sativaman

Critical Kush from Barney, is the living definition of vigour. Great adaptability to the growing environment, strong adaptation and resistance, very stable. Even at chop day she was looking strong. This week, she was kind enough to welcome me home with an overall kushy smell coming from the exhaust. But the plant itself during trim had zero gazzy skunky smell. This is the only reason I have not to give her the perfect score. If a strain is named with the Kush word, it gotta have some dankness. During trimming, hands got rapidly covered with a coat of oil, and fingers got shinny and sticky. Flowers where huge, with medium density. Smell was fruity, with backgrounds of mint and rotten. Calyx to leaf ratio was about average. This phenotype showed some beautiful fall colours caused by low temps soil, and strong QB style LED.

Phoenix White Widow took about 60 days after flower formation began to finish. Honestly, she could have used an other week. But she was pushing a few bananas, and I really did not want to pollinate my Zamaldelicas just a few feet away. Giving it 8 stars is the max I can give to strain that is hermiying. Buds are rock hard, lime green, very sticky, packed with oil and resin, smelly with fruity notes, pine and cheese (rotten blue cheese). Trichome production remain on the low level, despite what genetic was meant to be. Trichs are small and mostly at the base of sugar leaves. Plant was a charm to trim, job was done in 10 minutes. Very impressed with the potential yield, despite it is the last thing I care about.

Efficient and fast acting.

Use this light combined with some CalMag

Growers, the real food is your light! Better stronger light = more grow. Forget about fancy expensive bottled supplements.

Best light for $

What a ride it was!!! Humboldt Seeds Company brings us some dank genetic with this impressive strain. Packed with anthocyanin, loaded with heavy terpenes, every phenotypes revealed in this grow have some huge potential, with that gaz smell we all Love, and some awesome bag appeal. This strains live up it's name and the breeder's description. Growers, get your carbon filter ready! The level of smell becomes hard to impossible to cover, if you are doing a complete stealth grow. This adds up to the level of difficulty. Also, this colourful strain is harder to follow it's progression, nutrients needs, and to determined when she is ready. Pushing the night and soil temperature on the lower sure brought some awesome colours. Delaying harvest also brought extra frost, and denser buds. But 2 out of 3 pushed a few bananas at the end of their flowering, and the 3rd one grew a branch with some male flowers. Very manageable, but it shows some weakness.

Full blown hermaphrodite with balls everywhere. No kushy smell. Growers stay away!

Dear Gaia Green, Please, can you put more K in your so called cannabis friendly nutrients?? This ratio of N-P-K is not optimal for growing cannabis...

Just cal mag please (it contains N and iron. I just want CalMag)

got the old version: cheap and sturdy

Amazing light for cheap.

Nutrients only *support the growth* the real food is your light. Don't be a cheap ass and put your money where it matters!!!

✊2 different phenotypes to try. Not what I had in mind, but they will be a real delight. My guess is plant 1 will be very, very strong and plant 2 would be very very strong as well. ******************************************************** SMOKE TEST, REPORT & COMMENTS 2 WEEKS AFTER ********************************************************** Feels like I did not get a phenotype that is a real blend of those 2 legends. 2 seeds, 2 different plants, one looks like a Bubba, the other one like a Malawi. Results are not what I was expecting, has my first criteria to grow this strain was to improve the terpene profile of the Malawi. Plant 1, aka Malawi dominant Really finished like a classic Malawi (yes, Sativaman already grew a few of them😍...). Light green, chunky hard buds, drenched in resin, great calyxes ratio, and full of trichomes. Smell is what I'd describe as nutty woody oily like other Malawi. And like other Malawi I can get some vanilla and pine undertones that seems to go away in the first months. Gotta say, buds are harder than usual, and resin production was exceptional.. Effects are heavy. For seasoned smokers. Usually I smoke joints around one gram, with this one I've learned quickly that smaller is better. At higher dose it's good for greening out. Very heavy and psychadelic feelings, like edibles at very high dose (300mg thc+). I guess it would be fantastic for medical uses as a morphine substitute. At lower dose you get the excitement of Sativas, with increased hart beat, feeling like moving and doing stuff. Still some heaviness and distortion. At this strenght, when you get a hit, the psychedelic effects hit you and this is what I Love with this strain! It feels like you've jump out of plane in parachute, nice haed spin rush with diziness, Do I like her?, or Do I Love her?! = I LOVE her !!! this is the best *Malawi* I have ever grown!! Best effects, most appealing harvest, best burning qualities, but not with a dankier smell... Plant 2 aka Bubba dominant Finished with almost all qualities a grower could expect: killer looking buds, purple colour, rock hard buds, covered with trichomes ... but with very little smell and no taste!! =( ... I know this is a major deception and I am very sad to write this.. Truth hurt but it is what it is. ACE did not used a modern cut, neither the classic one for this cross: they used the Katsu cut. While Katsu is the father of every Bubba, the Katsu cut is a floral version. I've smoked a lot of this when I was young.... Nothing bad to say but not what you expect when you talk about Bubba kush. ACE's mission is to preserve and spread biodiversity so I guess using an old school underground cut for a cross, even for a *classic*, makes sense.. *sight* .... Effects, well she smokes like an indica, not too heavy, and as the opposite to her Malawi sister, effects gets more psychedelic on the mid term instead of the short term. While not being too strong this is a nice blend of both body and mind buzz. So.. Do I like her? or Do I Love her!?? I like her.... this is not exceptional smoke, a little blend, and reason to grow this was for some Dank, Stinky, Pungent, Skunky aromas. None of them are here.

