Take Apples & Bananas, Apples & Bananas - a Compound Genetics fruit cross built partly on Blue Power, and put it over Chemdog Bx3, Skunk VA's Chem 91 backcross, and the constant in this catalogue. That is Raffi Dog (Apples & Bananas x Chemdog 91 Bx3). The Chem family runs through most of what Lucky Dog release, and it runs through it as a held cut rather than as a name on a pack.

91 identifies the Bananas x Chemdog 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 Bananas x Chemdog are only the same cross if the number matches too.

Apples & Bananas sits on the seed side here, Chemdog Bx3 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: Apples & Bananas. Apples & Bananas - a Compound Genetics fruit cross built partly on Blue Power. Its own cross is given as [(Platinum Cookies x Granddaddy Purple) x Blue Power] x Gelatti. Worth noticing on a Sin City page: Blue Power is in this plant's own lineage, so crossing it back to Blue Power is a return rather than an introduction. Made by Compound Genetics with Cookies Fam; the Platinum Cookies side is Girl Scout Cookies over an OG Kush phenotype.
• Father: Chemdog Bx3. Three generations of Chem 91 worked back into itself. Its own cross is a backcross of Chemdog 91 - the cut Skunk VA has held since 1995 - worked back into itself three times. Backcrossing is what you do when you want more of one parent rather than a blend.
• Why it is worth a pack rather than a look. The two sides are far enough apart that seedlings genuinely differ. That range is the product.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Cut apple over banana pudding, turning gassy at the end from the Apples & Bananas side, against the Chem 91 nose concentrated rather than diluted: turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it from the Chemdog Bx3 side.
• The Taste. Tropical fruit and cream over earth up front, turning to greasy and mouth-coating, fuel then earth, sour at the finish through the exhale.

The two halves, side by side

• Two noses, one pack. Apples & Bananas contributes sliced apple and banana pudding closing sharp and gassy. Chemdog Bx3 contributes the Chem 91 nose concentrated rather than diluted: turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Build. On the Apples & Bananas side: dense olive-green flower with heavy purple through it under greasy resin. On the Chemdog Bx3 side: Chem-family structure, open and stretchy, and it wants support late. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Apples & Bananas at a clear euphoric start settling into physical relaxation; it tests in the twenty-three to twenty-eight percent range and Chemdog Bx3 at alert and head-forward rather than sedating, as the Chem 91 line runs. 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. Apples & Bananas is dense olive-green flower with heavy purple through it under greasy resin. Chemdog Bx3 is Chem structure - loose, tall and top-heavy late.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Apples & Bananas as a clear euphoric start settling into physical relaxation; it tests in the twenty-three to twenty-eight percent range.
• The Body. Chemdog Bx3 is reported as alert and head-forward rather than sedating, as the Chem 91 line runs, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Seeds from Lucky Dog Seed Co. This is Skunk VA's line, built on the Chem family and on holding old cuts rather than chasing new ones. Sold as authentic Lucky Dog Seed Co.