Clones
Zion Train Clone Mother
This heavy hitter comes out the gate swinging, with a frost development second to none. She can be harvested anywhere between 45-65 days of flower, if you keep her healthy and running without stunting her growth, but good things come to those who wait. She doesn’t need heavy feeding, but can take it. A prolific cloner, she can also be revegged with ease.
The smoke is heavenly in taste, smell, and effect. She starts off with the most pure lemon lime kick I’ve seen after running 15 commercial cannabis farms, but if you let her finish into 55 days of flower and beyond, she comes in with the stank. Gas, skunk, and a bit of fuel, with a creaminess to take the edge off. She tests consistently over 4% terpenes by weight and if you grow her properly, she will be a 6% dumper. Cure is very important with these volatile terps that evaporate quickly, but even sub par finishing conditions she produces extremely good smelling product.
History Of The Cut
Zion Train is Mount Zion Seed Cooperatives greatest creation we’ve saved as a clone. This is a small part of her story.
In 2019 we had a 6 month window with our own license, unlimited plants, and a lot of seeds to play with. We open pollinated our entire clone library, making the now legendary selection “Oklahoma Open Pollination”.
Oklahoma pulled the rug out from under us, and so we took our seeds to other farms, and while we grew as contract labor, we hunted as much as we could. We found the Zion Train on one of the most dishonorable operations we have ever worked with, and she’s repaid us 10 fold for the sacrifices we made working with thieves.
We hunted her out of a few thousand seeds in less than 20, 10 gallon bags, in some 4×8 tents. Humble beginnings.
When I smelled her tiny little nug, I knew I had found my girl. She was the perfect genetic combination to express my one favorite terpene profiles, while being incredibly strong. I revegged the seedling for 4 months before she fully came back to cloning potential, and as we were betrayed by our partners, she was ready to move on with us. There were so many incredible sister plants we left behind, and over the years she has proved to have been the cream of the crop we thought her to be.
Since then we have only flowered her on one commercial farm, on one greenhouse run, and they were not allowed to take a clone. That run was the only time I have seen her in all her sensemilla glory. On that farm we were working for pig farmers, and they gave the new pigs a better environment than my beautiful creation. Because of this she was put through hell, the worst of stress tests. With no gravel and just dirt floors in a 30×90 greenhouse, sitting on pallets, they went through extreme humidity, powdery mildew, mites of every kind, hot and cold temps, and wind burn. Overwatering and underwatering, she stayed healthy. Of the 1200 plants of 40 types, the Zion Train clones were the first out the gate to flower, the most mold resistant to every kind of mold and mildew and fungus. They were the last to succumb to the mites, and had no herm despite the light timers malfunctioning multiple times. While many of my other genetics took a beating, she stood strong and showed her dominance.
From there I bred her twice for sale, once with 5 different males we would have had to cull from the same farm, and once with a male son of hers from a cross with papaya sorbet. Both crosses turned out as desirable as the mother, but with more variety. When she breeds, she throws all kinds of rare cultivars, but the lemon lime power stays consistent through all the variety on more than 90% of the crosses. We a few hundred of both those cultivars we had made, into a 10,000 plant open pollination in 2021. I was able to see her lineage en mass, and I was pleased as could be. A few select females from those plants became the “Zion Train Grex” some of you may have grown.
Besides those I’ve only throw pollen on her a handful of times over the last 4 years, on small family runs in the backyard.
When I left Oklahoma in 2021 for Virginia, I spread her seeds all over, and she provided for our family in our poverty. We took her to one farm out east and she vegged patiently. The relationship didn’t last so she came home with us once again, having never been shown to the heathens who couldn’t work together long enough to know what we had. Thankfully the grower on that farm took care of her, and she was vegged quietly until now.
I’ve had nugs of her children brought to me by a handful of incredible growers, and seen her bred by some of the best. While I offer to the world willingly, and I have no illusions to the fact that once you pay me for her and I give her out, I have no control over what you do with her.
Still, I ask she be primarily utilized for home breeding. She is truly a keeper cut, a breeder, and I don’t want to see her mass produced for profit, by people whose god is money. I could have gotten rich mass producing her long ago, but I sacrificed that to send her genetics all over. Please, do the same, and reap the karma that is priceless.
There are a host of other unique qualities she has, like throwing offspring that tests 4-6% terpenes consistently, and a zero stretch when switched to flowering. I’m at a moment where I feel I need to release her, and I hope the price I’m asking isn’t too high. If we were growing in our own facility, on our own land, she would be free to the world. She represents the divine feminine to me, treat her well and watch her bless your life.