Thanks to it's airy bud structure, I have been sampling bottom of plant smaller nugs that somehow dries first only 4 days after chop. This is uncured, but really fresh cannabis still have all it's terpenes and oils, perfect for testing. After cure and longer testing I will come back to add final review and comments. What a great surprise on all aspects: smell, taste, effects, and even look, despite like I've said airy buds. Effects are full body with a clean head. I was missing this body kind of feeling that brings a touch of comfort, warmth, relaxation. This one is a heavy hitter with a touch of psychedelic, but that goes away with expirations, leaving a pleasant taste in mouth and nose, with peace and without worry. A lot of things can happen with hybrids and crosses. As ACE commented, this phenotype seems similar to their Kali China mother and it shows on it's effects. This is strong stuff. Even with high tolerance effects are noticeable at lower dose and she is most probably above the 12% THC from ACE's sample, but more on the higher range they give for a Kali China (14-22%). Taste remind me the one of Hasplant or Powerplant: heartiness and hashish but with extra notes of dankness, sour, and something that I cannot pinpoint. The buds smell a combination of pine, lemon and oil that somehow blend together into mango. ACE always surprises and deliver with unique plants and effects. This one is really enjoyable and makes it perfect for daytime lazy days, or night you want to relax.

Useful with bright LEDs

I own the old ones that are rated for 65 lbs support they are sturdy and nicely build.

great budget light

best light for $

....Really I wish I could give a 10 - I am NOT! the firsts it happened to this strain seems prone to hermie. To my knowledge I am 3rd grower here on GD it happens to. My crop is seeded, not heavily but in all maybe 30-40 seeds. - Congo have a lot of variation in it's genes. Got 2 different giant green sativa, a dwarf, and 2 purple absolute different plant. It does not behave like a F1. - It did not take long after iniating bloom for the 2 purple plants to show N toxicity despite grown in organic soil. Also had some mutation on leaves and bananas (hermie) on plant 2. They are sensitive and picky ladies that behave differently. - On top of that had to chop early because botrytis was found on 2 plants. After bringing them for manicure, only plant 1 felt like it needed more time. Still, it was supposed to be Highly resistant to mold and botrytis. Hermaphrodism and bud rot are the worst grower's nightmare!!!! but!, Their is ALWAYS 2 sides on a medal: - All 5 phenos looks killer. Contacted by e-mail ACE explained the F1 cross: it would be an IBL of PCK and Bangi Congo x Congo 3. ACE did not told more about the IBL (maybe it needed more breeding to be stabilised) Gotta give credit for responding. - Despite some N toxicity, taste, trichome and resin production were not affected. And despite a few male flower that showed up once they were pinched the plant did not pushed a single other one!! - About botrytis; I've packed my tent from wall to wall, I knew plant 2 was done and dying, she was the first plant to be affected, gotta take a part of the responsibility.... Plus my 4x4 only had one single 4inch fan to move the air between plants. After all, even if I rated it as Hard to grow, to be honest I was really busy all along the flowering cycle. Basically all I did was pour down water twice a week and keep them staked. Could have been a total different story if I did not saw the bananas and the bud rot just in time....Their different sizes and feeding needs is not for beginners. As I take some blame for the bud rot I cannot say that resistance is weak. Neutral is the the most objective I can put.