Pineapple x Cherry Pie sits between Pineapple and Cherry Pie: an Emerald Triangle favourite kept for sheer size and a pineapple nose you can smell across a field on one side, Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica on the other. Both parents here are cuts CSI keep in their own room. That is the whole difference between this and a seed line named after the same strains.

Order matters in a cross name. In Pineapple x Cherry Pie the Pineapple side supplied the seed and Cherry Pie 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: Pineapple. An Emerald Triangle favourite kept for sheer size and a pineapple nose you can smell across a field. CSI use it for hybrid vigour as much as for the terpenes.
• Father: Cherry Pie. Granddaddy Purple crossed to Durban Poison, roughly sixty-forty indica. That one comes from Granddaddy Purple x Durban Poison. Considered easy to grow.
• 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 distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Strong, unmistakable pineapple from the Pineapple side, against dark stone fruit and berry over earth from the Cherry Pie side.
• The Taste. Tropical and sweet up front, turning to berry and cherry with earth underneath at the finish through the exhale.

What each side brings

• What to budget. The documented side, Cherry Pie, runs eight to nine weeks. Set the room to that and let the plants correct you.
• Two noses, one pack. Pineapple contributes strong, unmistakable pineapple. Cherry Pie contributes dark stone fruit and berry over earth. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Two frames in one pack. Pineapple is sativa-dominant and genuinely large - it outgrows almost everything around it, and it thrives outdoors. Cherry Pie is short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• Opposite ends. Pineapple is reported as sativa-leaning; 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. Pineapple is sativa-dominant and genuinely large - it outgrows almost everything around it, and it thrives outdoors. Cherry Pie is short and bushy at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres with wide lateral branching that suits low-stress training.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.
• 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 Pineapple as sativa-leaning.
• 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. Their library is clones first and crosses second, which is why the names on their packs read like a list of plants rather than a list of products. Sold as authentic Humboldt CSI.