Irie Vibe Seedbank Review: Mau mau and Krakatoa

Clown Baby

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I ordered some seeds from Irie Vibe a few months ago and wanted to share my experience.

Shipping and communication: Jeffman over there is great. Emails were returned within 24 hours. Seeds arrived in the US within a couple of weeks. Very discrete shipping.

The strain I ordered was MauMau. (blazing pisileros)
The lineage is apparently Blockhead (indica dom) X Killa queen. Not familiar with any of the parents, but the pics they put up of this thing flowered out looked prime. Out of 10 seeds in the pack, about 8 were shit. I was growing out a few different strains at once, and the mau maus were consistently the worst performers. Very picky eaters, and just performed poorly from the first set of true leaves. I cracked eight when I first got the pack, and I recently popped the last two. Culled one of those two today, for looking the same as the other 8. The final one is looking decent, and I really hope it behaves itself. If it makes things any better, 10 of 10 germed.

The Freebie pack I got was Krakatoa. (blazing pistileros)
Krakatoa is supposedly a MauMau father crossed with a Fruit Loop Haze female. You can definitely see the sativa in these guys. About four of them had a very lanky structure with large internode spacing. But I did find one gem. Very tight node spacing, christmas tree shape, and now that it's flowering, smells amazing. Fruit loop haze wasn't just a clever name. Really does smell fruity. I ended up culling most of these, but I'm keeping the one. It's flowering out now. It's going to be a long flower time and not a big yielder, but I think it'll be good smoke. It's also seeming to be pretty PM resistant. This one might be a keeper.


Overall, this bank has good communication, good shipping, and unique strains. But I was really disappointed with the mau mau (hopefully this last one redeems it). If they hadn't given me a freebie pack that had this winning krakatoa phenotype, I'd be VERY upset at this point.

Pic is of the krakatoa. Been growing since February. Smells amazing. Not big buds, but it's nice and frosty.
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Nice plants bro! I am also growing mau mau frm irie vibes and did find that some of the genes were off but i did get one outta the five that i germed with the characteristics i was looking for! They seam like they crave cal/mag cause i got four that started to curl at the leaves and get hard and crunchy i flushed wit spring water for a week and they showed signs of recuperation, the one that i kept looks great and ive cloned her already and juz flowered out the rest.
 
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