I was reading the last two years High Times worlds strongest strains and came across a comment about chem dawg that got me thinking.
The article said out of 300 entries only 31 had 20% THC or higher and 22 of the 31 had Chem Dawg in their history somewhere. It basically gives the "most potent lineage" award to Chem Dawg. No surprise there.
What it does not say, is what are the other strains. I decided to do the work and share it.
The Strains without any Chem Dawg are:
1) Durban Poison
2) G-13 x Widow
3) Golden Goat ( Island Sweet Skunk x Hawaiian x Romulan)
4) Dr. Grinspoon (Heirloom Sativa)
5) Blue Dream (Blueberry Haze)
6) LA Confidential (pressuming the OG La Affie is not a real OG)
7) Diamond Girl’s (Early Pearl x Skunk x Northern Lights)
8) Super Lemon Haze
9) Boost (Sweet Tooth, NL, NorCal Blueberry)
10) Strawberry Cough
11) Cracker Jack (G-13 x Jack Herer)
12) Cactus (Dutch Treat x NL)
13) Cobra (Malawi x NL)
14) Dark Star (Hindu/Afghan)
Mostly this is just an FYI because when people ask "whats the best" the thread always goes haywire. But I am also skeptical about giving the award the strongest lineage to Chem Dawg.
First we don't know what CD's lineage is. It could be Durban Blueberry Haze for all we know (probably not but its history is unknown).
Second the list has a land race, a couple land race hybrids and several with NL and Skunk (one of the oldest stable hybrids). It may be that CD is so popular way more entries tilted the results in its favor.
Third, cracker jack and cactus are pure old school dutch genetics.
I am not trying to downplay how amazing CD and its kids are but this may shed some light on something somehow. In the 90's when Chem Dawg came around NL, G-13, Jack Herer, Widow, Skunk and Afghan were extremely popular strains and dominated the market. This leads me to believe that at least one of them parented the Chem Dawg. I say parented because I don't think the weed Chem Dawg bought was like the Chem Dawg he got from the seeds (can someone correct me if this is wrong)
Speculation 1: unknown indica strain (Kush, HP or NL?)
Speculation 2: Nepali x Thai
The first seems way more likely.
Anyway...if you plan on doing any Chem Dawg crosses I suspect on of the strains above would be a no brainer
The article said out of 300 entries only 31 had 20% THC or higher and 22 of the 31 had Chem Dawg in their history somewhere. It basically gives the "most potent lineage" award to Chem Dawg. No surprise there.
What it does not say, is what are the other strains. I decided to do the work and share it.
The Strains without any Chem Dawg are:
1) Durban Poison
2) G-13 x Widow
3) Golden Goat ( Island Sweet Skunk x Hawaiian x Romulan)
4) Dr. Grinspoon (Heirloom Sativa)
5) Blue Dream (Blueberry Haze)
6) LA Confidential (pressuming the OG La Affie is not a real OG)
7) Diamond Girl’s (Early Pearl x Skunk x Northern Lights)
8) Super Lemon Haze
9) Boost (Sweet Tooth, NL, NorCal Blueberry)
10) Strawberry Cough
11) Cracker Jack (G-13 x Jack Herer)
12) Cactus (Dutch Treat x NL)
13) Cobra (Malawi x NL)
14) Dark Star (Hindu/Afghan)
Mostly this is just an FYI because when people ask "whats the best" the thread always goes haywire. But I am also skeptical about giving the award the strongest lineage to Chem Dawg.
First we don't know what CD's lineage is. It could be Durban Blueberry Haze for all we know (probably not but its history is unknown).
Second the list has a land race, a couple land race hybrids and several with NL and Skunk (one of the oldest stable hybrids). It may be that CD is so popular way more entries tilted the results in its favor.
Third, cracker jack and cactus are pure old school dutch genetics.
I am not trying to downplay how amazing CD and its kids are but this may shed some light on something somehow. In the 90's when Chem Dawg came around NL, G-13, Jack Herer, Widow, Skunk and Afghan were extremely popular strains and dominated the market. This leads me to believe that at least one of them parented the Chem Dawg. I say parented because I don't think the weed Chem Dawg bought was like the Chem Dawg he got from the seeds (can someone correct me if this is wrong)
Speculation 1: unknown indica strain (Kush, HP or NL?)
Speculation 2: Nepali x Thai
The first seems way more likely.
Anyway...if you plan on doing any Chem Dawg crosses I suspect on of the strains above would be a no brainer