Found this lads-
An article from simon from serious seeds on the "cherry" ak47
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About AK47 Cherry Phenotype
About the Cherry pheno in Ak-47 I'm not sure what to answer. You could say this is something which started on the net between people who grew Serious' AK-47. Several growers agreed that a certain type of the AK-47, which they grew and smoked, has a very sweet and cherry-like taste. Other growers seem to recognize this taste and smell, and so the 'Cherry AK-47 phenotype' was born.
As you might know it is very difficult to discuss tastes or to name, describe, a smell or taste objectively. Consequently I don't know exactly what they mean when growers talk about this. Some friends once tasted what a grower called cherry taste and said that you have to use a bit of imagination to recognize it. But was what they tried a real 'Cherry' AK-47 or was it just a close sister? So, we don't really know if what 'they' name cherry would be recognized as a cherry-taste by others, or not.
I have seen on numerous occasions that when people were smoking something, that several people named the taste different from the others; spicey, sweet, fruity, sandalwood, vanilla-ish, piney etc. all were used independently from each other. And who was right?
We have tasted many AK-plants, a fruity kind of sweetness is easily recognized in many of them, but we don't know which taste to call cherry. The total number of AK-47 seeds grown by growers worldwide is much bigger then we could ever trie in our test rooms, so the possibility that some find a rare and fantastic individual is very real. We get reports from people who claim to find Cherry-pheno's in every seedpack, while others say 1 out of a 100 plants is a Cherry. This alone shows that nobody knows what the other is talking about.
Nobody has showed us a clone so far of a 'Cherry', so the basic line is that there is no standard on what the charecteristics of the 'Cherry AK-47 phenotype' really is. But for us it is interesting to see that many people do find something which they are very happy with, and call 'cherry'.
So we think it is best to let growers carry on with this, as they certainly might be right. This is a myth of which it is not known by us if true or false. Several experienced knowledgeable growers think it is true, and others agree to this, so who are we to say they are wrong???
May be the only way to find out is to actually grow the AK-47 out yourself to see what YOU think.
Sincerely,
Simon
When Don first told me of the parent plants behind the 'Smelly Fingerez' project I spent 3 weeks trawling through several of the biggest commercial grow site's on the net to research the genetics behind the 'Smelly Cherry' father....
'Exodus Cheese' x 'Livers/Blues' x Dr CandyMan's 'Cherry Assasin' x Heath Robinson's 'Black Rose'.
....I even managed to source the entire 'Overgrow' archive and I'm a man of integrity if nothing else so just to set things straight forever more,
The cherry pheno of AK47 has absolutely
NOTHING TO DO WITH TASTE at all, Simon is being wholly disingenuous with that statement/seed advert (if it was actually written by him) and he's attributing the name to a taste to throw you all off track.
Of course he will change the P1's and say he's never really come across it when it looks like this!.......
That IS the 'AK47 Cherry Pheno' mother in Dr CandyMan's 'Cherry Assassin', the male in the cross is a 'Kryptonite OG BX1'.
The other significant parent plant in Dons project is Heath Robinson's 'Black Rose' which looks like this....
(middle plant)
The parents behind this plant are the 'AK47 cherry pheno' and 'Blackberry'.
My 'Smelly Fingerez'.........
....a descendant of the AK47 cherry pheno via 'Cherry Assassin' and 'Black Rose'.
So to recap yes there is a Cherry AK, it is not a myth and there are a few people that have had it in their possession at some point.
End of story, closed book.