AVL - AKA Melt Your Face Lime
By Seth Crawford
AVL = Auto Varin Lime.
I like to use three distinguishing characteristics for my acronyms. (ERB = Early Resin Berry, SSA = Seth’s Sour Auto, etc.). Originally, this was a cross of our commercial SSA line (pollen donor of all our “sour CBD” varieties) to a CBGV inbred line we developed. Because the CBGV line was heterozygous for auto flowering, 50% of the resulting seeds were auto.
We grew out a bunch, about a thousand in 2021, and kept over 500 that were day neutral for further evaluation and inbreeding. I ended up keeping between 8-10 different lines and selfing each.
These represent different chemotype goals from the same initial F1 population: I made separate CBD dominant autos, CBDV dominant autos, CBGV dominant autos, and this pure CBG line. We subjected the pure CBG line to intensive flavor / aroma analysis in 2021 and 2022 in our internal sensory panel (10 of us, working with UTennessee professor), working to identify all the non-terpene compounds that make it sing: it’s nickname became “Melt Your Face Lime” and its flavor is driven by a compound called para-cymen (like a monoterpene, but actually alkylbenzene—over my pay grade).
The AVL line represents—to me—the pinnacle of day neutral traits: super strong aroma, distinctly large in stature (consistently 5 feet tall in 10g pots), and a prolific producer of massive, dense flowers.
Because the pollen donor is a type IV (CBG dominant plant), the F1s we are selling will contain about 2-3% CBGA by weight (or roughly 10-15% of the total cannabinoid fraction)—that’s the key to anti-anxiety in effect.
AVL = Auto Varin Lime.
I like to use three distinguishing characteristics for my acronyms. (ERB = Early Resin Berry, SSA = Seth’s Sour Auto, etc.). Originally, this was a cross of our commercial SSA line (pollen donor of all our “sour CBD” varieties) to a CBGV inbred line we developed. Because the CBGV line was heterozygous for auto flowering, 50% of the resulting seeds were auto.
We grew out a bunch, about a thousand in 2021, and kept over 500 that were day neutral for further evaluation and inbreeding. I ended up keeping between 8-10 different lines and selfing each.
These represent different chemotype goals from the same initial F1 population: I made separate CBD dominant autos, CBDV dominant autos, CBGV dominant autos, and this pure CBG line. We subjected the pure CBG line to intensive flavor / aroma analysis in 2021 and 2022 in our internal sensory panel (10 of us, working with UTennessee professor), working to identify all the non-terpene compounds that make it sing: it’s nickname became “Melt Your Face Lime” and its flavor is driven by a compound called para-cymen (like a monoterpene, but actually alkylbenzene—over my pay grade).
The AVL line represents—to me—the pinnacle of day neutral traits: super strong aroma, distinctly large in stature (consistently 5 feet tall in 10g pots), and a prolific producer of massive, dense flowers.
Because the pollen donor is a type IV (CBG dominant plant), the F1s we are selling will contain about 2-3% CBGA by weight (or roughly 10-15% of the total cannabinoid fraction)—that’s the key to anti-anxiety in effect.
