Knolle planted the seedlings directly into 10-liter pots. All of them germinated in an optimum way and Mr. After he had ordered a bag of regular Bubble Gum seeds, he sowed six of them. Testers on forums tried the reworked Bubble Gum and agreed: this was indeed the old-school scent everybody loved and still loves!” I had eventually found a new father which crossed with the old mom and produced the good old scent again. It took several generations of crossing between them to come up again with the original Bubble Gum scent again. So, I had to get back to the drawing board and started to work with the group of Bubble Gum plants I still had. Why had they lost their typical scent profile? First, I tried to stimulate the parents in all ways I could think of to revert them back to how they once were. After many years of great old-school Bubble Gum, the scent and taste were dullish and didn’t stand out much anymore really.

Simon reports, “I wasn’t happy anymore with how the plants grew out, a phenomenon often referred to as ‘genetic drift’, although that is actually a wrong use of terminology. The regular Bubble Gum strain was genetically revised about two years ago since Serious breeder Simon was no longer satisfied with the olfactory results of his plants – that typical old-school Bubble Gum bouquet had lost some intensity, sort of flattened out a bit, obviously due an altered terpene profile. Under natural light, Bubble Gum reaches maturity between mid-to-end-October, so on a rain-sheltered balcony it should do well even in more northern regions. With 300-450 g/m2, it has an average indoor yield potential. For instance, they all grow to approximately the same height and have pretty much the same flowering time (8-9 weeks) which makes the grower’s work very comfortable of course. That’s why crops grown from seed are especially homogeneous, with almost no or merely small difference between the individuals. Another special thing about Bubble Gum is the fact that it is an inbreed variety, not one of the usual F1 hybrids. The stretching temper is fairly moderate though, leading to medium height. The strain’s pedigree is composed of three different exotic sativa landraces (of which Mexican and Colombian have been revealed by breeder Simon) and an Afghani indica which makes for a sativa dominant plant. Opulent resin richness is another outstanding characteristic – Bubble Gum flowers ooze out tons of trichomes, displaying a glistening extravaganza at the end of blooming. The second trademark quality of Bubble Gum is its euphoric high, so this strain is a double treat to the senses. This legendary sweetness has a soft fruity nature characterized by a delicious note of strawberry.

In the first instance, there’s its extraordinarily sweet fragrance that is really reminiscent of chewing gum, thus having earned this strain its name. But what is the fascination of this glorious sativa/indica variety bred by Dutch quality seed company Serious Seeds all about? Nevertheless, Bubble Gum still shines as a bright star in the firmament of cannabis strains, taking pride in having won a total of eleven awards, with the most recent one dating back to 2016. This must be considered a big achievement, after all, the world of cannabis strains of today is completely different from the one back in 1994 – back then, the number of seed companies and strains still was very limited, before the market kind of exploded in the new millennium, giving birth to countless new seed banks and seed varieties, fueled by a wave of liberalization in several countries. Since its market release in 1994, Bubble Gum has evolved into a timeless evergreen which, in spite of the immense amount of competing strains nowadays, still gets awarded with cannabis cups. Because it ranks among the big famous names in the world of cannabis varieties, the name alone sends canna-sseurs into fits of joy. Practically every home grower in the world concerned with cannabis strains has at least heard of the Bubble Gum strain.

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