Rio Frio (Chocolate River x Key Lime Pie) crosses Chocolate River to Key Lime Pie: Chocolate River - Gushers put over SinMint Cookies against Cookies taken towards lime rather than mint. Neither is a filler parent, which is why this pairing is worth a pack rather than a look. Their reputation rests on stability, and stability comes from reusing parents you understand rather than chasing novelty on both sides of a cross.

Order matters in a cross name. In Rio Frio (Chocolate River x Key Lime Pie) the Chocolate River side supplied the seed and Key Lime 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: Chocolate River. Chocolate River - Gushers put over SinMint Cookies. Its own cross is given by Sin City as Gushers crossed to SinMint Cookies.
• Father: Key Lime Pie. The citrus-forward cut of the Cookies family. Its own history is not clean. Two Californian outfits are named as its origin - Purple Caper Seeds and Burning Bush Nurseries - and one account has it made deliberately by crossing GSC to Lime Skunk and backcrossing to a GSC F2 male rather than found as a phenotype. What every account agrees on is that it sits inside the Cookies family.
• 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

• The Aroma. Lime peel over dough and cream.
• The Taste. Tart against sweet.

How the two sides differ

• Timing. Key Lime Pie runs sixty-three to seventy days, so eight to ten weeks, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. Three-quarters indica, dense and compact, light green with purple through it under heavy frost.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. Key Lime Pie runs sixty-three to seventy days, so eight to ten weeks. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Key Lime Pie as the settled, indica-weighted end of the Cookies family.
• The Body. Reported in line with that. This is not a plant described as pulling in two directions.

In the pack

Seeds from Sin City Seeds. Sin City have worked out of Las Vegas since 2010, and their catalogue is built the way a breeding programme is rather than the way a shop is - a handful of proven house plants, crossed out again and again into whatever is worth crossing them with. Genuine Sin City Seeds stock.