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hush's Peak Seeds grow out - 1000w - 4x4
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The fellas that answered you already probably have a better perspective than I do, since I haven't even truly experienced much of the SS yet, and I've only really experienced NS so far. But I'm expecting good things from the SS, definitely. All I can say is that, having had quite a bit of experience with many different strains over the twenty years I've been growing, NS is an exceptional hybrid. It easily and quickly find its way into my top 5 strains I've ever grown. This is what people should strive for in a hybrid. It's beautiful, productive, vigorous, and potent. That being said, I expect SB to end up flipping my lid just like this one. Hell, I'm pretty sure that KxNL will be pretty wonderful as well. So, just from this first grow, I'm already convinced that Peak knows wtf they are doing. So far their work exceeds most of the breeders or "seed banks" that I've tried before, even though their genetics are a fraction of the big guys' prices.
MJ, if you're reading this, you should know that you have my highest of respect my man.
HerBnGorE(illa)
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Ok. Time for another noob question again (sorry hush). How is a person to know which breeder to choose for a specific strain? For instance I want to try c99. How would I know whether to get it from peak seeds or to get it from a different reputable breeder? I know both options would be good genetics but one would likely have advantages over the other(s); Be it pheno stability, decreased likelihood of hermies, male/female ratios, or any other qualities one may find important. If "Joe schmo's seeds" sells lemon kush for $2 and ghs sells it for $10 why not go with the cheapest?
Well I don't know if this makes your c99 choice any easier, but I can tell you that Peak doesn't appear to offer their version of it for sale. I believe it was a special offering available only to his preferred clients, and I'm not privy to any of the details, honestly, since I'm a new customer and the only strains available to me were the ones listed on their website.
But I don't know how to answer your actual questions there... I think you are asking what can only be answered by the phrase "caveat emptor." Buyer beware. In terms of finding specific strains, personally, I've always tried going directly to the source, if that applies. For instance, bubblegum is a perfect example, for me. I happen to love that strain and if I were to order seeds for it, I would get them from one of the original seedbanks that bred their own version of it. That would be either Serious or TH Seeds. Since I already know that I've tried Serious's version and liked it, I would go with theirs. But if they didn't still offer that strain, for whatever reason, I would find someone who did their own inbreeding with the line that I liked, and take a gamble on it. Or maybe I might find someone that used it in a cross, which might allow for a BG-dominant pheno to come out. But ultimately it's best to get things from the source, and for you, wanting c99, you need to find someone who is working with the original version, which came from Bros Grimm. Maybe someone has selfed it, or maybe someone has been inbreeding with it selectively, and has F5 seeds or something. That's how you should look for specific strains, IMO.
Most of the time, a little research and reading other people's grow reports will help to narrow down which breeder to buy a strain from. My advice is to simply read reviews.
But I don't know how to answer your actual questions there... I think you are asking what can only be answered by the phrase "caveat emptor." Buyer beware. In terms of finding specific strains, personally, I've always tried going directly to the source, if that applies. For instance, bubblegum is a perfect example, for me. I happen to love that strain and if I were to order seeds for it, I would get them from one of the original seedbanks that bred their own version of it. That would be either Serious or TH Seeds. Since I already know that I've tried Serious's version and liked it, I would go with theirs. But if they didn't still offer that strain, for whatever reason, I would find someone who did their own inbreeding with the line that I liked, and take a gamble on it. Or maybe I might find someone that used it in a cross, which might allow for a BG-dominant pheno to come out. But ultimately it's best to get things from the source, and for you, wanting c99, you need to find someone who is working with the original version, which came from Bros Grimm. Maybe someone has selfed it, or maybe someone has been inbreeding with it selectively, and has F5 seeds or something. That's how you should look for specific strains, IMO.
Most of the time, a little research and reading other people's grow reports will help to narrow down which breeder to buy a strain from. My advice is to simply read reviews.
Peak has Frost Bros old stock. It's from Bros Grimm stock. I've grown it out and got a nice pineapple pheno with only one plant. I suspect if you ask him he will let you know whether you can obtain it from him or not. I'd guess it's likely he'd help you out but probably would do so warning you that it's necessarily his finished product.
HerBnGorE(illa)
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Thanks yet again for the help guys! It is truly appreciated. Can't wait til I have the years of experience so I can help people the way I've been helped. Still looking forward to seeing that beautiful variegated bb plant hush. You let me know when "hush seeds" hit the market. Don't have a lot of space but would gladly make room for those. At that point I'd probably steal yet another hush method and just build more grow cabinets! Lol.
Are you talking about the C99? I ordered a few years back, they asked if I wanted a 4 digit number that I could use for saving on future purchases. I said yes and maybe a year later had c99 as an option and ordered it. I don't remember all the details but makes my current decision harder!
