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following up from a long time ago, here is archive’s rudeboy og grown outdoor in organic soil. This was grown in 2018 so it has cured to a full amber.
It wasn’t one of my favorites. I found it really generic, and it didn’t resemble an OG line at all in appearance or effect. The genetics are Irene OG x faceoff og.
The most positive things I can say about it are that it definitely has the same floral fruit loops smell as the Irene OG, and it produces decent concentrate yields.
The bud is harsh whether you smoke or vaporize it. I had tried it as dispensary bud and it was always harsh. I figured I could grow a much better product with the same clone in my organic garden, but it came out exactly the same as the commercial bud grown with synthetic nutrients. This is the only time I have experienced that. With every other cut I have grown, I have always been able to grow way higher quality bud compared to the commercial product.
This has no resemblance to the classic bay area and southern california OG’s that people from california associate with the OG name. The structure is very apically dominant and produces a large primary cola with minimal branching. That is the opposite of a true og which produces small raspberry sized buds all over the plant, with lots of viney horizontal branching.
This looked like a dutch indica, not an Ocean Grown. This would die a horrible bud rot death if you grew it in the foggy coastal conditions that real Ocean Grown strains are adapted for.
The high is kind of a dumb sedative effect with couch lock.
Again, I wouldn’t compare it to a real og. I would describe a classic california OG as having the calmness of an indica with a very heady perspective altering effect, body euphoria, immediate pain relief and appetite stimulation, and some other sensations that I associate with african or thai sativas.
The irene OG comes from atlanta, and it appeared at a time when any really high quality bud or bud from out of state was frequently referred to as ‘kush’ or ‘og’ regardless of the strain. There is really no evidence that it has any shared lineage with the classic OG lines. At best it may be a distant relative by way of the emerald triangle green bud that was bought to florida and became known as triangle kush.
So in fairness, this may be a decent representation of the irene og.
but it’s still not as high quality as actual irene, so I don’t get the point of this rudeboy as a clone only. the irene was also a clone only and I liked that bud a lot better.
Archive said this smelled like gasoline and kush, and was like the classic OG’s of the early 2000’s. That was just sales pitch, and it set me up for disappointment.
