Hi guys, today I'll try my hand at reviewing my Slurricane, one of the best indica dominant hybrid strains I have grown yet.
I like to start with the basic facts as I understand them:
Strain: Slurricane
Lineage: Dos Si Dos X Purple Punch
Breeder: Greenpoint Seeds
I/S: 60% indica/40% sativa
THC: 21-28%
Dominant Terpene: Limonene
Soil: Sohum
Nutes: Only a few additives: CalMag plus Iron/Terpinator/blackstrap molasses/FF Microbe Brew/Bokasi and Frass tea
Pot Size: 5 gallon
Light: 550 watt veg/680 watt flower professional bar-type LED
Grow: 60 day veg/72 day flower
Training: LST/minimal supercropping
Cure Date: 12/11/21
The rest is pretty much all subjective opinion.
Appearance: Always my favorite answer. The pictures answer this question better than my words could. I will note that while growing and especially in flower, as some of you saw, this girl got INSANELY colorful. She first turned almost completely pink, a few weeks or so before the picture of the plant shown. Then all the pink turned purple on the canopy and various shades of several other fall-esque colors on the lower leaves. It was absolutely the most colorful plant I've grown by a mile. I got this level of color, I believe, mostly due to letting the temps overnight get down into the low 50s. She began to show her color very early - ahead of the other two plants in that space by weeks.
Density: Very dense, hefty buds
Trichome Production: Very high in my opinion
Smell: Wish my smeller worked better - like many of us, spending so much time around weed in all stages of growth, dry and cure has sort of blurred the senses of my smeller. I don't necessarily trust it. When I pass off weed to people that I think doesn't smell like much, they inevitably come back telling me how dank it is and how it smelled up their whole place. So that said, from this bud I get a very complex odor that seems to encompass a lot of "flavors" for the nose. It also seems to sort of change a little depending on the day and the bud. Predominantly sweet and fruity. The fruity is sort of "general" fruity, versus any one specific fruit I can identify. The closest would be lemon. It also has a deep earthiness to it. Additionally, I get these unusual woody notes from it - like fresh sandalwood or something in that realm. It smells fabulous and the terpenes are very strong. If you grind it it explodes and fills the room in a matter of seconds.
Taste: Ah. Part of the highlight of this bud. As complex as the smell, and very deep. Stays on the palate a long time. My taster works a lot better than my smeller, lol. I get much like the smell on the taste - mostly fruity, dank, earthy and a tiny bit of that spicy/woody taste. The exception compared to the smell is that there is also a decent amount of that very desirable (at least to me) sour fruit flavor you get sometimes. Almost like a fruity sour patch kid sort of effect. It honestly tastes spectacular.
Smoke: Off-white, medium level creamy in terms of texture, very smooth, upper-mid-level smoke density
Buzz: Lol. I can barely smoke this weed. For a hybrid that is only a 60/40 indica lean, it sure comes off like an 80//20 or something. The buzz spanks you immediately, HARD, and then comes back around and spanks you again, if that makes sense (probably not, lol). It's kind of like the type of buzz that comes in waves. It fills my head almost immediately and begins to move neck down, and pretty quickly. Within minutes, for me, it becomes what I perceive as almost entirely a classic indica buzz. Makes me super relaxed, happy, and before too long, not long after the maybe 15 to 20 minutes of euphoria, very tired and sleepy. For me this is strictly night time bud, and often my "get a good night's sleep for a change" go to bud. It's VERY strong. I have no testing mechanism, but I estimate it in the high 20's in terms of THC%. And with the high trichome count, it's very expansive in the lungs, so maybe a cough to the uninitiated from the expansion. I don't cough, but it does make me have to take several short breaths after a hit. I'm a big fan of this. To each their own. Lol.
Growing It: Growing in Sohum, honestly this plant couldn't be easier. She dealt with whatever I tossed at her with no issues start to finish. The outer ring of buds was very productive, as was the plant in general. She gave me 5.5 ounces of bud like in the pictures. Also about an ounce or more of flarf. And a ton of kief. One thing of note was that any outer branch that I topped, creating two colas instead of one on them, the buds got almost as big as the non-topped side branches, including some from the same node. I found this a little unusual in that usually I find the untopped colas outgrow the topped ones (in terms of individual bud size - the two from topping together may outweigh the one untopped). I would unquestionably grow this plant again.
Final Impressions: This is quite simply the best finished bud I have produced to date in my growing "career." It checks more boxes, and more intensely, than anything I've grown yet. I personally find no downside to this bud whatsoever, just have to know when to use it. Lol.
Pictures:
1. The plant a few weeks before harvest. Yes, those are her real colors under full spectrum LED. This was as she was transitioning from the lighter pink to the dark purple.
2. The bud on December 11th, the day I final trimmed and jarred it. Man was she sweet when she hit the jar. Two months cured now.
3. The bud today. I smoked from this one for the test from a clean bong with cold clean water. First buzz of the day. I'll be napping at lunch. Lol!
