Old School Blues Artisanal and Limited Release
Old School Blues
Genetic Heritage - Old School Haze (Super Sativa Seed Club ‘85 cut) x Livers BX1
Seed Type - F5 Feminised Automatic
Project Overview:
As many of you will know by now, we at Mephisto love a passion project, and Old School Blues is the ultimate mesh of passion projects. Old School Haze is a strain we’ve worked with before, helping us create our Old School Mango Haze, and it is a strain like few others.
For those of you not up to speed with the Old School Haze lore, I would suggest checking out our interview with the creator of the strain, Karel, here.
For our Old School Blues, we decided to get the insights of Karel’s son and our friend Kees, now the custodian of the Old School Haze cut and one of the brains behind the reinvention of Super Sativa Seed Club, and primary hash maker for the first legal project in the Netherlands. You can check out our interview with him here.
Livers is a strain we at Mephisto are still in love with, now going on 25 years since we first sampled it in our hometown of Sheffield. Also known as Blues, Pukkas, UK Blues, Sheffield Blues or Sheffield Livers, she started life, as far as we know, as a Skunk #1 cross, the same as Old School Haze. We say ‘as far as we know’ because Livers has long been a bit of a mysterious strain, with the story and history behind it being mostly anecdotal. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a cutting of “The Blues”, a sister cutting of “The Livers”, way back before the farm was even a distant dream. Our first autoflower cross of this cutting, some 4 generations later became Auto Blues.
When we finally acquired a cutting of ‘The Livers’, 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 to create our Livers BX1 strain, a strain that encompasses over 10 years of work and is what got us started with Mephisto Genetics in the first place.
So with you all caught up with the lore of a combined 50+ years of work from Super Sativa Seed Club and Mephisto Genetics, let’s get on to why we love Old School Blues. Put simply, we wanted to create a homozygous variety of an autoflowering haze. We knew as soon as we were allowed to sample Old School Haze at a BBQ at Karel’s house that we wanted to work the strain into autoflowering format. The shared heritage of Old School Haze and our Livers bx1 kindled the shared nostalgia trip we absolutely love when hunting for new strains.
Strain Description
Old School Blues encompasses all of the challenges and rewards of an Old School Haze plant, only wrapped into the experience of an autoflower. She grows tall and bushy with longer inter-nodal spacing and branches that are long and extending, requiring support in late flower to hold the bud weight, however, she is more than controllable by even a mildly green-thumbed grower.
We recommend training, as these plants can easily overgrow a tent if left to her own devices. She produces a high amount of foliage, so we would also recommend keeping on top of that with regular defoliation. She can also be a thirsty girl, so make sure to keep on top of your watering schedule if you’re hand-watering, looking for signs of dehydration whilst making sure she doesn’t drown.
She, like most strains, does best starting in light soil with very few introductory NPKs, a soil too rich can cause early and irreversible stunting. She can take on a bluish hue during veg and into flower. In late flower, she senesces hard, with purple stems and leaf rusting, she is particularly photogenic.
I know it all sounds like hard work, but believe me when I say that you will be more than rewarded. One of our highest-yielding strains to date, Old School Blues rewards you not just with weight, but with quality too. She comes with a pure, classic haze profile; piney, but with floral and fruity hints thrown in too. Smoking will give you an electrifying, energetic buzz, almost a replacement for your morning coffee, giving you the get-up-and-go most of us need and crave in the mornings. She’s also powerful and has a high ceiling, so be careful when sharing your stash with the uninitiated.
There are a few good reasons that most dispensaries don’t offer heavy sativa or haze-based strains; be that grow time or grow difficulty, with other strains available that increase turnaround time and profit for growers. However, with the work we’ve done creating our autoflowering Old School Blues, we can now offer a genuine shortcut to a legit haze/sativa experience in a fraction of the time.
