Sour Strudel AUTO – 5-Pack

LIMITED EDITION: 150 packs

Plant Morphology

The Sour Strudel is a boutique-quality, medium-sized cultivar with medium internal spacing and a high calyx-to-leaf ratio. Excellent trichome development on all plants observed. Most plants exhibit a strong central cola and conical buds that stack really nicely on the shorter, squatter plants. Note: there is one phenotype lurking in gene pool that has exceptional lateral branching, producing several dominant colas without training or topping.

Terpenes

The terpenes are consistently great with a sweet apple profile being most dominant, followed closely by a raspberry/grape/cheese/umami amalgamation. In the minority, but still present, would be a sharp, gassy profile. Caryophyllene is dominant, followed by combos of humulene, myrcene, linalool, and limonene.

Effect

An uplifting, energizing, and relaxing daytime high.

Notes from the Grower(s): The Sour Strudel Auto is an F1 cross between two of our favorite autoflowering varieties: Fastbud’s Apple Strudel Auto and Humboldt Seed Co’s Sour Apple Auto. It feels like these parents were destined to match. From their sweet apple and gas terpene profiles to their sugary, mint green aesthetic, the Sour Strudel’s parents come together incredibly naturally, expressing surprisingly low phenotypic variation for a cultivar of this generation.

You can expect medium height plants with medium internodal spacing, density, and calyx-to-leaf ratio, and great bud development across the entire plant. A long, stacked central cola that stands tall above the canopy is a core characteristic of the strain, with most plants growing more vertically than laterally if left untopped and untrained. Some plants exhibited better stacking than others on the central cola, and we noted that the best stackers were the plants with a slightly shorter, more squat morphology and internodal spacing. These plants were selected to breed our F2 generation. A highly-lateral phenotype did appear in about 10% of the plants we tested. This pheno was so unique that we made the decision to reverse and collect pollen from one of them, and we will be breeding this into a secondary F2 generation. It is very rare to find a cannabis plant that grows an even canopy of 4-6 colas without being trained, so this was something that piqued our curiosity.

Perhaps the most notable feature of the Sour Strudel Auto is its prolific trichome production. These plants are sugary from top-to-bottom and side-to-side, and this is a trait we are targeting as we breed the line forward! Color wise, in a 72 degree room, the Sour Strudel stays a minty pale green, but given some cooler temps, it purples up very nicely. The terpenes are consistently superb with a sweet apple profile being most dominant, followed closely by a raspberry/grape/cheese/umami amalgamation. In the minority, but still present, would be a sharp, gassy profile.

After 18 months of breeding, The Sour Strudel Auto was the very first strain we tested that our entire team agreed was good enough to release as a tester. This was a very small-batch breed, and as such, it will be a very limited drop with only 100 packs available. Our intention with this project has always been to breed it into an IBL (in-bred line). While we continue advancing the genetics generation-to-generation, we are eager to get our community’s feedback on it in its most foundational state.

Feminized Autoflowering