I was smitten soon as I opened it and saw the buds and got a whiff
Just about to try it and the terpenes are lemony soon as you open it and it definitely has that organic look feel to it that I cherish
Calm and carefree are the effects I'm getting off this and looking round the net to refresh my memory on G13 and the structure is definitely like G13 but the effects are very much Northern lights lite from my recollection .
Also this is one of the fresher products I've had from Canada and I'm happy to say it doesn't feel old/dated like some can so all in all it's a decent product apart from the rrp of £80 as that is a bit optimistic imo.
Still early days with it but I'll keep the thread updated when I have more to add.
We’ve definitely got similar taste. I absolutely loved the White Haze. Everything that you stated was spot on. It was like being in the Dam in the 90’s , a real trip down memory lane memory lane
Calm and carefree are the effects I'm getting off this and looking round the net to refresh my memory on G13 and the structure is definitely like G13 but the effects are very much Northern lights lite from my recollection .
Also this is one of the fresher products I've had from Canada and I'm happy to say it doesn't feel old/dated like some can so all in all it's a decent product apart from the rrp of £80 as that is a bit optimistic imo.
Still early days with it but I'll keep the thread updated when I have more to add.
Calm and carefree are the effects I'm getting off this and looking round the net to refresh my memory on G13 and the structure is definitely like G13 but the effects are very much Northern lights lite from my recollection .
Also this is one of the fresher products I've had from Canada and I'm happy to say it doesn't feel old/dated like some can so all in all it's a decent product apart from the rrp of £80 as that is a bit optimistic imo.
Still early days with it but I'll keep the thread updated when I have more to add.
Good morning. And thank you for your initial thoughts. It definitely has the structure of G13…….I can say that as I’ve had experience with this plant. I knew a grower, who now lives in Greece. This guy had known Shantibaba personally. It was the 80’s and knew Scot well enough to give him the original clone that Nevil managed to obtain from Sandy Weinstein. I tried the Chem Cookies from Craft but found it a bit harsh. Fingers crossed this one isn’t the same.
Good morning. And thank you for your initial thoughts. It definitely has the structure of G13…….I can say that as I’ve had experience with this plant. I knew a grower, who now lives in Greece. This guy had known Shantibaba personally. It was the 80’s and knew Scot well enough to give him the original clone that Nevil managed to obtain from Sandy Weinstein. I tried the Chem Cookies from Craft but found it a bit harsh. Fingers crossed this one isn’t the same.
yh ur right chem cookies was slightly harsh, but I enjoyed that when combusting. defo good price point and grown well. u have some big band connects there my friend, id luv to learn more trix n tips from someone like yourself. Like a grow coach pmsl
yh ur right chem cookies was slightly harsh, but I enjoyed that when combusting. defo good price point and grown well. u have some big band connects there my friend, id luv to learn more trix n tips from someone like yourself. Like a grow coach pmsl
Was in the game over 30 years. I’m retired now, in that sense. But I’ve just bought an 8m Polyeco poly tunnel which I’m planning on putting 10 plants in with a load of veg I’ve got one of the biggest seed collections in the UK……that range from NDN guys G13 x Hashplant originals, to the Karma Sour D lines. You are more than welcome to drop me a message anytime
Was in the game over 30 years. I’m retired now, in that sense. But I’ve just bought an 8m Polyeco poly tunnel which I’m planning on putting 10 plants in with a load of veg I’ve got one of the biggest seed collections in the UK……that range from NDN guys G13 x Hashplant originals, to the Karma Sour D lines. You are more than welcome to drop me a message anytime
Appreciate that, that's very decent and kind of ya, cheers. I accept! Now, onward, don't know about upward, let's get stuck into this new IPS Uni Poop for £48 PMSL.
If you try to explain to people that diesels came from haze once upon a time, they usually look at you funny. Im happy to have some fellow oldtimers who can confirm things and even more happy that some growers have the OG genetics still in their fridges.
So I thought I’d share my views on this strain, as I feel it will quickly get a bad rep. IMO a lot of this will be down to the marketing, and the strain name.
Let me elaborate. I love a good clean crisp Lemon Haze, and honestly the lack of a good example of a decent cut of it, on MC just flummoxes me!
