As mentioned in a previous review, Blue Dream was the first strain I started asking for by name. After sampling the strain again for the first time in years, I decided I wanted to grow Blue Dream for the younger stoner I used to be who knew nothing about genetics or strain names. A short time after, synchronicity struck when I met at NECAAN Colorado Seed Inc. owner, Peter Schweda, who donated Blue Dream crosses to our A Friend Indeed program and sponsored a Blue Dream clone for my grow journal.

Blue Dream is sativa-leaning hybrid cross of Blueberry and Haze. Once transplanted, the Blue Dream grew thick fan leaves and reacted well to topping. During the grow, I used Nectar for the Gods nutrient line, SLF-100, Fishshit, and Cultured Biologix no-brew microbial teas (all sponsored by The Apple House in Terre Haute). The plant grew symmetrically throughout vegetation and was receptive to a lot of branch bending and training. After flipping to flower under a BlackBird light sponsored by HLG, the Blue Dream grew thinner leaves and became much bushier, needing trimmed a few times.

With all fruit-names strains, as suggested by Founder of Nectar for the Gods, Scott Ostrander, on The OCGFAM Show, I pushed the Pegasus and Triton nutrients to bring out the fruit terpenes, but overall, the plant didn’t need as much nutrients as the other plants in the tent. The Blue Dream delivered a sweet blueberry aroma during flowering with a stem rub that leaned more toward a funky skunk haze. Without much stretch in the first three weeks, buds transitioned from green to slightly darker green and eventually developed a healthy coat of milky trichomes. The colas were long, thin, and pointed at the top.

I chopped the plant 61 days into flowering. I lightly trimmed the largest leaves and placed the colas on one shelf and the rest of the buds on another shelf inside my Cool Cure to dry. Because this plant ripened faster than the others in the tent, with the Cool Cure, I dried the buds in four days, trimmed, and bagged them in Grove Bags, so I could start a new dry cycle for the other plants. The one benefit of using the Cool Cure has totally changed my grow and allowed me to better manage the different chop date for four different strains, which I just could not do before. The yield was about average for what I grow, and the buds were a little difficult to trim with the thin leaves protruding from the buds.

Stay tuned to News Joint Grow Journal for Blue Dream Part 2, in which I review the final product, my one non-sativa strain, Icy Grape by Copa Genetics. For Illinois cannabis industry news, subscribe to Illinois News Joint’s newsletter here.

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