I admit I'm a little slow with reporting results, but here is my final report on Crimson Crush. I got a 10 pack of seeds from Harborside last winter. I typically like to give a strain two runs before I pass final judgement and I recently wrapped up run #2. I noticed two phenotypes. One pheno finishes early (about 50 days) with frosty buds that are not very dense. The odor of this pheno is very strong and reeks of fruit with a little floral essence thrown in. The plants looked the part, but after drying, sampling and weighing I was let down. The taste isn't as strong as the smell, but it's there. I give it a 7/10 for taste. Yield gets a 5/10. As for potency, I give it a 6/10. It's okay, but I wouldn't call it great or even good.
The other pheno was even more airy and it was a small, weak looking plant. It looked like garbage from the start and I didn't even bother to let it finish. I cut it down about 70% of the way through flowering and threw it in the green waste bin. So, it looks like the early finishing pheno is the keeper for what it's worth. There could be more than two phenos, but I only noticed two.
I still have 5 more seeds of the Crimson Crush, but I don't know what I'm going to do with them. This is the third GGG strain that I have tried, the other two being Grape Puff and Sugartown Express and I'm 0 for 3 with GGG strains. I doubt that I will try another one unless I get a clone from a friend and they vouch for it. I won't buy their seeds again though. My two big complaints are 1) Potency is average at best. 2) The three GGG strains I tried all seemed to lose strength very quickly when cloned. On just the second go around there was a noticeable drop off with all three in terms of both potency and yield. I found this to be pretty shocking because I have not experienced such a fast drop off like this and I've been growing for going on 3 decades.
From my experiences, GGG strains don't compete on any level with other strains that I have at the moment such as Blackwater, Purple Urkle, Granddaddy Purple and Chemdawg. I never see GGG flowers on the menu at clubs either and now I have a pretty good idea as to why.
