Sherbet x Chem 1 is Sunset Sherbet crossed to Chem 91. Sunset Sherbet is Girl Scout Cookies crossed to Pink Panties, and one of the definitive modern dessert plants. Chem 91 is the SKVA cut, the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the whole Chem family is named after. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. 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.

The number in Sherbet x Chem 1 is a specific plant, not a decoration. Humboldt CSI grow a population out, keep the individuals worth keeping and number them, so Sherbet x Chem 1 is one identified selection rather than Sherbet x Chem in general. A pack naming a different number is a different mother.

Written this way, Sunset Sherbet is the mother and Chem 91 the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Sunset Sherbet. GSC taken to Pink Panties - the plant most of the fruit-and-cream category is measured against. Its own cross is Girl Scout Cookies x Pink Panties. Wants a stable room - around 70-78F and 40-50% humidity in bloom.
• Father: Chem 91. The plant the Chem name was built on, known equally as Chem 91 and the SKVA cut. Its own cross is one of thirteen seeds from a bag bought at a Grateful Dead show in 1991. Skunk VA was given a cut in 1995 and has held it since, which is why the line survives.
• Why these two. They are not variations on the same idea. They pull in different directions, and that spread is what makes a pack worth hunting through rather than just growing.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The nose is where these two argue hardest.

• The Aroma. Sweet berries and cream cut with citrus, with skunk and a faint fuel note underneath from the Sunset Sherbet side, against heavy diesel and soil with a thin pine and citrus line at the back from the Chem 91 side.
• The Taste. Berry and citrus over creamy dough, finishing earthy up front, turning to greasy and mouth-coating - fuel, then earth and pine, sour at the finish through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing splits the pack. One parent wants eight to nine weeks, reported forty-nine to sixty-three days, the other sixty-three to seventy days. Expect the fast plants down well before the slow ones are ready.
• Two noses, one pack. Sunset Sherbet contributes sweet berries and creamy dough with tart citrus, a skunky edge and a subtle earthy fuel undertone. Chem 91 contributes pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Build. On the Sunset Sherbet side: grows tall and thin with dense leaves; moderate, controllable stretch in early flower; round, tightly packed colas showing deep purple under cool nights; tight frosted buds with the classic Cookie structure. On the Chem 91 side: loose and open rather than compact, moderate to heavy stretch, branches that soften under weight late. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Sunset Sherbet at indica-leaning and settling and Chem 91 at alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy. 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. Sunset Sherbet is medium and manageable, colouring up in cooler nights. Chem 91 is open and loose rather than tight, stretching moderately to heavily, with branches that soften under weight late in flower.
• Veg and stretch. Set the frame while it is cheap to do. Anything you fix after the flip costs you flower sites.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Sunset Sherbet runs eight to nine weeks, reported forty-nine to sixty-three days, Chem 91 sixty-three to seventy days. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Sunset Sherbet as indica-leaning and settling.
• The Body. Chem 91 is reported as alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

7 feminized seeds per pack. Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Humboldt CSI are preservationists before they are breeders - most of what they release is a clone somebody has kept alive by hand for years, put into seed so it stops depending on one grower staying in the game. That is what you are buying into here. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.