Squirt (Humboldt Seeds Company) Outdoor

Alpha pheno was the vigor standout from day one, tall, stretchy, branching like it had somewhere to be. Berlin’s October had other plans, so it came down at around 50 days of flower, probably two weeks short of where it wanted to finish. The buds came out tighter than I expected for an early chop, elongated but dense, green with some purple tones, medium trichome coverage and sticky to the touch. Sizes are mixed, but the bag appeal is very good for a sativa leaning plant. The purple could come from the Blueberry Muffin side or just from the cold nights, probably both. Dry, it’s citrus and fruit, somewhere between tangerine and grapefruit, intensity 7. There’s still a bit of green in there, but less than you’d expect after one week of cure. Once ground it moves toward tangerine, orange soda and grapefruit peel, with some funk very low in the background and maybe some berry way in the back, or maybe that’s just my imagination. Intensity goes up to 8. The dry pull confirms it: tangerine soda with normal funk, classic good quality weed with a citrus profile. Then the fire, which is where it gets interesting. The tangerine survives but softens into a lighter soda, and a cream note shows up that wasn’t there cold, something that reminded me of the Blueberry Muffin profile, just with orange on top. The funk disappears and it gets more balanced in the mouth, with a sweet, sort-of-Tangie soda aftertaste that stays for a while. So both parents are really there. Cold it’s more Tangie, and once you heat it the Muffin side comes out from underneath. I didn’t expect that kind of sequence, and it’s really nice. The smoke is medium leaning smooth, a bit bitter at the end, with grey ash, but all of that is cure, not genetics. A few more weeks and it should be excellent. Effect : I smoked it in the evening, three or four spaced hits, alone, after a long day with a lot of physical activity. I was tired and hadn’t smoked in at least six days, so take the intensity with that in mind. It took a couple of minutes to start and then kept unfolding, very soft but continuous, until it peaked at around 20 minutes. It’s all head, with almost nothing in the body, which surprised me considering how physically tired I was. Energetic, even talkative. I ended up on the phone for about fifteen minutes, very relaxed. Maybe a bit racy, but in the sense of being active and sped up, not in a bad way. It lasted at least two hours and came down clean, a little hungry but nothing crazy, and with no side effects I could point to. It’s the kind of high that wants you doing something, like cooking, playing music or moving around the house, or even sitting at the laptop but doing something. If this effect repeats, it could dethrone my daytime favorites, Studio 54 and Super Silver Haze. One session isn’t enough to say that, so I’ll keep testing it as the cure goes on.