Take Z-1000, a CSI cross putting Zkittlez over their own T-1000, and put it over Wedding Cake, an Animal Mints cross onto Triangle Kush, which is why it has backbone as well as sweetness. That is Z-1000 x Wedding Cake. These are held cuts, not recreations. CSI's entire catalogue works that way, and it is the reason their crosses are worth chasing.

Written this way, Z-1000 is the mother and Wedding Cake 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: Z-1000. A CSI cross putting Zkittlez over their own T-1000. Given as given by CSI as Zkittlez x T-1000. The T-1000 side traces back through Old Family Purple to Triangle Kush and Purple Urkle, so there is a lot of purple stacked behind this one.
• Father: Wedding Cake. Triangle Kush over Animal Mints, with real Florida OG stock hiding under the frosting. Parentage: Triangle Kush x Animal Mints. Rated an easy plant for beginners and experienced growers alike.
• How to read it. Everything below splits into what one parent gives and what the other does. Plants that take from both are the ones to keep.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The nose is where these two argue hardest.

• The Aroma. Zkittlez fruit sweets over T-1000's grape, cream and pine from the Z-1000 side, against sweet vanilla and cream with a peppery, spiced edge that keeps it from cloying from the Wedding Cake side.
• The Taste. Sweet mixed fruit with grape and a piney finish up front, turning to vanilla and cream turning distinctly tangier on the exhale through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Timing. Wedding Cake runs seven to nine weeks indoors, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• Two noses, one pack. Z-1000 contributes Zkittlez fruit sweets over T-1000's grape, cream and pine. Wedding Cake contributes sweet vanilla cake over creamy earth with pepper and spice. Which dominates is the main thing that varies.
• Structure varies hard here. It inherits t-1000's dense resinous cola structure and zkittlez's easier, bushier habit from one parent; short and bushy with minimal stretch and heavy lateral branching that needs support once flowers fill; dense chunky buds, dark to light green with occasional purple from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Z-1000 is reported as relaxed and level rather than heavy at either end; Wedding Cake as indica-leaning and even; relaxed. 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. Z-1000 is it inherits T-1000's dense resinous cola structure and Zkittlez's easier, bushier habit. Wedding Cake is short and bushy with minimal stretch and heavy lateral branching that needs support once flowers fill; dense chunky buds, dark to light green with occasional purple.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.
• Flowering Time. Wedding Cake runs seven to nine weeks indoors. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Z-1000 as relaxed and level rather than heavy at either end.
• The Body. Wedding Cake is reported as indica-leaning and even; relaxed, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. The point of their catalogue is access - cuts that otherwise only move between growers who already know each other, put into a form you can actually buy. Genuine Humboldt CSI stock.