Hindu Clone Feminized Hybrids by Freeborn Selections
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Mean Gene:
I think I did about 28 different crosses with the Hindu. These four were the real standouts from the starting group. These were some of my favorites that were real consistent quality. Then out of the 28, there'll probably be 10 I'll never even release. I'll probably just share them with friends and stuff.
I wanted to work with the Hindu further, and I just didn't have it. It wasn't available. I looked through things to try to find it and breed back and lean in that direction. I had reasonable success, but never quite what I really wanted back out of it. These feminized crosses, it pops out and it's that old friendly place that you remember if you remember it.
These four crosses are my attempt to preserve and evolve the Hindu's legacy. The Lime 1 × Hindu, the Chem 91 × Hindu, the Pure Kush × Hindu, and the Animal Cookies × Hindu each bring something unique to the table, and together, they capture what I love about this plant.
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Lime 1 x Hindu
The Lime 1 x Hindu is cool because when you grow it, there are some narrow ones that were purple and pretty and had ridiculous resin coverage. And then there were some chunkier ones that were a little bit more like a a limey bubba kush. There was a lot of variation in it.
The overall quality was really nice. Somebody can grow these and come out with something that is different than what I've seen, but still really high quality. None of the plants were bad and none of them were the same. But the way these ones lined up is really cool because I could recognize them all as being lime hybrids, but they all got this little slice of what was in the Black Lime or the Pure Kush.
It was really cool to see that, see these narrow purple super frosty plants with really big bracts that make it look spiny. Then there are these ones that have nice big, golf ball buds, squishy when they're dry, super tasty.
When I took all the plants that I grew in the test run and I put them all in a pile and I carried them over to a table, the whole pile, it smelled like a bag of fruit loops. it was this really cool lime smell that came off of them, that artificial flavor. They call it fruit but when you really smell it, if you think about it, it just all smells like artificial lime.
Out of the four crosses, Lime 1 will have the most variety, but the quality of the plant is really consistent.
If I had lost the Lime and I had lost the Hindu and I could just only plant one seed, It would be the Lime x Hindu.
Pure Kush x Hindu
These were really cool and was one that showed more of the Hindu. It's a trippy thing. I thought the Hindu might be like Deep Chunk…When I make crosses with some of those Afghanis, they're really, really dominant, to the point where it's almost disappointing because there's almost no point in making a hybrid.
It was really trippy growing all the different varieties. There was some influence from the Hindu on all of them as far as it made things more sturdy. It made the resin more solid and less greasy because the Hindu has that good hash plant resin. And it made the buds a little thicker.
You could see a little of the color influence in this one, just a tiny bit of purple here and there. But in the PK, what was cool was that there were actually a lot of them that were more Hindu dominant. The ones that were PK leaning, they had these really special kush smells.
Funny enough, my Root Beer is a Headband with a PK x Hindu x Black Affy, so the PK and the Hindu are already in the Root Beer and the Jaro and the Sky Cuddler Kush. In the PK x Hindu, you do get some things that you might find in those other hybrids because that same combination is in there.
My favorite one had a really nice, hard to describe, but it's like a licorice smell, but it's more electric. It's more special and sharp and trippy than I usually smell. I really liked that one a lot. It reminded me of this thing that I smelled from the guy who circulated the animal cookies, Seer, in San Francisco, he had this thing called New Wave, and it had this special little slice of kush smell to it and a few of the Pure Kush x Hindu will have just that little bit of that extra special. It's sweet in a weird way. It's not candy at all but its this sweet kush. It's just such a hard thing to describe. It's a common thing that you will notice in the very best batches of OG that you smell, where there's just a little layer of extra specialness over the top of it.
So those ones were my favorite, but I also really liked the ones that leaned toward the Hindu. There were some that were a little bit more acrid in there, where they had coffee with the touch of underlying skunk and a lot of earth like a really nice Afghani. Funky, but still classic, and more on that acrid side, where it's not skunk…but it's skunky compared to fruity weed.
