Held on strong outdoors. Showed good resistance to leaf spot which really hit hard this year. Above average resistance to mold. Some variation in onset of flower by about 10 days. I'm harvesting some tops and more mature branches today before rain comes through. Started harvesting first plant on Sept 27. Most of final plant harvested today. Gassy with some sweetness and a touch of pepper.
Great budrot resistance. Prone to mild WPM but not bad at all. A big plant that was about 9 ft tall. Northeast usa.
Outdoor grow zone 5a. This one is putting off an almost floral smell that I can’t quite pin point. Another great tree from Dirty Bird.
Sex Melon #3 x Chocolate Pie
Density: Average
Height: Medium-tall
Terpenes: Tropical Mango, Grape Nail Polish, Sickly Sweet. The main terpene profile was Sex Melon forward (fruit, nail polish remover, potpurri, melon, floral) with hints of grape. 1 outlier had puke-fetid milk-fake strawberry terps.
Effects: A great even hybrid daytime smoke, able to still function but with a pleasant and strong high. Not debilitating but definitely fast acting.
Plant Morphology: A majority of our hunt had a high stretch (~1.4 - 1.6x), featuring classic conical/spear flower morphology. Almost all exhibited purpling, largely on the leaves but at least half of the cohort had purple flecks in calyxes. Despite high internodal spacing, these phenos stacked very nicely on colas. Outlier morphologies include more stelliform/spheroid hybrid flowers with less to no purpling, shorter plants that barely stretched but had much higher leaf-to-calyx ratio. These phenos also had short internodal spacing and exhibited very nice cola stacking.
The taller majority of the cohort required LST/staking to keep upright whereas the smaller to medium height-bush minority plants required no staking.
Notes from the Growers
The Mango Mascarpone was a dark horse in every sense of the word. Not that we doubted the potential of the parents–which in true dark horse fashion came together to finish as dark purple as it gets–but because the plants were notably unassuming until midway through flower when everything began to come together. The parents of the Mango Mascarpone are a cross of one of our all-time favorite cuts: the dark purple, super loud Sex Melon #3, and the Cannarado’s Chocolate Pie, which we bred quite a lot in the early days of Dirty Bird. Together, these two parents came together to create a cultivar with pungent, creamy tropical terpenes featuring complex undertones of nail polish, fermented fruit, grape, and berry. At first, floral initiation feels slow, but by week 5 the plants start packing on weight, and by the final week, yields were impressive for a strain as boutique as this one.
Morphologically, the plants represent an even split between mother and father. There is a fair amount of diversity in this lot. Thirty-five percent of plants stretched quite tall in flower with longer internodal spacing than we’d normally like to see. We measured anywhere between a 1.5x to a 2x stretch on this phenotype. Thankfully, the weight they put on late in flower ended up making up for the stretch. They finished far more proportionately than we anticipated they would, but anyone with a height-restricted grow should cull these early. Twelve percent of the plants we tested had a bushy stature and happened to also be the only green pheno. The remaining plants (about 50%) were a hybrid of their parents with well-balanced internodal spacing, balanced vertical and lateral growth, and low/med foliage density. This was definitely our favorite phenotype.
The calyx-to-leaf ratio and the terpene and trichome accumulation was high on all of the plants we tested, and 88% were a beautiful dark purple by the time harvest rolled around. Calyx structure was very granular and dense, and stigmas were long, velvety and a beautiful contrast to the pale green, dark purple and maroon foliage. The sugar leaves finished speckled with beautiful pinks and purples dripping with trichomes. Note that many of the plants stayed green deceivably far into their lifecycle, but darkened substantially in their final week. Overall these plants were strong and stalks were flexible. A couple of stakes were needed here and there. Some defoliation is recommended on the leafier, tighter pheno to get light to the lower canopy, but the majority of plants had plenty of breathing room.
Feminized Photoperiod
(Jelly Donutz x Mendo Breath)
Plant Morphology: Flowers are dense and conical, some stacking together and stretching long down the apical stem to form one cola, while the majority grew individual flowers at the internodes. Expect floral initiation around 4.5 weeks. Low foliage density, medium internodal spacing, and high trichome accumulation. Plants are green-dominant indoors with some purpling visible late in flower.
Terpenes: Mendo Gas, Fruit undertones, Sweet + Perfumey, Funky Pine, Banana
Effect: A mega relaxing and mind melting but uplifting indica. White Gloomberry might open your third eye, but could also close your other two.
Notes from the Grower(s): The White Gloomberry Auto by Dirty Bird Genetics came from a very limited mashup of the Jelly Donutz Auto by Humboldt Seed Co and the Mendo Breath Auto from the NASC Commercial Cultivars line. Each of the parents brought distinct terpenes and morphology to the table, and very true to form, this cultivar is the perfect hybrid of the two.
The flowers of the White Gloomberry are conical and climb up the apical stem of the plants at each individual internode. They most closely resemble the structure of the Mendo Breath Auto with one fat cola at the top of the plant, and golf balls up and down the stems; however, the long, tubular structure of the Jelly Donutz also came through on about 30% of the plants we tested. Left untopped, all of the plants were medium height, medium internodal spacing, and had good lateral branching on the bottom half of the plant.
Where the Jelly Donutz really shined was trichome accumulation. Across the board, these plants glistened with trichomes and produced some really incredible smells. The terpene profiles drew from both parents: Early in flower, the Mendo’s unique, funky gas appeared dominant, but as the plants matured, the sweet, fruity and perfumey profile of the Jelly Donutz started coming through. At harvest, terpene profiles were a mashup of both parents, ranging from gassy, funky pine and banana to sweet, funky, perfume.
At the very end of flower the leaves began to yellow and little flecks of purple started emerging on the sugar leaves and in the calyxes. Stigmas turned a vibrant orange and stood out against the green flower. Plants were ready to harvest between 70-80 days, and had very little leaf making them easy to process once they were cut.
Feminized Autoflowering