Bub's Dogbud (Chemdog 91 x Bubba Kush) puts Chem 91 over Bubba Kush. One is the SKVA cut, the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the whole Chem family is named after; the other is the West Coast indica benchmark, a Los Angeles clone from the mid-1990s named after the grower who kept it. Two very different plants, and the point of the cross is what sits between them. Humboldt CSI work almost entirely from clones they hold themselves, so both sides of this are the real thing rather than a seed-line approximation of it.

91 identifies the Chemdog used here. Numbered cuts come out of a population that was grown and sorted, and the number rides with the plant that was kept. Two crosses that both say Chemdog are only the same cross if the number matches too.

Order matters in a cross name. In Bub's Dogbud (Chemdog 91 x Bubba Kush) the Chem 91 side supplied the seed and Bubba Kush 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: Chem 91. The SKVA cut, the original Chemdog '91 and the clone the whole Chem family is named after. 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: 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.
• Why these two. They are not variations on the same idea. They pull in different directions, and that spread is what makes a pack worth hunting through rather than just growing.

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 coffee and cocoa over an old-fashioned hash note, with wood behind it from the Bubba Kush side.
• The Taste. Greasy and mouth-coating - fuel, then earth and pine, sour at the finish up front, turning to spiced earth and coffee bean, finishing hashy and thick through the exhale.

The two halves, side by side

• What to budget. The documented side, Chem 91, runs sixty-three to seventy days. Set the room to that and let the plants correct you.
• The smell is a negotiation. Pungent turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it on one side against roasted coffee, dark cocoa and old-school hash with a woody edge on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Two frames in one pack. Chem 91 is loose and open rather than compact, moderate to heavy stretch, branches that soften under weight late. Bubba Kush is 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. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Chem 91 at alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy and Bubba Kush at gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward. 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 loose and open rather than compact, moderate to heavy stretch, branches that soften under weight late. Bubba Kush is 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.
• Veg and stretch. Set the frame while it is cheap to do. Anything you fix after the flip costs you flower sites.
• Flowering Time. Chem 91 runs sixty-three to seventy days. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Chem 91 as alert and head-forward, sativa-leaning rather than heavy.
• The Body. Bubba Kush is reported as gentle and unhurried, warm and loosening, body-forward, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

7 feminized seeds per pack. Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. CSI work from clone stock they have kept for years and reverse it into seed, so what arrives in a pack is the real cut's genetics rather than a seed-line approximation of it. Sold as authentic Humboldt CSI.