How to grow Golden Berry

40% indica - 60% sativa
Golden Berry bud — quarter view
THC 1%
Flowering 63 days
Yield 450 – 500 g/m²

Seb's take

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Kushberry crossed with a Jew Gold cut, a sativa-leaning hybrid that stretches hard once flowering starts, give her the headroom, or she will find it herself. Buds run large, sticky and trichome-covered on a good bud-to-leaf ratio, favouring warmer weather or a greenhouse over a cramped tent.

Where it comes from

DNA Genetics crossed Kushberry with their Jew Gold cut to make this sativa-leaning hybrid, the record putting her at 60 per cent sativa. Kushberry lends the berry-tinged Kush character, the Jew Gold clone the structure and the stretch. The record keeps the lineage to those two, and speaks more to how she grows than to how she smokes. A grower's plant, by the emphasis of the record, as much as a smoker's.

Nose & flavour

On the nose the record stays silent, offering no flavour notes to relay, so I will not manufacture any. What the parentage hints at is a berry-inflected character from the Kushberry side, but that is inference rather than description, and I will name it as such. On the specifics of aroma and taste, the record simply declines to be drawn, and I will not fill the gap with invention.

The high

The record likewise lists no effects, dwelling instead on the plant's habit in the garden. Rather than guess at a high the record does not describe, I will note only that a sativa-dominant hybrid of this build tends toward the livelier end, stated as inference and nothing firmer. On the character of the effect itself, the record keeps its own counsel, and so shall I.

Growing it

Here the record opens up. Left untrained she grows big and tall with good side branching, and stretches hard once flowering starts, easily doubling in size, so give her the headroom or she will find it herself. Longer internodes fill with large, sticky, trichome-covered buds, on a good bud-to-leaf ratio that eases the trim. Flowering runs 63 days, returning 450 to 500 g/m²; she prefers warmer weather or a greenhouse, though she does well enough indoors. THC is recorded, curiously, at 1 per cent.

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Common questions about Golden Berry

How long does Golden Berry take to flower?

Around 9 weeks of flowering, by the breeder's numbers.

Is Golden Berry an autoflower or a photoperiod strain?

A feminized photoperiod strain — flowering starts when you switch the lights, so the timing is yours to control.

How strong is Golden Berry?

The breeder lists THC around 1%. The gentler end of the scale.