rs11 & zoap: the original cut
🌱 emerald cup spark:
the story starts at emerald cup. deo farms stood in line at one of the most active booths and bought third-gen o.z. kush, roughly twelve packs at about $500 each. around 120 seeds went straight into a long-hunt mindset.
🍈 the #40 moment:
popping o.z. kush revealed an instant standout. pheno #40 hit loud, compared to kern’s pink guava juice. keeper energy from day one and the flavor compass for everything that followed.
🧬 male selection with intent:
males were flowered and judged on structure. male #55 rose to the top, with two other males kept in play. not guessing, not gambling. better odds through selection.
🌸 pink guava f2s:
o.z. kush was pushed into f2s, which deo farms labeled pink guava. about 100 were run, then select males were chosen to move the line forward with intention.
🌅 rs is born:
pink guava males hit the original sunset sherbert, creating the rs f1 generation. this is where foundation phenos surfaced: rs11, rs54 (studio 54), plus siblings like #16, #40, and #19 jelly roll.
🧙 wizard trees selection:
@wizard_trees had the same original rainbow sherbert seed stock referenced by deo farms and ran a parallel hunt that locked in keepers. #54 and #11 emerged as standouts, with #11 widely understood as the rs11 keeper.
📦 doja makes it public:
doja pak (@let_ryan_live) became the exposure catalyst, taking rs11 from quiet tester circulation into wider visibility through curated drops. this release wave is the inflection point most people cite when rs11 took off across california.
🧼 the zoap pivot:
rs #16, a candy sherbert-leaning female, was the receiver to create rs f2s. from that run came zoap, final #21. zoap later became the receiver for rs f3 work, with each era archived for future releases.
📦 viral then diluted:
@let_ryan_live rs11 hit the streets fast. reports at the time put zips around $600. as larger facilities scaled it, quality thinned. the original cut remains straight candy sherb pressure. real ones know the difference.
🏆 zoap co-sign:
zoap, credited to deo farms × wizard trees, took best overall, 1st place at the 2022 california zalympix.
real cut. real candy fruit sherb pressure. real history. everything else is just volume.
- @nuggnotes 🪴
Just got back from Florida… apparently anything that’s not top shelf indoor (or Za as they say) is mids…
So any outdoor and greenhouse/deps is Mids. lol
They don’t know the difference btwn Light Assist and indoor, so those can pass as ins too. 🤣🤣
In the early 2000 you had Mexican brick aka C’s with lots of seeds, Arizona Mids were B’s with very few seeds , and then you had chronic or A’s with no seeds at first from British Columbia, then from Cali.
A few runs ago I did a pheno hunt,
Mainly Moonbow and Moonglow seeds from Archive plus a few other strains… I only had 3 plants per pheno, and I put 9 plants per light… one of the Moonbow pheno, one Moonglow pheno, and a bag seed of Zoap each did about half pound a plant.
So if I had 9 plants of each pheno in that run I would have close to 5.5lb/light…
Some other phenos would have been in the 4lb avg, some in the 3lb avg…
Must add that I use Under Canopy lights from Craft Farmer…
I kept the Moonbow and Moonglow but didn’t get close to those numbers in the next run…
My first good run with UC, last year, I got 4lb/light with RS11, and 3lb a light with Rainbow belts, and 2lb a light with galactic Runtz …