Schrom Feminised

Crack a properly cured jar of Schrom and limonene arrives first — that is the compound doing most of the aromatic work here, carried by terpinolene and rounded off with pinene. Terpene expression is not fixed at the genetic level; it is something you either preserve or destroy in the last fortnight and the dry. This page is about keeping it.

Terpenes are volatile. That single fact explains almost every flavour disappointment growers report.

Late flower. Heat drives off the lighter aromatic compounds, so the last fortnight wants cooler nights rather than a push for size. Growers chasing the final few grams routinely trade away the thing that made the strain worth growing.

The dry. This is where most of the loss happens. Slow and cool, over a couple of weeks, in the dark, with air moving but never blowing on the flower. Fast drying strips limonene first, and it does not come back.

The cure. Sealed glass, opened daily at first, held somewhere stable. Terpinolene and Pinene tend to surface over the following month as the harsher volatiles clear.

Everything above matters more than any bottled additive claiming to boost flavour. If aroma is your priority, the sativa seeds range is where to browse the rest.

Effect descriptions are the least reliable part of any seed listing, this one included. What is defensible: this is a 20/80 sativa at 18% THC, commonly described as happy, relaxed, uplifted, with limonene leading the terpene profile.

What is not defensible is any promise about how it will feel for you. Dose, tolerance, setting and the phenotype you happen to pop all move the outcome more than the strain name does.

Growing a few and selecting the keeper is the only way to know. That is what a pack of feminised seeds is for.

Limonene leads, terpinolene sits behind it, and pinene runs underneath.

Aroma is not fixed at harvest — it develops. Fresh flower leads hard with limonene; three or four weeks in sealed glass at a stable 16 to 18 degrees lets terpinolene and pinene come forward as the sharper volatiles clear. Jars opened at week one and week five smell like different plants.

Schrom is rated beginner to intermediate. That makes it a reasonable first grow — it survives inconsistent watering and imprecise feeding without collapsing, which is what a first season mostly consists of. Being a photoperiod means you decide when it flowers, and therefore how big it gets.

Shipped nationwide in plain packaging. Every strain page carries whatever grow data we could actually source, and nothing we could not.

• Finishes in 65-75 days
• Under lights: 450 g/m²
• Grown out: up to 450 g/plant
• Height: 90-120 cm. Medium
• Difficulty: beginner to intermediate