Glitterdoom #4

Breeder: Dirty Bird Genetics

Genetics: Grape Cake Head #19 x Bad Apple

Cannabis Type: Indica hybrid

Flowering Time: 56 days

Yield: Medium/high

Density: High

Height: Tall

Plant Morphology

Glitterdoom #4 is an apical dominant cross with a high number of floral sites and very high calyx to leaf ratio and rounded purple nuggets. Topping can encourage strong lateral branching. Glitterdoom is a super frosty plant. Moderate internodal spacing and approximately 50% stretch in bloom allows for good airflow with little defoliation needed.

Terpenes

Sour and funky, with savory/musky/gas in the mix. Caryophyllene, limonene, and humulene are dominant, followed by farnesol and myrcene.

Effect

A physically and mentally relaxing high – great for unwinding after a long day. Slightly indica leaning, this balanced uplifting strain can melt away stresses and help you drift off to sleep.

Notes from the Breeders:

In late 2025, our team at Dirty Bird Genetics ran breeding projects with both the Grape Cake Head (Jungle Boys) and our own grail, the Bad Apple Sugar Mill cut as pollen donors. While you can make some educated guesses, you never really know what qualities individual cuts are going to bring to the table genetically until you’ve seen their combining potential up against several other strains. The results can sometimes be surprising, with dark horses stealing the show, and with team-favorites flopping miserably. The Grape Cake Head and Bad Apple have both proven to be phenomenal breeders, so what could be better than seeing these two strains paired together? And thus we arrive at Glitterdoom.

Glitterdoom is a strain that came from our recent Bad Apple breeding project – one of the most epic breeding projects we’ve ever done, producing the most gorgeous, trichome-laden flower imaginable in every single cross we’ve tested. The Bad Apple ‘Sugar Mill cut’ has absolutely slapped, and I can’t overemphasize that. This girl is, in fact, a sugar mill. She reliably carries forward her funky, apple terpene profile like a true champ, and she grows perfect buds in the shape of ripe strawberries that beg to be plucked off the plant for those as impulsive as I am.

The Grape Cake Head, on the other hand, brings great structure and improved yield to the table, very high calyx-to-leaf ratio, and improved sturdiness and spacing. She also adds an interesting sometimes-pine and sometimes-sour, fuely underbelly to the apple-dominant terpene profile of the Bad Apple.

Glitterdoom is all of these things wrapped up into one gorgeous package. This pheno finishes around day 56 in our own grow. Our keeper cut of Glitterdoom (#4) was a plant that grew dark purple from the time she started flowering, which was not observed in any of the other plants in this test run.

Feminized Photoperiod