I will post a report of two years of growing in house strain. I have to say i am very disappointed.
I grow these strain from in house :
Divine Jelly (12x fem)
Bluenana (6 fem)
Zilky Zmooth (reg but i was lucky i got 7 femalle)
Platinum Silk (13x fem)
Black Cherry Punch (9 fem)
Tart Pops (3 fem)
So i think i have what i need to make my opinion on in house work. I grow under led and full organic.
First the divine jelly... i have friends that want the gelato so hard. I tried the gelato terpene in spannabis but it was clearly not my thing. However i like to try things by myself. Over the 12 female i got a lot of variation, two pheno were like durban recessive. Got one extremly frosty pheno that i didn't kept by mistake. Overall a good strain if you like the gelato, beautiful bud, good yield, nice sativa kind of high... i grew a lot pure sativa from ace a few years ago, and it was nice to find pheno with surprisingly clean sativa effect.
The best strain i tried from in house, but taste was light. This weed wasn't tasteless, but i hoped a lot more from an overhyped strain like the gelato, and the terpene profile wasn't my thing. A good friend of mine kept one very good pheno, and he likes it a lot. 0 Herma
Bluenana : freebie from the divine jelly order. Over 6x plant, one was full herma and one other at the end. Overall i didn't like much this strain, very frosty but production was low. Two pheno were even darker than the gelato. Taste was banana og with some blueberry add in it. I did these freebie because i had them, but it wasn't very interesting for me because two years before i made a selection of Monkey Banana (Banana Kush x Banana OG). Not bad plants but yield was too slow, taste was here but again it's too light. Compare to my Monkey that was a lot more productive and vigorous, and with a nice taste of ripe banana. Choice was quickly made, and i don't speak of the herma tendencies.
Zilky Zmooth. Well, i got a lot of female from a pack of reg, so i cannot complain. Overall, these plants smell like lemon grass to me, and some pheno with a little darker taste. Plants by themself were medium-low in production, producing small bud but very dense. Again most pheno lack of taste for me and the "darker" pheno tend to be a little acrid in smoke. The pheno i kept have a nice lemon grass with zkittles background (i smoked the original clone so i can compare). More lemon grass than the original and far less tasty but still ok. What makes me didn't keep the clone was the disastrous branching. This plant have no branch but spaghetti and she wants to stretch
Also i don't think i ever saw a plant that make so many secondary in my life. 0 Herma
Platinum Silk : i got this pack for cheap... two own in house parents in one strain. Overall extraordinary frosty, as you could expect from the platinum. Except that, well... yield is very low and absolutely no smell and taste. Maybe some very light leather and lemon but forget to find it in the smoke. Got different pheno with different stretch and shape but all ended up with similar result, one was the worst plant i ever saw in my life (vigor was disastrous and yield should have been something like 0.1gr so i didn't let her finish). Only one was the exception... strong branching, stay short, 7 week to flower and good yield of beautiful og kind of buds with light foxtail. Like the other she was very very frosty, but again 0 smell and taste. I keep here, maybe she could be good for a cross, and i will try her outdoor this year to see if she is fast. 0 Herma
Black Cherry Punch and Tart Pops. This session was delay for nearly two month because for once i tried a premade soil. I usually make my own mix but this time i grew lazy. This mix had some factory problem, i think with the ph buffer they used, and it was very hard to keep them alive the time this damn buffer was consume. When the plant were healthy again i could flower them. About the BCP I had a lot of expectation from this strain, i wanted a beautiful purple with this tasty urkle and candy taste. For the price of the pack i hoped to find what i was looking for. Again i was disappointed... They smells great in flower and they have this candy urkle smell, with some punch in it. They have this modified urkle smell that remind the plasticine from my childhood. About the tart pops smells more like bitter orange to me, but taste vanish the last two week before harvest.
I smoke them for nearly two weeks now, maybe a little early but i am absolutely not sure they will become better after curing. I already grew strain that are impossible to smoke before at least two month and a proper curing. Here the taste is too light and the weed is easy to smoke so it won't grow much better over time. Again nice looking plant with a lot of different pheno, some very purple, frosty, incredible looking. Potency is low but not catastrophic, high is very slow to come and very relaxing / mellow. I enjoy this weed as a cool evening weed if you want to be relax without being too stone. But honestly for that i want something with more taste. 0 herma (fortunately).
So if you want my opinion i would say that in house is breeding for IG. He select plant for their incredible look but certainly not for the Terpene, so he can make beautiful photo for very efficient promo on IG. But it's sure not worth the price he is selling his stuff. I grow others gears too, especially bodhi and even if the plant looks less beautiful, at least the taste is good...
It's only my opinion, do whatever you want with it.
