There are two very different things inside Sake' (Apples & Bananas x Blue Power IX2). Apples and Bananas: Apples and Bananas - a Compound Genetics fruit cross built partly on Blue Power. And Blue Power IX2, the tightened, feminized continuation of Blue Power. That is the Sin City method: take something new and worth having, and put it over a plant they have already proven across dozens of crosses.

Apples and Bananas sits on the seed side here, Blue Power IX2 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 and Bananas. Apples and Bananas - a Compound Genetics fruit cross built partly on Blue Power. Parentage: 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: Blue Power IX2. Sin City's own Blue Power, taken further. Given as an inbred continuation of Blue Power. IX2 is not a new cross. It is Blue Power inbred and selected over more than a decade and then released feminized, and the point of that work is predictability - the flagship behaving the same way every time rather than throwing the range an F1 does. When Sin City put IX2 on a pack rather than plain Blue Power, they are saying the known half of the cross is now genuinely known.
• 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

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

• The Aroma. Sliced apple and banana pudding closing sharp and gassy from the Apples and Bananas side, against the Blue Power nose - sweet kush and sour fuel over creamy blueberry from the Blue Power IX2 side.
• The Taste. Tropical fruit and cream over earth up front, turning to berry and lemon closing earthy, as the original does through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Where the nose comes from. One side gives sliced apple and banana pudding closing sharp and gassy; the other gives the Blue Power nose - sweet kush and sour fuel over creamy blueberry. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Two frames in one pack. Apples and Bananas is dense olive-green flower with heavy purple through it under greasy resin. Blue Power IX2 is it keeps Blue Power's indica build and its resin, with the variation pulled in by generations of selection. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Apples and Bananas at a clear euphoric start settling into physical relaxation; it tests in the twenty-three to twenty-eight percent range and Blue Power IX2 at physical relief without the mood going flat. 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 and Bananas is dense olive-green flower with heavy purple through it under greasy resin. Blue Power IX2 is Blue Power's frame and resin, with far less variation between plants than the original throws.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Apples and Bananas as a clear euphoric start settling into physical relaxation; it tests in the twenty-three to twenty-eight percent range.
• The Body. Blue Power IX2 is reported as physical relief without the mood going flat, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

15 regular seeds per pack. Seeds from Sin City Seeds. A Las Vegas outfit with one of the deeper breeding catalogues in cannabis, built on repeat use of a small number of plants they have proven out. Original Sin City Seeds stock.