Fritterbanger (Apple Fritter x Sherbanger) brings Apple Fritter together with Sherbanger. The first is Sour Apple crossed to Animal Cookies, and one of the few dessert names that smells like the thing it is named after; the second, the Boston Roots cross that Bloom Seed Co built most of their catalogue on. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. Both parents were picked for what they contribute to the nose. Structure and yield follow from that rather than leading it.

Written this way, Apple Fritter is the mother and Sherbanger 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: Apple Fritter. A Sour Apple and Animal Cookies cross that earns the pastry comparison instead of just borrowing it. Its own cross is Sour Apple x Animal Cookies.
• Father: Sherbanger. The Boston Roots cross that Bloom Seed Co built most of their catalogue on. That one comes from Sunset Sherbet x Headbanger. Bloom work from a selected Sherbanger 22 cut and have taken the line forward from there, which is why so many of their packs carry the name..
• How to read it. Everything below splits into what one parent gives and what the other does. Plants that take from both are the ones to keep.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

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

• The Aroma. Sweet apple pastry over a fuel edge from the Apple Fritter side, against citrus and pine over sweet berry from the Sherbanger side.
• The Taste. Baked apple and dough with fuel behind it up front, turning to sweet berry first, sharper pine behind it through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Timing splits the pack. One parent wants eight to ten weeks, the other nine to ten weeks. Expect the fast plants down well before the slow ones are ready.
• Two noses, one pack. Apple Fritter contributes baked apple and sweet dough with a faint gassy edge underneath. Sherbanger contributes citrus and pine over sweet berry. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Two frames in one pack. Apple Fritter is dense flower from the Cookies side; suits indoor or outdoor. Sherbanger is indica-leaning structure with dense flower and good resin coverage. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Apple Fritter at even rather than racy; settling and Sherbanger at weighted and calming. 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. Apple Fritter is dense flower from the Cookies side; suits indoor or outdoor. Sherbanger is indica-leaning structure with dense flower and good resin coverage.
• Vegetative Phase and Stretch. Shape the plant before the flip. Correcting a frame in week six is harder work than setting it in week two.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Apple Fritter runs eight to ten weeks, Sherbanger nine to ten weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Apple Fritter as even rather than racy; settling.
• The Body. Sherbanger is reported as weighted and calming, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

12 regular seeds per pack. Seeds from Bloom Seed Co. Sherbanger, Candy Fumez, Black Maple and Strawberry Guava are the four plants this catalogue keeps returning to, and each one carries a distinct flavour brief. Original Bloom Seed Co stock.