I don’t want to seem high-minded or noobish. I’ve only been growing a little over three years, and the pheno I’m bragging about now is only the fifth (or sixth, or seventh) in a row of disappointing entries in a pheno hunt. It’s not a one in a thousand, or even a one in a hundred.
For a couple of years I’ve been running Afgaan 90 x Kumaoni offspring from an F1 seed run. Results have been pretty disappointing, with usually a great growth habit but mids.
One lady (of the previous cross) I grew last year hermed all over everything in the tent. At the time, I was flowering a Purple Canyon pheno I called “Industrial.” It smelled like a can of motor oil - weird, but totally awesome at the same time. That pheno turned out to be THE ONE, as far as I’m concerned I took cuts. I even sent one to a friend. But my cuts died and my friend let his die too.
So I lost the Purple Canyon Industrial clone. It’s not like it’s all that special. I didn’t pop 200 Purple Canyon seeds and say, “I found my unicorn!” Nevertheless… It had this smell of motor oil that I was obsessively sniffing. Really addictive. Plus, it was potent and featured euphoria and a cocaine-like feeling in the stomach.
Almost all of the previous grows that made it to harvest were smokable and worth the grow. Not special, but smokable. If you bought them at the dispensary, you wouldn’t feel like you were ripped off. But I was looking for a specific pheno that smelled like motor oil and made me feel like I snorted some coke and smoked some weed.
The Afgaan 90 x Kumaoni that hermed, hermed on the Purple Canyon pheno I was calling “Industrial.” I grew out several seeds from that cross. Most of them were smokable and potent, but not like the one clone I lost. The most recent, “Synthetic,” was a huge disappointment with larfy, weak buds.
I know this sounds like an infomercial. Fine. Follow the link to spend money. Otherwise…
This clone, Snow, faithfully channels the original Purple Canyon I lost. Aside from terpenes, that is. I’m really fucking happy with it.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with this. I’ll self it, but F2s have been really variable with Purple Canyon. I’m definitely going to hang onto the clone until something better comes along. Greenpoint Seeds should hire me for endorsements (they haven’t).
So this thread is to document what comes next. Whatever it is, involves me making seeds and doing my part to overgrow the world.
Here are some pictures of what I’m bragging about.
So I’m calling Snow, my new clone-only strain, Crosstops and Hash. Because in the '80s, if I took 3 crosstops and smoked some hash, it would feel like this.