Its a much more medicinal strain than a lot of what’s available, as with over 35 years in BM, cookies / sherb / etc dont really deliver for me, I mean the initial hit but then not a lot, delivered over and over again through the next hype polyhybrid flavour of the month.
I suppose it highlights the med market being a mirror image of the US recreational market. I’d have thought the med side of things would rely much more on the old tried and tested line bred strains of old, but this rarely seems to be the case.
This is why I was drawn to Electric Lemon. Not for what the name conjoured up in my mind, but for what the genetics say.
G13 x NL5
Helllllllllllooooooooo 1990s!
Now dont get me wrong, as a rec user I love a good desserty polyhbrid as much as the next, it’s by design, less of a high, making those strains available to a much wider audience. Less motor accident, less hospital referrals, no chance of fucking up someone’s day cause they’re too high to walk! I mean Daywrecker didn’t get its name for fun! I get it.
Electric Lemon, should have been called Dank Moody Lemon. But Dank Moody Lemons would have set expectations imo a little closer to what turns up. And thats not necessarily a bad thing. I can find no reason for it to be labelled a Sativa, other than, , , no none!
I mean let me elaborate.
G13 is an Afghan. You can read about it for days online I’m sure, but the real real cut had a tart apple background note. It was so desirable several (many very good) imposters appeared and became notorious with just good Afghan Skunk. So sometimes just good Afghan would get named G13, much as we would call any good bud back in the day in the UK, Skunk.
The strain in the cross is NL5, the backbone of our modern genetics and polyhybrids, and from 5 original Hybrid plants #5 was the shortest and closest to pure Afghan, whilst the #1 the tallest, showing the most Sativa traits.
So the genetics say it’s basically Less worked Afghan vs More heavily worked Afghan.
I can guess how the Sativa thing might have happened, as there was a time where if you searched for G13 it was hard not to read about G13 haze, one of Shanti’s crosses to the G13, which led several from the era to believe the original G13 was in fact a shortening of G13 Haze. For that matter a seach in those days for Northern Lights would have in the main come back with examples mainly of NL5 Haze. Again another cross from the Mr Nice lads, and one of the most famous strains of all time.
Or it may be they breeders actually used a cut of the G13 Haze to cross to the NL5 and somewhere along the way the haze dropped off the paperwork, but having smoked it now, I really doubt that.
Now if you’re expecting that haze lift and clean crisp lemon haze notes I understand the let down. But if you’re more prepared for a slightly dirty astringent floor cleaner type lemon, that greets you in the room once you’ve opened the bag, but before you’ve even had a chance to get your nose in the bag, well, step on in. There’s some diesel notes in the background, mothballs in there somewhere, new tennis balls morphed with school gym lost property room type shit. Overlying it all though is that lemon.
This isn’t bovida weed. It’s dank in smell… and texture and probably has a 4/10 on bag appeal. Just like it used to be in fact i never even heard the term bag appeal until that big lad Berner was on the scene. And by then it was all over! 9/10 on the nose and freshness, looking very good so far! So how have they managed this, mostly all the other weed, (a lot killed by freeze drying imo, no faster way to take the backbone and depth of flavour out of your product, and an excuse not to cure of course) and am pleased to read it’s organic living soil, it’s hand dried, hand trimmed, slow cold cured, like almost none of the other brands, for me this weed holds at least a small piece of what’s missing from the medicinal markets, a little bit of care. This extra care is going to add to the bottom line, but moreover it might be the processes other companies cut, to produce a cheaper product that is lacking. It’s swings and roundabouts.
Like I’ve said theyre working with a strain with almost no bag appeal, if eyes is all you have. But the smell. It’s a good 9/10, which translates to the taste, perfect in a vape, you get a lot due to the freshness, and in a joint that flavour is clear to the last toke. Something I’ve found, not too often in much of the Big Narsty and the like, type strains and production.
