Hi Guys -
So I just recently harvested a plant that turned out every bit as good as the buds look, and I was inspired enough to do a strain review on her, as I haven't yet seen this strain reviewed. So I understand the review on this plant is connected to the way I grew her, as all reviews are I suppose. To that end, she was vegged for 72 days, flowered for 68 days, and LST'ed. I kept her small - she was only 28" tall, yet she gave me just a shade under a QP of finished, perfect buds. I posted a couple pictures of the buds at the end for visual reference points.
Strain Name - Jelly Rancher
From - Humboldt Seed Company
Grown By: Me
Type - 70/30 Sativa heavy hybrid
Genetics - Very Cherry x Notorious T.H.C.
Harvested/Cured - Harvested July 2, dried 6 days, cured 14 days
Appearance - Various shades of green with significant purple and darkish orange hairs, densely covered with trichomes, dense buds (not rocks, but denser than a Magic Eraser, for example)
Smell - Primary and first smell is blue cotton candy with undefined fruitiness, sweetness, pungent, skunky, with a slight background of gas
Taste - Very very sweet and sugary with significant but as yet undefined fruit - so sugary it leaves an aftertaste of sugar on the palate that lasts through a post bowl cigarette (lol) - with a very slight gassy dankness in the background. The sweet exceeds the dank.
Type of Buzz - I am a musician and this is the best playing buzz I've grown or found yet, it rivals Jack Herer and Super Silver Haze in that regard. The buzz is cerebral, intensely creative, extremely "UP" (this has something to do with when I harvested her relative to trichomes), and provides an intense focus. I've been smoking it first thing in the morning and it beats the crap out of a cup of coffee on the focus end. But it is not so "coke-y" that it jams or binds you up as some heavy sativas and high THC sativa hybrids are prone to do.
Length of Buzz - About two hours. Head heavy at first that morphs into a nice body buzz later on.
THC Level - According to HSC it is supposed to come in at 26-30%. I don't have a test kit or access to a lab, but just from being a veteran smoker I'm guessing it came in around the 26% end of that. It is PLENTY strong, even for a veteran, daily, round the clock smoker.
Best Medicinal Use - All I can say about this is that I have constant back pain and this made me feel significantly better.
Overall - There are a lot of things to like about this bud. It's gorgeous - by far the prettiest bud I have grown. It's high thc and gets you very very high. It smells like a dream and if you like sweet bud, this is perhaps a bud to try. It's WAY sweet. Granted I loaded her up with molasses for most of flowering, but that's only part of the story. The bud is genetically sweet. The smoke is smooth, even after only 14 days of cure, and it's one of those strains you want to keep smoking even after you're high enough cuz the taste is so addictive. I would grow this again for sure, and let her get a lot bigger to see what she is capable of producing. EXCELLENT STRAIN with EXCELLENT GENETICS.
Photographs of this bud:
1. Jelly Rancher before harvest under the extended reds, thus the lighting
2. Buds looked like this in real light, very purple, with lots of cool leaves like this
3. Example of a finish trimmed bud and what they all pretty much look like
So I just recently harvested a plant that turned out every bit as good as the buds look, and I was inspired enough to do a strain review on her, as I haven't yet seen this strain reviewed. So I understand the review on this plant is connected to the way I grew her, as all reviews are I suppose. To that end, she was vegged for 72 days, flowered for 68 days, and LST'ed. I kept her small - she was only 28" tall, yet she gave me just a shade under a QP of finished, perfect buds. I posted a couple pictures of the buds at the end for visual reference points.
Strain Name - Jelly Rancher
From - Humboldt Seed Company
Grown By: Me
Type - 70/30 Sativa heavy hybrid
Genetics - Very Cherry x Notorious T.H.C.
Harvested/Cured - Harvested July 2, dried 6 days, cured 14 days
Appearance - Various shades of green with significant purple and darkish orange hairs, densely covered with trichomes, dense buds (not rocks, but denser than a Magic Eraser, for example)
Smell - Primary and first smell is blue cotton candy with undefined fruitiness, sweetness, pungent, skunky, with a slight background of gas
Taste - Very very sweet and sugary with significant but as yet undefined fruit - so sugary it leaves an aftertaste of sugar on the palate that lasts through a post bowl cigarette (lol) - with a very slight gassy dankness in the background. The sweet exceeds the dank.
Type of Buzz - I am a musician and this is the best playing buzz I've grown or found yet, it rivals Jack Herer and Super Silver Haze in that regard. The buzz is cerebral, intensely creative, extremely "UP" (this has something to do with when I harvested her relative to trichomes), and provides an intense focus. I've been smoking it first thing in the morning and it beats the crap out of a cup of coffee on the focus end. But it is not so "coke-y" that it jams or binds you up as some heavy sativas and high THC sativa hybrids are prone to do.
Length of Buzz - About two hours. Head heavy at first that morphs into a nice body buzz later on.
THC Level - According to HSC it is supposed to come in at 26-30%. I don't have a test kit or access to a lab, but just from being a veteran smoker I'm guessing it came in around the 26% end of that. It is PLENTY strong, even for a veteran, daily, round the clock smoker.
Best Medicinal Use - All I can say about this is that I have constant back pain and this made me feel significantly better.
Overall - There are a lot of things to like about this bud. It's gorgeous - by far the prettiest bud I have grown. It's high thc and gets you very very high. It smells like a dream and if you like sweet bud, this is perhaps a bud to try. It's WAY sweet. Granted I loaded her up with molasses for most of flowering, but that's only part of the story. The bud is genetically sweet. The smoke is smooth, even after only 14 days of cure, and it's one of those strains you want to keep smoking even after you're high enough cuz the taste is so addictive. I would grow this again for sure, and let her get a lot bigger to see what she is capable of producing. EXCELLENT STRAIN with EXCELLENT GENETICS.
Photographs of this bud:
1. Jelly Rancher before harvest under the extended reds, thus the lighting
2. Buds looked like this in real light, very purple, with lots of cool leaves like this
3. Example of a finish trimmed bud and what they all pretty much look like
