Take Forbidden Fruit, the Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit, and put it over Apple Fritter, a Sour Apple and Animal Cookies cross that earns the pastry comparison instead of just borrowing it. That is Forbidden Fruit x Apple Fritter. CSI breed off held clones rather than off seed stock, which is why the parents named on the pack are the actual plants and not their descendants.

Written this way, Forbidden Fruit is the mother and Apple Fritter 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: Forbidden Fruit. The Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit. Its own cross is Cherry Pie x Tangie. Rated an easy grow that does not need constant attention.
• Father: Apple Fritter. A Sour Apple and Animal Cookies cross that earns the pastry comparison instead of just borrowing it. It traces back to Sour Apple x Animal Cookies.
• 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

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

• The Aroma. Tropical citrus over dark cherry from the Forbidden Fruit side, against baked apple and pastry dough with a thin gassy note underneath from the Apple Fritter side.
• The Taste. Cherry and passionfruit with citrus over the top up front, turning to tart apple and pastry, finishing sweeter than it starts through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• They are not on the same clock. Forbidden Fruit runs nine to ten weeks indoors; Apple Fritter runs eight to ten weeks. Across a pack that gap shows up as plants finishing days or weeks apart.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives dark cherry and bright orange citrus; the other gives baked apple and sweet dough with a faint gassy edge underneath. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Two frames in one pack. Forbidden Fruit is compact at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres indoors. Apple Fritter is dense flower from the Cookies side; suits indoor or outdoor. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• Opposite ends. Forbidden Fruit is reported as indica-leaning and settling; Apple Fritter as even rather than racy; settling. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Forbidden Fruit is compact at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres indoors. Apple Fritter is medium-sized, dense and resinous.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Forbidden Fruit runs nine to ten weeks indoors, Apple Fritter eight to ten weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Forbidden Fruit as indica-leaning and settling.
• The Body. Apple Fritter is reported as even rather than racy; settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. What they sell is preservation work: old clones reversed into seed so the line survives past whoever is currently keeping it alive. Humboldt CSI original genetics.