What would be the best way to name a new strain?

[WelderDan]

I just make shit up as I go. Grew some random bag seed once that was most likely outdoor skunk. It turned out to be very nice.

Friend: Great weed, what is it?
Me: Skunk

Made a nice cross of LUI x Blue Moonshine

Friend: Tastes like Blueberries. Is it Blueberry?
Me: Yeah.....

Made a killer cross of Hash plant x C99

Friend: This is KILLER! what is it?
Me: Hash Plant x C99
Friend: Hash Bud?
Me: Sure....

Lots of non growing smokers are attracted to names. You can call any good weed anything you want and they will flock to it.

Names are hype. I like to know the actual lineage of what I'm growing, but as far as names go, I don't care what you want to call it.

 

[omucuverdeata]

a friend grew some bagseed in a cemetary, so one day while we were high on that weed decided to name it "the fucking dead"

 

[mrcreosote]

Call it Bob.
Everyone likes Bob. Easy to remember and you can spell it if you're dyslexic.

 

[Marcellas]

I always thought that combining parts of the names of the 2 Parent Strains was the best way, like a few others mentioned.. For example, crossing White Rhino with Trainwreck could be called RhinoTrain, WhiteWreck, RhinoWreck.. Blueberry crossed with Sour Diesel could be called Blue Diesel, Sour Berry, you know something like that

Although a few years back I made a cross and named it "Insta-Kill", named after that video game Nazi Zombies (Call of Duty series), haha!!
It was BOG's SourBubble (amazing!!) crossed with a super bomb, local outdoor strain that's been passed around for awhile. I named it Insta-Kill because more than 1 or 2 hits and you sometimes would feel like your dying LOL, and lots of friends were playing that video game often at the time..

Pretty good thread!

 

[DU420]

Although I'm only new to the breeding scene I find naming my strains makes it easier to remember what i crossed them with so I don't have to go looking in my grow log to remember. It doesn't have to be the same names just something that is similar, eg my first cross bc big bud x shark attack is named massive attack..

 

[Marcellas]

^^Agreed

 

[Grobot2010]

I would think that the name should never be descibed with the words like Killer,wreck or any word that descibed the plant as being dangerous or deadly.

It's supposed to be Good Shit..rite

I agree since I feel that it hurts our cause against government cannabis misrepresentation propaganda. "aka 'Let's keep the Suicidal Cindy's some place else', like in the anti-military effort."

A rose by any other name..

Yeah, I guess we don't need to know it its red, blue, yellow, etc... not. I don't think we should just call it indica or sativa or catch-all, cannabis.

Well then, what about the word 'shit'? Doesn't exactly bring up images of love and happiness...

I hate the names 'green crack' and 'AK47' for weed, but words like 'wreck' (and 'shit' for that matter) are commonly accepted slang by most people.

I also think 'killing fields' is a bizarre name for cannabis, IMO.

Those are strange ones.

For a modest honorarium, you can name it after me.

Stay safe. bg

That might be a good name, but only for a strain that's only use is in biodiesel production or cellulosic ethanol, IMO.

throw darts at a dictionary

Nice random effort, I like that approach in certain circumstances.

I just make shit up as I go. Grew some random bag seed once that was most likely outdoor skunk. It turned out to be very nice.

Friend: Great weed, what is it?
Me: Skunk

Made a nice cross of LUI x Blue Moonshine

Friend: Tastes like Blueberries. Is it Blueberry?
Me: Yeah.....

Made a killer cross of Hash plant x C99

Friend: This is KILLER! what is it?
Me: Hash Plant x C99
Friend: Hash Bud?
Me: Sure....

Lots of non growing smokers are attracted to names. You can call any good weed anything you want and they will flock to it.

Names are hype. I like to know the actual lineage of what I'm growing, but as far as names go, I don't care what you want to call it.

I agree about keeping track of the lineage as far as possible. However, in a random open field (populated with multiple strains) that's not possible. My hope is that we'll continue to keep records of lineages as well as fill in the map. See link: en.seed finder.eu

a friend grew some bagseed in a cemetary, so one day while we were high on that weed decided to name it "the fucking dead"

That's an interesting naming convention and a very unconventional grow location! Good work.

Call it Bob.
Everyone likes Bob. Easy to remember and you can spell it if you're dyslexic.

I prefer Rob or Robbie, never Bob please.

I always thought that combining parts of the names of the 2 Parent Strains was the best way, like a few others mentioned.. For example, crossing White Rhino with Trainwreck could be called RhinoTrain, WhiteWreck, RhinoWreck.. Blueberry crossed with Sour Diesel could be called Blue Diesel, Sour Berry, you know something like that

Although a few years back I made a cross and named it "Insta-Kill", named after that video game Nazi Zombies (Call of Duty series), haha!!
It was BOG's SourBubble (amazing!!) crossed with a super bomb, local outdoor strain that's been passed around for awhile. I named it Insta-Kill because more than 1 or 2 hits and you sometimes would feel like your dying LOL, and lots of friends were playing that video game often at the time..

Pretty good thread!

That's the kind of naming I was referring to when I talked about picking a new name for an unknown lineage... the main attribute here was the Insta-Kill potency/trip. I like that naming approach.

Although I'm only new to the breeding scene I find naming my strains makes it easier to remember what i crossed them with so I don't have to go looking in my grow log to remember. It doesn't have to be the same names just something that is similar, eg my first cross bc big bud x shark attack is named massive attack..

Ok, I'm going to be picky here, but the "massive" part masks the bc big bud parent's identity. I don't like that. It conveys the idea that you improved bc big bud into a newer version, perhaps "bc massive bud", rather than indicating the cross. This is hype in my opinion, because your competitors will be stuck with only "big attack", while you get to tout your weed as "MASSIVE attack". I think too much of that shit is going on out there, with the dealers mostly, renaming stuff they got from a source (which may be identical to the supply down the street), especially if its a clone proliferating around the area.

 

[Marcellas]

nice.. lol

 

[ChronicCanuck]

flip the pages of a dictionary and stop randomly. Put og in front of it.

 

[Protea]

when friends asks me for names, i just make something up.

friend: wow nice weed, whats is called
Protea: Pussy twigg.
Protea: with two gs in twig, U get it?

so if you need a pussy twigg, come by ill get you some

 

[Blue Socks]

Just don't call it something it's not.

 

[floralheart]

good weed before strain name.... grasshoppa

 

[Anti]

I know exactly what I'm.growing, but Ak47 gets slept on. So when people ask me what it is, I say, "I dunno, but its fire!" And they keep coming back for more.

 

[Grobot2010]

flip the pages of a dictionary and stop randomly. Put og in front of it.

I wish there was a little "like" feature on the board... -thumbs up- LOL

 

[Grobot2010]

I'm gonna name this first strain Twin, because it sprouted from a twin seedling.