Read Bomb Threat x Panama Red as Bomb Threat over Panama Red. One of those you can look up - Panama Red, the tropical Panamanian sativa that made its name in the late sixties - and one of them you cannot.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Bomb Threat. CSI keep this one in house. Cuts like it live inside a working collection rather than in strain databases, which is why the only real account of what it does is the plants themselves.
• Father: Panama Red. The tropical Panamanian sativa that made its name in the late sixties. Given as a Panamanian landrace. For a stretch of the late sixties and seventies it was simply what the best weed meant, and that reputation is the only reason it survived to be preserved at all. It is worth being honest about what growing it involves: this is an equatorial plant that has never been bred for a tent. It wants the long finish, it stretches, and it will not behave like a modern hybrid. What it gives back is an effect the modern catalogue does not really make any more.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

• The Aroma. Earth and citrus, with alpha-humulene and limonene leading.
• The Taste. Citrus over an earthy base.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. A pure or near-pure landrace sativa off the Pearl Islands and the Darien Gap, carrying the reddish colouring it is named for over vivid green flower.
• Before the flip. Decide the shape now. These lines do not tidy themselves up once they are running.
• Flowering Time. Panama Red runs long, as equatorial sativas are - eleven weeks at the very least, and ten to sixteen is the usual range given. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Panama Red as cerebral, euphoric and energising, quick enough to border on psychedelic. A daytime plant.
• 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. Sold as authentic Humboldt CSI.