TGA Genetics Apollo13 BX

Strain: TGA Genetics Apollo 13 BX





Growth: 9/10
Grown in Coco/Perlite mix in medical garden. Vegged under 1000 watt MH and 400 watt HPS, flower 2000 watts HPS 400 watt MH
Easy grow, never ran into any problems with any of the 4 females I got from a 5 pack. Of the 4 fems they were all pretty uniform, only differences being that 1 was a runt and 1 gets some purple colors. Flowers pretty quickly for a Sativa dominant strain. Typical Sativa growth aside from the flower time being quicker than I expected. Stretch the first 2 weeks of flower is average for Sativa, i would definitely suggest topping this and growing shrubs. Clones easily and one of the quicker cloning strains ive run n a while

Nutes:
Veg nutes: Botanicare PBP, Alaskan Fish emulsion, molasses and GH CalMag+
Flower Nutes: AN Iguana Juice, molasses, fish emulsion and CalMag+

Fed on a schedule of: Feed-Feed-Water

Yield: 8/10
Yield was acceptable, not lacking but not huge either.

Bag Appeal: 9/10
Like the other TGA gear Ive grown resin production is great. Dready colas, nice resin coverage, nice green hues. I like it. Got 1 pheno with a little purple, other than that they are pretty uniform

Smell: 9/10
Funky, kinda like over ripened fruit sprinkled with black pepper and stuffed into a baby diaper. Yeah I know it sounds awful and weird, but the smell is nice and distinct. Smell seems to dominate in my grow, i have several strains running and this one seems to smell the most in the flowering room.

Taste: 9/10
Pretty much as it smells minus the baby shit thankfully. On the inhale a nice sweet taste, kinda fruity and a swear i taste a little Haze in there. On the exhale the black pepper taste comes out. I like the taste as do every one of my patients.

The High: 10/10
OK, I know a 10/10 might seem overblown but it isnt. I am in LOVE with this strain. Might be the best daytime medication ive ever had. Hits pretty quickly with a nice up head high thats still very functional if you dont over-medicate. Perfect for medicating and getting stuff done. Over medicate and you get a very uppity high followed later by heavy eyelids and couchlock. That being said not a great nighttime smoke or med for insomnia
I can medicate pretty heavily and still function in a conversation easily or work easily.

Comments:
I germinated a 5 pack and got 4 females. Of the 4, 1 was a runt that was culled and the other 3 were grown out after taking clones of each I selected the purple pheno in the pictures above as the keeper. That one seemed a bit sweeter tasting, was just as strong and we all know how people love purple so she was kept as a Mom.
Like I said, I found my new favorite daytime med. I can medicate and work in the garden productively. Coated in resin, very nice and distinct taste and smell with a great buzz this is a hit with all my patients. Its staying in the garden by request of them all. Gotta say its rare that all my patients and I ALL agree on a strain for the garden. The most popular strain ive run through the garden in some time That says a lot, I highly recommend.

sounds nice m8, i have always liked the look of this strain
did your pheno's have the large calyx and the really high flower to leaf ratio
like in the pics you see on subs site ?

thanks a bunch for sharing that. +rep i was interested in the strain thinking it might be very similar to apollo 11. it sounds stonier and baby poo? nope? i'd rather go for A11 pineapples. i love TGA's jack's cleaner 2 though. THAT strain has real trippiness happening. i'll just wait for bodhi to get his genius groove back on again and work with the strains i already have.

i'm guessing A13 is a pheno of A11 or a cross. that you'd detect haze in it shouldn't be surprising as A11 is 50% C99 and joey weed's C99s were very fruity and under halide, vaguely grape. C99 is descended from jack, too so it definitely has at least "that much haze" in it. herer himself passed the holy grail title his namesake was given to C99, so haze dominance would be expected. JW's C99 has a buzz somewhere in between an average haze and kali mist though not that can't sit still speedy.

a13 and a11 come from similar parentage.

A13 is Genius x P75 (Princess Cut at the stage 75% of genetics are equivalent to the original clone)
A11 is Genius x P99 aka Cinerella 99 (99% of the genetics of the original princess cut)

A13 is a lot closer to the original genius. My A11 fruity phenos are closer to cindy with a clearer buzz and no/little body. If you want fruity nugs with dense spears, go a11. A13 has more indica influence (body buzz) with foxtail buds and a spicey funk.

They are both great, but not the same.

Princess and Genius if I remember correctly both came from seeds found in a bud of jack herer bought at a coffee shop. I know one was, but think it's both, not 100% sure my memory is correct on that though I know genius came from a jack herer seeded bud.

Apollo is great daytime smoke, either one. I wouldn't mind having both on deck.

Im voting for that! But it's a nighttime strain? I thought it was an all rounder..

No A13 is an all around strain it is not a knockout, make you go to bed buzz.

i think i'll be getting some third dimension (jack the ripper x A13) as it combines two strains i'm interested in and isn't named after a serial killer which really annoys me. it sounds like a really nice combo that should be trippier than A13 and pina colada sounds like an awesome flavor too.

i'd like to see how it compares to my favorite strain so far, jack's cleaner 2