Headband 56 x Cherry Pie puts Loompa's Headband over Cherry Pie. One is the Loompa Farms selection, also called Underdawg OG; the other is Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. Two very different plants, and the point of the cross is what sits between them. Humboldt CSI work almost entirely from clones they hold themselves, so both sides of this are the real thing rather than a seed-line approximation of it.

Headband carries a 56 because selections get numbered to stay distinguishable once they leave the room they were made in. It marks this exact mother, and it is the part of the name worth reading closely.

Written this way, Loompa's Headband 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: Loompa's Headband. The Loompa Farms selection, also called Underdawg OG. Parentage: OG Kush x Sour Diesel, roughly sixty-forty indica.
• Father: Cherry Pie. Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. Parentage: Granddaddy Purple x Durban Poison. Considered easy to grow.
• 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. Earth, pine and citrus with a little fuel under it, and a spiced lemon-diesel thread running the length of it from the Loompa's Headband side, against dark stone fruit and berry over earth from the Cherry Pie side.
• The Taste. Lemon-diesel opening onto herbal kush and earth, spiced at the close up front, turning to cherry and berry with an earthy finish through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• What to budget. The documented side, Cherry Pie, runs eight to nine weeks. Set the room to that and let the plants correct you.
• The smell is a negotiation. Rich earth with pine and citrus over a hint of fuel, and a spicy lemony diesel note across all of it on one side against dark stone fruit and berry over earth on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Structure varies hard here. Indica-leaning, at the more manageable end of the og family from one parent; short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Loompa's Headband is reported as focused; real indica weight; Cherry Pie as 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. Loompa's Headband is one of the better-behaved OGs - it leans indica and does not run away from a normal tent. Cherry Pie is short and bushy, eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres, branching wide enough sideways to suit 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 Loompa's Headband as focused; real indica weight.
• 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. Humboldt CSI are preservationists before they are breeders - most of what they release is a clone somebody has kept alive by hand for years, put into seed so it stops depending on one grower staying in the game. That is what you are buying into here. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.