Knockout

The Irene OG x Zkittlez #7 is loved by everyone who’s grown her and smoked her.  I’ve yet to have one person taste it and not come back around, asking for more.  And the craziest part about that to me, is, I don’t think we’ve ever grown a true 10/10 batch of her. Ever.  Not even close, really.  And we’ve had the selection for a decade!  Granted we don’t grow her all the time.  But that’s because she’s just that damn hard to grow!  

She’s highly sensitive to nitrogen overfertilization.  Unless you’re running a room full of her, she will ALWAYS be the first to show nutrient toxicity when everything else in the room is happy.  Shoot, she’ll still be pissed off about that nitrogen when the rest of your room is already turning flat yellow.  She goes into spiky growth, burnt growth tips, low yield and dark green growth easily.  

If you back off the nutrients, she rewards you with some beautiful herb.  As she starts to senesce deep into flower and her leaves turn dark purple with mottled green/purple camo-style flowers at the end, her aroma just POPS.  It blossoms into a deep old school Irene OG dominant heavy weight og/bubba/hash plant fuel scent with a highly aromatic Zkittlez almost rose water pungent floral bouquet on top.  And she translates extremely well in the smoke!  Your taste buds dazzle with the #7.  I have another Irene x Zkittlez #4 with nearly the same dank smell that grows way better! But the flavor just ISN’T THE SAME.  And that proved to be the case in this hybrid as well.  The #7 just produced better flavor in the progeny.  No question.  

Mixing her with 5 males from the Flavour Pack (Hollywood PK (OG Kush type) x Moonbow F1) really gives a wider range on unique profiles to emerge. Some lean deep into the purple floral bouquet.  Some take on the deep Flavour Pack chemical Kush dominant profile.  While some go Bubba/Irene heavy hash plant funk.  A nice mix of eclectic and special flavors to hunt through.  There are gem “sports” to be found in this line.  I’ll be keeping as many of these lottery tickets as I can. To grow when space allows over the next 10 years.  And I’m sharing the rest with you guys!  I can’t keep this Knockout all to myself, there’s enough of her to go around, if you can handle her!

Warning: Chasing these unique flavors is not without its’ faults!  The Irene is well known for throwing some hermaphroditic traits into the progeny, and this hybrid is no exception.  If you find plants with weird growth traits.  Such as extra branches at the branching nodes, fused growth tips, and odd-looking flower clusters especially at internodal branch sites (all Irene OG traits), then be on the vigilant look out for hermaphrodites when growing from seed.  The clones. Like the original Irene, don’t seem to have much issue.  Sometimes this is just the case when trying to work with the super dank, rare individual plants.  No breeding project is ever complete! At the end of the day, breeding a “perfect” plant is an idealistic goal, but likely not a real destination!  I don’t mind taking the road less traveled though! Even if it’s a little bumpy.  I’ll be fine, as long as I have a knockout by my side.  I mean in my pipe!