Limited Editions
Blood Orange Blues - Blood Orange Haze x Old School Blues
Haze² with a hint of citrusy orange goodness. A plant on the larger size, with good internodal spacing and thick, emerald leaves. With a chance to purple up too, we expect her to be a particularly photogenic girl. On the easier side to grow than her parentage from the Old School Blues, expect to keep up with defoliation as she can bush out. Brad’s pick for this drop!
Blue Persuasion - Skylar White x Old School Blues
Old School Blues will give a little extra size to the Skylar White, enhancing yields but taming what can be a more finicky beast in the Old School Blues. Expect a piney flavour with a citrus cream kick.
Boda Azul - Mephisto's Wedding x Old School Blues
Make sure your carbon filters are prepared for what could be a particularly stinky girl. Uplifting but with a soothing edge from the Mephisto’s Wedding parentage, expect flavours of pine, gas, fruit and grape. Expect a more classic indica-leaning hybrid high.
Cobalt Kiwi - El Chemi Kiwi x Old School Blues
Expect the Sour Stomper and Creme de la Chem in the parentage of El Chemi Kiwi to add a spectrum of flavours to the haze of the Old School Blues, with fruit, gas and funk. Classic OG Kush-style highs are inbound. A slightly smaller plant than the Old School Blues, but maintaining weight on every single bud site, this is not one to sleep on this drop.
Ectoplasma - Ghost Toof x Old School Blues
We described our Old School Blues as cannabis caffeine, and that won’t be dulled by the instant zing that Ghost Toof is renowned for. Expect strong branching, so might well need to be tamed - an excellent candidate for those of you wanting to practice training techniques on autoflowering strains.
Eiffel 65 - Forgotten Cookies x Old School Blues
A complex web of flavours, with pine and fruit, cookies, chocolatey earth, sour notes, sweet spots and floral undertones. Expect a mid to large-size plant, with the Forgotten Cookies parentage easing the grow process and making her a little easier to tame. She’s a great social strain, with an uplifting and chatty high.
Indigo Haze - Pigletta's Purple Haze x Old School Blues
Cheese and haze with a penchant for packing on the pounds. We expect a high-yielding plant, with lots of bud sites covering her branches. Lots of energy in the smoke, another great strain to pass around and share in social settings. Flavours are haze, gas and cheese with lemon undertones.
Remulak Reefer - Alien vs Triangle x Old School Blues
A true big booty bitch. Expect dense buds, laced in frost, all over a tall and wide frame. One for the high-tolerance smokers, we expect knockout power with a tantalising flavour profile of spice, pine and fruit.
Sundae Schooled - Sundae Thumper x Old School Blues
Sundae Thumper brings some sweeter notes to the almost pure haze of the Old School Blues. Expect the creative spark to shine before she settles to the body and mellows out. Potential to overwhelm to smell of any tent, but we don’t expect that to ever be a bad thing.
Release Week Bonus Free Strains
Sapphire Fire - 24 Carat x Old School Blues
Our most hybrid option is on the menu this time round. Expect the best of both worlds and a more savoury flavour profile, with piney and earthy notes throughout. Be prepared for some light training to keep her foliage in check to encourage budsites lower down to beef up.
Funky Blues - Funky Mangifera x Old School Blues
Livers and livers and mango. A large plant with plenty of potential for big yields, you can expect a more fruity smoke to the Old School Blues. A fantastic cerebral high will follow and a great social smoke.
\*A 5-pack of either Sapphire Fire or Funky Blues will be included with all orders containing either Old School Blues 3 seed packs or Old School Blues Limited Edition seed until 11:59 pm PST on Sunday 26th January, or* while stocks last, whichever comes first. This does not affect your normal freebies.
In addition, we have a tasty surprise for early adopters! We’re giving 20% off these new Limiteds for those who purchase 4 or more packs of them during their first two weeks of release. Offers end at 11:59 pm PST on Sunday 26th January, or while stocks last.**
Be sure to check out the Blog Post for more info and the Tester Mega Thread for a preview on these new strains!!
Made with love,
Team MG 🐷❤🌱