Western Star (Chemdog 91 x Sour Diesel Bx2 x Chemdog 91 Bx2) is Chem 91 crossed to Sour Diesel. Chem 91 is the plant the Chem name was built on, known equally as Chem 91 and the SKVA cut. Sour Diesel is the East Coast benchmark for aggressive chemical fuel. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. A line built on preservation rather than novelty, which is why the same clone keeps appearing on one side of the cross.

The number in Chemdog 91 is a specific plant, not a decoration. Lucky Dog Seed Co grow a population out, keep the individuals worth keeping and number them, so Chemdog 91 is one identified selection rather than Chemdog in general. A pack naming a different number is a different mother. x Chemdog carries a 91 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.

Written this way, Chem 91 is the mother and Sour Diesel 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: Chem 91. The SKVA cut - the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the family takes its name from. Built from 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.
• Father: Sour Diesel. The East Coast benchmark for aggressive chemical fuel. Given as most likely Chemdog 91 crossed to a Super Skunk in 1990s New York.
• What the cross is reaching for. One side brings the structure and the other brings the nose. The plants worth keeping out of a pack are the ones that hold both rather than picking a side.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The two halves stack rather than blend, which is the whole reason to run it.

• The Aroma. Pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus sitting behind from the Chem 91 side, against aggressively chemical and pungent with greasy resin from the Sour Diesel side.
• The Taste. Greasy and mouth-coating, fuel then earth and pine, finishing sour up front, turning to solvent and sour, greasy through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• Two different harvest dates. Sixty-three to seventy days for Chem 91, ten to eleven weeks, with faster plants nearer sixty-seven days for Sour Diesel. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.
• Two noses, one pack. Chem 91 contributes pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it. Sour Diesel contributes aggressively chemical and pungent with greasy resin. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Build. On the Chem 91 side: loose and open rather than compact, moderate to heavy stretch, branches that soften under weight late. On the Sour Diesel side: tall and lanky with wide internodal spacing, heavy early stretch, rated moderately challenging. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• They pull differently. Growers put Chem 91 at alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy and Sour Diesel at head-forward and energetic. 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. Chem 91 is open and loose rather than tight, stretching moderately to heavily, with branches that soften under weight late in flower. Sour Diesel is tall and lanky with wide internodal spacing, heavy early stretch, rated moderately challenging.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Chem 91 runs sixty-three to seventy days, Sour Diesel ten to eleven weeks, with faster plants nearer sixty-seven days. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

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

In the pack

Seeds from Lucky Dog Seed Co, bred by Skunk VA. The Chem 91 behind so much of this catalogue is the cut itself, not a seed-line approximation of it. Authentic Lucky Dog Seed Co genetics.