So back to the effects, as I’ve said no haze high I can feel, but what I do get is that Afghani sedation, which is sadly too short lived for my liking, but it’s probably more my receptors these days than the weed! It’s more introspective than, let’s go out for a walk in the woods type shit, although I could if pushed! It’s 21% feeling kinda 21%, isn’t punching above its weight, but it’s not disappointing (unless like I’ve said you are quite rightly expecting that promised Sativa high). I think the introspection comes from the famed edgy note in the NL5 that the polyhybrid market did manage to successfully iron out. But I miss that bit, and I like the way it’s delivered in this weed, just in small spoonfuls.
Whilst I’ve been vaping and smoking and writing this, I think it’s taken care of a couple of pains Im not sure I even realised I had, and has me perched up on an invisible cloud.
All this being said, if Im on the mark im not sure how I’ve managed to write this review, which gives me a sneaky feeling there is a touch of Sativa on there somewhere, but for my money not enough to be marketed as ‘SativaHybrid’.
For me really the only thing that lets this down a little is the longevity of the high, once we’re all over bag appeal! Well presented, well cared for weed, that Im am sure many people would benefit from, particularly in pain sedation, just don’t expect a Sativa medicine. I wouldn’t recommend new users with Anxiety / Depression for this, as I think that introverted note might be a bit much if you’ve never experienced it before. I experienced this first in my teens when it did me no good at all, but as I’ve grown older I’ve worked out how to harness it as force for good! Which is why I often seek out the older strains, or whatever is available close to their memory today.
I would like to see the UK scene working more with companies like Mr Nice, (Neville and Shanti's genetics) and offer more of the building block strains to the modern polyhybrids we all know and love today. I think patients would soon realise the difference although they wouldn’t be hype strains, just strains that have proved the test of time for 40 or more years both medicinally and recreationally.
I mean 280 odd strains, and not a White Rhino (north ldn cut) Super Lemon Haze or Brightside Cheese to be seen anywhere! Yet my script can look like I’ve just ordered big at Kaspas Dessert’s on a night out!
All in all actually got what I expected, and thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely got the vibe of the G13 like the old days, if a little watered down by the NL5. They must have taken a while to find the right lemony pheno and voila, Dank Moody Lemons.
I mean Electric Lemon!
Possibly one for the more old school heads?!
Overall just under 8/10
Exp: 26/4/27
BN: A397666
TFN RPR T21 ELC LMN THC 21%
Total terpenes 2.68%
I’ll do some photos tomorrow if the sun comes out.
So I thought I’d share my views on this strain, as I feel it will quickly get a bad rep. IMO a lot of this will be down to the marketing, and the strain name.
Let me elaborate. I love a good clean crisp Lemon Haze, and honestly the lack of a good example of a decent cut of it, on MC just flummoxes me!
Its a much more medicinal strain than a lot of what’s available, as with over 35 years in BM, cookies / sherb / etc dont really deliver for me, I mean the initial hit but then not a lot, delivered over and over again through the next hype polyhybrid flavour of the month.
I suppose it highlights the med market being a mirror image of the US recreational market. I’d have thought the med side of things would rely much more on the old tried and tested line bred strains of old, but this rarely seems to be the case.
This is why I was drawn to Electric Lemon. Not for what the name conjoured up in my mind, but for what the genetics say.
G13 x NL5
Helllllllllllooooooooo 1990s!
Now dont get me wrong, as a rec user I love a good desserty polyhbrid as much as the next, it’s by design, less of a high, making those strains available to a much wider audience. Less motor accident, less hospital referrals, no chance of fucking up someone’s day cause they’re too high to walk! I mean Daywrecker didn’t get its name for fun! I get it.
Electric Lemon, should have been called Dank Moody Lemon. But Dank Moody Lemons would have set expectations imo a little closer to what turns up. And thats not necessarily a bad thing. I can find no reason for it to be labelled a Sativa, other than, , , no none!
I mean let me elaborate.
G13 is an Afghan. You can read about it for days online I’m sure, but the real real cut had a tart apple background note. It was so desirable several (many very good) imposters appeared and became notorious with just good Afghan Skunk. So sometimes just good Afghan would get named G13, much as we would call any good bud back in the day in the UK, Skunk.
The strain in the cross is NL5, the backbone of our modern genetics and polyhybrids, and from 5 original Hybrid plants #5 was the shortest and closest to pure Afghan, whilst the #1 the tallest, showing the most Sativa traits.
