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Over the past six years, Zkittlez has emblazoned its name across the cannabis landscape among the upper echelon of top-shelf cannabis. Now in development for two years, its premiere offspring Roz\u00e9 looks to follow mom\u2019s lead in finding its spot among the best cannabis genetics in the world.<\/p>\n
As always with the strains of folklore, we start with the parents. The aforementioned Zkittlez<\/a> is the king of Northern California right now. Obviously, the city folk may point to more popular urban cuts not developed on the hillsides of the Emerald Triangle<\/a>, but they\u2019ve had their chance. With those strains, early generations leaked a bit out into the wild and into the hands of less savvy cultivators, leading to mixed results. When it came to unexpected offspring, for every Gelato<\/a> #33 or Animal Cookies, there was a boatload of crap. To that extent, there were about eight kinds of Platinum Cookies floating around NorCal, all different, with varying degrees of quality.<\/p>\n That\u2019s where the Zkittlez story really starts; it\u2019s as much a story about preserving and protecting old-school genetics as it is about the quality of the pot. The genetics on the original Zkittlez is a mystery. Most important in the strain\u2019s origin story is the fact that Zkittlez is clone-only and was discovered originally by NorCal cultivator Gas Station Bob. Bob put it into the hands of the now famous 3rd Generation Family via cultivator Fieldz. Not long after he received it, Fieldz passed the cut on to Tony Mendocino who gave it to Brandon, also of 3rd Gen, in the spring of 2014.<\/p>\n Photo TC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When the team at 3rd Generation Family, also known as the Terp Hogz or Dying Breed Seeds, got their hands on the cut things really began to take off. They had already achieved notoriety with their signature Eddy Lepp OG, named for recently released pot POW, legendary large-scale cultivator and Cannabis Now contributor Eddy Lepp<\/a>, and took two Cannabis Cups for the effort in 2013. Little did they know the Zkittlez would launch things into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n Since getting their hands on the cut, every award possible has been awarded to this group of cultivators over the years, leading to great feats in modern cannabis. Last year, they won the Humboldt edition of The Secret Cup unopposed in the flower category. They also took home the prize for top oil<\/a> at The Secret Cup the past two years. These accolades, on top of numerous Emerald Cup and High Times Cannabis Cup wins and podium spots, cemented Zkittlez place at the top.<\/p>\n \u201cZkittlez was one of those holy grail cuts,\u201d Brandon of 3rd Gen told us, as we spoke on its rise. \u201cIt\u2019s like a Sour D, OG Kush or Cookies now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It makes sense then that kids from Zkittlez would also be nothing to balk at. According to Brandon, when Tony ran his first batch of Zkittlez indoor all those years ago, something happened. While not 100 percent clear, it\u2019s believed one of the Zkittlez plants became impregnated by another unknown strain in the room and a portion of the Zkittlez got seeded.<\/p>\n \u201cUltimately what happened was I went into the room, and it was the first time Zkittlez had been run indoor at all period, and I saw that it had some seeds in it,\u201d said Brandon. \u201cWe never really found out what dropped balls because there was no male. The seeds that I ran to get the Roz\u00e9 clone-only were all female renditions, meaning there was hermaphroditism in the room that made the seed.\u201d<\/p>\n Undeterred, Brandon grabbed a couple ounces for his head stash and picked out 48 seeds. In early 2015, he started popping those beans to stress test the genetics prior to the summer growing season. This allowed him to make sure he was working with something special and he quickly realized that was the case.<\/p>\n The cold nights of Mendocino in early spring proved he was working with some hearty genetics<\/a>, which are now obviously from a royal lineage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe put them through torture,\u201d Brandon said. \u201cI gave tallies to the ones that looked the strongest or smelled like something was really going on there. Sixteen phenotypes made it to the second round.\u201d<\/p>\n In that second round indoors, things really began to take shape. The 16 were grown out and their individual traits began to stand out more clearly.<\/p>\n The naming process began, and despite running alongside killers like Dirty Zprite and Zlasagna, the name Roz\u00e9 jumped to the head of the pack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe Roz\u00e9 was the most frosted and had purple hues to it,\u201d Brandon said of that second run \u2014 and it didn\u2019t hurt the selection process that it was producing quarter pound plants at this stage of the research either.<\/p>\n The most notable element that made this strain stand out was Roz\u00e9\u2019s unique terpene<\/a> profile. The light rose water aroma is where it got its name. Tony Mendocino pointed out that cultivators working to develop new lines of genetics often miss terpene profiles their nose may not be familiar with. Roz\u00e9 doesn\u2019t have that problem, the unique aroma isn\u2019t overpowering but clearly stands out.<\/p>\n The effect definitely had some body to it with a nice cerebral edge. It was a pleasure to wander one the world\u2019s premier cannabis events after loading up a backwoods with Roz\u00e9. It generally stood out as some of the best cannabis at Chalice this year along with its mom, Zkittlez, Mimosa #26 from the Jungle Boys<\/a> and Alien Labs\u2019 fantastic rendition of Wedding Cake.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not trying to put out some Fugazi story, I\u2019m all about the real deal truth,\u201d Brandon said, \u201cbut the fact of the matter is the Roz\u00e9 is special because I sorted through 50 different things to find something as different as it is. It\u2019s usually a couple thousand, it was a lucky grab.\u201d<\/p>\n He also has big plans for 3rd Gens\u2019 2017 releases and has called it the \u201cYear of the Melon.\u201d Keep an eye out for Gak Melon, Melon Ringz, Banana Pudding and the one we\u2019re most excited for: Strawberry Kiwi.<\/p>\n Breeder: 3rd Generation Family\/ Terp Hogz<\/strong><\/p>\n Grown by: 3rd Generation Family\/ Terp Hogz<\/strong><\/p>\n Type: Indica hybrid<\/strong><\/p>\n Genetics: Zkittlez x Mystery Hermaphrodite<\/strong><\/p>\n Flowering: 56 \u2013 63 days<\/strong><\/p>\n Yield: High<\/strong><\/p>\n Originally published in\u00a0Issue 28<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em>LEARN MORE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, have you tried Roz\u00e9? What do you think?<\/p>\n The post Roz\u00e9 All Day: A Strain Review of Zkittlez\u2019s Famed Offspring<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Over the past six years, Zkittlez has emblazoned its name across the cannabis landscape among the upper echelon of top-shelf cannabis. Now in development for two years, its premiere offspring Roz\u00e9 looks to follow mom\u2019s lead in finding its spot among the best cannabis genetics in the world. As alwaysContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25814,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4097,50,2649,1380,85,2629,4098,1268,107,2734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25815,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions\/25815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Roze](\"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roze-strain-review-marijuana-plant.jpg\")
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