Strawberry Butter Cream f2 (bubba kush x strawberry milk) sits between Bubba Kush and Strawberry Milk: the West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it on one side, Nepali OG crossed to Bodhi's Bubba D male on the other. That is how Bodhi works - a proven male, run across everything worth running it across, so the father is the constant and the mother is the question.

Order matters in a cross name. In Strawberry Butter Cream f2 (bubba kush x strawberry milk) the Bubba Kush side supplied the seed and Strawberry Milk 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: Bubba Kush. The West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Dense colas need airflow; the Pre-98 cut is the shorter, broader-leafed, heavier expression.
• Father: Strawberry Milk. One of three lines Bodhi built from the same Nepali OG mother. That one comes from Nepali OG crossed to Bubba D, also called Instant Karma - a Bubba Kush female over a Rezdog Sour Diesel. The Nepali OG mother is an old OG out of Grass Valley.
• The point of the pairing. Neither parent needed rescuing. Putting them together is about what sits between them, not about fixing either one.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

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

• The Aroma. Roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge from the Bubba Kush side, against sweet and creamy over the Nepali OG base from the Strawberry Milk side.
• The Taste. Coffee bean and spiced earth, thick and hashy at the finish up front, turning to strawberry and cream with OG weight underneath through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing. Strawberry Milk runs an OG timeline rather than a fast one, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• The smell is a negotiation. Roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge on one side against sweet and creamy over the Nepali OG base on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Structure varies hard here. Short to medium and stocky, broad deep-green leaves, tight internodes, modest 1.2 to 1.5 times stretch; golf-ball to cola-sized buds with thick calyces and heavy resin, forest green through to plum from one parent; OG structure from the mother, with the Bubba side softening it from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• They pull differently. Growers put Bubba Kush at gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward and Strawberry Milk at settled and physical - an OG effect with the edges taken off. 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. Bubba Kush is a stocky plant with barely any stretch - one and a half times at most - carrying dense, thick-calyxed flower that colours from deep green towards plum under a heavy resin load. Strawberry Milk is OG bones from the Nepali side, with the Bubba softening the frame and the Sour Diesel showing up in the smell rather than the shape.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. Strawberry Milk runs an OG timeline rather than a fast one. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Bubba Kush as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward.
• The Body. Strawberry Milk is reported as settled and physical - an OG effect with the edges taken off, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

11 regular seeds per pack. Regular seeds from Bodhi Seeds. Bodhi has been at this for over thirty years and describes the job as stewardship rather than breeding, which is why the catalogue is full of Afghan, Pakistani, Nepalese, Thai, Colombian and African material nobody else is keeping. Original Bodhi Seeds stock.