Peanut Butter Breath Feminized Seeds

Peanut Butter Breath strain: the short version

Peanut Butter Breath comes out of the Do-Si-Dos and Mendo Breath family, and it is one of the few strains that smells like its name. Savoury and nutty instead of sweet.

The problem with the original, for most of Canada, is the calendar. It runs late outdoors.

What Atlas changed

Atlas Seed took their favourite Peanut Butter Breath cut and crossed it with Cotton Candy, the autoflower they call their workhorse. They are clear about why. Cotton Candy brings fast flowering and mold resistance. The Mendo Breath side of Peanut Butter Breath already leans toward an earlier finish.

The result is what Atlas calls semi-full term. It is still a photoperiod plant, but a quick one. Their number: sown in mid May, it finishes in mid September.

What it smells like

Atlas describes the nose as nutty, with a forest floor aroma and a rich herbal overtone. They say the smoke is similar. Cotton Candy adds what Atlas calls sugary fuel to the flowers.

Effects

Atlas does not publish a THC figure for this cross, so this is about how it smokes. It comes from the Do-Si-Dos family, and the usual description is a calm, heavy body feel that builds over the first half hour while the head stays fairly clear. The savoury, nutty flavour lingers. Most growers keep it for evenings, with a small bowl on a slow afternoon.

Flowering, harvest and cure

Atlas calls this semi-full term, so it finishes ahead of a classic Peanut Butter Breath but behind an autoflower. The label gives about 9 weeks of flowering. In late flower the buds stack into tight, frosty clusters and the nutty smell comes up whenever you brush the plant. Cut by trichomes under a loupe: mostly cloudy heads with a few amber, and pistils that have curled in and darkened. Dry slowly in a cool room with steady airflow, then jar and open the jars daily for the first week.

Growing Peanut Butter Breath in Canada

Start seeds indoors in late April or early May and plant out after the last frost, usually late May in southern Canada. Flowering begins as the days shorten in August, and the breeder's own figure is mid September from a mid May sowing. On the Prairies an early frost can cut that close, so a tunnel or a tent run is safer. In Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes, September humidity is the thing to plan for: space the plants wide and strip lower growth so tight buds can dry after dew.

Peanut Butter Breath outdoor calendar for Canadian cities

Peanut Butter Breath is a photoperiod plant, so outdoors it starts flowering in early August, when the nights get longer. Add its 9 to 9 weeks of flowering and you get the harvest window below.

Dates use typical frost dates for each city and shift a week or two with the year, so check your local forecast before planting out and in late September.

Who Peanut Butter Breath suits

Anyone with a short outdoor season who still wants a photoperiod plant, and tent growers who like to pick the flip date. A good fit for a sunny backyard in the south, less so for a very low closet. Give it a bigger pot than you think you need, since a plant started in May has the whole summer to fill it, and keep a notebook of your own flip and harvest dates for next year.

Similar strains at The Seed Pharm

If you like Peanut Butter Breath, these are worth a look.

• Gelato 41 Feminized Seeds, a cookie-family dessert plant with a similar slow, heavy finish.
• Girl Scout Cookies Feminized Seeds, the cookie lineage behind Do-Si-Dos.
• Lemon Cherry Gelato Feminized Seeds, another gelato-leaning photoperiod with dense buds.