some reaching the size of dinner plates. Wally prunes to 4-6 main branches, bending them to create a predominantly horizontal profile, with as little vertical growth as possible. Without pruning, Ducksfoot shows extensive branching patterns. Many plants display attractive pink pistils as they ripen. In favorable climates, outdoor yields are rich - 200 grams and up per plant.

Duckfoot's odor is noticeable at several meters' distance from the plant. Although it is a complex smell not immediately identifiable as "pot", it can still sabotage attempts at stealth. The extreme aroma carries over into the taste: a strong spicy coffee taste that lingers pleasantly on the tongue after exhaling, sometimes with a cinnamon aftertaste. The buzz is a smile-inducing euphoria that doesn't sacrifice coherency, making it a great daytime toke for socializing or working in the garden. 

Durga Mata

Indica
Origins - Cross of 2 Super Shivas
Flowering - 50-55 days
Harvest - Early October

Named for the powerful and revered Hindu Mother Goddess, Durga Mata represents the purity and strength of purpose residing within the divine essence of every being. In Hindu tales, Durga Mata carries the sword of truth, destroying demons, conquering ignorance and leaving humans to enlightment.

The Paradise variety of Durga Mata will bring out your inner philosopher. The aroma is herbal and spicy, with a taste like Turkish fruit. The buzz is potent and physically relaxing, but will not necessarily put you to sleep. She is the quintessential after-dinne smoke for an evening of deep conversation with friends.

Durga Mata's Shiva parents were selected for their high resin content and easy in growth and maintenance. The variety is reliably homogenous, with clone-like result that make it perfect for a sea of green setup. These plants don't stretch much upon flowering. If grown vegetatively for 2 weeks, they may shoot up another foot while flowering. The internode spacing is tight and the buds are dense, compact, and grow very uniformly.

Durga Mata is not too finicky about her environment. Indoor growing on hydro, coco or soil is all good. She survives rough treatment and still performs very well, making this variety an excellent choice for newbies or medical growers. Durga Mata is recommended outdoors in temperature lattitudes with mild climates, but has been grown in Holland with fine results.

Alaskan Ice

Sativa 70 / Indica 30
Origins - White Widow x Haze
Flowering - 60-65 days
Harvest - Mid October

The name "Alaskan Ice" brings to mind a crispy purity of an unblemished winter landscape. This variety's parentage combines the frosty White Widow mother with the equatorial sativa qualities of the haze father. White Widow has gained its infamous reputation as a compact plant that delivers impressive resin and a memorably warm and balanced high, while the American West Coast Haze, a lanky cross of Mexican, Thai, and Columbian, has become a highly desireable plant due to its signature flavorfuness and its enjoyeable head effects. Fans of White Widow and Haze will be pleased with this satisfying marriage of their flavor and qualitites.

Alaskan Ice blends its parental qualities to deliver a balanced mix of sativa and indica. This variety creeps up gently like a glacier and delivers an alert, euphoric mental feeling that balances relaxation and energy, resonating throughout the body. Gardeners will find this plant is good for indoor or outdoor environments. Indoors, it is better suited to a screen of green rather than a sea of green setup since the haze parentage comes through, encouraging a branchy plant that grows quickly during vegetation and requires some management to keep the branches orderly and focused on flower power. This plant prefers a strong EC, up to 2.0, and will grow to be about 5 feet (150cm) indoors. It can reach heights of 9-10 feet (300 cm) when grown outdoors under natural light. The 9-week flowering phase makes this plant suitable to outdoor grows only in regions where a long season of temperature daylight is a reasonable expectation - at least until late October in the western hemisphere. Mature plants will have a frost of Alaskan ice coating the branches in a resinous tundra-like sparkle.

This variety has a very spicy aroma, leading with black pepper and cedar flavors, and followed by an aftertaste of intense and forest moss. On first puff, it can be slightly acrid, but soon mellows into a fresh herbal sandalwood flavor that is pleasant ot the palate. This is a variety to share at parties and on joyous occasions. It is not well suited for a daytime or solitary smoke, or for intense focus and in-the-zone productivity. As medicine, Alaskan Ice has been promising for treating pain, glaucoma, and depression, and stimulating appetite.  

Ambrosia

Indica 50 / Sativa 50
Origins - Burmese x God Bud
Flowering - 50-56 days
Harvest - Mid September

 

In Greek and Roman mythology, Ambrosia is the name given to the food of the gods. Perhaps this plant complements the menu with a smoke worthy of this term's general definition: "something sweetly pleasing in taste or smell". The Burmese sativa mother of this plant came from Mighty Mite Seed Company, and was voted #1 People's Choice in the 2002 Cannabis Culture Toker's Bowl. The father, Jordan's God Bud strain, is a mostly indica plant that gained popularity because of its powerful, desireable aroma and a flavor leaning toward tropical sweetness.

Ambrosia grows well in a sea of green using hydro or soil methods. Outdoors this plant does best in locales with long days during the summer. Its growth habits meld together aspect from both sides of the family tree, resulting in a plant that reaches a happy medium in height, foliage and coloration. Ambrosia is a fast, vigorous grower. She will become bushy if there is room, but tends to not be very leafy, which makes manicuring a little less painstaking. With average fertilizer use and good garden conditions, Ambrosia produces a respectable yield of buds that are dense, sticky and redolent of classic mellow dank skunkiness. The leaves yellow and the hairs turn strongly orange to clearly indicate ripe readyness.

Ambrosia's smoke is appropriately sweet and complex, with just enough skunk to keep it traditional. The ambrosia buzz stays on the sativa end of the spectrum, producing an awake, up high that comes on fast and stays functional. This makes Ambrosia a good all-day smoke.

