Yeti OG aka Headband BX by Loompafarms

Hey my people,

I want to tell a short story about a lucky coincidence I had some years ago. It has been some time since I was active here on Icmag, I have been busy with "life" and all the beautiful things that come with it. I realise that it has been more than 25 years since I dropped my first cannabis seed in the dirt and started growing it. I love to grow plants, not just cannabis but also vegetables, trees, herbs, mushrooms... so I know about different strains and expressions that are occurring in the world of plants.

Lets move to the actual topic - so I have been given a pack of seeds by a friend of mine in 2014, it contained just 3 seeds. The label on the package was Loompafarms and the name of the strain was Yeti (regular). My friend handed me this package saying: "You should be careful about this seeds brother, they are something really special." He said the guy that give it to him was a guy named Loompa. I went home and put the seeds in the fridge until like more than 6 months later I popped them. I got 2 males and 1 female plant. I will never forgive myself for killing the 2 males, I just didn't realise at that time how much value they had. All 3 plants looked the same, all of them had that gas on them that was present already in the veg stage. At that time I was not really thinking of doing my own crosses, so the 2 males were not wanted (although I remember I kept them alive quite some time until they would start to open the pollen sacks). The female plant turned out to be the only example of the Yeti OG, so I had no selection. But let me tell you that after smoking my first joint from this herb I am in love with it.

Of course I researched the strain over the years, and I also try to find some more genetics from breeders that work in the same principles like the guys from Loompafarms do. I think about breeders like Duke Diamond (what a great guy!!!), MadFarmer, DJ Short, Wonderland nursery, Aficinado and all the many craft breeders that don't get the recognition in this industry.BUT, I am from eastern Europe, from the balkans, and its really hard to know people here that would understand genetics, top shelf products, the right way to cure the buds... and of course to grow regular seeds again. Everybody is buying crap from big seed producers that is all polihybrid related, all feminised...atoflowerbullshit...ect. The only exception are some elite clones that are in the underground. Its really hard to get this butique seeds from the US nowadays. Can anybody help me out here with a good site that sends internationally?

Back to my Yeti OG - the plant has an aroma that is unique. My phono has smaller bud structure, but the flowers are the hardest nugs EVER! What is really special about it is, that when you roll a joint and smoke it, all the smell from the bud, transfers to the mouth 100%, its an incredible aromatic strain, straight earthy sweet lime and cognac
I have been growing in and outdoors. She is a great producer under the full sun spectrum, and indoors she needs a caring hand to maximise what she can do, something for the more experienced or let me say enthusiastic grower.

Here are two pics from outdoor grow in 2018

Awesome! Great story and strain! Cheers! You have a world class strain.

Cheers Oaxacan.
I'm looking at two girls and a dad and I don't know where to start.
Some phenos seem to not be mold resistant, I will need to pick the right dad.
This is it!

Last seeds I had given to me I ate.

I had one clone from a club in Vallejo which I think I unfortunately killed accidentally (the clone was kind of gnarly looking and I snapped the stem attempting to transplant it way deeper into a larger pot).

Philosophically I suppose there are a couple of ways to look at that. Am I without regret well I'm not so sure about that. I looked up rare strains and having one elite clone is something to hold onto. Now, with about 19-20 plants going at different stages, it might be dwelling too much on something if I think about the unfortunate loss of this clone mother.

Legal concern aside, I could have chosen five GG#4 and focused on them, for example with a likely higher % success rate or yield on those five, instead of one GG#4, Romulan Grapefruit, Remedy, Purple Punch, Ken's Granddaddy Purple. Or (and budget aside) I could have chosen one hundred plants of different varieties. As a hobby grower, or rather single person operation, I suppose I might lose more plants or have slightly less attention time for each one with one hundred going but growing 100 and losing 5 or 15 may still work out preferably to growing 5 or 19-20 and losing a couple.

Every single strain is something I feel like I have not had a chance to sample or appreciate, so they all matter. It's just, at the same time, there are so many, and this year looks like things are shaping up to where there might be a little more diversity or access for more people. Some have more hype advertising, but I think it's all the same thing really. Many of the strain names in today's vernacular or lexicon are around 15 years old or more, not to make light of any improvements or personal favorites, preservation and so on, why not time for something new.

