Obama x Lemon Party crosses Obama Kush to Lemon Party: Red Beard's award-winning 2007 selection out of CSI's own Mendocino Purple Kush against a Lemon Tree pick CSI keep in house, and one of the loudest citrus plants anyone runs. Neither is a filler parent, which is why this pairing is worth a pack rather than a look. 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.

Order matters in a cross name. In Obama x Lemon Party the Obama Kush side supplied the seed and Lemon Party 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: Obama Kush. Red Beard's award-winning 2007 selection out of CSI's own Mendocino Purple Kush. It traces back to a selection of Mendocino Purple Kush, which is Mendocino Purple x Bubba Kush, made by CSI in 2006. Red Beard pulled two keepers from that seed - Obama Kush and George W. Kush; the Obama cut spread through the Pacific Northwest and stayed there.
• Father: Lemon Party. A Lemon Tree pick CSI keep in house, and one of the loudest citrus plants anyone runs. Given as a cut of Lemon Tree.
• 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. Coffee and cocoa hash from the Bubba side with grape from the Mendocino Purple from the Obama Kush side, against sharp zesty lemon and sugary citrus, described as overpowering candied lemon and super pungent from the Lemon Party side.
• The Taste. Spiced earth and dark roast up front, turning to citrus through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing splits the pack. One parent wants eight to ten weeks, the other around sixty-five days, reported sixty to seventy. Expect the fast plants down well before the slow ones are ready.
• The smell is a negotiation. Coffee and cocoa hash from the bubba side with grape from the mendocino purple on one side against sharp zesty lemon and sugary citrus, described as overpowering candied lemon and super pungent on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• They pull differently. Growers put Obama Kush at settling and Lemon Party at bright and lifting rather than heavy. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. A mid-sized plant that frosts over completely, with orange pistils cutting through the white.
• Before the flip. Decide the shape now. These lines do not tidy themselves up once they are running.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Obama Kush runs eight to ten weeks, Lemon Party around sixty-five days, reported sixty to seventy. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Obama Kush as settling.
• The Body. Lemon Party is reported as bright and lifting rather than heavy, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. What they sell is preservation work: old clones reversed into seed so the line survives past whoever is currently keeping it alive. Real Humboldt CSI stock, not a copy.