Reserva Privada Sour Diesel Smoke/Strain Review

thehazeman

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I just harvest my RS Sour Diesel and wanted to share my experience. I only tried 2 seeds at first. First to show sex was hermied pretty bad so it was tossed right away. My second however, is excellent. This is one I will keep around for a long time.
It is very nute sensitive first off. You really have to be careful as I do not even feed my plants to the max like alot of growers do and still had some burn issues at first but it did not impact yield or quality. I flowered for around 75 which is in line for the ECSD if you run her the whole way. This plant stretches just like the clone as well.. Not for the small cabinet grower lol. One thing that was different about this seed form than the clone is the smell onset. The original gets very stinky very early. This one took about 4 weeks to get to smellin. At first I was worried it was going to be hempy... Glad I waited! Resin production again took longer, at about week 6 for nice gland formation. The bud structure is what you would expect from the clone only, long crowning foxtail structures of medium density. At week 7, it is the only plant you smell in a garden with cannalope haze, old time moonshine, sweet tooth, and NLxBB. Crazy stinky even with filtration. Flushed for two weeks with the first being sugar daddy and the last straight water. Buds really don't fill in till the last 7-10 days for this strain. In the words of Soma, "when u think it is done... wait a week." It looks very stringy until this last part of flowering so early harvest will murder your yield. After hanging for 6 days and 10 days into the jars it is already amazing.
For a plant I vegged for 4 weeks and topped once, I yielded around 2 3/4 ounces. Not bad for this strain at all. You can do really well with SCROG with this strain. Growing the plant straight out and with a 400 watt, this is a decent yield for sour diesel. And NOT one male part on her! That is great news for a Sour Diesel fem seed!
The buds are bright lime green with hints of pink and silver from the resin. Great bag appeal. The smell is just what it should be, lemony, fuelly, with a slight hint of sandalwood undertones. And already strong with a week cure!
Breaks up nicely and grinding it up just makes the smells explode! Just wonderfull. The taste is all there too. At first a delicious lemon burst with a hint of diesel fuel funk. Then the exhale, the best part. Extremely sour! Just coats your mouth in that wonderful kersene sour candy funk that is so delicious.
Potency is great. Again, this is really dependent on you taking the strain the full term. Otherwise you get great flavor and only 15 minutes of high. This is a really heady strain. Hits you within the second or third hit and the initial rush comes on. It is not a super long lasting high, but it is not super short either. Probably 60-90 minutes duration.
Overall I give this a 10 if you are a sour disel fan, which I obviously am. It is the best I have had in seed form out of a few that I tried. Although they don't grow exactly the same as the clone, the smoke is authentic. This is def the real deal and not a cross. I would imagine an S1 so u may find a little variation. I got a keeper out of two seeds so that's pretty sweet. It grows much better than their Headband which I didn't care for too much at all. I just had nothin but mediocre results with that one. If you are looking for a True Sour Diesel, you can pick theirs up. Its official.
 

jessica d

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Have you grown out cali connections version of original sour d? I got a pack and was gonna give them away to a social smoker for fear of hermies.
 

thehazeman

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Sorry I have not grown that one, but I have grown a bunch of CC's gear. Tahoe was still the best pot I have grown to date and I had no hermie problems with those. I have grown Rez's, Emerald Triangle version crossed with lost coast og, Elite Genetics and this one. Only had real hermie issues with the Rez gear. Emerald Triangles really just wasn't impressive at all, and Elite's was decent, but came through more like straight diesel instead of the lemon of the Sour D.
 

jessica d

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Thanks very much for the info, much appreciated. I want to give cc osd a try but i grow for med users and can't have a big hermie disaster. I think I will try them a couple of miles downwind but appreciate the info. I will also be doing somas version.
 

ganjaman87

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JUST what I wanted to hear!!! This post made my day man I am growing RP Sour Diesel right now I am almost 3 weeks into flowering and its a great plant, but I was beginning to worry about the smell because there is none yet so I am glad to see that yours didnt smell until later in flower.....damn I am kinda pissed I didnt keep my clones now I only kept clones from the 818 Headband im growing...FUCK!
 

