AK Bean Brains

Tolerance Break

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I don’t “breed”to much, however I do f2 almost every line I grow and cross a few polys of different stuff outdoors. That’s where most of the joy comes from for me is making alot of seeds from a few pricey ones lol. Some lines do good OD and others don’t. I grew from the mid 80s through the mid 90’s without near as many options on genetics as we have today so maybe that plays a part in it all idk. I know back then I don’t remember dealing with the root fungus’s, weak plants, pm or similar issues that are more common in today’s time in my region anyway.
I think people grew weed like any other plant back in the day, and now there's a multi billion dollar industry in selling shit we don't need that does more harm than good, so we buy shit to fix what we broke, so on and so fourth.
 

Homegrown5257

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I think people grew weed like any other plant back in the day, and now there's a multi billion dollar industry in selling shit we don't need that does more harm than good, so we buy shit to fix what we broke, so on and so fourth.
That’s a no bullshit statement right there. I get tickled at all the fancy marijuana soil on the market now. Good ol barnyard with a little perlite and wood ash, egg shells and such mixed in will grow anything about as good as all these special bag soils will.
 

LCKSMTH

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I ordered the SSSC Durban from JBC and every single seed was cracked, missing partial shell, or just the embryo/endosperm out of shell. I'm pretty bummed as it was a $100 pack from AKBB and this is the first time something like this has happened from either person. I'm chalking it up to luck of the draw but dang I was really looking forward to them. Any suggestions on rectifying or should I just cut my loses. Any suggestions are appreciated.
 

Tolerance Break

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I ordered the SSSC Durban from JBC and every single seed was cracked, missing partial shell, or just the embryo/endosperm out of shell. I'm pretty bummed as it was a $100 pack from AKBB and this is the first time something like this has happened from either person. I'm chalking it up to luck of the draw but dang I was really looking forward to them. Any suggestions on rectifying or should I just cut my loses. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Email JBC, if they won't help. Email AKBB, pics would help.

I told him I had a difficult time germinating some seeds from JBC and it might have been my fault, so I wanted to order more from him. He offered replacements and I turned them down because I didnt want to get freebies for something I could have fucked up. Every bean I got from him directly popped so far, and he still sent a replacement pack with my order.

This was my experience, don't take it as gospel.
 

Rufus T. Firefly

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I ordered the SSSC Durban from JBC and every single seed was cracked, missing partial shell, or just the embryo/endosperm out of shell. I'm pretty bummed as it was a $100 pack from AKBB and this is the first time something like this has happened from either person. I'm chalking it up to luck of the draw but dang I was really looking forward to them. Any suggestions on rectifying or should I just cut my loses. Any suggestions are appreciated.
If they were all cracked straight out of the plastic vial that AKBB packages them in that's not your fault IMHO. Unless you crushed the vial somehow.
 

sweetisland2009

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I have a pack of Cherry Lemonade like that. Several are already opened. In my experience those seeds can still germ but once I get to them if they have any issues AKBB said to reach out which I thought was pretty cool. He said that batch was pretty old and wouldn’t mind replacing if needed.

I’ve run 6 akbb strains now and have enjoyed them all and have good germ rates.

I know the feeling though - I think either JBC or AKBB direct would offer to make it right. Both are good down to earth people
 

LCKSMTH

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Thanks, yall. Im not mad and I hate asking for free shit honestly, so I'm probably gonna let it ride considering I'll buy from both of them still without a doubt, no questions asked. Maybe if anything I mention it next time I get a pack but otherwise it's gonna be an interesting experiment popping them. I have 3 in water now and considering they were pre-cracked I think I'm already-ready for paper towels by the looks of them. Maybe they are just jumping out of their shell with anticipation of a nice place to set roots! :P
Anyway! Cheers, yall! Appreciate knowing all the options.
 

jimihendrix1

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Thanks, yall. Im not mad and I hate asking for free shit honestly, so I'm probably gonna let it ride considering I'll buy from both of them still without a doubt, no questions asked. Maybe if anything I mention it next time I get a pack but otherwise it's gonna be an interesting experiment popping them. I have 3 in water now and considering they were pre-cracked I think I'm already-ready for paper towels by the looks of them. Maybe they are just jumping out of their shell with anticipation of a nice place to set roots! :P
Anyway! Cheers, yall! Appreciate knowing all the options.

You arent getting them free. You got a defective product, and you will be helping both JBC, and AKBB if they know the condition of the product you got was defective.
 

Robar

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Email JBC, if they won't help. Email AKBB, pics would help.

I told him I had a difficult time germinating some seeds from JBC and it might have been my fault, so I wanted to order more from him. He offered replacements and I turned them down because I didnt want to get freebies for something I could have fucked up. Every bean I got from him directly popped so far, and he still sent a replacement pack with my order.

This was my experience, don't take it as gospel.
This has been my experience as well. Mrs. AKBB is usually pretty fast to reply and I've always been treated like a valued customer by the AKBB folks.
 

Ilikesnacks

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I ended up with 1 female of the Vietnamese black x oaxacan that I popped. Her branches were very brittle and stiff, I ended up chopping her 2 weeks into flower cause it was going to be impossible to deal with, even defoliating I was snapping branches. I suspect she was a mutant due to her leaf structure but it might have been my failure somehow. They all had an oniony skunk smell but a male had a very nice grapey smell - I still have 4 seeds that I’ll get to.

2 Durban females, one a bit of a runt and fussy so I let her go. The other is very stinky/skunky. The both of them actually started to flower in my veg tent and I can only assume it’s because the light wasn’t intense enough for them as nothing else went that way. Any other reason why this would happen?

1 m48 x Santa Cruz haze female, shes been a breeze so far.
 

joecanna17

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I ordered the SSSC Durban from JBC and every single seed was cracked, missing partial shell, or just the embryo/endosperm out of shell. I'm pretty bummed as it was a $100 pack from AKBB and this is the first time something like this has happened from either person. I'm chalking it up to luck of the draw but dang I was really looking forward to them. Any suggestions on rectifying or should I just cut my loses. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I got some Bodhi testers in the same condition once. IMHO, they were deliberately crushed by a salty mail employee. No way they were sent like that, and the sorting machines aren’t that rough on packages.
 

jimihendrix1

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So with about a week left before chop my experience with the NL5haze has been pretty positive overall. As usual his packs had some strong males, 2 out of three were "bloody" phenos with the red sap. All were vigorous and healthy as shit but one stood out with its pine, and what I can only refer to as "grapefruit musk", aroma. I used the bloody grapefruit male to make some single branch pollinations of my NL5Haze females as well as 2 Red Grape Leb x Hawaiian Cat Piss females (which I can report on at a later date as I don't really fancy writing so much) so I will have some future beans to hunt through. The females that popped out for me have been as follows:

(2) phenos are compact plants with very very compact and dense nugs. Like neutron star nugs, I keep waiting for them to implode on themselves. Suuuuper duper frosty that really does kind of glisten under the lights. Deep purple towards the end of flower and a bright lemon lime starburst aroma. These definitely kill it in the bag appeal department so fingers crossed the effect matches it.

(1) pheno is definitely sativa leaning, taller and more slender than its siblings with slightly paler green and narrower leaves. Spear shaped nugs that smell heavily of bazooka bubble gum.

(1) pheno is compact in structure like the 2 first females mentioned but the buds are big and chunky and look more spongy.

As soon as they are dried and cured I will give a smoke report on both the NL5Haze and the Red Grape Leb x Hawaiian Cat piss.

Oh by the way, seems all of us are planning similar crosses with the AKBB NL5Haze and the Crickets and Cicadas puck crosses. I was planning on hitting the NL5Haze and the Red Leb x Cat Piss with my pack of Sensi Star x Puck. Great minds think alike, really excited to see how all these crosses come out.
Any smoke reports on that NL5 x Haze yet???
 

DrCilantroMD

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Any smoke reports on that NL5 x Haze yet???
I just finished the all the trimming last night! Overall I would HIGHLY recommend both the NL5H and the Red Grape Leb x HI cat piss.

NL5H phenos -
#1 - Sativa dom with big spongy spear shaped nugs that smelled like big league chew during veg and turned to a chalky, lemon candy, lysol aroma (LOUD)

#2 - Indica dom, with what I would call "neutron star" nugs that were the frostiest of the bunch. These nugs looked like they were so dense they would collapse into themselves. Lemon lime funk with a sharp pine cleaner aroma.

#3 - Hybrid with big spongy and kinda ugly nugs. This one was the wallflower/ugly duckling of the bunch that I definitely paid less attention to. It grew just fine but didn't have the aroma or pretty nugs of the other two....Then I pulled it from the drying tent to trim and all hell broke loose because this thing smelled absolutely fucking disgusting. My partner had to open the windows because she was getting sick. This thing smelled like if a cat pissed on a rotting passionfruit that got shoved into a wet soccer shoe and left to cook in the trunk of your car for a week. I was definitely transported back to my teenage lacrosse days because it had that sweaty ammonia thing. My nose was actually burning by the time I finished trimming. This one really came out of left field and I am absolutely loving it. I will do my best to report on how the aroma changes as it cures.

All three were amazing and I absolutely love the lemon candy of the two phenos but the rotten socks one is really grabbing my attention because it came out of nowhere. I have clones of the three and did a single branch pollination on each with my "bleeding" male NL5H pollen so I have some seeds to keep hunting.

Red Grape Lebanese x Hawaiian Cat Piss phenos -
#1/2 - Both were sativa dom with great side branching and spear shaped "medium density" nugs. Think skittles candy at a mediterranean herb bazaar (not necessarily spices but more of an herbal aroma). There is a kind of creamy cilantro/mint on the exhale that has been super unique. I feel like I should hold off on writing too much on these ones because even after a few days cure the aroma is changing into a kind of fresh wine grape (not like a sweet table grape but a grape with higher acidity) and skittles black tea.

I also have clones of both of these and did the same single branch pollination with the NL5H male so I am pumped to pop those seeds. I also have a rgl x hcp male I have been holding in veg for when I get a chance to collect some pollen.


I will report more on the effects once I have time to really feel em out but overall I am really impressed with these plants, they have definitely been some of the better strains I have run. I am very excited that I still have the PHK/TK NL5 Haze, GST Skunk/Blk Domina-NWHP-NL1, and A1 Testerosa/Deathstarosa to hunt through as I have been pretty impressed with the AKBB gear.
 

BigRed469

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Been eyeing a few

Ak 4 way
Americanna/super skunk
Tk x nl5 and the f2...
Cat piss
Deathstartorosa

Need to see if he has a 2023 master list or if 2022 is the one to still look at

He had Waco on his site and talks that one up pretty good...that'd be a cool one too
Do the deathsatrosa. I ran a pack and didn't take any clones, I highly regret it. It's on my shortlist of packs to order from AK again. They were all fairly uniform plants that stayed relatively short and bushy, and all of them had a heavy gas/fuel smell.
 
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