Take Snow, a CSI cut used across their catalogue for what it adds rather than what it is on its own, and put it over Chem 91, the SKVA cut - the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the family takes its name from. That is Snow x Chem 1. What CSI sell is access to their clone collection in seed form. The parents are the cuts themselves, not a line bred to resemble them.

Snow x Chem carries a 1 because selections get numbered to stay distinguishable once they leave the room they were made in. It marks this exact mother, and it is the part of the name worth reading closely.

Snow sits on the seed side here, Chem 91 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: Snow. A CSI cut used across their catalogue for what it adds rather than what it is on its own. CSI reach for it as a structural and resin contributor in crosses rather than running it as a headline plant.
• Father: Chem 91. The plant the Chem name was built on, known equally as Chem 91 and the SKVA cut. It traces back to 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

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Restrained from the Snow side, against heavy diesel and soil with a thin pine and citrus line at the back from the Chem 91 side.
• The Taste. Understated rather than forward up front, turning to fuel first, earth and pine behind it, sour to close, and it coats the mouth through the exhale.

The two halves, side by side

• Timing. Chem 91 runs sixty-three to seventy days, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• The smell is a negotiation. Subtle rather than loud on one side against pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Build. On the Snow side: short, stocky and hearty, and it adds frost to whatever it is crossed to. 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.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Snow is short, stocky and hardy, and it puts frost on whatever it is crossed to. Chem 91 is open and loose rather than tight, stretching moderately to heavily, with branches that soften under weight late in flower.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. Chem 91 runs sixty-three to seventy days. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Chem 91 as alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy.
• The Body. Reported in line with that. This is not a plant described as pulling in two directions.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Nearly everything CSI put out is built from cuts they hold themselves rather than from other people's seed lines, which is why their catalogue reads like a list of clones instead of a list of brands. Real Humboldt CSI stock, not a copy.