So the genetics say it’s basically Less worked Afghan vs More heavily worked Afghan.
I can guess how the Sativa thing might have happened, as there was a time where if you searched for G13 it was hard not to read about G13 haze, one of Shanti’s crosses to the G13, which led several from the era to believe the original G13 was in fact a shortening of G13 Haze.
Or it may be they breeders actually used a cut of the G13 Haze to cross to the NL5 and somewhere along the way the haze dropped off the paperwork, but having smoked it now, I really doubt that.
Now if you’re expecting that haze lift and clean crisp lemon haze notes I understand the let down. But if you’re more prepared for a slightly dirty astringent floor cleaner type lemon, that greets you in the room once you’ve opened the bag, but before you’ve even had a chance to get your nose in the bag, well, step on in. There’s some diesel notes in the background, mothballs in there somewhere, new tennis balls morphed with school gym lost property room type shit. Overlying it all though is that lemon.
This isn’t bovida weed. It’s dank in smell… and texture and probably has a 4/10 on bag appeal. Just like it used to be in fact i never even heard the term bag appeal until that big lad Berner was on the scene. And by then it was all over! 9/10 on the nose and freshness, looking very good so far! So how have they managed this, mostly all the other weed, (a lot killed by freeze drying imo, no faster way to take the backbone and depth of flavour out of your product, and an excuse not to cure of course) and am pleased to read it’s organic living soil, it’s hand dried, hand trimmed, slow cold cured, like almost none of the other brands, for me this weed holds at least a small piece of what’s missing from the medicinal markets, a little bit of care. This extra care is going to add to the bottom line, but moreover it might be the processes other companies cut, to produce a cheaper product that is lacking. It’s swings and roundabouts.
Like I’ve said theyre working with a strain with almost no bag appeal, if eyes is all you have. But the smell. It’s a good 9/10, which translates to the taste, perfect in a vape, you get a lot due to the freshness, and in a joint that flavour is clear to the last toke. Something I’ve found, not too often in much of the Big Narsty and the like, type strains and production.
So back to the effects, as I’ve said no haze high I can feel, but what I do get is that Afghani sedation, which is sadly too short lived for my liking, but it’s probably more my receptors these days than the weed! It’s more introspective than, let’s go out for a walk in the woods type shit, although I could if pushed! It’s 21% feeling kinda 21%, isn’t punching above its weight, but it’s not disappointing (unless like I’ve said you are quite rightly expecting that promised Sativa high). I think the introspection comes from the famed edgy note in the NL5 that the polyhybrid market did manage to successfully iron out. But I miss that bit, and I like the way it’s delivered in this weed, just in small spoonfuls.
Whilst I’ve been vaping and smoking and writing this, I think it’s taken care of a couple of pains Im not sure I even realised I had, a his me perched up on an invisible cloud.
All this being said, if Im on the mark im not sure how I’ve managed to write this review, which gives me a sneaky feeling there is a touch of Sativa on there somewhere, but for my money not enough to be marketed as ‘SativaHybrid’.
For me really the only thing that lets this down a little is the longevity of the high, once we’re all over bag appeal! Well presented, well cared for weed, that Im am sure many people would benefit from, particularly in pain sedation, just don’t expect a Sativa medicine. I wouldn’t recommend new users with Anxiety / Depression for this, as I think that introverted note might be a bit much if you’ve never experienced it before. I experienced this first in my teens when it did me no good at all, but as I’ve grown older I’ve worked out how to harness it as force for good! Which is why I often seek out the older strains, or whatever is available close to their memory today.
I would like to see the UK scene working more with companies like Mr Nice, (Neville and Shanti) and offer more of the building block strains to the modern polyhybrids we all know and love today. I think patients would soon realise the difference although they wouldn’t be hype strains, just strains that have proved the test of time for 40 or more years both medicinally and recreationally.
I mean 280 odd strains, and not a White Rhino (north ldn cut) Super Lemon Haze or Brightside Cheese to be seen anywhere! Yet my script can look like I’ve just ordered big at Kaspas Dessert’s on a night out!