If you buy the Hindu fems and you really want to get something that is closest to the Hindu, it came through in the Pure Kush more than any of the other hybrids.
The PK has everything that you would call a kush. It has things that are Master, Bubba, Hindu. It has really nice OG nose in it. It got really chunky and grew really easy. It was totally stable as far as intersex in my testing.
They grow well. They're beautiful.
Animal Cookies x Hindu
The coolest thing about the animal cross, it made things pop out like this extreme loud coffee smell than either of the moms have.
Its one of those smells we chased for years, trying to figure out, 'where does this come from?'
I cloned one out of the animal, my Animal Hindu #4. It's the spitting image of this plant that I had in the '90s, It popped back out of the Hindu Animal.
That was one of the things that prompted me to be like, You know what? These seeds, there's minor intersex, meaning you can basically just clone the plant and it won't do it. It only does it from seed and it was like 10%.
So in a pack, there's 10 seeds. Oftentimes, I might put in 11 or 12 seeds. In the animals, I made sure that every pack has 15 seeds so that it more than makes up for that one or two in the pack that are going to get a couple of male flowers on the lower part of maybe a couple of the branches.
I always try to be transparent with that, with anything that I put out. If I've seen it have any intersex issues, then I'm going to tell you. I don't consider that the make or break on the quality of a cross because I want to see the weed that's the very baddest in the bag.
I've seen OG Kush, Sour Diesel, Animal Cookies, Irene, Lemon Tree, Death Coast, AK-47…I’ve hermed them all from clone. These Hindu Animals don't herm from clone.
I didn't look at those plants and go, Oh, I guess this is not a good plant anymore. It's like, we all know OG and sour and all these things are good.
If I can really get the craziest weed out of a cross, I'm like, All right, I'm going to make sure there's a heads up that people know that when I put out the information about stuff. But if it really stands out as being an amazing cross, then I still want to circulate it.
Those ones are killer on the Hindu nose being more extreme The PKs are more capturing the Hindu as is or a little bit more acrid, maybe a little more coffee, but the animal turns the coffee terps way up. The lime one, not much coffee, mostly all cool fruit loops, kush.
Chem 91 x Hindu
The Chem 91 was the one where when people got the weed from me, they came back being like, “Damn, do you have those seeds?
In San Francisco at the little event we did at Terpnami, a friend of mine who has all the cool chems, grows skunk dog, grows all these different things that are these real famous...nice chem hybrids...he came back and was like, “That is a good, good chem. I want to get some seeds of those for sure.”
It's real consistent in that all the buds look a lot like chem. They grow easier than chem. They don't do the weird crispy fade at the end like the chem clone does. They all get really big, nice buds. They produce well. It's easy to trim weed.
It's this really nice combination of the Hindu and the Chemdog. It’s extra cool because that's a clone from '91. The Hindu is a clone from the '80s. It's a combination of the oldest clones that I hold, and it happened to work out to be this really killer hybrid. It's like having Chemdog seeds.
It's better than a Chem 91 S1 because because it's not a direct inbreeding. You don't get any of the weak, wimpy, hard to grow plants that I got when I grew Chem 91 S1s, which the Chem 91 S1s were still easier for me than the clone, most of them, but the Hindu cross was way easier.
Their not the exact same flavor of course, they're different, but some of them lean a lot more to the Chem 91 flavor profile. But it's more of a middle ground, which wound up being really tasty, really killer smoke.
The population I looked through, there was only one plant that was different than the rest, and it was more leaning toward the Hindu, but then had a really cool interesting kush nose to it that was a little bit more stinky than either parent. It had that thing where most of them were shaped like the Chem 91, where it has this really pretty bud that builds up to a perfect little tip.
This one was more like how like bubba kush grows, where it has a crown of big pointy brass everywhere. It almost looks seeded because the flowers are so oversized and long. It was a neat one, but the bulk of them, though, were all this real specific look where it was a really neat hybrid population.