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7/1 - July cart freebie: Dam a Lam x Bad apple
7/4 - Frosted Volcano Alpha Drop: You might have gotten this one in the Maui Multipack. You asked for it, so we'll be eventually dropping each of those strains as individual drops!
7/4-7/10 - BOGO: Buy any Volume pack get a free Sour Maui Fem Photo Alpha 3pk
7/10 - BRUNCHFAST: Our first fast strain drop! Don't want to miss this guy
7/24 - Heavy Metal Breath Auto Alpha: LIMITED Mendo Breath x Anvil Auto. If you hadn't noticed, all the auto strains are limited at this point. This means small batches, so get them while you can.

*Pictured is a trich photo of Frosted Volcano!

Hey guys! 👋 I wanted to share a quick pheno breakdown on this awesome freebie: Garlic Gas (Thousand Oaks x Maui True Blood).

Overall, these girls came out super beefy, greasy, and a little bit leafy with those classic rounded spear structures. The Thousand Oaks dominance is definitely shining through here on the colors and the terpene profiles, though they aren’t clustering or stacking quite as much as the pure True Blood.

They are fast looks mature at just day 45 and currently still flushing!

About 50% of the run came out heavily Thousand Oaks dominant, with the rest leaning toward a nice hybrid balance. Maui definitely brought the heavy resin to the party, but the Oaks took over on the colors

The Terp Profile:

The aromas on these are loud and all over the place in the best way possible, garlic, heavy gas, chemical and creamy citrus.

Pheno Breakdown:

• Pheno #1: The underdog of the run. Very leafy, definitely the worst of the bunch.
• Pheno #5: The heavyweight champion! Best overall weight and great structure with a little bit of color. Terps lean peppery, though a bit less intense than the others.
• Pheno #6: Holy terps! 🤯 An insanely sharp terpene profile that practically burns the nostrils. It’s got a little bit of sweetness/citrus breaking through the heavy garlic gas. Buds are smaller, tight golf balls.
• Pheno #7 (The Winner! 🏆): Absolutely gorgeous. Garlic, gas, and deep earth. It has a really nice stack, beautiful bag appeal, and it purpled up incredibly well.

Have any of you popped these freebies yet? Let me know what you're seeing! Happy growing!

We offered this one as a freebie, have you grown it out?

Notes on this strain:
Mod stretch- nice size- nice bush and great stack. Gas and pine, some banana terps. Insane stacking, slender leaves. Not too stretchy - perfect internodal spacing for huge colas. Great PM resistance. Very strong and insane yield. Early finisher. Very consistent.

Hey all.

Not really exciting pics here, but F1s of a cross I made not too long ago that I’m super excited about.

Cross is MacMo x Lilac OG BX regs

Macmo is from dirty bird and is mac1 x Elmo’s army. This is a beautiful plant. She smells floral, spicy (think cooking aromatics) and a little sweet citrus. Mom is in pic 4 and 5.

The Lilac OG selection was straight floral stem rub. Very pleasant smell and favorable structure. Dad is pic 6

So far I’ve grown 14 of them in veg, I flipped 3 of them last week (pic 3) 2 males 1 female.

The other 11 I just shaped and took clones Saturday.

In veg I’ve gotten a mix of smells. Some more spicy, some more lilac/floral and some a good mix. the flower smell matters more, but I still take note of stem rub smells during veg too.

All phenotypes have been 1 of 2 structures. One more of the bush type plant, thicker stems with big u shape bends in branches that. Shorter in stature.

The other type has a lankier structure but with still thick, strong branches.

Really excited to flip all of these in the 4x4 and see what they bring. Hoping to find some stuff I like to select for F2

Thanks for reading

🌸OBDG🌸

MINT LEMONADE

Genetics: Purple Lemonade Auto x Mint Jelly Auto 

Filial Generation: F1

Flowering Time: 80 Days

Height: Short

Yield: Medium

Terpenes: Sugary Mint Spritzer, Lemon, Lots of bite

PVI: Low

Morphology: Broad, short, fat plants with high calyx-to-leaf ratio, lavender and deep-green coloring, fat, conical flowers, and very high trichome accumulation for autoflowers. Very high uniformity. 