All in all actually got what I expected, and thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely got the vibe of the G13 like the old days, if a little watered down by the NL5. They must have taken a while to find the right lemony pheno and voila, Dank Moody Lemons.
I mean Electric Lemon!
Possibly one for the more old school heads?!
Overall just under 8/10
Exp: 26/4/27
BN: A397666
TFN RPR T21 ELC LMN THC 21%
Total terpenes 2.68%
I’ll do some photos tomorrow if the sun comes out.
So I thought I’d share my views on this strain, as I feel it will quickly get a bad rep. IMO a lot of this will be down to the marketing, and the strain name.
Let me elaborate. I love a good clean crisp Lemon Haze, and honestly the lack of a good example of a decent cut of it, on MC just flummoxes me!
Its a much more medicinal strain than a lot of what’s available, as with over 35 years in BM, cookies / sherb / etc dont really deliver for me, I mean the initial hit but then not a lot, delivered over and over again through the next hype polyhybrid flavour of the month.
I suppose it highlights the med market being a mirror image of the US recreational market. I’d have thought the med side of things would rely much more on the old tried and tested line bred strains of old, but this rarely seems to be the case.
This is why I was drawn to Electric Lemon. Not for what the name conjoured up in my mind, but for what the genetics say.
G13 x NL5
Helllllllllllooooooooo 1990s!
Now dont get me wrong, as a rec user I love a good desserty polyhbrid as much as the next, it’s by design, less of a high, making those strains available to a much wider audience. Less motor accident, less hospital referrals, no chance of fucking up someone’s day cause they’re too high to walk! I mean Daywrecker didn’t get its name for fun! I get it.
Electric Lemon, should have been called Dank Moody Lemon. But Dank Moody Lemons would have set expectations imo a little closer to what turns up. And thats not necessarily a bad thing. I can find no reason for it to be labelled a Sativa, other than, , , no none!
I mean let me elaborate.
G13 is an Afghan. You can read about it for days online I’m sure, but the real real cut had a tart apple background note. It was so desirable several (many very good) imposters appeared and became notorious with just good Afghan Skunk. So sometimes just good Afghan would get named G13, much as we would call any good bud back in the day in the UK, Skunk.
The strain in the cross is NL5, the backbone of our modern genetics and polyhybrids, and from 5 original Hybrid plants #5 was the shortest and closest to pure Afghan, whilst the #1 the tallest, showing the most Sativa traits.
So the genetics say it’s basically Less worked Afghan vs More heavily worked Afghan.
I can guess how the Sativa thing might have happened, as there was a time where if you searched for G13 it was hard not to read about G13 haze, one of Shanti’s crosses to the G13, which led several from the era to believe the original G13 was in fact a shortening of G13 Haze. For that matter a seach in those days for Northern Lights would have in the main come back with examples mainly of NL5 Haze. Again another cross from the Mr Nice lads, and one of the most famous strains of all time.
Or it may be they breeders actually used a cut of the G13 Haze to cross to the NL5 and somewhere along the way the haze dropped off the paperwork, but having smoked it now, I really doubt that.
Now if you’re expecting that haze lift and clean crisp lemon haze notes I understand the let down. But if you’re more prepared for a slightly dirty astringent floor cleaner type lemon, that greets you in the room once you’ve opened the bag, but before you’ve even had a chance to get your nose in the bag, well, step on in. There’s some diesel notes in the background, mothballs in there somewhere, new tennis balls morphed with school gym lost property room type shit. Overlying it all though is that lemon.
This isn’t bovida weed. It’s dank in smell… and texture and probably has a 4/10 on bag appeal. Just like it used to be in fact i never even heard the term bag appeal until that big lad Berner was on the scene. And by then it was all over! 9/10 on the nose and freshness, looking very good so far! So how have they managed this, mostly all the other weed, (a lot killed by freeze drying imo, no faster way to take the backbone and depth of flavour out of your product, and an excuse not to cure of course) and am pleased to read it’s organic living soil, it’s hand dried, hand trimmed, slow cold cured, like almost none of the other brands, for me this weed holds at least a small piece of what’s missing from the medicinal markets, a little bit of care. This extra care is going to add to the bottom line, but moreover it might be the processes other companies cut, to produce a cheaper product that is lacking. It’s swings and roundabouts.
