Goofing around with AI strain summaries

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I sometimes go through my seed collection document and think to myself that I just don’t have enough info. So AI is sort of good about info collection and summerization.

I was lucky a while back and won a give-away by Doug (thanks, Doug!). He sent me BSH x CHEMO. So I asked my AI assistant for a write-up on the cross of “butterscotch hawaiian x Chemo” with it returning…

Let me analyze this cross with complete information about both parent strains:

Parent Analysis

Butterscotch Hawaiian

  • Balanced 50/50 hybrid
  • THC: 15.75-19.5%
  • CBD: 0.45-1.1%
  • Flowering: 71-83 days
  • Height: 30-60 inches
  • Yield: 400g/m² indoor, 550g/plant outdoor
  • Effects: Talkative, focused, creative
  • Flavor: Sweet butterscotch, tropical fruits, citrus17

Chemo (UBC Chemo)

  • Pure Indica (100%)
  • THC: 18-29%
  • CBD: 0.1-0.5%
  • Flowering: 7-8 weeks
  • Height: 3 feet
  • Yield: 18-28 oz/m² indoor, 24 oz/plant outdoor
  • Effects: Relaxed, sleepy, pain relief
  • Medical benefits: Insomnia, pain, stress42

Expected Characteristics

Growth Pattern

  • Medium height (3-4 feet)
  • Dense bud structure
  • 9-10 week flowering time
  • Good disease resistance inherited from both parents

Effects Profile

  • Strong physical relaxation from Chemo genetics
  • Balanced mental effects from Butterscotch Hawaiian
  • Potential THC range: 17-24%
  • Excellent medical applications for:
    • Pain management
    • Sleep issues
    • Stress relief
    • Appetite stimulation

Flavor/Aroma

  • Sweet butterscotch base notes
  • Woody, earthy undertones
  • Complex terpene profile combining both parents’ characteristics12

This cross combines Chemo’s powerful medical benefits with Butterscotch Hawaiian’s balanced effects and unique flavor profile.

Chemo is reportedly a bit of a pain in the ass to grow, so I tossed another question out there. “Would it be easier to grow than straight-up Chemo?”

Based on the parent strains’ characteristics, a Butterscotch Hawaiian x Chemo cross would likely be easier to grow than pure Chemo for several reasons:

Growth Advantages

  • Butterscotch Hawaiian brings more forgiving growth patterns
  • The hybrid vigor from crossing could improve overall plant health
  • More resistance to environmental stress

Specific Improvements

  • Chemo requires "some experience needed to grow"6
  • The cross would likely reduce Chemo’s longer flowering time5
  • Butterscotch Hawaiian’s balanced genetics could help moderate Chemo’s demanding growth requirements

Growing Parameters

  • Flowering time would likely fall between parents (8-10 weeks)
  • Height would be manageable at 3-4 feet
  • The plant would retain Chemo’s disease resistance while gaining Butterscotch Hawaiian’s adaptability

The combination would likely produce a more grower-friendly plant while still maintaining much of Chemo’s therapeutic potential. The trade-off would be some reduction in the pure medical potency that makes Chemo famous.

Is the AI full of shiz or what?

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Im gonna go with shiz

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I’ll have to double down on shiz

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AI probably googled it so gotta be true…shiz

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Perhaps less fact than fantasy but def entertaining

Lowkey reminds me of descriptions from sub-par seed companies

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Butterscotch Hawaiian flowering time: listed as 71-83 days (10-12 weeks)

UBC Chemo flowering time: listed as 7-8 weeks (49-56 days)

AI’s answer: The cross would likely reduce Chemo’s longer flowering time5

:clown_face:

Also just noticed the citation for this *“fact”* about “Chemo’s longer flowering time” is a link to a product page selling what they claim are chemo cannabis seeds. Do with that info what you will.

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What model are you using? How many parameters? That makes a big difference.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I prefer this model since it seems to be a bit less focused on my happiness and tries to stick to facts (as it sees them). It is a paid service, so I don’t have any control over any launch parameters or settings.

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I only have 16gb of ram and was running 14b Deepseek r1 (14GB RAM - 12gb ram and 2 gb swap + 4 gb for computer tasks, so technically I could go slightly more if I had to) and 8b dolphin3 via Ollama with plenty of RAM to spare.

You may want to look into that cuz it is free and local. Command line interface. They’re getting better by the day. Deepseek is a reasoning model that can show its train of thought. It annoys me too much so I stick with dolphin3 usually as it is uncensored.

If you have more ram then it opens up the doors dramatically.

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I will give it a look. I have plenty of memory (32gb, another 12gb on a video card) and was already planning on grabbing Stable Diffusion for image generation.

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Ollama might need for me to do some work. It doesn’t reference the web when installed out of the box, so it only seems to work in generalities and is short on facts. I don’t know if I can give it web access, but even if I did, I doubt that it could parse the text very quickly since it is, uh, a fairly slow talker.

Still pretty cool and I will experiment and play around with it.

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