The pairing of the Purple Lemonade Auto by Fastbuds and the Mint Jelly Auto by Humboldt Seed Co—two of the most popular auto strains of the last decade—turned out predictably delightful for the Dirty Bird team. We have been chasing minty terpene profiles for years within our photoperiod breeding program, but his cross  had the mint factor we have been searching for. 

The Mint Lemonade really couldn’t have been named anything else due to the fact that it is so minty and so lemony. Even dried, the terpenes pop right out of the jar.  But that’s not the only thing that stands out about these genetics. The Mint Lemonade Auto also has super dense trichome coverage, making the flowers take on an almost fuzzy appearance. This, along with the terpenes and the beautiful lavender-purple and spearmint-green color contrast, make for excellent bag appeal. 

The morphology of this strain is highly uniform for an F1. Around weeks 7-8 you may notice that some plants are stacking on weight more quickly than others; however, by the end of flower—around day 80—the flower morphology will have synced up again, making for a highly uniform crop at harvest. Coloring may also develop at different times and late in the plant’s lifecycle, but by harvest we found these plants very uniform in virtually every way. 

The Mint Lemonade plants take on a unique and distinguishable appearance in their silvery, lavender flower, stubby, broad fan leaves, and fat golfball colas. Flowers are conical with medium-high density and strong, chunky centers. The buds look like they should be dome-shaped because they are so fat around their perimeters, but they do come to a point at their tops. We found that about 15% of the plants we tested stacked really optimally down the central cola, so this is the pheno we will be selecting for when we make our F2s. The remaining plants were similar otherwise, but had more bare stem running up the stalks. All plants were short and squat and would do well in a height-restrained grow space. They were also all very easy to process and trim with very little leaf in the flower and great density. 

By and large, the Mint Lemonade is one of the best F1 crosses we’ve made thus far. Despite it being incredibly limited, we wanted to share the seed we have with our community while we continue moving this strain forward and honing it in even more. Enjoy! 

6/1-6/30 : Double freebies - Buy any volume pack and get standard freebies + 2 free Rainbow Unicorn seeds

6/1-6/30 : June cart Freebie - The Brunch F4

6/5 : Mint Lemonade Auto Alpha Drop - (Purple Lemonade Auto x Mint Jelly Auto) SUPER limited, only 40 packs will be available exclusively at DirtyBirdGenetics.com!

6/20-6/21 : Father's Day Special - 2 free Rotten Heart (Heart-Shaped Lunchbox x Bad Apple) with any Dirty Bird carts on both NASC and DB!

6/20-6/21 : 15% off! Only at DirtyBirdGenetics.com

CANDY APPLE KUSH

Luna’s Wrath x Bad Apple - Sugar Mill Cut

The Candy Apple Kush is the sixth and final entry in Dirty Bird’s Volume 4 Series. A cross between Luna’s Wrath and Bad Apple (Sugar Mill Cut),  the Candy Apple Kush represents a step forward for our Brunch-originated genetics, shining in all of the right places: 

Plant Morphology + PVI: Overall the Candy Apple Kush is highly impressive in its uniformity and high performance. You’ll notice differences in color, with 75% gaining purples and maroons in both the flower and the foliage, and 25% staying a vibrant green. Some of the green plants will get lavender purple calyxes close to harvest which is especially striking, especially on plants where the foliage stays green. Plants will stretch about 1.2 - 1.5x in the first three weeks of flower. They aren’t leggy at all and they grow very proportionately both vertically and laterally. No staking was required. Leaves are notably minimal in the flower. Across the plant as a whole, the volume of foliage produced is ideal for air flow and light penetration, both indoor and outdoor grows. Flowers are well developed throughout the canopy because very little light is blocked by foliage. Internodal spacing is medium with one phenotype exhibiting shorter, tighter internodal spacing than the other. Terpenes were very consistent overall with sweet, candy apple being dominant. 

Flower: Off the charts. Buds are very tight, colorful, and have an extremely high calyx-to-leaf ratio, making this strain easy to manicure and easy to sell. Bracts (calyxes) are knuckly and stack beautifully; their vivid color contrast makes for a visually striking plant. The Bad Apple is dominant in flower morphology with buds that are shaped like fat, bulbous, conical spears. 

Terpenes: From berry apple to melon apple to sour apple, a sweet apple terpene profile definitely dominates this cross. The Bad Apple’s underlying rotten funk also comes through on some plants. Terps are pronounced and consistently incredible.