4. Closeup. Note how well the trichomes have maintained after two months of cure.
All hail the mighty Slurricane!!!!
I like to start with the basic facts as I understand them:
Strain: Slurricane
Lineage: Dos Si Dos X Purple Punch
Breeder: Greenpoint Seeds
I/S: 60% indica/40% sativa
THC: 21-28%
Dominant Terpene: Limonene
Soil: Sohum
Nutes: Only a few additives: CalMag plus Iron/Terpinator/blackstrap molasses/FF Microbe Brew/Bokasi and Frass tea
Pot Size: 5 gallon
Light: 550 watt veg/680 watt flower professional bar-type LED
Grow: 60 day veg/72 day flower
Training: LST/minimal supercropping
Cure Date: 12/11/21
The rest is pretty much all subjective opinion.
Appearance: Always my favorite answer. The pictures answer this question better than my words could. I will note that while growing and especially in flower, as some of you saw, this girl got INSANELY colorful. She first turned almost completely pink, a few weeks or so before the picture of the plant shown. Then all the pink turned purple on the canopy and various shades of several other fall-esque colors on the lower leaves. It was absolutely the most colorful plant I've grown by a mile. I got this level of color, I believe, mostly due to letting the temps overnight get down into the low 50s. She began to show her color very early - ahead of the other two plants in that space by weeks.
Density: Very dense, hefty buds
Trichome Production: Very high in my opinion
Smell: Wish my smeller worked better - like many of us, spending so much time around weed in all stages of growth, dry and cure has sort of blurred the senses of my smeller. I don't necessarily trust it. When I pass off weed to people that I think doesn't smell like much, they inevitably come back telling me how dank it is and how it smelled up their whole place. So that said, from this bud I get a very complex odor that seems to encompass a lot of "flavors" for the nose. It also seems to sort of change a little depending on the day and the bud. Predominantly sweet and fruity. The fruity is sort of "general" fruity, versus any one specific fruit I can identify. The closest would be lemon. It also has a deep earthiness to it. Additionally, I get these unusual woody notes from it - like fresh sandalwood or something in that realm. It smells fabulous and the terpenes are very strong. If you grind it it explodes and fills the room in a matter of seconds.
Taste: Ah. Part of the highlight of this bud. As complex as the smell, and very deep. Stays on the palate a long time. My taster works a lot better than my smeller, lol. I get much like the smell on the taste - mostly fruity, dank, earthy and a tiny bit of that spicy/woody taste. The exception compared to the smell is that there is also a decent amount of that very desirable (at least to me) sour fruit flavor you get sometimes. Almost like a fruity sour patch kid sort of effect. It honestly tastes spectacular.
Smoke: Off-white, medium level creamy in terms of texture, very smooth, upper-mid-level smoke density
Buzz: Lol. I can barely smoke this weed. For a hybrid that is only a 60/40 indica lean, it sure comes off like an 80//20 or something. The buzz spanks you immediately, HARD, and then comes back around and spanks you again, if that makes sense (probably not, lol). It's kind of like the type of buzz that comes in waves. It fills my head almost immediately and begins to move neck down, and pretty quickly. Within minutes, for me, it becomes what I perceive as almost entirely a classic indica buzz. Makes me super relaxed, happy, and before too long, not long after the maybe 15 to 20 minutes of euphoria, very tired and sleepy. For me this is strictly night time bud, and often my "get a good night's sleep for a change" go to bud. It's VERY strong. I have no testing mechanism, but I estimate it in the high 20's in terms of THC%. And with the high trichome count, it's very expansive in the lungs, so maybe a cough to the uninitiated from the expansion. I don't cough, but it does make me have to take several short breaths after a hit. I'm a big fan of this. To each their own. Lol.
Growing It: Growing in Sohum, honestly this plant couldn't be easier. She dealt with whatever I tossed at her with no issues start to finish. The outer ring of buds was very productive, as was the plant in general. She gave me 5.5 ounces of bud like in the pictures. Also about an ounce or more of flarf. And a ton of kief. One thing of note was that any outer branch that I topped, creating two colas instead of one on them, the buds got almost as big as the non-topped side branches, including some from the same node. I found this a little unusual in that usually I find the untopped colas outgrow the topped ones (in terms of individual bud size - the two from topping together may outweigh the one untopped). I would unquestionably grow this plant again.
Final Impressions: This is quite simply the best finished bud I have produced to date in my growing "career." It checks more boxes, and more intensely, than anything I've grown yet. I personally find no downside to this bud whatsoever, just have to know when to use it. Lol.
Pictures:
1. The plant a few weeks before harvest. Yes, those are her real colors under full spectrum LED. This was as she was transitioning from the lighter pink to the dark purple.
2. The bud on December 11th, the day I final trimmed and jarred it. Man was she sweet when she hit the jar. Two months cured now.
3. The bud today. I smoked from this one for the test from a clean bong with cold clean water. First buzz of the day. I'll be napping at lunch. Lol!
4. Closeup. Note how well the trichomes have maintained after two months of cure.
All hail the mighty Slurricane!!!!
