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I've noticed that I'm quick to point out the flaws in strains I've run & didn't like. I've also noticed that I don't praise the strains that have kept my head straight and amazed me. This is the second strain review I'm doing to even the balance. Casey's Dream has been been an incredible plant!
I've been fortunate enough to be given several packs of tester beans from the House of Love. This evaluation is of the first female out of the first pack. Not the first chosen female, but the only female grown to harvest as of yet. I think that's as good of a random sample as anything.
- Bag Appeal @ 9/10 This bud doesn't have much holding it back in this area. From a grower's perspective I think it deserves a 10, but if I got my hands on some as a consumer & I didn't know anything about sativa vs. indica traits, I'd think it should be denser, so I gave it a 9. Damn uneducated consumers! The size of even the smallest nugs is impressive, and the resin coverage over every square inch is thorough to say the least.
- Smell @ 10/10 The smell is great! For anyone who's smelled the dried flowers from the Blue Dream cut, these buds are like that, only with more of the blueberry coming through and a slight chem-ish smell. It smells strong when you open the jar. . . this isn't one of those strains where I struggle to describe the smell. It hits you in the face through a zip-loc if you're foolish enough to use one instead of glass.
- Taste @ 9/10 The taste is like the smell: stong & distinct. The blueberry taste is still there but it takes a back seat to a hazey, chem-ish taste. I like it quite a bit, as I generally don't prefer super-sweet strains and this has just enough of a sweet taste to balance the chem taste.
- Potency @ 8/10 You can find stronger, but you'd have to look pretty hard. I can't see a lack of potency being the determining factor for either a consumer or a grower. It gets the job done.
- Quality of the High @ 9/10 This is where this ganj really shines. I have literally hundreds of dispensary stickers from the plastic prescription containers, and each one has notes on it. I only found a single sticker that I felt was a potent sativa with very little or no indica coming through. It was called Purple Mist and it was incredible (probably why I still remember it). This cut of Casey's Dream is up there with that sample of Purple Mist. It's a rip-roaring sativa with a high-ass ceiling, an energetic & heady buzz, & it doesn't have the typical indica influence that some hybrids let become overwhelming. The first bowl I smoked was on my couch (where I smoke a hundred times a day), but it was like I was in a new world! Instead of hearing the fan in the corner I heard every little hiss, whine, squeak, ball-bearing movement and rotation of the blade as individual sounds. It was raining and I took my dog for a walk in the rain because I couldn't sit still. I vacuumed my house, I trimmed my plants. . . I would have written a novel had there been time! It's a sativa high all the way around & I'm loving it.
- Cultivation Notes: Couldn't be easier to grow from a cultivator's standpoint. I vegged her three weeks in a keg cup, then three weeks in a 1-gallon pot & a week or two in the 3-gallon she was flowered in and she did fine, filling up a good 4 sq ft or so. Likes topping. Stretches quite a bit and has several other sativa traits, but none that should prevent the average grower from enjoying her. I've never had Casey Jones, & I wasn't too impressed with the stupefying stone of Blue Dream, but this cross is a real treat to grow. Get out the stakes & tying line because these gals produce some girthy flowers!
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Other phenos reviewed here :https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5060817&postcount=16
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