About its parents, Biscotti and Mintz, Barney’s says they’re “two of the USA’s premium and most elusive strains.” Such statements of rarity always get The Doc fired up, and Barney’s assertion it’s a “plant with trichome production off the scale” added to the fascination, of course…
Another eye-catching feature of this strain is its dazzling colorfulness – at maturity, the leaves display a beautiful array of red, orange, purple, green, and yellow. This extraordinariness continues into the flavor. A terpene high in limonene, caryophyllene, and eucalyptol leads to a spectacular feast of aromas characterized by spicy Kush notes fused with chocolate chip cookies and creamy mint. The description of effect sounds quite unusual for a plant with 80% indica dominance, with Biscotti Mintz delivering a turn physically energizing and mentally clear and focused – a way of effect generally ascribed to Sativa or Sativa dominant varieties.
It’s also accompanied by relaxation, so it does not entirely lack an effect typical of Indica. Like many other Barney’s strains, Biscotti Mintz doesn’t need more than 8-9 weeks of flowering to ripen fully and boasts a yield potential of 600-650 grams per sqm. It is ranging in the above-average department. In sunny regions, outdoor cultivators can even look forward to yields of up to 1.5 kilos per plant if optimally grown, with a harvest window of as early as the first to the second week of October. Outside, the usual height measure of the plants is about two meters, whereas 80-90 cm is the standard indoors
Also, those two Barney’s Farm seeds sown by The Doc went through germination easily; he saw the seedlings standing upright above the ground after three days. In the veg stage, they exhibited a fully Indica-style growth habit, becoming very dense and bushy, with a lot of branching propensity. In doing so, the two turned out to be identical – same height, same width. When The Doc moved them into blooming by reducing the daily light cycle to 12/12, the two Biscotti Mintz plants stood 33 cm tall.
The strain description sounded sensational, so The Doc was curious about Biscotti Mintz’s blooming performance. After two weeks – flowering had noticeably begun – he noted that bud formation in the branch tips went along with red leaf coloration – “now they’re getting that announced play of colors started,” The Doc rejoiced. It took him by surprise that the two plants revealed a strong stretching temper now, clearly more than doubling their height in the first half of flowering. Indeed, he witnessed the rise of a kaleidoscope-like festival of varied colors; Barney’s hadn’t exaggerated: at the end of flowering, the buds were ablaze with color, shining so gorgeously red, yellow, orange and purple that The Doc, as fascinated as he was, almost couldn’t avert his eyes from them. Also because that glorious color spectacle further escalated through an insanely abundant trichome blanket, as enthusiastically reported by The Doc: “One has to speak of resin incrustations, so overly generous is the frosting of trichomes, looking as if the buds had been exposed to a trichome shower, with those silvery crystals dramatically piling up.
A truly breathtaking sight!” Also, in terms of volume, the Biscotti Mintz buds excelled, having grown into fat chubby rock-hard flower heads looking like pure indica. Last but not least, The Doc was besotted by the buds’ scent, too – it was much sweeter than expected, pretty exotic and fruity, providing a delicious mango note to The Doc’s nose that was only slightly underpinned by some Kush spiciness. “Jeez, I’m extremely keen to taste and feel Biscotti Mintz, but that will have a wait a few weeks, so I gotta be very patient,” he said when he harvested his two plants (that had eventually reached 75 and 82.5 cm tall) after timely 59 and 62 days.
