The White x ChemDog D brings The White together with Chem D. The first is a clone famous for one thing - trichome coverage so heavy the buds look rolled in confectioner's sugar; the second, the workhorse of the Chem family and the cut breeders reach for most. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. 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 White sits on the seed side here, Chem D 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: The White. A clone famous for one thing - trichome coverage so heavy the buds look rolled in confectioner's sugar. It is known for an unusual lack of odour and flavour relative to its potency, which is exactly why breeders cross it to loud cuts rather than running it alone.
• Father: Chem D. The most-used of the 1991 Chem phenotypes, and the one sitting behind Giesel. Parentage: another phenotype from the same 1991 seed lot. It is the Chem half of Giesel, and one of the most widely used Chem cuts in American breeding.
• 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. Very light and distinctly restrained - earthy, like freshly turned soil, with pine behind it from the The White side, against solvent and heavy earth, with nothing sweet anywhere in it from the Chem D side.
• The Taste. Earthy and piney, notably quiet for how it looks up front, turning to fuel and earth, greasy and coating, finishing sour through the exhale.

What each side brings

• The smell is a negotiation. Very light and distinctly restrained - earthy, like freshly turned soil, with pine behind it on one side against chemical fuel over dark turned earth on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Two frames in one pack. The White is dark green flower under a thick white trichome layer, frosty and resinous to the point of looking dusted. Chem D is open and loose rather than compact, wants support once the colas load. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• Opposite ends. The White is reported as indica-leaning and potent; Chem D as alert and head-forward rather than heavy. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. The White is dark green flower under a thick white trichome layer, frosty and resinous to the point of looking dusted. Chem D is open and loose rather than compact, wants support once the colas load.
• Vegetative Phase and Stretch. Shape the plant before the flip. Correcting a frame in week six is harder work than setting it in week two.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe The White as indica-leaning and potent.
• The Body. Chem D is reported as alert and head-forward rather than heavy, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. Their library is clones first and crosses second, which is why the names on their packs read like a list of plants rather than a list of products. Original Humboldt CSI stock.