Cali. Connect - Original Sour Diesel = decent, but nothing like it should be. More fruity og leaning.
Just ran 5 Reserva Privada - Sour Diesel and the three taller phenos had very similar smells to the real sour diesel. I over-fed them and let them go way too long (12+ weeks).
Next run I'm going to pamper them and get a real nice clean finish and only plan to let them go 10 weeks. I noticed the smells really diminished the longer I let them go.
The lessor phenos remind me of Cali. Connect Buddha Tahoe, which I just really don't enjoy the taste or smell of.
@Motarebel, does the 12 week flower vary greatly, or do you think the phenos I have that lean towards 10ish are bunk? They grew really weird, almost like a calyxed out sativa version of Cheese, if you know what I mean... the hairs never really stuck out much, they seemed to grow with the nugs and very tips sticking out stay white until around week 10... I way over-fed them, so I imagine they will finish by week 10 on the re-run.
I think there being a super fine line between all these Sour, Chem, OG, etc. and the wide variety of phenos from different companies, makes it all about the hunt.
Just ran 4 Cali. Connect - Chemdog 91 sk va and found a real promising, super frosty and chunky shorter pheno. I made the same mistakes with these as I did with the Sours, so round two should be promising.
My friend grew some super frosty, but crappy tasting Bubblegum, and then grew some Cali. Connect Chemdog #4, and it was FLAME. It was probably 80% exact taste as the real Sour should be, but every so slightly less loud and with an extra hint of lemon. He didn't pheno hunt or keep any cuts, and only grew it once, so I think there is some major potential with Cali. Connect if you are willing to pheno hunt.
I have a pack of Loud - Sour that I need to run soon here as well as a pack of T.H. Seeds - Sage 'n' Sour... I heard real good things about Loud 7/8 Sour, and don't see why it wouldn't be even more dank.
Adam Dunn has a cool enough show for me to have some hope in his seeds, trying their Dawg Star soon as well! Friend of mine grew some Darkstar a while back and it was like a mix of Sour Diesel with the inside of some funky tire air.