Are you talking about the C99? I ordered a few years back, they asked if I wanted a 4 digit number that I could use for saving on future purchases. I said yes and maybe a year later had c99 as an option and ordered it. I don't remember all the details but makes my current decision harder!
Yea, I'm referring to c99.
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Peaks is very approachable. Contact them with any questions/wants. I'll bet there are a few C99 beans still to be found.
Also, Peak worked Frost Bro's stock.
Also, Peak worked Frost Bro's stock.
This is a repost from my other thread, but I'll copy it here for anyone who cares:
I'm so sorry I've disappeared. I wouldn't ever have done that if it wasn't necessary. I just had a feeling I needed to check in today and see if there was any speculation as to my whereabouts. I'm very glad I did. That being said, I haven't caught myself up to all the posts that happened during my absence, so please forgive me for not directly responding to anyone.
I don't have much time, but quickly, I am fine, and the only reason I've been absent is my wife has been suffering serious complications with her bad back, and I've had to take care of her, which has taken up all of my time. This hasn't been resolved yet, either, and surgery is on the horizon.
The good news is my gardens are all fine. I was able to keep taking care of the gardens on top of taking care of my wife, and still making it to work and stuff. So things are good, it's just I have barely any time to myself, and the little bit of time I have is best spent not doing forums and such. I promise I will come back and update all my threads in the very near future, as I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and my wife's surgery is right around the corner.
My keeper plants have all successfully revegged, and are now in the mother cab. I'll be back soon with further updates, I promise.
I'm so sorry I've disappeared. I wouldn't ever have done that if it wasn't necessary. I just had a feeling I needed to check in today and see if there was any speculation as to my whereabouts. I'm very glad I did. That being said, I haven't caught myself up to all the posts that happened during my absence, so please forgive me for not directly responding to anyone.
I don't have much time, but quickly, I am fine, and the only reason I've been absent is my wife has been suffering serious complications with her bad back, and I've had to take care of her, which has taken up all of my time. This hasn't been resolved yet, either, and surgery is on the horizon.
The good news is my gardens are all fine. I was able to keep taking care of the gardens on top of taking care of my wife, and still making it to work and stuff. So things are good, it's just I have barely any time to myself, and the little bit of time I have is best spent not doing forums and such. I promise I will come back and update all my threads in the very near future, as I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and my wife's surgery is right around the corner.
My keeper plants have all successfully revegged, and are now in the mother cab. I'll be back soon with further updates, I promise.
Great news to hear hush! You keep doing what you have to do 
Hope the wife's back is better after the surgery.
Hope the wife's back is better after the surgery.
Hey everyone. My wife is recovering from her surgery, which was a success, so I'm still being spread too thin to hang out on icmag these days... but I had a few minutes to pop in and give a quick, preliminary report on this grow. This will probably be a bit discombobulated, but I will be back in the near future for some further updates. This is just as a courtesy to those of you who have been waiting for a follow-up. So here it goes...
First of all, the albino/variegated Blueberry was kind of a disappointment in the end. The high is fairly boring, there's nothing exceptional about the aesthetics of the dried buds, and there is barely any flavor. That might be due to harvesting too early, as it probably could have gone another week or so. But I did reveg her and she is now in my mother cabinet, waiting for further experimentation in the future. She does smell VERY much like blueberry muffins, but in all honesty, ALL the Blueberries ended up smelling like blueberry, so that isn't really anything to write home about. But the one I dubbed my keeper, has been AWESOME. Nice, tight, blue-ish colored buds... Wonderful blueberry pancakes aroma... A killer indica high that makes me feel twice as heavy as I really am, yet doesn't put me to sleep unless I'm already tired... I love this BB so much I will be doing an entire monocrop of it for my next round in the big tent.
Now let's talk about Northern Skunk. This stuff is phenomenal. I mean, highest of high quality in every way, except for the fact that there is very minimal aroma (which can, of course, be a good thing depending on circumstance). Tight, rock-hard nugs with a satisfactory calyx to leaf ratio. The high is very pleasant, with a good happy blend of sativa and indica. I definitely don't want to sit still after smoking it, but it's nothing at all the kind of energy I get from a full sativa. It's a great high for socializing when all I'm doing is sitting around with friends playing Cards Against Humanity or something like that. Just perfect! Needless to say, I've been smoking the shit out of this stuff, way more than the other varieties.
The Sweet Skunk has a lot of variety. There was quite an array of looks, smells, and highs from this one. All of them were heavily in the sativa side of effects. It can be racy, depending on which pheno I smoke. The longest-flowering one of them all was extremely nice, and a very calm yet energetic high, but I lost that one during the reveg, unfortunately. But the one I did end up keeping was a faster-flowering variety anyway, with a nice, energetic high that I can't wait to go hiking with. It's the one that was very dark colored.
Okay, more to come later, when I have more time to hang out online. Take care everyone! I swear I'll be back!