DustBomb

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CC OSD is pretty legit... has a the beginnings of a Lemon Candied diesel... hopefully it gets more sour later....

How close would u say ur RP SD is close to the ECSD????
 

thehazeman

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If you are looking for diesel, soma's is not even related in my opinion. Not saying he doesn't have great strains. His amnesia haze is just amazing and the right pheno of lavander is to die for. I just don't think his NYCD is related to any american diesel. Maybe more closely resembles some versions of snowdog I have tried with the grapefruit smell, but even those still have the chemminess in them while his does not. And I did the same thing and tossed all my clones but one. Man oh man am I glad I did. But I have had 100% success in revegging plants after flower. I have not done it a huge amount, but probably 10 or so and it may take 3 weeks but they will revert back. Just good flush at the end of flower, let dry, chop only the top cola branches and just seperate the rest of the bud from branch to leave as much leaf as possible. Then take and add low doses of N gradually building up under 24 hour light. In 1 to 3 weeks you should be getting new veg growth, take clones from this and establish a mother with one of the clones. That is very important to much as much time from the stress of reveg to when you will flower again. This keeps any mutated growth at bay. The hardest I ever done this to is old time moonshine, it took 3 weeks and already having mutated growth was a bitch to get right again. But with time they go back to normal just fine.
 

ganjaman87

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If you are looking for diesel, soma's is not even related in my opinion. Not saying he doesn't have great strains. His amnesia haze is just amazing and the right pheno of lavander is to die for. I just don't think his NYCD is related to any american diesel. Maybe more closely resembles some versions of snowdog I have tried with the grapefruit smell, but even those still have the chemminess in them while his does not. And I did the same thing and tossed all my clones but one. Man oh man am I glad I did. But I have had 100% success in revegging plants after flower. I have not done it a huge amount, but probably 10 or so and it may take 3 weeks but they will revert back. Just good flush at the end of flower, let dry, chop only the top cola branches and just seperate the rest of the bud from branch to leave as much leaf as possible. Then take and add low doses of N gradually building up under 24 hour light. In 1 to 3 weeks you should be getting new veg growth, take clones from this and establish a mother with one of the clones. That is very important to much as much time from the stress of reveg to when you will flower again. This keeps any mutated growth at bay. The hardest I ever done this to is old time moonshine, it took 3 weeks and already having mutated growth was a bitch to get right again. But with time they go back to normal just fine.
I think he meant the East Coast Sour Diesel pheno not the NYC diesel
 

sosincere

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my friend is 2 weeks away from harvesting RP SD (56 days in), he got all six feminized seeds to grow into nice moms and hopefully at least one of them is a keeper. Most of them are placed on the edges so that his proven strains recieve the most light and yet they still seem to be producing well. The one plant that was placed directly beneath the bulb is a MONSTER! Heaviest yielding plant he has ever seen, and it hasnt even been harvested yet. He said they dont smell as strong as he expected them to at this point, but it is the recognizable SD smell. They stretched a lot. Will update when i get to smoke some of his stash in a couple weeks.
 

Buck123

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Man im from australia the original was the one i got... im a few years to late yeh?? fuck it was bomb too!
 

dickkhead

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JUST what I wanted to hear!!! This post made my day man I am growing RP Sour Diesel right now I am almost 3 weeks into flowering and its a great plant, but I was beginning to worry about the smell because there is none yet so I am glad to see that yours didnt smell until later in flower.....damn I am kinda pissed I didnt keep my clones now I only kept clones from the 818 Headband im growing...FUCK!
its not to late take a lower branch off at any time in flower preferably at day 21 and youll do whats called monster cropping look it up
 

dickkhead

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I have 3 rp sd going right now and just ordered dr.greenthumbs ecsds1 they claim its the original clone that they self polinated and have 0 complaints abuot hermies a guy on here named dr.gruber has a journal using there gear check it out and tell me what you think? heres the link

Dr Greenthumbs Sour Diesel Smoke Report
 
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