This guy was kind enough to show me his impressive Colorado indoor garden around 6,000 feet. All of the flowers featured are grown in living organic soil—true living soil. Moving aside the mulch layer immediately reveals an abundance of thriving life forms like worms, mites, pill bugs, and more.
These plants are under HID lights, grown with Blumat Watering Systems, and are in truly dialed-in rooms. Carbon dioxide is regulated and circulated, as are most other environmental factors. It is a highly-controlled garden, but with the wild flare that comes with any living system like soil.
It is rare that I am impressed by other grower’s flowers, but this is certainly one such occasion. It was really a pleasure to smoke all of these buds, as they feature the hallmarks of high-grade organic cannabis—nuanced aroma, intense flavor, and high cannabinoid levels!
I also can appreciate the taste of strains—while I like to think of myself as a hype-hater, I admit that I haven’t really been disappointed in the new-school weed in a while. It seems like everything I smoke these days is pretty interesting and enjoyable.
Beneath the dirt is constantly rotating strains, running a mix of proven producers with seedlings—really after my own heart! These are his latest offerings.
Grape Cream Cake (Ice Cream Cake x Grape Pie x Wedding Crasher), aka Grape Cream Pie, is a visual stunner and smokes as nicely as she looks. A combination of modern hype legends, Grape Cream Cake is equally beautiful in the garden or in jars. It is indeed very grapey and creamy smelling. If I were blind-smelling, I would guess it is heavy whipping cream infused with some fruit syrup(s). The grape note is almost artificial, to the point it reminds me of those pre-made crust-less PB&J pockets that were doled out in American public schools in the ‘90s and 2000s. Broken buds have a chalky, sour sweetness that is reminiscent of Fun Dip.
Sour Banana Cookies ((Banana OG x Dosidos) x Sour Dubb) keeps close to its namesake—it is indeed a sour, tart, candy-like strain that has notes of runt candies and fresh banana. I was gifted two phenotypes, one green and one purple—the purple is certainly more visually-appealing, but I prefer to smoke the green plant after some quality control tests. Complex and deep, this flower has soft, velvet-like aromas among the sweet-sour candied stuff going on, and classic cookie flavors bordering on peanut butter to boot. I am pleasantly surprised by this one.
This Gorilla Glue #4 is seriously dialed in, and is really a perfect specimen. The buds are so heavily frosted they appear lime green and white. Aromatic in the extreme, these are sweet, sour, funky flowers. This is great weed to have on your person if you want to make friends with other 420-friendly folks.
Bubba Diagonal (Bubba Kush x Diagonal) is a local cultivar bred by @downwithdirt and named after a very local highway. Stinking of Dove soap bar, Celestial Seasoning’s Mixed Berry tea (basically a tart, high-tannin, berry aroma), and a faint hint of pixie stick, these dense indica buds have huge trichomes that are ready to fall off. My jar was almost immediately coated with gland heads and I imagine this strain would make for a high-yielding extraction. Classic indica effect with a very soapy, tart flavor.
Donnny Burger (GMO x Han Solo Burger) offered by Skunk House Genetics is a superbly-funky flower that will please heads from the traditional market era. It is dark, dank, and perfumey—I detect wet, dirty, old dog, leather, and hints of allium and halitosis. There are also metallic notes that make me think of the Chemdog family. The effect is very dreamy, very stoney, and very inward.