i was inclined to name some more sativa leaning strains like herer myself, haze x skunk in particular as it's super potent & long lasting with a mildly trippy motivational buzz that never gets more stony than lead eye, but it finishes in 12 weeks and the fastest herer hybrids i've seen take at least 9 weeks with the purer ones being more in the 10-12 week range. sensi seeds' version is considered one of the best in the world, but sannies' jack f7 is highly respected and les than 1/4 the price. i can't wait to try it myself as i fuhreekin' LOVE jack's cleaner 2! it's a "slow" 9 week strain, but it's buzz beats the shit out of ANY bud i've paid for since the 80s.
if you REALLY want to try something "different" OP, try growing at least a couple 9 week plus strains as that's where you'll get much more quality in a high. JC2 has a really unique buzz. it starts out hitting you with a warm and euphoric body thumping stone, but still functional, but the real special treatrs are that it has a "touchy feely" effect i've only experienced in yucky diesel tasting onyx and even cooler, real trippy visuals. i started getting into massaging my arms and chest on it because it just felt so good, aided by the warm feeling body stone and started laughing my ass off once i realized the imaginary invisible ripples of tie dye color emanating from where i was rubbing was a visual effect, and the strongest one i've had since columbian gold in the mid 80s.
there's some compensation for growing slower strains too. where 400 gm2 is considered a decent cash crapping yield, many slower strains can yield up to 750 gm2 making them competitive for the extra time needed. you have to give a little love to the gift to get the really good stuff. using halides instead of cash crapping sodiums helps too as full spectrum light allows better pheno expression and possibly better THC profiles too, especially in sativas. the obsession with yield only is what drives the quality of buds on the street down so much compared to old school weed.
back to HQS haze x skunk, 12 weeks & $28, it was the first thing that popped in my mind when AK-47 was mentioned as i like to call it an AK-47 for getting high. it's a little rough around the edges, particularly in that cigar wrapper flavor i don't like, but it gets you high as a mofo and if you don't respect it's limits, it will give you a room spinning dizzy beatdown like i got a mild dose of the 1st time i blazed a top and got so excited i kept going with bigger hits. columbian is even trippier, but also has a stone that creeps in if you blaze all day and eventually turns pure stony after a month so you need to take a break where haze skunk just keeps getting you high and even builds up in your system for a 24/7 permabuzz. i lost 10+ pounds on it in just a month by ignoring hunger pangs and keeping occupied with whatever as well as kicked my 6 pack of red dog a night habit cold turkey on it. my priority is ALWAYS quality first as columbian spoiled me forever. had i started out on any of today's stony crap, i never would have blazed a second time and it instantly pissed me off the 1st time i scored 2 big buds of "skunk & red hair" for the $8 i had in my pocket that never got me high no matter how many hits i took.
for faster gear, apollo 11 finishes in 55 days tops along with his racier and less psychoactive mom cinderella 99 (a lot of jack herer in those too) but i think bodhi & mosca are still out of the game with those. TGA has an apollo 13 that finishes quick though along with the third dimension, though that one is hermie prone i think, but it's his fastest finisher.
if you want "top potency", sannie's (almost universally accepted as havinng top quality genetics) heroauna is one of the most potent stoner strains in the world. in just re-reading cannabible 1-3, the author claimed it was more potent than 50% hash. i could see that happening, it isn't just the size of the resin glands that makes potency, but the THC profile within. today's brainwashed sheep would laugh at a popcorn sized bud of generic piney pale green fluffy columbian bud with it's peach fuzz resin glands whining it has no "bag appeal" (BS cash crapper PROPAGANDA to get you to stop concentrating on THE BUZZ) until they blaze 4 quick big one hitters and get the room spinning dizzies in a trippy paranoid panic attack and start crying for their mommies.
if you can wait a "whopping 63 days", jack's cleaner 2 has serious quality going on, and jack the ripper (oh i do so despise that name!) is supposed to be even trippier and more haze dominant, but also a 9 week strain.
"good things come to those who wait" is my weed mantra. the quality at 9 weeks plus can be awesome. sweet haze is way awesome! it too takes 9 weeks, but gives you sticky ass, sweet extra fruity buds with great euphoria and a twist of real trippiness most watered down generic hazes just don't have from the ones i've tried so far, but it is a stretchy plant that probably yields lower too, but OMG is it fucking tasty and fun to blaze! it has *cringe* actual bag appeal. LOL
back to AK-47...
if you like that, see if you can find black russian. it's the cherry pheno of AK-47 crossed with blackberry. the author of cannabible really liked that.
Is it a relatively quick finisher?
