Cherry AK x Cherry Pie is Cherry AK crossed to Cherry Pie. Cherry AK is Cherry AK - AK-47 selected on smell alone. Cherry Pie is Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. Both parents here are cuts CSI keep in their own room. That is the whole difference between this and a seed line named after the same strains.

Written this way, Cherry AK is the mother and Cherry Pie the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Cherry AK. Cherry AK - AK-47 selected on smell alone. It traces back to a selection out of AK-47, which Serious Seeds built from Colombian, Mexican and Thai sativas over an Afghani. It is a phenotype isolated for its smell rather than a distinct cross, which is why no breeder is credited with making it.
• Father: Cherry Pie. Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. That one comes from Granddaddy Purple x Durban Poison. Considered easy to grow.
• The point of the pairing. Neither parent needed rescuing. Putting them together is about what sits between them, not about fixing either one.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Dark overripe cherry and maraschino syrup with a sharp sandalwood-incense note behind it from the Cherry AK side, against dark stone fruit and berry over earth from the Cherry Pie side.
• The Taste. Sweet cherry over earth and spice up front, turning to cherry and berry with an earthy finish through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing. Cherry Pie runs eight to nine weeks, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives dark overripe cherry and maraschino syrup with a sharp sandalwood-incense note behind it; the other gives dark stone fruit and berry over earth. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Build. On the Cherry AK side: dense forest-green flower with purple through it, copper pistils and a heavy silver resin coat. On the Cherry Pie side: short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Cherry AK at myrcene, caryophyllene and pinene lead it and Cherry Pie at settling. 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. Cherry AK is dense forest-green flower with purple through it, copper pistils and a heavy silver resin coat. Cherry Pie is short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. Cherry Pie runs eight to nine weeks. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Cherry AK as myrcene, caryophyllene and pinene lead it.
• The Body. Cherry Pie is reported as settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. The point of their catalogue is access - cuts that otherwise only move between growers who already know each other, put into a form you can actually buy. Sold as authentic Humboldt CSI.