Legend’s Ultimate Indica
Legend’s Ultimate Indica, often simply called LUI, is another offering from Spice of Life, a Canadian seed company owned and operated by Breeder Steve. The three_little_birds are fairly well known for growing this strain, it was the centerpiece of a 2003-2004 “grow along” thread at Cannabis World, where it became that site’s most viewed grow thread.
With that in mind, we’ll post the strain’s description from Legend’s seeds, and then return to give a few more details from our own experience with LUI.
Legends Ultimate Indica
(15 per pack)
PRICE: $120 Cdn
$115 US
The “LegendsUltimate Indica” is a combination of our two most favorite indica’s. This F1 hybrid was mothered by a previously unreleased Ortega plant from California. The Ortega’s heavy indica traits shone through with its’ tight buds and extremely stoney finish. The father, a second backcross Sweet Tooth from Spice of Life Seeds, adds the sweet and pungent flavor Breeder Steve strains are know for. She is a heavy yielder that won’t disappoint.
Yield Indoors: 7-8 weeks
Harvest Outdoors: Late Sept.
Our first taste of Legend’s Ultimate Indica came from the Vancouver Compassion Club. That sample was heavy and quite stony, a combination that works pretty well for our medicinal needs (chronic pain, arthritis, insomnia). After sampling a few grams of LUI from the Compassion Club, we decided that it was a strain we needed to try in our own medicinal herb garden, and with the LUI thread now preserved for posterity, we can say the rest is history.
LUI is certainly good medicine if you can find the correct phenotype, with the Ortega dominant plants being preferred to those who expressed more of their father’s Sweet Tooth lineage. Most plants were probably somewhere in the range of 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 in potency, with a few special examples being significantly more powerful than their siblings. In our minds, it’s probably best to plan on working with at least 10-15 plants at once in order to be able to select one or two keepers.
Flowering times given in the strain description are pretty accurate. In our minds, 8-9 weeks would probably be more along the lines of our experience for flowering time, but we’d also admit to preferring a little heavier medicinal effect, so we perhaps let our plants go a little longer than most.
In terms of flavor, we were underwhelmed by LUI. There was a certain generic sweetness in the flavor of the LUI’s we grew, and it seemed there were also some significant hints of citrus flavor as well. While it’s not outstanding , it’s certainly not objectionable either, so we’d have to say that at it’s worst, LUI is at least average in taste.
Strains with Sweet Tooth in their lineage are prone to mold if grown in wet conditions, and we’ve heard that LUI is no exception to that trend. When grown indoors under controlled climate conditions, it’s not a problem at all, at least that was our experience. Your mileage may vary!
Table of contents for Growing LUI /the3LB
- Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Intro
- Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Soil & Seed
- LUI Day 2
- Growing LUI W/ the 3LB - Day 1
- Growing LUI W/ the 3lb - Planting/germination
- LUI Day 3
- LUI Day 4
- LUI Day 5
- LUI Day 6, Day 7
- LUI-Day-8
- LUI-Day-9
- LUI Day 10
- LUI Day 11
- LUI Day 12
- LUI Day 13
- LUI Day 14
- LUI Day 15
- LUI Day 16
- LUI Day 17
- LUI Day 18
- LUI Day 19
- LUI Day 20
- LUI Day 21
- LUI Day 22 And A Lesson in Cloning
- LUI Day 23
- LUI Day 24
- LUI Day 25
- LUI Day 26
- LUI DAY 27 And Day 28
- LUI Day 29
- LUI Day 30
- LUI Day 31
- LUI Day 32
- LUI Day 33
- LUI Day 34
- LUI Day 35
- LUI Day 36 And Friends
- LUI Day 37
- LUI Day 39 - the Backup Clones
- LUI Day 40 - Day 1 Flowering
- LUI Day 41
- LUI Day 42
- LUI Day 43
- LUI Day 44
- LUI Day 45
- LUI Day 46
- LUI Day 47
- LUI Day 48
- LUI Day 50
- LUI Day 51
- LUI - Day 52
- LUI Day 53
- LUI Day 54
- LUI Day 55
- LUI Day 56
- LUI Day 57
- LUI Day 58
- LUI Day 59
- LUI Day 60
- LUI Day 61,62
- Legend’s Ultimate Indica
- LUI Day 63
- LUI Day 64
- LUI Day 65
- LUI Day 66
- LUI Day 67 And Clones
- LUI Day 68
- LUI Day 69
- LUI Day 70
- LUI Day 72 - Day 33 of Bloom
- LUI Day 73
- LUI Day 74
- LUI Day 71
- LUI Day 75
- LUI Day 76
- LUI-Day-77
- LUI Day 80
- LUI Day 78
- LUI Day 79
- LUI Day 81
- LUI Day 82
- LUI Day 83
- LUI Day 84
- LUI Day 85
- LUI Day 86
- LUI Day 87
- LUI Day 88
- LUI Day 89
- LUI Day 90
- From the 3LB Archives - Canopy of LUI
the3LB said
February 26 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Here’s an excerpt about LUI from THE STRAINS OF TOMORROW, by Jorge Cervantes, which originally appeared in High Times in the summer of 2003. It’s not a lot different from what’s already been said, but I’ll add it for posterity.
LEGENDS ULTIMATE INDICA/Legends Seeds
Legends Ultimate Indica was developed by Breeder Steve from Spice of Life Seeds. He used an Ortega female, an extremely dense, short Northern California Afghani that grows into one large pinecone-like cola, and mated her with a second Sweet Tooth backcross. LUI has a slightly lemony and strongly hash-like flavor. Joints produce thick, dense smoke and are hard to keep lit. The very sedative couch-lock buzz has been verified by patients as a great pain reliever. LUI also makes “full melt” hash that should be sold in pharmacies! It produces a bush of dense, ripe buds after eight weeks of flowering indoors, and finishes in late September outdoors. Find out more about this very stoney strain at legendsseeds.com.