Critical Mass

Sativa / Indica
Origins - Afghani x Skunk #1
Flowering - 45-55 days
Harvest - Mid September

Named for its heavy production, this plant literally produces the critical mass yield - the most you could hope to get before the plant's own branches snap from inability to support its growth.

Critical Mass is a remastering of Big Bud for Mr. Nice Seed Bank. It has a genetic pedigree originating from a particularly heavy Afghani combined with the original Skunk #1. This is a seriously indica-like plant with thick-shaped leaves. In height and structure, it is medium-sized with a very high flower-to-leaf ratio.

Critical Mass gives a massive yield with an equally high stone. With a little luck, the ecperienced grower should be able to yield up to 750 grams per square meter indoors. Due to its heavy flower construction, it can be susceptible to mold in humid growing conditions. This risk is reduced by paying attention to humidity in indoor grows, and harvesting on timw indoors or out.

While Critical Mass is low on resin production and lacks an especially distinctive taste taste, you'll be impressed with this heavy product whose colas border on the obscene in their size and heft.

 

 

Grape Krush

Indica 60 / Sativa 40
Origins - Blueberry line parents
Flowering - 55-65 days
Harvest - Early October

 

Grape Krush belongs to the Blueberry family bred by DJ Short. The Blueberry strains mix indica with haze for a combination of happy stone and easy, adaptable cultivation. Specifically, the indica genes give the plants a shorter growing season than the slow-growing and sometimes finicky hazes. Blueberries tend toward a blue tint in the leaves and a berry flavor in the smoke. Within the Blueberry family, Grape Krush is the peaceful child. This strain's high is a physically soothing, but still hazey enough to keep a conversation flowing.

Grape Krush was developed for indoor growing, but can flourish outdoors as well - even as far north as Holland - especially if given organic nutrients. Indoors, she prefers soil but adapts well to hydroponic systems, too. In general, DJ Short recommends light feeding with nitrogen and organic nutrients; however, Grape Krush loves all of the good worm castings and bat guano she can get.

Grape Krush branches bushy, especially when topped. Like her Blueberry relatives, she is dark green to purple with lavender/red hues. She has thicker and more variegated leaves than the other Blueberries. The larger calyxes on her bulkier, more "rounded" buds show a distinctive fox-tailing structure late in her flowering cycle. Her variegated leaves sometimes curl or "krinkle"; this is an expression of anomalous recessd traits from her diverse ancestors, not a mutation that indicates an unhealthy plant.

Grape Krush finishes in approximately 8-9 weeks indoors, or from late September to mid-late October outdoors. She is medium in height and heavy in yield - 25 to 50 grams per square foot at 50 watts per square foot, or up to 1 gram per watt under optimal conditions.

Growing plants have a strong odor, both sweet and musky.The harvest from this strain is connoisseur-grad ebud with a sweetish smoke. The high comes on very slowly, building up for as much as an hour, and then settles in for the night - a bit more like a pot brownie stone than the usual smoker's rush. traces of haze in the stone add inspiration to the conversation, and some radiant dreams or fantasies at bedtime. It's a relaxing and social effect, like red wine, and a good antidote to social anxiety.

AK-47

Sativa 65 / Indica 35
Origins - Columbian, Mexican, Thai & Afghani
Flowering - 53-63 IN
Harvest - 2nd Half of October

Despite it's aggressive name, AK-47 has many peaceful tendencies. First bred in 1992, the name suggests the power packed in its dark, resinous, compact buds that bristle with red hairs and glistening trichomes. AK-47 has a spiced aroma bordering on skunk, with a hint of sandalwood, but tastes sweeter and more floral than the smell would lead one to expect.

AK has mostly sativa characteristics with one exception: a quick finishing time. The variety was reworked in 1999 to increase stability, so results from seeds are uniform. A tall plant with substantial girth and big fat calyxes, she performs excellently in indoor environments, both soil and hydro, and has been grown outdoors with good results. In low to medium temperatures, this variety produces a denser bud; in high temperatures buds are fluffier and more open, but total yields are roughly equivalent.

The AK-47 buzz is immediate and long lasting with an allert but mellow cerebral effect. Lab tests have rated the THC content at over 20 percent, making it a "one hit wonder" for many smokers. This variety can be a little spacey, but is great for playing and listening to music, or other social activities. AK-47 helped put Serious Seeds on the map with a 2nd place finish in the hydroponics competition and a 3rd place in the overall category at the 1995 Cannabis Cup in the Netherlands.
 

Sour Diesel

Sativa 90 / Indica 10
Origins - Mexican Sativa x Chemo
Flowering - 75-80 days
Harvest - Early November

 

Beyond the citrus end of the pot palate spectrum lies a sour lemon tang tending toward the heay pungency of an open drum of diesel. This odor is so strong is Reservoir's Sour Diesel strain that it may need to be masked during growing if stealth is a goal or necessity. Even when dried and carried in a pocket, these buds are smell yenough to raise suspicions. Reservoir drew on the Mexican sativa family and the sativa hybrid Chemo in an effort to produce the most psychedelic non-haze sativa possible.

Sour Diesel is a tall, thin plant suitable for sea or screen of green. She stretches in the first 3 weeks of flowering. By maturity she reaches a daunting 6 feet indoors in a slender version of the classic Christmas tree silhouette. Her foliage purples as it ages, and commonly displays pink-hued pistils. The buds are loose and spear-shaped.

Sour Diesel taste combined with its effects may be considered an "exptreme sport" version of cannabis. The stone pull smokers into the sky fast with a viscerlly uplifting pleasure and lots of consciousness expansion in the direction of spirituality. This good-vibe variety may help alleviate chronic depression, as well as the ordinary blahs by encouraging a change in perspective.