One of our jobs here at the magazine is to search worldwide for elite marijuana strains and seeds, the absolute best available, seeds that grow like champs, yield big, give you unique, amazing highs, never go hermie.

We’ve tested hundreds of strains from more than 200 breeders, including ALL the heritage Dutch breeders, North American cannabis contest winners, and obscure breeders.

One of our happiest discoveries is Pure Breeding, based in New England, founded by a guy who calls himself Kyle.

We’ve now tested three of his strains. The first was New England Rock Candy, which you can read about here. Today, we report on two more phenomenal Pure Breeding strains: Key Lime Cheesecake and Snow Bound.

Key Lime Cheesecake (KLC) is a combination of New England Rock Candy (NERC) and Hazelnut Crème. Most growers will never have heard of these two strains, and their genetics are rare and valuable.

Because we’ve tested NERC before, we noticed early on that KLC had all the advantageous traits of NERC.

These include:

  • Fast grower with sturdy branches.
  • Takes well to topping, trimming, and training.
  • Thrived on 18 hours of at least 450 PPFD light intensity during grow phase and 12 hours of 900 PPFD intensity in bloom phase.
  • Heavy feeder and runs through water fast.
  • Floral development starting very early in bloom, with floral cluster rapidly filling in short internodes.
  • Resin gland development starts early.
  • High resin gland density.
  • Terp scent prominent by week three of bloom.
  • No sign of gray mold, even though buds are thick, dense, covered in resins.
  • No hermie traits.
  • Sweet, spicy dessert smell.
  • Big fat buds!

Here’s a photo of KLC 40 days into bloom…

Key Lime Cheesecake of course has a different terpenoid suite than its genetic crossing predecessors, although there were times during bloom when buds smelled like NERC buds. The overall scent includes hints of lime, lemon, cardamom, and cream pie. Delicious.

KLC’s resin glands stayed clear and bulbous until day 45 of bloom phase, then became amber and cloudy. Using selective harvesting, we found that optimum bloom phase duration is at least 54 days, with 58-62 as a sweet spot.

The average yield for our topped, sturdy plants that barely doubled in height at the start of bloom phase was slightly less than five ounces, which is fantastic for plants that were no taller than 42 inches.

Testing the high using a precision vaporizer set at 389°F, we noted extreme potency, likely in the 27-31% THC range.

You get 60-40 Indica and Sativa effects ratio, with a pain-relieving, soothing body high and a relaxing, contemplative head high. KLC’s high is soothing, dense, affirming, calming.

There were more leaves in the buds than we prefer, but not that many more, and buds dried and cured retain scent, gland sparkle, jar appeal.

As with NERC, this strain is remarkably phenotype consistent and gives guaranteed ample results.

Key Lime Cheesecake is a total winner!

Now let’s talk about Snow Bound. Our team has tested 59 strains this year and Snow Bound is in the top three.

It comes from genetics created by Kyle called Afghan Cherries, and another rare strain called Diesel Candy.

Snow Bound did very well in grow phase but stretched more than double at start of bloom phase and then took until about week four to show serious floral development.

In fact, we were worried that the strain might not be fire, because it took so long for floral clusters to gain size.

Around day 37 in bloom, however, bud development accelerated and pretty soon the buds developed into towering pyramid-shaped wedges of resin glands.

The strain lived up to its name with the buds glowing white, whiter than White Widow. Weird thing is, the resin glands were clear almost all the way to harvest. Usually, white strains have milky resin glands.

This strain loves light. We were pumping 1000-1100 PPFD from our SANlight LEDs and the terp scent coming off the buds was almost viscous, with cherry, cream, sugar, minor skunk, fuel scents that combined to be sweet and intoxicating.

At that PPFD, the plants were going through water and nutrients at a fast clip, and this was in a room without added C02!

This strain should be carefully managed to keep its height from exceeding your vertical space. Outdoors, it becomes a tree.

As noted earlier, the buds were like gooey resin pyramids thicker on two sides than the other two, to form wedges. The lack of leaves in the buds likely create the snowy glow look, and most of the bud development took place from day 40 until harvest day.

We’ve explained before why flushing (withholding nutrients at end of bloom phase) isn’t a good idea, and with strains like Snow Bound that put on most of their weight in the last half of bloom, it’s especially a bad idea.

There seemed to be two phenotypes, one a little shorter with less bloom phase stretch, and the other taller, like a near-pure Sativa.

Both versions have the same terp scent and bud development protocol, as well as sturdy branches and vigorous growth rate.

Yield was very good, in part because some of the plants grew to 57 inches high and buds filled in on much of each long branch, averaging four and a quarter ounces per plant, with some yielding a lot more than that!

These buds cure to become whitish wedges of resin, and don’t look like 99% of other cannabis buds. Very impressive and marketable.

The ideal harvest timing for Snow Bound is 58-65 days. The earliest harvest date produced a very clear, almost-psychedelic high, very Diesel-y. The 65-day harvest date gave us the same intense head high, but with a moderate body high, probably a function of Afghani influences.

For both these strains, the high is ceiling-less (meaning you can keep inhaling and get higher and higher), but Snow Bound is much more stimulating than the Key Lime, great for parties, concerts, and movement activities like sports or yoga.

This is jet fuel weed. One of our team members, a seasoned consumer who scoffs even at dabs, combusted about a gram of goo-covered Snow Bound in a tall bong all at once and experienced what he called a “heart racer.”

A “heart racer,” as he described it, is when you get so high so fast it’s like suddenly going into zero gravity—your heart pumps super fast for a few seconds before your mind realizes you’re not in zero gravity.

Also note…this high starts immediately, last a long time, doesn’t leave you burnt out or produce a ludicrous obesity-creating munchies attack.

Growers are glad to hear these two strains tolerate hot temperatures well, did not develop gray mold, powdery mildew, or attract any pests like mites.

Kyle is likely the real-life inspiration for one of those dangerous but fun, mysterious New England characters in the Dennis LeHane (author of Shutter Island) Boston crime novel series, so you never know how long he will be breeding this fine cannabis.

That’s why I recommend you stock up on his strains now. You can’t find his genetics anywhere else, not even their precursors. Kyle might retire, or retire strains, and you’d miss out.

We don’t give praise lightly here, and unlike other marijuana magazines, nobody bribes us to write good things. The only time we say good things about cannabis seeds is when we’re sure a marijuana strain is worthy of your time and money because it gives you heavy harvests, reliable growing experiences, and amazing, unicorn highs.

Pure Breeding is pure fire, and it’s time for you to catch that flame by getting Kyle’s seeds as soon as possible.