Like I’ve said theyre working with a strain with almost no bag appeal, if eyes is all you have. But the smell. It’s a good 9/10, which translates to the taste, perfect in a vape, you get a lot due to the freshness, and in a joint that flavour is clear to the last toke. Something I’ve found, not too often in much of the Big Narsty and the like, type strains and production.
So back to the effects, as I’ve said no haze high I can feel, but what I do get is that Afghani sedation, which is sadly too short lived for my liking, but it’s probably more my receptors these days than the weed! It’s more introspective than, let’s go out for a walk in the woods type shit, although I could if pushed! It’s 21% feeling kinda 21%, isn’t punching above its weight, but it’s not disappointing (unless like I’ve said you are quite rightly expecting that promised Sativa high). I think the introspection comes from the famed edgy note in the NL5 that the polyhybrid market did manage to successfully iron out. But I miss that bit, and I like the way it’s delivered in this weed, just in small spoonfuls.
Whilst I’ve been vaping and smoking and writing this, I think it’s taken care of a couple of pains Im not sure I even realised I had, a his me perched up on an invisible cloud.
All this being said, if Im on the mark im not sure how I’ve managed to write this review, which gives me a sneaky feeling there is a touch of Sativa on there somewhere, but for my money not enough to be marketed as ‘SativaHybrid’.
For me really the only thing that lets this down a little is the longevity of the high, once we’re all over bag appeal! Well presented, well cared for weed, that Im am sure many people would benefit from, particularly in pain sedation, just don’t expect a Sativa medicine. I wouldn’t recommend new users with Anxiety / Depression for this, as I think that introverted note might be a bit much if you’ve never experienced it before. I experienced this first in my teens when it did me no good at all, but as I’ve grown older I’ve worked out how to harness it as force for good! Which is why I often seek out the older strains, or whatever is available close to their memory today.
I would like to see the UK scene working more with companies like Mr Nice, (Neville and Shanti) and offer more of the building block strains to the modern polyhybrids we all know and love today. I think patients would soon realise the difference although they wouldn’t be hype strains, just strains that have proved the test of time for 40 or more years both medicinally and recreationally.
I mean 280 odd strains, and not a White Rhino (north ldn cut) Super Lemon Haze or Brightside Cheese to be seen anywhere! Yet my script can look like I’ve just ordered big at Kaspas Dessert’s on a night out!
All in all actually got what I expected, and thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely got the vibe of the G13 like the old days, if a little watered down by the NL5. They must have taken a while to find the right lemony pheno and voila, Dank Moody Lemons.
I mean Electric Lemon!
Possibly one for the more old school heads?!
Overall just under 8/10
Exp: 26/4/27
BN: A397666
TFN RPR T21 ELC LMN THC 21%
Total terpenes 2.68%
I’ll do some photos tomorrow if the sun comes out.
Motarebel made a strain called gordys spice what’s is g13 x nl#5 , my friend still has a packet in his freezer , I wander if this comes from his seeds .
You got it the other way around mate NL#1 was the most solid Indica and the higher up you go the more Sativa traits it has , NL#1 is a short leafy solid Indica also know as purest Indica , Tod McCormack has seeds from the original NL mother plant purest Indica also crosses made with it . I really miss the NL from 30 odd years ago as it was definitely more solid Indica compared to the more piney NL I’ve seen going around the past couple of year
Was in the game over 30 years. I’m retired now, in that sense. But I’ve just bought an 8m Polyeco poly tunnel which I’m planning on putting 10 plants in with a load of veg I’ve got one of the biggest seed collections in the UK……that range from NDN guys G13 x Hashplant originals, to the Karma Sour D lines. You are more than welcome to drop me a message anytime
NDNGUY is a stand up guy , many years ago i was gifted some of his genetics , also foe20 worked with some of his strains ,
Bubba o kush (bok) was a very good one , none of the so called bubba kush or bubba crosses are anything like the was 10/15 years ago
I take it back. IPS have upped their game! (THANK YOU!!!! ) so Seatown Lemon Haze coming Tuesday and just gonna hope this one stays in stock for a while now too anything more to divulge on this one up to press?
