Irene Kush x Bubba Kush 101 crosses Irene Kush to Bubba Kush, also called Irene OG, a sour-scented hybrid out of the American Deep South kept almost entirely for its terpenes against the West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Neither is a filler parent, which is why this pairing is worth a pack rather than a look. What CSI sell is access to their clone collection in seed form. The parents are the cuts themselves, not a line bred to resemble them.

101 identifies the Irene Kush x Bubba Kush used here. Numbered cuts come out of a population that was grown and sorted, and the number rides with the plant that was kept. Two crosses that both say Irene Kush x Bubba Kush are only the same cross if the number matches too.

Written this way, Irene Kush is the mother and Bubba Kush 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: Irene Kush. Irene OG - a sour-scented southern cut that growers keep for the nose rather than anything else. That one comes from 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.
• Father: Bubba Kush. The West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Dense colas need airflow; the Pre-98 cut is the shorter, broader-leafed, heavier expression.
• 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

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Classic Kush sweetness and pine with an unusual sour diesel edge running through it from the Irene Kush side, against coffee and cocoa over an old-fashioned hash note, with wood behind it from the Bubba Kush side.
• The Taste. Sour with a kush base up front, turning to spiced earth and coffee bean, finishing hashy and thick through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• Where the nose comes from. One side gives sweet, earthy and floral with rich earth and pine, plus a distinct diesel note that most OG cuts do not have; the other gives roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. Resilient with a sturdy frame rather than delicate from one parent; short to medium and stocky, broad deep-green leaves, tight internodes, modest 1.2 to 1.5 times stretch; golf-ball to cola-sized buds with thick calyces and heavy resin, forest green through to plum from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Irene Kush is reported as the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling; Bubba Kush as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward. 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. Irene Kush is kept for terpenes rather than for yield. Bubba Kush is a stocky plant with barely any stretch - one and a half times at most - carrying dense, thick-calyxed flower that colours from deep green towards plum under a heavy resin load.
• Before the flip. Decide the shape now. These lines do not tidy themselves up once they are running.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Irene Kush as the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling.
• The Body. Bubba Kush is reported as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward, 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. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.