I'm not sure I've seen this kind of thing done here? cleverbloom com / how-to-ship-plants

Mengsk said:

I had one clone from a club in Vallejo which I think I unfortunately killed accidentally (the clone was kind of gnarly looking and I snapped the stem attempting to transplant it way deeper into a larger pot).

Philosophically I suppose there are a couple of ways to look at that. Am I without regret well I'm not so sure about that. I looked up rare strains and having one elite clone is something to hold onto. Now, with about 19-20 plants going at different stages, it might be dwelling too much on something if I think about the unfortunate loss of this clone mother.

Legal concern aside, I could have chosen five GG#4 and focused on them, for example with a likely higher % success rate or yield on those five, instead of one GG#4, Romulan Grapefruit, Remedy, Purple Punch, Ken's Granddaddy Purple. Or (and budget aside) I could have chosen one hundred plants of different varieties. As a hobby grower, or rather single person operation, I suppose I might lose more plants or have slightly less attention time for each one with one hundred going but growing 100 and losing 5 or 15 may still work out preferably to growing 5 or 19-20 and losing a couple.

Every single strain is something I feel like I have not had a chance to sample or appreciate, so they all matter. It's just, at the same time, there are so many, and this year looks like things are shaping up to where there might be a little more diversity or access for more people. Some have more hype advertising, but I think it's all the same thing really. Many of the strain names in today's vernacular or lexicon are around 15 years old or more, not to make light of any improvements or personal favorites, preservation and so on, why not time for something new.

I'm not sure I've seen this kind of thing done here? cleverbloom com / how-to-ship-plants

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I kind of dig what you are trying to say and I agree, but in this case with my Yeti OG plant, it just happened to be like that, it was just this one plant, no selection by my side. I have grown a lot of different strains in the last 25 years, I also have a collection of mother plants of some euroean elite clones (Jaggen, Grüne Hessin, Santa Maria Planck cut, Amnesia Core Cut, a Shiva Skunk cut from the 90s...) but the thing I instantly realised with the Yeti is that it has no relation to any strain I have ever tried before. It is an very different genotype, it even has this special appearance, that lets you know that its something special, a real heirloom variety. A lot of selective breeding has been done to come to this point. My perception of quality changed after this Yeti plant. It will never leave my garden.

might be good stuff if you ever get them after you send money.. seems like this loompa so busy guy it takes months to process orders
and so busy even i ask return the moneys --- no time *******

metsäkana said:

might be good stuff if you ever get them after you send money.. seems like this loompa so busy guy it takes months to process orders
and so busy even i ask return the moneys --- no time *******

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That's funny, i was gonna PM you about this thread because i remember you telling me you were gonna order this strain.

But that's not good my friend, hopefully it will be made right

if you wish enough maybe santa will come.. or not.. im bad at waiting

Green Birth said:

Cheers Oaxacan.
I'm looking at two girls and a dad and I don't know where to start.
Some phenos seem to not be mold resistant, I will need to pick the right dad.
This is it!

Last seeds I had given to me I ate.

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Man I would be soooo happy if I would have a yeti male. If you are not satisfied with the 2 girls, keep the male then and drop some pollen on the best stuff you have and make some beans. You will never regret it.

I just finished my Yeti cut in an indoor garden. She has small rock hard nuggets and the smell is unbelievably fuel, dank, diesel sweat... the bomb! Small yield indoors, medium yield outdoors. I sprouted the seed in 2015 and I killed the two males I had from 3 seeds. (I have some sort of PTSD because of it, but at that time I was not really playing with the idea of fertilisation and I also didn't know that Yeti would be my favourite strain in the future). Since then I am searching for relatives of the Yeti to get a male and start a cubing process. Until now there is 2 options. I have Bodhis Neroli 91 seeds and Chemdog (regular) seeds from HSO. If I find a good male in those seeds I could make a cross and start a cubing process after that. Do you guys have any suggestions? BTW I don't live in the US so I am limited to what is available in Europe.

I think I will also try to make some Yeti S1 in the very near future using the STS method.

some budporn from the indoor run: