Is the White Widow that Nirvana supply a pure Indica? This will settle a long running argument with a friend who grew it and was adamant that it was a pure Indica, although I thought the leaves looked alot slimmer than a Nirvana Northern Lights that he had next to them. This made me think that they were Sativa along the line maybe. Anyone shed any light on this?

I grew it out and had two basic phenos, an indica dominant pheno that yielded less, and a buzzier sativa dominant phenotype. Physically, it looks like a hybrid, imho.
Genetically, it is definitely not a pure indica, its a cross between a Brazilian Sativa and a South Indian Indica (someone told me Kerala...)

Perhaps this helps?

Nope.



How's that?

Thank you for that.

Incidentally, the Nirvana WW is an F2 Widow.

F2 seed yields a lot more varied phenotypes than F1 generation.

WW is a sativa dominant strain, but you will find some plants with phenotypes leaning on the sativa side and others leaning on the indica side.

That's not to say they're bad necessarily... sometimes a freak phenotype F2 kept as a mother can be quite wonderful. It's probably better to go for F1 or stable seed if you are not growing from clones though

If you want to try something closer to "the real thing", pick up Black Widow from Mr Nice seed bank. It's totally stable and would be more vigourous than most F2s (and more uniform, which is essential if growing from seed, really)...



I grow freak Nirvana F2 WWs from cuttings btw

But i'd love to try Mr Nice's too



edit - when i say freak, i mean freakishly good, obviously, har!!!