BONKERS
Our Bonkers strain is fast becoming a favorite here, indoors and outdoors. Originally bred as an outdoor strain on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. This strain encompasses many of the main goals in selecting an ultimate plant. The resin is astounding on the strain and is on all the leaves, even the fan leaves. It’s a hash producers dream. You can use the whole plant with no waste.
The flavour is a real standout, very strong sour fruity smell. Beautiful blend with a hint of its parentage in its aroma. The sweet and fruity smells come from the Burmese and Grapefruit genes. With the strong sour and skunky smells from my *Manitoba Outdoor #22.(Purple Indica/Ruderalis)
For the past 5 years, we have selectively bred this new hybrid in an attempt, to stabilize our favorite plant features. Big yields are a must in breeding an ultimate plant and this one has what it takes to fill the bags. Even the lower branches are big and chuncky with fist size buds. Some more selection is needed in the future in the means of bud density, 20-30% of plants lack enough bud density for my liking but they make up for it in size and resin content.
The Bonkers has some auto flowering characteristics that come out if plants are grown in containers or are root bound at all. It can be difficult for the inexperienced grower, to keep a mother in vegetation for a long time.
Just remember if you want to keep it in vegetation for a mom or till the next outdoor season. You need to keep its nitrogen levels up and cut the tips that auto flower off so that other nodes shoot up. Sometimes it is easier to clone the fresh tips and grow these till another round of fresh tips come from these rooted clone plants. Clones easily, it’s a softer tissue plant that roots without a problem.
The last year we have been growing a few rounds of Bonkers indoors with amazing results. Very fast flowering, it’s done in a 6 week bud cycle and the buds are huge. Two liter pop bottle size in 6 weeks is amazing! And, all the sugar leaves make a lot of hash! Excellent for the sea of green growers who want football sized buds on a stick.
In the future generation of breeding, this plant will be selected for more density. Another trait that I will be working on is its leafiness. This strain is leafier than a lot of other strains with more, smaller sugar leaves. My theory however is that the abundance of these smaller leaves provides direct energy to the buds creating larger buds in return.
The Bonkers seeds we sell now (2005) are an F4 selection and they are becoming quite homogenous. Most plants all have the same smell, structure and finishing time. Small differences in height still show up but it is not a very big difference.
