Strawberry Lemonade:
A powerful bumper yielder In the mood for lemonade? No? Too many calories? Well, for cannabis aficionados, there is an alternative entirely free of sugar. And it has a purely organic fruity fresh strawberry/lemon aroma. I am talking about Strawberry Lemonade, a sativa dominant (60%) hybrid belonging to the Cali Collection of Barney’s Farm from the Netherlands.
It was bred using Strawberry Lemonade and Barney’s own Lemon OG. This strain’s intense aroma is supposed to “make nostrils fizz and taste buds explode” – now that’s what I call a bold prediction by Barney’s! She’s got more than 20% THC under her belt, and just the way it ought to be with a good lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade bubbles fiercely, having a stimulating energising effect which makes her a good candidate for daytime use. Thanks to these kinds of effects, she’s able to cause mirth and act as the perfect mood booster.
But Strawberry Lemonade not only boasts a bodacious aroma and effect, her grow characteristics are pretty top end as well – after a flowering period of 60-70 days, growers can look forward to a maximum indoor harvest of up to 700g/m2.
Outdoors, she has proven to be a great performer too, producing yields of up to 2.5 kilos per plant. Another good aspect here, Strawberry Lemonade has strong mould resistance (5/5 on Barney’s rating scale) and has quite an early finishing (1st-2nd week of October) so that all helps keep the risk of mould infestation low. Spider mites don’t have it easy with this variety either as her resistance against these suckers is rated at 4/5.
Strong vigour in the vegetative stage
Making no secret of her sativa dominant genes, Strawberry Lemonade grows quite tall, not infrequently reaching heights of 120-150cm indoors. Nevertheless Barney’s rates its grow difficulty at 2/5, regarding it as a fairly uncomplicated strain.
This was right on cue for The Doc, because more indica dominant strains are nowadays flooding the market than ever before, and he as a user likes to also have weed in his stash with a stimulative freshening effect, to counteract those sedative indicas.
“Okay let’s go for it!” he rejoiced when he spotted this Barney’s Farm strain. Straightaway he got himself some seeds, two of which found themselves in Jiffy pots on the very same day.
After a quick and smooth germination process, the two seedlings soon picked up growth speed. In quick succession, one pair of leaves after another evolved, the young plants displayed a strong vigour.
The Doc noticed that the side shoots were growing unusually straight upwards, not as expanding as usual. Also this fifth Barney’s strain tested by The Doc showed a great deal of uniformity – when he switched them into flowering after three weeks of vegetative growth, his two Strawberry Lemonades were 38 and 40 cm, quite tall at this point already, by his standards.
Weighing leads to a bombshell result, Strawberry Lemonade proved to be a bumper yielder
The Doc kept his two Strawberry Lemonades flowering for 70 days, then harvest time had come, precisely at the very end of the official maturity window.
The plants grew to heights of 109 cm and 117, having increased their heights at the end of the vegetative stage almost threefold. Thanks to the buds` low leaf count, he waltzed through harvesting, swiftly trimming the numerous buds and placing them into his drying net.
When it was weighing time a few weeks later, the scales needle shot to a sensational 272 grams. This really cheered up The Doc, “wicked! 136 grams per plant! A real bombshell result, Strawberry Lemonade has proven to be a hefty bumper yielder.”
In one’s mouth, body and brain, on the skin: This kind of lemonade bubbles everywhere!
“It was a strong bubbling sensation on my taste buds, rarely before have I had such a fruity marijuana flavour in my mouth, this stuff could almost pass off as a mouth refresher! But just like the smell, it’s not only sourly lemony, but also somewhat sweetish”,
The Doc described his flavour experience. While the first puff had an instantly eye-opening, view sharpening effect, the second and third almost gave him a goose bump feeling, just like previously in his mouth, there now was a tingling sensation inside his body and on the skin.
He felt aroused to activity and his heart beat accelerated which made him leap from his chair in an agile manner and get to work – he had to do the dishes, an actually boring bothersome sort of work, but additionally driven by some upbeat house music, it was almost fun.
The Doc was in high spirits and sublime mood, after having done the dishes, he even danced to the music for a while. When this strongly invigorating effect ebbed away after about an hour, he enthused “this was first-class sativa fuel that managed to kind of jump-start me!”
What followed was a phase of relaxation and winding down.
Summing up his test experience, The Doc said, “good, better, Strawberry Lemonade! This super sativa has enthralled me all the way, it achieved highest marks in every category and really is a fabulous plant. It has catapulted itself into my personal sativa top ten, if not even top five – and that undoubtfully means a lot after four decades of home growing!”
Cultivation data:
Genetics
Strawberry Lemonade (Strawberry x Lemon OG)
Vegetative stage
three weeks (after germination)
Flowering stage
70 days / 60-70 days in general
Medium
Plagron Grow Mix soil, 11 litre pots
pH
6.2-6.6
EC
1.2–1.8 mS
Light
up to 12 x SANlight S4W = 1680 watts
Temperature
19-28°C
Air humidity
40-60%
Watering
by hand
Fertilisation
Organic Bloom Liquid from Green Buzz Liquids
Additives/stimulants
Living Organics, More Roots, Humin Säure Plus, Big Fruits, Fast Buds and Clean Fruits from Green Buzz Liquids
Tools
CleanLight Pro for mould prevention
Height
109 und 117 cm
Yield
together, 272 Gramm
