Apollo-13

Apollo-13 is one of those strains a grower could spend his life learning and one I have been working with for a long time now. The cutting we have is old and hard to work with. She is a bit picky on nutrients and has an almost vine like growth creating a very wide sagging bush that needs a lot of support to keep her from having bud flop. She has a very distinct peppery, yet also a funky rotting fruit smell. She has many different expressions according to environment. She can go from being very fox tailed with dread like airy buds in a warm room to hard tight colas in perfect conditions. She prefers a daytime temperature of around 75 degrees but does not like chilly nighttime temperatures like some strains. As she approaches harvest her fan leaves will sag and curl under making trimming a time consuming process but every bit of her smaller leaves are covered in resin that yields a red bubble hash that has to be tried to believe. Her downside is trimming. I spend a good 4 hours on just the upper portion when harvesting. The buds are covered in swirling curled sticky leaves that take loads of concentration and small scissors to clean up. I focus hard to remove all the sugar leaf as my main goal here is Bubble! I have noticed that actual sugar leaf makes the best hash. When I use pure bud I never get the same yields as with trim leaf. I think its almost a waste. So my buds get cleaned well to make more Apollo-Bubble.

The original information on this Brothers Grimm strain states that only 500 seeds were ever made so to have an original cutting is a big deal. Brothers Grimm are responsible for the famous Cindy99 and a few other killer hybrids and they were big on back crossing to there mother plants to improve stability by “Cubing” a clone only strain. Apollo-13 is Genius x p-75 the 75 indicates that 75% of the desired traits will be determined by the male that has been back crossed twice already.
This is how it works it simple terms. You have a clone only female cannabis plant youd like to have seeds of. These seeds will produce plants that display 50% of the females traits and 50% of the males. You pollinate her with a male plant keeping a copy or clone of the original mother alive. This is an outcross and these seeds are grown out and the best male is selected based on desired traits. This male is then used to again pollinate the original mother plant. The seeds of this breeding will produce seeds that display 75% attributes of the mother plant. This process is continued twice more until the strain is cubed and in theory 99% of what the mother was. Now the science is much more complicated than this but this is a good lamens explanation of cubing. In fact I find these hybrids add new life to old strains and in some cases the sibling crosses can be as good or better than the mother strain in terms of ease of growth. The Apollo-13 mother plant still is the tops as far as resin is concerned it has a flavor and consistency like no other. Its resin shards up on scissors like clay or plumbers putty and has a deep red color. A small hit of the Apollo-13 red bubble out of a bong on a clean screen is like a heart punch and leaves you making the worst grimace ever seen.

That doesn’t mean I don’t treasure my stash jar of Apollo each harvest I truly do she has a buzz all her own even though she can give you a work out figuring out what exactly she wants each run. I have been growing her in super soil now for 3 years straight in the same conditions and have her just about figured out now as to what she wants and when. She likes a lot of high Nitrogen nutrients all the way up to day 30 of budding or she will start to fade to early making harvest an even bigger nightmare with yellow leaves curled over each bud. Apollo-13 has a harvest window from day 54 all the way to day 65 for a completely different high and flavor. I always top her to make sure she has at least 3 heads and I keep her in the vegetive state ( 18 Light 6 Dark) for a full 2 months to make sure she has a solid root base and enough branch support to yield 3-4 ounces per plant in soil. I use bamboo stakes and plastic coated garden wire to keep her held up once the buds start to form.

im still trying to acquire your genetics....but to no avail!

Why?
There are several sites that will look after you post haste

what prob are you having.

Sub

nothing on the vendors/retailers/your end-side....

apparently its at the post office. and post office losing shit or something.


regardless i will keep trying for some of your great work.

i drool over this shit

Great post SUBCOOL! Should receiving my cut of A13 very soon. Im very stoked to work with her!

Apollo 13 and Dairy queen are two of the most overlooked strains in my opinion. Personally having grown both, I can tell you this is really some mind phux bending shit. Moreso, Apollo makes some insane red bubble hash. Very addicting bubble hash from apollo. It managed to find its way into my daily drivers list. I am still working on breeding An Apollo male to a Female Dairy ( or vice versa whatever comes first).

Personally, I absolutely love these two strains. Granted they are not my favorite TGA strains, but these are by far the two most overlooked strains IMO. I think this is where you can say not to judge this book by its cover. Once you have had a godsend salad of Dairy Queen and Apollo13 hash croutons...I promise its ORGASMIC...unbelievable uphoria from the combination of these to strains. Its on my NUMBER 1 list of "To be bred"...in due time it will happen

Peace, Love, and Happiness

I finally got Querkle,Void, and Deep Purple first time using your gear so Im pretty excited.




Smokey

I am very interested in a13 is there more detailed grow logs?

Hey Sub, how different is Apollo 11 from Apollo 13?

Hey guys i got 10 seed recently from TGA of the Apollo 13. I germinated 4 and all are doing well so far. I will be posting a grow journal on it so keep your eyes open for a posting coming soon by me. Any suggestions or comment pre or post grow let me know.

Cheers

I got a pack back in sept and popped 5.. vegged them until 12/10 and got 4/5 females!!! Thanks to tga gear quality I can take my pick of the 4 for a mom.
That red hash has never been closer.

Hey sub, Love your beans. I've got some apollo13bx doing some strange things. This one plant grew like crazy with the most branching that I have ever seen. Pulled some clones off her and made her my new favorite mom. The clones did the same crazy fast growth with three branches at each node instead of two. Then as flowering started I noticed a strange growth on the upper fan leaves. They are literally trying to grow bud out of the center of fan leaves. Please check out these pics and let me know if this is something special I should try to breed with or if this will just detract from main colas growth. Thanks in advance

woah thats pretty crazy

i found this on soma's website:

"Somanna formerly Soma Wide+ is the only strain with cannabis Chinensis a type that grows in China, it has a very interesting characteristic of sometimes making an extra budlet on the stem of the large fan leaf. It grows quite wide in that the side branches really become a large part of the plant..."

maybe a common ancestor? c. chinensis?

THCBD said:

i found this on soma's website:

"Somanna formerly Soma Wide+ is the only strain with cannabis Chinensis a type that grows in China, it has a very interesting characteristic of sometimes making an extra budlet on the stem of the large fan leaf. It grows quite wide in that the side branches really become a large part of the plant..."

maybe a common ancestor? c. chinensis?

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Thanks for the info!

The Potologist said:

Apollo 13 and Dairy queen are two of the most overlooked strains in my opinion. Personally having grown both, I can tell you this is really some mind phux bending shit. Moreso, Apollo makes some insane red bubble hash. Very addicting bubble hash from apollo. It managed to find its way into my daily drivers list. I am still working on breeding An Apollo male to a Female Dairy ( or vice versa whatever comes first).

Personally, I absolutely love these two strains. Granted they are not my favorite TGA strains, but these are by far the two most overlooked strains IMO. I think this is where you can say not to judge this book by its cover. Once you have had a godsend salad of Dairy Queen and Apollo13 hash croutons...I promise its ORGASMIC...unbelievable uphoria from the combination of these to strains. Its on my NUMBER 1 list of "To be bred"...in due time it will happen

Peace, Love, and Happiness

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Dairy Queen is just pure crazy medicine. I can't drive and do it, hell I can't do anything while doing the DQ.

So overlooked but so powerfully numbing.

"dairy queeeeeennnnnnn....."