
LAPD
LAPD is one of those cannabis strain names that works on two levels. On the surface, it borrows the initials of Los Angeles’ police department, but the letters also conveniently point back to the cultivar’s parents: LA Confidential and Purple…

LAPD is one of those cannabis strain names that works on two levels. On the surface, it borrows the initials of Los Angeles’ police department, but the letters also conveniently point back to the cultivar’s parents: LA Confidential and Purple…

New Purple Power comes from a period when purple cannabis was still unusual enough to become a spectacle in a European garden. During the late 1980s, colorful marijuana imported or developed from West Coast genetics attracted considerable attention, but many…

KryptoChronic tastes like someone replaced the milk in a bowl of fruit cereal with gasoline. That deliberately strange comparison has become one of the clearest descriptions of this modern marijuana cultivar: berries and sweet cereal arrive first, cream softens the…

Xeno feels like two different cannabis profiles compressed into the same flower. The first impression is bright and almost playful: sugary citrus, tropical fruit, grapefruit, and something reminiscent of sweet breakfast cereal. A moment later, Kush Mints pulls the aroma…

E85 takes its name from high-octane ethanol fuel, and the reference becomes obvious once the flower is opened. Gasoline and rubbery funk can rush forward first, only to be followed by vanilla frosting, sour candy, citrus, dark fruit, and a…

Wedding Pie belongs to the period when dessert-themed cannabis stopped being a novelty and became an entire direction in modern breeding, yet its appeal goes well beyond a convenient name. Break open a well-cured flower and grape candy can emerge…

Singapore Sling approaches tropical cannabis from a different angle than the pineapple-heavy or intensely sour strains that usually occupy the category. Its aroma can resemble orange cream soda poured over berries and sweet herbs, then sharpened with citrus peel, spice,…

Pink Lemonade brings together two very different branches of modern cannabis: the heavy, earthy relaxation of Pink Kush and the sharp citrus character of Lemon Skunk. The best-documented contemporary version is the cultivar maintained by Canadian breeder 34 Street Seed…

9 Pound Hammer is one of those marijuana strains whose name becomes understandable shortly after the effects develop. Created by Jinxproof Genetics, this strongly indica-dominant hybrid was designed around the unusually fruity Gooberry cultivar, with Jesus OG Kush added to…

LA Kush Cake combines two of Seed Junky Genetics’ most influential creations into a cultivar that represents the dessert-and-Kush direction of modern California marijuana breeding. Wedding Cake supplies sweet dough, vanilla, resin, and dense Cookies-family flower structure, while Kush Mints…

Few modern marijuana strains are as recognizable from appearance alone as MAC 1. Properly grown flower can become almost silver-white beneath a dense layer of resin, with dark green and occasional purple tissue barely visible between swollen calyxes. The aroma…

Gush Mints was not bred merely to look impressive in a jar. Purple City Genetics approached the cultivar as a farming problem: create exotic-quality marijuana with the dark color, resin, potency, and fashionable terpenes of modern premium flower, but give…