Tag: Chemdog

Rum Pie by Curio

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'Twas given me by a friend last night around a small outside fire. Pre-roll. This was before the snow.

Curio says this Rum Pie strain leans sativa but most of the references online classify it as a 60/40 indica. The genetics are intriguing: Mandarin Cookies x (I-95 x Chemdog).

Whenever I see Mandarin Cookies in a lineage I get interested. I went through an eighth of Mandarin Cookies earlier this year, a most enjoyable experience. It created that "baked" effect by which I am relaxed, curious, carefree, open. I have not seen straight-up Mandarin Cookies since but if I see it listed as a strain's parent I'll give that strain a try.

I also know I-95 x Chemdog—as a parent, not as a standalone strain. It's one of the parents of 91 Bacio, a Fig Farms creation. The Chemdog in this cross is ChemD. I-95 is Triangle Kush x (Legend OG x Stardawg IX2). It's the phenotype of Stardawg named after Corey Haim. Source: Seedfinder, link here.

I was always curious why it was named after Corey Haim. The best explanation I found is on the Greenpoint Seeds site. (Link here.). Top Dawg seeds created Stardawg. Greenpoint worked it further. They say the phenotype was named after the tragic child star because it is the "black sheep" of the Star Dawg family. As they put it, "The moniker suggests a strain that is 'too much for most to handle.'"

Anyway, this post is about Rum Pie so let's get this thing back on track! If you can't tell I am slowly becoming quite baked, my mind happily drifting from one curiosity to another.

This is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Five inches of wet snow fell early this morning. After a pleasant evening around the small bonfire last night, we awoke this morning into a totally transformed winter landscape—surreal.


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Giesel by Proper

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My buddy had some pre-rolls from Proper so we smoked one of them. He selected a strain called Giesel, which neither of us knew. He had "day time" written on the pre-roll container so someone must have suggested to him that it was a sativa or sativa-leaning. I didn't find that to be the case but I did enjoy the thrumming, energy behind-my-eyelids effects.

Judging just by the name, I would have thought Giesel had something to do with Sour Diesel. This is not the case! The lineage of Giesel is quite succinct, as compact a lineage degustation as you will find. According to seedfinder.eu (link here), Giesel is a Chem D cross done by the apocryphal Chemdog himself...

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Chemmy Jones by In the Flow

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Returning to the farm after an 18-day absence, the writer feels creatively stifled and disheartened by rejection letters. Amidst dealing with mundane aspects of his day such as mousetraps and weather observations, he engages with strains of cannabis such as Chemmy Jones, comparing their effects and tastes. Despite seeming disoriented, he finds purpose in the presence of the sun...


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OK Gush, OG Kush

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In a short time, I've assembled a short history of OG Kush, as I understand the strain's story. It is perhaps the most common ancestor of all the other flower on offer in shops. OG Kush and Chemdog. Those two. One or the other, often both, will be found somewhere along the way in strain's lineage. I have to work to find a strain that doesn't have some OG Kush and/or some Chemdog in it. Is this a bad thing? That's what I'm trying to find out. I want to smoke the OG Kush, I want to smoke the Chemdog, then I want to smoke strains that aren't derived from them. And see which ones I like better. That's science!

At first I believed Chemdog was one of the parents of OG Kush. I have relied on two sources when doing cannabis lineage research. I started at leafly.com and then found seedfinder.eu. I still use both...

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