Just thought I would post a review of some experiments with KC Brains Mango & Afghan. I had fond memories of smoking this strain back in the day, and so I enquired whether it was still around. Let’s just say it worked out fine.
It all began with a few sneaky winter F1s to get the seed count up, pics below:
Now this was then inbred again to try and see if it could be made to evolve to local conditions, most of the F2s were killed off as insufficiently vigorous but as you can see there’s definitely a real difference between the afghan/indica types and the sativa types that come from the Brazilian heritage in this strain
The sativa types, getting better. Hard to give a perspective on this plant because it’s about 7 ft long and 6 ft high. Not the highest yielder but the buds were definitely dense, sticky and very mango smelling and the plant was extremely low maintenance throughout growth.
Drop in if you’ve got anything to say about KC brains varieties, I’m interested to hear what other people have done. Since they are pretty much the cheapest seeds available I was pleasantly surprised, given that many expensive seeds just simply didn’t hold up under conditions.
Generally I’m pretty happy with how the strain held up under repeated inbreeding. Obviously it’s uncrossing the variety but the aim is to linebreed the F3s with some of the original seeds to breed up some giant phenotypes.
I’ve been looking into all the old mango strains. My Holy grail is to find what we used to smoke as mango back in the day. Tasted like you bit right into one and stoned the shit out of you in one hit. Some nice looking plants!
I have no idea what specific strain that emerald triangle / SF mango kush was, but that was some seriously dank bud. I wish I could get my hands on that stuff again.
Have run his Leda Uno and Brains Choice. Both nice, flavourful smokes. Leda Uno has a lemon citrus thing going on, stays green throughout a grow and the Brains Choice has berry flavours, stays squat with lots of side branching and purples beautifully. In terms of potency, the phenos I had were daytime vibes and good for working. They were different, interesting and I’d recommend anyone to run a few plants in a multi-variety grow. I have done this for the last few grows doing a little search with small facilities I’ve got. I didn’t find super strong phenos of anything but would say they were nice head spaces.
Why his varieties are so cheap is because he’s anti-capitalist. His beans are now more expensive than they ever were. Still less than $20. But I’ve bought brand new packs in the past for about four bucks and was able to buy a few packs to keep for future. He deliberately keeps pries low. I still have a pack of his Haze special which is getting on and will probs be run soonish.
He’s considered a good breeder by other respected breeders and has been around as long as any one from the Dam scene in the late 80s/90s… Hope everyone has fun with his beans.
Got a nice Afghani looking female and a Hybrid looking male. Not sure if I have any pics of them still. But just pulled out the beans again to see if they were viable and popped one but turned out to be a male (Bottom cultivar) deciding whether to keep and use In a future x I think I still got 2 beans left.
Nice colours and that already in veg. KC Brains is a good breeder, maybe has the best mindset of all of these, extremely friendly and honest. Also his breeding techniques are much apart from all this incestous inbreeding causing mold-prone plants and other kinds of problems just for the sake of phenotypic uniformity. I’ve had KC genetics at 10% THC but offering a supernice and long empathical high, some sativas are actually too strong for me. In contrast there’s commercial liars like AnesiaSeeds that will advocate around 40% THC and then the plant tests at 15% only and the effect is extremely inferior, like 2%, and over after 2 hours…
KC uses alot of “sativa” landraces which he will cross into his early/fast flowering/bigflowering “indicas” to get something in between, even using pollen from multiple parents which is remnisicient to open pollination of outdoor landraces. Thus you may get a wild ‘phenotype circus’ that is really actually a genotype circus. Some plants fall very close to his landraces or better: wild-forms used, esp. brazil, thai, even NZ, and the other carry more maternal genes of his house KC lines. These are even offered also as seeds, and very good, most of these are regs, so he’s even offering a good quality seed to those that which to start breeding.
