I brought Shiva Shanti seeds back home from Amsterdam a few years ago along with a few other packs purchased from the Sensi Museum Coffeshop. (all of which germinated 100% incidentaly)
The beans were stored in the freezer for a year or so until I popped half a pack of them. I gew them indoors under a 400w hps, ending up with 4 nice fat females. In that batch I found a garlic bud pheno which smelled and tasted absolutely fantastic. The others surprisingly did not have much of a smell to them at all.
The garlic bud pheno is a deep spicy and pungent smell which is very, very plesant and different to anything else I have tried. Definately a keeper and I would think there should be at least one of these in a pack, although I only found just the one. This female I was planning to reveg because I liked it so much, but alas and lamentably when I harvested the plants I found a few nanners on that one plant, so I decided not to keep it. I found this particular plant had a slightly different structure to it as well. The leaflets were a little thinner, it had a little more stretch to it, and the colas were more spear shaped rather than more rounded on top.
The second half of that pack of seeds was grown out about a year or so later. 3 females were grown also under a 400w hps, and 1 was gifted to a friend who grow it outdoors organically. The indoor batch yielded really well producing fat and dense heavy buds but the quality was not amazing in that batch. I did not find any keepers, although all of them yielded really fat. My buddy on the other hand grew the one female I gave him organically outdoors (in Australia) and this bud was amazing. It wasn't the garlic bud pheno, infact it didnt smell very strong either, but in the cure a wonderful lemony scent developed which I really enjoyed. On top of that the bud was really potent and had quite a stimulating effect while still being obviously an indica. It was by far the best weed from his outdoor garden that year. The last of the buds were treasured for a long time before they ran out.
Over all this strain is quite easy to grow and definately yields fat indoors. They stay relatively short, but there is some stretch there, not like some indicas, this one does have some stretch to it (which is good). Shiva Shanti produced the heaviest, densest buds I have grown. Not all are keepers though. I really rate the garlic pheno highly. That deep spicy, pungent aroma is excellent. This is the pheno I am sure Shiva Shanti is supposed to be. Being a 3 way hybrid, there is a degree of penotypic variation, but appart from the smell, and minor differences in structure, Shiva Shanti is quite a stabile strain.
The smoke was by far the best in the organic outdoor batch my friend grew. It was a lot more potent than the indoor grown herb. Over all I found Shiva Shanti quite stimulating for an indica. I still wouldn't call it daytime week, but its not really couchlock. The indoor batches were of average potency.
Ok here are the pics:
these first 2 pics of the vase flower arrangement are from the first run I did. (I also made that vase myself)
this pic is of the dried and cured bud from the outdoor batch my friend grew
The beans were stored in the freezer for a year or so until I popped half a pack of them. I gew them indoors under a 400w hps, ending up with 4 nice fat females. In that batch I found a garlic bud pheno which smelled and tasted absolutely fantastic. The others surprisingly did not have much of a smell to them at all.
The garlic bud pheno is a deep spicy and pungent smell which is very, very plesant and different to anything else I have tried. Definately a keeper and I would think there should be at least one of these in a pack, although I only found just the one. This female I was planning to reveg because I liked it so much, but alas and lamentably when I harvested the plants I found a few nanners on that one plant, so I decided not to keep it. I found this particular plant had a slightly different structure to it as well. The leaflets were a little thinner, it had a little more stretch to it, and the colas were more spear shaped rather than more rounded on top.
The second half of that pack of seeds was grown out about a year or so later. 3 females were grown also under a 400w hps, and 1 was gifted to a friend who grow it outdoors organically. The indoor batch yielded really well producing fat and dense heavy buds but the quality was not amazing in that batch. I did not find any keepers, although all of them yielded really fat. My buddy on the other hand grew the one female I gave him organically outdoors (in Australia) and this bud was amazing. It wasn't the garlic bud pheno, infact it didnt smell very strong either, but in the cure a wonderful lemony scent developed which I really enjoyed. On top of that the bud was really potent and had quite a stimulating effect while still being obviously an indica. It was by far the best weed from his outdoor garden that year. The last of the buds were treasured for a long time before they ran out.
Over all this strain is quite easy to grow and definately yields fat indoors. They stay relatively short, but there is some stretch there, not like some indicas, this one does have some stretch to it (which is good). Shiva Shanti produced the heaviest, densest buds I have grown. Not all are keepers though. I really rate the garlic pheno highly. That deep spicy, pungent aroma is excellent. This is the pheno I am sure Shiva Shanti is supposed to be. Being a 3 way hybrid, there is a degree of penotypic variation, but appart from the smell, and minor differences in structure, Shiva Shanti is quite a stabile strain.
The smoke was by far the best in the organic outdoor batch my friend grew. It was a lot more potent than the indoor grown herb. Over all I found Shiva Shanti quite stimulating for an indica. I still wouldn't call it daytime week, but its not really couchlock. The indoor batches were of average potency.
Ok here are the pics:
these first 2 pics of the vase flower arrangement are from the first run I did. (I also made that vase myself)
this pic is of the dried and cured bud from the outdoor batch my friend grew
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excellent report bro shiva is in my top 5.one clone out door
