Humboldt Seed Company (HSC) Thread
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We Toke Chronic
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crazy! I grew out a clone of Vanilla Frosting and it had some of the best unique terps I’ve ever had! And 4% terpenes but I didn’t grow it from seed..
Special Kdog
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Any reports on the Lemongrass smoke?
I have 3 Magic Melons popped. Just got my Lemongrass seeds in the mail today. I may do one outdoor and one indoor. I was just curious on what I might be getting into
I have 3 Magic Melons popped. Just got my Lemongrass seeds in the mail today. I may do one outdoor and one indoor. I was just curious on what I might be getting into
GlassJoe
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I grew a lemongrass outdoors in the spring (further back in the thread), and I'm running another outdoors this summer. It's a nice plant, squat, chunky nugs that stack, good potency, mine came out with a bit of lemon and a lot of that buttery smell which makes sense since it's a gelato cross, so I think I got a cookie leaner. Pardon the sycamore fibers.
And a couple years ago I grew some Magic Melon that I liked a lot too. It was a goofy sativa smoke I liked a lot; the nugs were not huge but were very dense, like golf balls or sequoia pinecones.
Special Kdog
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That magic melon looks kinda like how my Stoopid fruits did. It was not a big plant indoors but put out some chunks of bud that was so easy to trim. Size may have been cause I had it under some weak lights There are some pictures of huge outdoor plants. I recommend giving it a go some time. Prolly should have at least one going myself now that i can grow outdoors.
freewanderer04
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Found a nice Fire OG pheno in the Emerald Fire OG line. Only took me 3 seeds to find it. Nice chunky buds with a strong lemony pine smell. Exactly what I was looking for. HSC is the practical choice for us low count tent growers. Stable, fire genetics.
ProPheT 216
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I've never grown anything from HSC, thinking about them for my next purchase. Was also thinking about IHG but browsing the IHG forums all I see is hermie this and hermie that. Why do you guys love HSC? What do you recommend? Who all is part of HSC? Isn't their a Humboldt overseas somewhere 2?
I popped one bean of lemmongrass in my last indoor run. Out of the 4 plants I probably fudged her up the most, waiting to long to topdress after the stretch amongst other things, she ran out of gas before she got a chance to swell. She went from the runt to the tallest stretchiest Plant after the flip and I didn't give her the food to recover in time. That said she had strong Lemmon terps throughout the grow and the final product is really tasty, straight lemmon/tangie up front. The high is pretty good too, stronger than I expected and really productive. I'll run her again and do better on my part.
Would love to see what she can do outdoors.
PopAndSonGrows
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I personally love HSC because I feel like the strain descriptions are "accurate" as to what to expect, they're fairly transparent as to their process and who they're working with, for me it's kinda keeping my business "local" which is a plus.. .. my general opinion of them overall is "okay" to good potency, with good to great terpene profiles (their weed smells great, lol). I find it to be a reliable brand. Nat Pennington is the owner i believe, and he is actively passing the torch to his fine ass daughter
. Yes there is Humboldt Seed Organization, no affiliation.
GlassJoe
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In-house is a breeder I would put more in the pheno hunt category. A lot of their catalog is F1 crosses of other F1 strains, so you'll see a lot of variance. Usually when people grow seeds from breeders like that, they're running an entire pack looking for exceptional phenotypes to keep, and there's nothing wrong with that necessarily.
The Humboldt overseas was HSO, which I think may have re-started with new US based partners after their operation in Spain got shut down by the police.
HSC has a varying degree of genetic stability depending on the strain. Blueberry Muffin is a an f8, magic melon is a Bx4, but there are some with a bit more variance, the bling and blueberry Cupcake are both S1s for example. I like their terpenes and while I think it took a little bit of growing to get a handle of what the purpose of each strain was, I can understand that they do have a purpose.
As far as my recommendations:
Apple blossom is hands-down my favorite thing I've grown from them so far as a primarily outdoor grower. It was a yielder with big nugs, good potency, fast flowering, an enjoyable well-balanced anytime smoke. Very sweet floral smell, mine was much more towards flowery than fruity. I wish I had saved my pheno because I could stand to grow an acre of it. Sturdy, too, it required no trellising.
Garlic budder was also great for me, it's another in the GMO/chem cookies category. It grew big thick colas with the classic pungent spicy garlicky GMO smell. Very potent and Stony, total indica. Big fat buds, but definitely required trellising, which I think is not uncommon for strains with cookies heritage.
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PopAndSonGrows
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Jeezus dude those are Louisville sluggers!!!
GWilliamsCannabis
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Trimmed up some blueberry muffin tonight
GWilliamsCannabis
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Better shot of Blueberry Muffin no camera flash, at my kitchen table
TurboNico
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Just grabbed some of these thanks to your review!Collie Man Kush.
This stuff is so loud with burnt rubber skunk it could knock a camel out.
Easily the loudest stuff I've grown and probably held in my hand in the past 30 years. The Larry OG I had was close but nope.
The high is a heady, slightly sedating, chill kind of high that lasts about 3 hours.
Method of consumption: Raw cone, glass spoon
I can't think of anyone that would be disappointed with this except maybe Ron DeSantis
Highly recommend
Bottom right picture is Raspberry Ice Cream tester.
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trychrome
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I don't think you'll be disappointed. Best HSC strain I've grown so far and I'm crying because I'm out.
I got one if these outdoors right now. She was the first out of the ground and been the most vigorous since.
GlassJoe
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I bit the bullet and bought some because chitown was having a $68/pack memorial day sale; I won't have the chance to run any for a while but everyone seems to love it and I've been meaning to grow more OG.
OkieKush
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It's definitely one I'm going to keep in my stash. I have one jar left, so I need to start planning on another grow of it. It's very gassy.
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GWilliamsCannabis
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Loving the smells and colors on the Blueberry muffin as it cures!....a foot from your face and this stuff looks completely black lol....up close it looks like this lol
GlassJoe
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It's a really unique strain that's definitely worth growing at least once. Also a very good parent, as evidenced by the tons of outcrosses of it. I've grown BB Muffin, Hi-Biscus (BB Muffin x Zkittles), Apple Blossom (BB Muffin x Dream Queen), and BB Cupcake (BB Muffin x Wedding Cake), and they've all been terp bombs.