First of all, the albino/variegated Blueberry was kind of a disappointment in the end. The high is fairly boring, there's nothing exceptional about the aesthetics of the dried buds, and there is barely any flavor. That might be due to harvesting too early, as it probably could have gone another week or so. But I did reveg her and she is now in my mother cabinet, waiting for further experimentation in the future. She does smell VERY much like blueberry muffins, but in all honesty, ALL the Blueberries ended up smelling like blueberry, so that isn't really anything to write home about. But the one I dubbed my keeper, has been AWESOME. Nice, tight, blue-ish colored buds... Wonderful blueberry pancakes aroma... A killer indica high that makes me feel twice as heavy as I really am, yet doesn't put me to sleep unless I'm already tired... I love this BB so much I will be doing an entire monocrop of it for my next round in the big tent.
Now let's talk about Northern Skunk. This stuff is phenomenal. I mean, highest of high quality in every way, except for the fact that there is very minimal aroma (which can, of course, be a good thing depending on circumstance). Tight, rock-hard nugs with a satisfactory calyx to leaf ratio. The high is very pleasant, with a good happy blend of sativa and indica. I definitely don't want to sit still after smoking it, but it's nothing at all the kind of energy I get from a full sativa. It's a great high for socializing when all I'm doing is sitting around with friends playing Cards Against Humanity or something like that. Just perfect! Needless to say, I've been smoking the shit out of this stuff, way more than the other varieties.
The Sweet Skunk has a lot of variety. There was quite an array of looks, smells, and highs from this one. All of them were heavily in the sativa side of effects. It can be racy, depending on which pheno I smoke. The longest-flowering one of them all was extremely nice, and a very calm yet energetic high, but I lost that one during the reveg, unfortunately. But the one I did end up keeping was a faster-flowering variety anyway, with a nice, energetic high that I can't wait to go hiking with. It's the one that was very dark colored.
Okay, more to come later, when I have more time to hang out online. Take care everyone! I swear I'll be back!
HerBnGorE(illa)
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Looking forward to it hush! Glad u found a few keepers! Good to hear the wifes surgery was successful as well.
Best wishes for the misses, Hush.
Peak will be my next purchase.
Northern Skunk for indoors and Northernberry for an outdoor run.
Thanks Hush.
Peak will be my next purchase.
Northern Skunk for indoors and Northernberry for an outdoor run.
Thanks Hush.
Okay here are my final thoughts about this grow...
First of all, Northern Skunk is an awesome strain! There were a variety of phenos, but in the end the high was pretty much the same in all of them. So it was just a matter of aesthetics to choose my keeper. That means I went for the one that was super trichome coated. It was at least twice as frosty as all of her sisters and I like crystals!
After curing for several weeks now I can say that there is a smell to this strain, but it's mild. It's very much like the stinky cheese smell of the Sweet Skunk which I'll get to next, but it's obvious that it was bred with a low odor strain to soften that blow. So the NL in its parentage helped to make this strain relatively low-odor. But when I break it up the smell is there, and it smells like a milder form of the aroma from the Sweet Skunk. It's also a bit astringent, seemingly drying the nose out when taking a whiff. When smoking, it has little to no taste, but there's something there. It's just mild. The high is very malleable, and I can make it work as a daytime smoke or a night cap. It doesn't make me instantly sleepy, but it is conducive to sleep if I'm tired already. Same thing for day smoking, it won't fill me with energy or anything, but if I'm already alert it seems to keep me focused and aware. This is a very nice strain I'm happy to add to my stable!
I will say that there seems to be some tendency in this strain for certain phenos to send out male flowers. A handful of my NS phenos had seeds in them. But not this one I decided to keep, so it's hit or miss.
First of all, Northern Skunk is an awesome strain! There were a variety of phenos, but in the end the high was pretty much the same in all of them. So it was just a matter of aesthetics to choose my keeper. That means I went for the one that was super trichome coated. It was at least twice as frosty as all of her sisters and I like crystals!
After curing for several weeks now I can say that there is a smell to this strain, but it's mild. It's very much like the stinky cheese smell of the Sweet Skunk which I'll get to next, but it's obvious that it was bred with a low odor strain to soften that blow. So the NL in its parentage helped to make this strain relatively low-odor. But when I break it up the smell is there, and it smells like a milder form of the aroma from the Sweet Skunk. It's also a bit astringent, seemingly drying the nose out when taking a whiff. When smoking, it has little to no taste, but there's something there. It's just mild. The high is very malleable, and I can make it work as a daytime smoke or a night cap. It doesn't make me instantly sleepy, but it is conducive to sleep if I'm tired already. Same thing for day smoking, it won't fill me with energy or anything, but if I'm already alert it seems to keep me focused and aware. This is a very nice strain I'm happy to add to my stable!
I will say that there seems to be some tendency in this strain for certain phenos to send out male flowers. A handful of my NS phenos had seeds in them. But not this one I decided to keep, so it's hit or miss.
