Take Loompa's Headband, the Loompa Farms selection, also called Underdawg OG, and put it over Irene Kush, also called Irene OG, a sour-scented hybrid out of the American Deep South kept almost entirely for its terpenes. That is Headband 56 x Irene Kush. Every parent CSI use is a cut they keep alive themselves, so nothing in this pack is a reconstruction of a famous name.

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.

Order matters in a cross name. In Headband 56 x Irene Kush the Loompa's Headband side supplied the seed and Irene Kush the pollen, and the reciprocal - the same two plants the other way round - is a separate breeding decision with its own results.

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: Irene Kush. Also called Irene OG, a Deep South cut kept almost entirely for its terpenes. Its own cross is traced to an unknown Emerald Triangle plant crossed to Hindu Kush, and widely taken to descend from California OG Kush. CSI recommend a nutrient-rich organic soil with good micronutrient content to bring the terpenes out; it is among the hardest clones they have reversed.
• 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

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Earthy and piney with citrus, a little fuel underneath, and a spiced lemon-diesel note over the whole thing from the Loompa's Headband side, against sour and sharp from the Irene Kush side.
• The Taste. Lemon and diesel turning to dank kush and earthy herbs with a spiced finish up front, turning to sour over a kush base through the exhale.

What each side brings

• 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 sweet, earthy and floral with rich earth and pine, plus a distinct diesel note that most OG cuts do not have on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Two frames in one pack. Loompa's Headband is indica-leaning, at the more manageable end of the OG family. Irene Kush is resilient with a sturdy frame rather than delicate. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• Opposite ends. Loompa's Headband is reported as focused; real indica weight; Irene Kush as the potent, focused end of the OG family; 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 indica-leaning and easier to house than most OGs. Irene Kush is kept for terpenes rather than for yield.
• 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.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Loompa's Headband as focused; real indica weight.
• The Body. Irene Kush is reported as the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Nearly everything CSI put out is built from cuts they hold themselves rather than from other people's seed lines, which is why their catalogue reads like a list of clones instead of a list of brands. Authentic Humboldt CSI genetics.