Emerald Fire Og sits between Fire OG and Humboldt OG: one of the strongest OG selections and a common parent in Californian fuel lines on one side, Humboldt Seed Company's own OG selection and the backbone of their fuel line on the other. Their brief is a plant that performs the same way on a farm as it did in the hunt, and the selection process is built backwards from that.

Written this way, Fire OG is the mother and Humboldt OG 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: Fire OG. One of the strongest OG selections and a common parent in Californian fuel lines. Given as OG Kush x SFV OG. SFV OG is itself an OG Kush phenotype stabilised for its citrus, so both sides trace back to OG Kush..
• Father: Humboldt OG. Humboldt Seed Company's own OG selection and the backbone of their fuel line. Parentage: an OG Kush selection held and worked by Humboldt Seed Company. It sits on one side of most of their OG releases, which is why those share a spine..
• What the cross is reaching for. One side brings the structure and the other brings the nose. The plants worth keeping out of a pack are the ones that hold both rather than picking a side.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Expect the profile to move plant to plant rather than settle.

• The Aroma. Pine and fuel with a bright lemon top from the Fire OG side, against pine and fuel with a sharp lemon edge from the Humboldt OG side.
• The Taste. Sharp citrus over heavy OG pine up front, turning to woody OG with a heavy fuel finish through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Timing. Fire OG runs nine to ten weeks, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• The smell is a negotiation. Pine and fuel with a bright lemon top on one side against pine and fuel with a sharp lemon edge on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Build. On the Fire OG side: tall for an OG, with red-tipped leaves and a heavy trichome coat. On the Humboldt OG side: classic OG structure with dense bud sites, reliable indoors and out. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Fire OG at very strong and physical and Humboldt OG at strong and physical. 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. Fire OG is tall for an OG, with red-tipped leaves and a heavy trichome coat. Humboldt OG is classic OG structure with dense bud sites, reliable indoors and out.
• Veg and stretch. Set the frame while it is cheap to do. Anything you fix after the flip costs you flower sites.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Fire OG runs nine to ten weeks, Humboldt OG nine to ten weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Fire OG as very strong and physical.
• The Body. Humboldt OG is reported as strong and physical, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt Seed Company. Blueberry Muffin is theirs - Blueberry crossed to Purple Panty Dropper - and it took sixth at the Emerald Cup in 2017. Genuine Humboldt Seed Company seed.