So I thought I’d share my views on this strain, as I feel it will quickly get a bad rep. IMO a lot of this will be down to the marketing, and the strain name.
Let me elaborate. I love a good clean crisp Lemon Haze, and honestly the lack of a good example of a decent cut of it, on MC just flummoxes me!
Its a much more medicinal strain than a lot of what’s available, as with over 35 years in BM, cookies / sherb / etc dont really deliver for me, I mean the initial hit but then not a lot, delivered over and over again through the next hype polyhybrid flavour of the month.
I suppose it highlights the med market being a mirror image of the US recreational market. I’d have thought the med side of things would rely much more on the old tried and tested line bred strains of old, but this rarely seems to be the case.
This is why I was drawn to Electric Lemon. Not for what the name conjoured up in my mind, but for what the genetics say.
G13 x NL5
Helllllllllllooooooooo 1990s!
Now dont get me wrong, as a rec user I love a good desserty polyhbrid as much as the next, it’s by design, less of a high, making those strains available to a much wider audience. Less motor accident, less hospital referrals, no chance of fucking up someone’s day cause they’re too high to walk! I mean Daywrecker didn’t get its name for fun! I get it.
Electric Lemon, should have been called Dank Moody Lemon. But Dank Moody Lemons would have set expectations imo a little closer to what turns up. And thats not necessarily a bad thing. I can find no reason for it to be labelled a Sativa, other than, , , no none!
I mean let me elaborate.
G13 is an Afghan. You can read about it for days online I’m sure, but the real real cut had a tart apple background note. It was so desirable several (many very good) imposters appeared and became notorious with just good Afghan Skunk. So sometimes just good Afghan would get named G13, much as we would call any good bud back in the day in the UK, Skunk.
The strain in the cross is NL5, the backbone of our modern genetics and polyhybrids, and from 5 original Hybrid plants #5 was the shortest and closest to pure Afghan, whilst the #1 the tallest, showing the most Sativa traits.
So the genetics say it’s basically Less worked Afghan vs More heavily worked Afghan.
I can guess how the Sativa thing might have happened, as there was a time where if you searched for G13 it was hard not to read about G13 haze, one of Shanti’s crosses to the G13, which led several from the era to believe the original G13 was in fact a shortening of G13 Haze. For that matter a seach in those days for Northern Lights would have in the main come back with examples mainly of NL5 Haze. Again another cross from the Mr Nice lads, and one of the most famous strains of all time.
Or it may be they breeders actually used a cut of the G13 Haze to cross to the NL5 and somewhere along the way the haze dropped off the paperwork, but having smoked it now, I really doubt that.
Now if you’re expecting that haze lift and clean crisp lemon haze notes I understand the let down. But if you’re more prepared for a slightly dirty astringent floor cleaner type lemon, that greets you in the room once you’ve opened the bag, but before you’ve even had a chance to get your nose in the bag, well, step on in. There’s some diesel notes in the background, mothballs in there somewhere, new tennis balls morphed with school gym lost property room type shit. Overlying it all though is that lemon.
This isn’t bovida weed. It’s dank in smell… and texture and probably has a 4/10 on bag appeal. Just like it used to be in fact i never even heard the term bag appeal until that big lad Berner was on the scene. And by then it was all over! 9/10 on the nose and freshness, looking very good so far! So how have they managed this, mostly all the other weed, (a lot killed by freeze drying imo, no faster way to take the backbone and depth of flavour out of your product, and an excuse not to cure of course) and am pleased to read it’s organic living soil, it’s hand dried, hand trimmed, slow cold cured, like almost none of the other brands, for me this weed holds at least a small piece of what’s missing from the medicinal markets, a little bit of care. This extra care is going to add to the bottom line, but moreover it might be the processes other companies cut, to produce a cheaper product that is lacking. It’s swings and roundabouts.
Like I’ve said theyre working with a strain with almost no bag appeal, if eyes is all you have. But the smell. It’s a good 9/10, which translates to the taste, perfect in a vape, you get a lot due to the freshness, and in a joint that flavour is clear to the last toke. Something I’ve found, not too often in much of the Big Narsty and the like, type strains and production.
