Irene x Apple Fritter crosses Irene Kush to Apple Fritter: Irene OG - a sour-scented southern cut that growers keep for the nose rather than anything else against Sour Apple crossed to Animal Cookies, and one of the few dessert names that smells like the thing it is named after. 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.

Irene Kush sits on the seed side here, Apple Fritter on the pollen side. If you have seen these two names paired the other way round, that is a different pack and not this one.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Irene Kush. Irene OG - a sour-scented southern cut that growers keep for the nose rather than anything else. Built 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: Apple Fritter. A Sour Apple and Animal Cookies cross that earns the pastry comparison instead of just borrowing it. Built from Sour Apple x Animal Cookies.
• What to expect across a pack. Two distinct parents means real variation in frame, finish and nose. Select early and take cuttings off anything you would want again.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Neither parent is subtle, and the cross has nowhere quiet to go.

• The Aroma. Classic Kush sweetness and pine with an unusual sour diesel edge running through it from the Irene Kush side, against baked apple and pastry dough with a thin gassy note underneath from the Apple Fritter side.
• The Taste. Sour over a kush base up front, turning to tart apple and pastry, finishing sweeter than it starts through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• Timing. Apple Fritter runs eight to ten weeks, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• 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 baked apple and sweet dough with a faint gassy edge underneath. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Two frames in one pack. Irene Kush is resilient with a sturdy frame rather than delicate. 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.
• They pull differently. Growers put Irene Kush at the potent, focused end of the OG family; settling and Apple Fritter at even rather than racy; settling. 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. Irene Kush is kept for terpenes rather than for yield. Apple Fritter is dense flower from the Cookies side; suits indoor or outdoor.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.
• Flowering Time. Apple Fritter runs eight to ten weeks. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Irene Kush as the potent, focused end of the OG family; 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. CSI work from clone stock they have kept for years and reverse it into seed, so what arrives in a pack is the real cut's genetics rather than a seed-line approximation of it. Original Humboldt CSI stock.