Trichomes: There is so much sugar here. You won’t be disappointed. Trichomes are colorful with tall stalks and medium sized heads. 

Flowering Time: 50 days 

Overall, the Candy Apple Kush is a strain that screams Cup Winner to us. It performs on a very high level in every measure we have, and that level of quality is consistent whether you pop three seeds or 50 seeds. There’s no doubt that we are excited about this one, and looking forward to seeing how it performs in other gardens both indoor and out. 

Our next toke is Nuclear True Blood by Dirty Bird Genetics. She is a cross of Nuclear Forest x Maui True Blood. Read on to learn about our experiences.

I'm reaching for the Nuclear True Blood when I am ready to unwind for the night. It brings on a very pleasant, mellow relaxation. I was still alert and able to engage, but I definitely didn't want to participate in anything that required hard concentration. It was perfect for a card game with my spouse, followed by an SNL rerun. There were also snacks involved because this one definitely brought on some munchies. Fans of pine and citrus will appreciate Nuclear True Blood's profile.

- Crystal

This strain from Dirty Bird is a fun one!  The buds are sugary and dense and have little orange hairs. It has a lovely piney, citrusy aroma and grinds up well. It was fresh and spongy when I got it and burned nice in the bowl. I would consider this a hybrid for sure. It mellows you and calms your mind but doesn’t zap your energy. The effects are relaxing and motivating at the same time. If you smoke it, definitely have some snacks ready!

- Mariah

Read for post here.

The Skull Island F2 was the first autoflowering strain that Dirty Bird bred, first harvested a year ago this May, that had the wow factor we were looking for in an auto. It became the first official project on our docket to work forward and lock in. While we are still hard at work on this project, finishing our F3s at the time of this release, we thought it would be fun, and potentially even helpful, to let some of these F2s out into the wild for people to try out. 

The very first notes I took on this strain read: “Banana daddy x strawberry gorilla is INCREDIBLE. Huge yields, high density, and insane sharp spicy banana smell across the board. Terps range from licorice to pine to banana.” 

Ben was excited about the Skull Island too, sure that it had the potential we’d been hunting for. 

F2s are notoriously the most diverse filial generation. You will find more divergence here than in any other generation. If you’re looking for a strain where every plant looks identical, this probably isn’t the best choice. But if you’re looking for surprises, this is a great choice. 

Overall, the Skull Island’s flower shape was quite consistent. Almost all of the plants had large, conical buds that came to a peak at the top with a fat circumference around the middle. We observed a couple of plants (around 15%) that had dome-shaped flowers. Some flowers wanted to stack along the central cola more than others. The taller plants—which were in the minority, by far—didn’t stack as well as the shorter, stout plants did. All of the plants yielded well and formed chunky colas. Density did vary a bit. While none of the flowers were fluffy, they ranged from rock hard to spongy at harvest. Consistent density is something we are actively selecting for. All of the plants had thick, self-supporting stalks and medium internodal spacing. Some formed very bulbous bracts (aka calyxes) that looked like clusters of ripe pomegranate seeds, while others had a much more compact, highly dense structure. Our very favorite plant was one that had very dense flower and a high calyx-to-leaf ratio. Even live on the plant, it appeared to have the kind of flower that crumbles to dust between your fingers when you break it apart. The Skull Island F2 was incredibly greasy, so much so that we had to change our gloves while harvesting them. 

Lastly, we have the terpenes! The terpenes were one of the things that really drew us to this cross. They are so complex, and they are consistently pungent from plant-to-plant. While there was a lot of variance in terpenes, they were all a part of the spicy, sour/chem, gas family and they leaned dark and savory. Some individual plant observations included: 

Spicy Licorice, Peppery Gas

Grape, Fuel, Candy

Sharp Rubber, Putrid Gas

Bright, Funky Chem, Pine 

Sweet + Sour Banana 

We you hope you enjoy hunting these, and stay tuned for a more refined version of the Skull Island in the near future! 

Really love this one featuring our Volume 4 artwork by Matthew Johnson at Seventh Ink

Get it here: Volume 4 T-Shirt

S3x Melon #3 x Chocolate Pie

Gorgeous S3x Melon when it was pregnant with the Choc Pie pollen! Very tropical Terp profile with some apple in there that comes through from the brunch. The Choc Pie has a grape terp profile so it should make for an fun mashup. We are testing it now ourselves.

Just had to share the size of these plants!