BLUE LIME PIE ♀ Fems (KEY LIME PIE X BLUE POWER) brings Key Lime Pie together with Blue Power. The first is the citrus selection out of Cookies; the second, Blue Power - the plant Sin City have leaned on for over a decade. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. One side of this is a plant Sin City have tested to exhaustion; the other is what they wanted to see it do. That is how the whole catalogue is built.

Feminized seed. You are not sexing anything and not throwing half of what you popped away - useful when space is the limit rather than time.

Order matters in a cross name. In BLUE LIME PIE ♀ Fems (KEY LIME PIE X BLUE POWER) the Key Lime Pie side supplied the seed and Blue Power the pollen, and the reciprocal - the same two plants the other way round - is a separate breeding decision with its own results.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Key Lime Pie. The citrus selection out of Cookies. Its own history is not clean. Two Californian outfits are named as its origin - Purple Caper Seeds and Burning Bush Nurseries - and one account has it made deliberately by crossing GSC to Lime Skunk and backcrossing to a GSC F2 male rather than found as a phenotype. What every account agrees on is that it sits inside the Cookies family.
• Father: Blue Power. Sin City's flagship, and the male behind most of what they have released since. Built from a Power clone crossed to a White Moonshine male in 2010; the Power side is given as Sour Double x Master Kush, and White Moonshine as The White x Blue Moonshine. The mother was bought simply as Power from Progressive Options, a Prop 215 shop in the San Fernando Valley that dealt in elite cuts, and a persistent rumour says it was really the cup-winning Sour Dubb. Nobody has settled that.
• Why these two. They are not variations on the same idea. They pull in different directions, and that spread is what makes a pack worth hunting through rather than just growing.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The two halves stack rather than blend, which is the whole reason to run it.

• The Aroma. Lime zest and peel over sweet dough, earth and cream underneath from the Key Lime Pie side, against sweet kush over sour fuel, with a creamy berry note behind it from the Blue Power side.
• The Taste. Citrus with cream behind it up front, turning to citrus and berry finishing earthy through the exhale.

What each side brings

• What to budget. The documented side, Key Lime Pie, runs sixty-three to seventy days, so eight to ten weeks. Set the room to that and let the plants correct you.
• Two noses, one pack. Key Lime Pie contributes lime zest and citrus peel over sweet dough, with earth and cream underneath. Blue Power contributes sweet kush and sour diesel with creamy blueberry and vanilla behind it. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Two frames in one pack. Key Lime Pie is about seventy-five percent indica; dense compact flower, light green with purple coming through, under a heavy coat of trichomes. Blue Power is indica-dominant, usually put around eighty twenty. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Key Lime Pie at the settled, indica-weighted end of the Cookies family and Blue Power at heavy on the body with the mood lifted rather than flattened. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Key Lime Pie is three-quarters indica, dense and compact, light green with purple through it under heavy frost. Blue Power is weighted to the indica side by a wide margin.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.
• Flowering Time. Key Lime Pie runs sixty-three to seventy days, so eight to ten weeks. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Key Lime Pie as the settled, indica-weighted end of the Cookies family.
• The Body. Blue Power is reported as heavy on the body with the mood lifted rather than flattened, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Seeds from Sin City Seeds. What they chase is flavour, resin and stability, and they chase it by putting new plants over males they already trust rather than by pairing two fashionable names and hoping. Original Sin City Seeds stock.