So back to the effects, as I’ve said no haze high I can feel, but what I do get is that Afghani sedation, which is sadly too short lived for my liking, but it’s probably more my receptors these days than the weed! It’s more introspective than, let’s go out for a walk in the woods type shit, although I could if pushed! It’s 21% feeling kinda 21%, isn’t punching above its weight, but it’s not disappointing (unless like I’ve said you are quite rightly expecting that promised Sativa high). I think the introspection comes from the famed edgy note in the NL5 that the polyhybrid market did manage to successfully iron out. But I miss that bit, and I like the way it’s delivered in this weed, just in small spoonfuls.
Whilst I’ve been vaping and smoking and writing this, I think it’s taken care of a couple of pains Im not sure I even realised I had, and has me perched up on an invisible cloud.
All this being said, if Im on the mark im not sure how I’ve managed to write this review, which gives me a sneaky feeling there is a touch of Sativa on there somewhere, but for my money not enough to be marketed as ‘SativaHybrid’.
For me really the only thing that lets this down a little is the longevity of the high, once we’re all over bag appeal! Well presented, well cared for weed, that Im am sure many people would benefit from, particularly in pain sedation, just don’t expect a Sativa medicine. I wouldn’t recommend new users with Anxiety / Depression for this, as I think that introverted note might be a bit much if you’ve never experienced it before. I experienced this first in my teens when it did me no good at all, but as I’ve grown older I’ve worked out how to harness it as force for good! Which is why I often seek out the older strains, or whatever is available close to their memory today.
I would like to see the UK scene working more with companies like Mr Nice, (Neville and Shanti's genetics) and offer more of the building block strains to the modern polyhybrids we all know and love today. I think patients would soon realise the difference although they wouldn’t be hype strains, just strains that have proved the test of time for 40 or more years both medicinally and recreationally.
I mean 280 odd strains, and not a White Rhino (north ldn cut) Super Lemon Haze or Brightside Cheese to be seen anywhere! Yet my script can look like I’ve just ordered big at Kaspas Dessert’s on a night out!
All in all actually got what I expected, and thoroughly enjoyed it, definitely got the vibe of the G13 like the old days, if a little watered down by the NL5. They must have taken a while to find the right lemony pheno and voila, Dank Moody Lemons.
I mean Electric Lemon!
Possibly one for the more old school heads?!
Overall just under 8/10
Exp: 26/4/27
BN: A397666
TFN RPR T21 ELC LMN THC 21%
Total terpenes 2.68%
I’ll do some photos tomorrow if the sun comes out.
Bit dear at £80 if you ask me and as in the review above it mentions the effects are short lived and I'm finding I use more and more but am still left needing something a bit deeper each time I use it but it does calm me but I just don't think it delivers on what you expect when you open the bag, Just letting know how I find this after a few days
Bit dear at £80 if you ask me and as in the review above it mentions the effects are short lived and I'm finding I use more and more but am still left needing something a bit deeper each time I use it but it does calm me but I just don't think it delivers on what you expect when you open the bag, Just letting know how I find this after a few days
I felt I had to point it out as I paid less and am still not over the moon but it's all based on the effects my glumness and maybe I should try it at a different time of day to better effect as it does look and smell the the part
I would like to see the UK scene working more with companies like Mr Nice, (Neville and Shanti's genetics) and offer more of the building block strains to the modern polyhybrids we all know and love today. I think patients would soon realise the difference although they wouldn’t be hype strains, just strains that have proved the test of time for 40 or more years both medicinally and recreationally.
as I’ve had experience with this plant. I knew a grower, who now lives in Greece. This guy had known Shantibaba personally. It was the 80’s and knew Scot well enough to give him the original clone that Nevil managed to obtain from Sandy Weinstein. I tried the Chem Cookies from Craft but found it a bit harsh. Fingers crossed this one isn’t the same.
I’ve got one of the biggest seed collections in the UK……that range from NDN guys G13 x Hashplant originals, to the Karma Sour D lines. You are more than welcome to drop me a message anytime 
) so Seatown Lemon Haze coming Tuesday and just gonna hope this one stays in stock for a while now too 
