Sorry Stan, I was thinking....
It doesn't makes completely sense what I will say but cheese wasn't a specific pheno of skunk #1? Budda cheese I understood crossed the original cut with something else ( Afghan maybe?).
Livers are not also originally phenotype of Skunk? What's actually distinguish cheese from livers?
The same skunk brought from US to NL and further developed there.
Amnesia also is not an US imported cut which at least me, I know better for the amnesia Haze ( from Nevil Haze).
Bubblegum also wasn't first created in the US from a plant coming from India? Or something similar.
Sorry I am just curious about the origines and history behind several legendary strains. And also I have to admit as EU that US before of any legalisation created some astonishing strain.
Actually this message doesn't make sense
I am also very curious about Spain scene and how they are expanding and improving the quality...
I think you misread my comment. I said Amnesia, bubblegum, and Livers were EU cultivars not US.
Our Northern Cheese Haze is Exodus Cheese.
The Blues in our Livers is believed to be a Skunk #1, but this is a regional strain going back almost 20 years now so the history is a bit muddied. See Livers bx strain description.
Livers Bx1 is the culmination of more than 10 years of work and over 12 generations of breeding. Our aim was to make the Livers autoflower more like the original Livers photoperiod by crossing it a second time with the photoperiod and breeding it out until F4, locking in the genetics to create the purest strain in our catalogue to date, ensuring the best consistency, highest potency and greater flavour. History The idea to create this auto strain dates back to before Mephisto was founded, circa 2008, when Mitch and Tim were living and growing together and pondering on how to make autoflowers contain higher THC levels and more delicious flavours. This would start with taking the best cutting we had available to us, 'The Blues' a cutting which was the city's commercial growers bread and butter, and also the generic name or gold standard of quality weed. It dates back to the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, believed to be a variant of Skunk no.1. The Livers was a sister cutting to 'The Blues,' very similar in growth patterns and structure but more intense all-around and way funkier. We would get our hands on this some years later. At this point we were only playing around with early autos, crossing them with other autos to improve upon what was available and explore the variations in the lines we were making, this work also served to create a stable of automatics for the future use in breeding projects. It began with the autoflower parent we called auto purple indica, we crossed that into the blues photoperiod, and four generations later, Auto Blues was born. This was one of the very first automatics we had bred completely from scratch and was so successful we have been using the same methods ever since. When we acquired the Livers cutting, we outcrossed it to our Auto Blues, to create Auto Livers, which was a big improvement of the Auto Blues, but we wanted to refine it and improve upon it even further, crossing it again to the Auto Livers, and working it back to auto in the subsequent four generations. Crossing with Auto Livers now at F4 has completely stabilised the amazing genetics meaning fewer phenotype splits and more continuity between plants.
The Livers is anothe region strain.
The Livers' is an old school cutting that has been kept alive and spread mostly between growers in the North of England since at least the early 90's, the reason being simple: it's incredible as both a commercial producer and as a high quality top shelf head-stash variety. Strains come and go over time, but there's definitely a reason cuttings from this era are still doing the rounds; the Exodus Cheese, Psychosis and Northern lights to name but a few. The only slight downside, if you can even call it that, of the cutting is the intense level of aroma, which is very distinct but delicious. The catch 22 is that often it's impossible to sell any flowers in those areas that aren't this strain because it's all people want and love, but due to the aforementioned odor level it has been referred to as 'prison weed'- but have a good filter and no problemo. It definitely sets the bar for high quality dope.
