Most cannabis names require imagination before the connection between label and aroma becomes obvious. The Soap does not. Fresh flower can release a strangely convincing mixture of expensive hand soap, rose petals, lavender, mint, pine needles, citrus peel, and clean…
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,…
Pineapple Punch predates the modern obsession with naming every sweet cannabis strain after desserts and tropical cocktails. Its fruit character came from traditional breeding rather than a marketing concept: The Flying Dutchmen selected a particularly desirable Real McCoy female and…
Diabolic Funxta belongs to a distinctly American branch of marijuana breeding built around Sour Diesel intensity, California Kush genetics, and a preference for large, organically grown plants. Created by breeder Eddie Funxta of Don’t Panic Organix, the cultivar pairs East…
Chocolate Diesel is one of those marijuana strains whose reputation became much larger than its original release. Created in the mid-2000s by the breeder Maphial, also known as Santasmoke, it was never a mass-market seed-bank variety. The original seeds were…
Sage N Sour, officially styled S.A.G.E. ‘n Sour by T.H. Seeds, combines two unmistakably old-school branches of cannabis breeding: the pungent East Coast character of Sour Diesel and the spicy, cerebral personality of S.A.G.E. The resulting marijuana strain favors intensity…
Western Winds comes from a chapter of marijuana history in which Dutch breeders were still defining what elite indoor sativa cannabis could become. Created by Sagarmatha Seeds from genetic material closely connected with the original Kali Mist line, the cultivar…
Dancehall occupies an important place in the history of CBD-rich cannabis because it predates the modern wave of carefully marketed cannabinoid-ratio marijuana strains. Released by Spain’s Reggae Seeds in 2006, the cultivar combines the breeder’s celebrated Juanita la Lagrimosa mother…
Some cannabis varieties are important because of famous modern parents; Tanzanian Magic is compelling for almost the opposite reason. Its appeal comes from an indigenous African gene pool collected in the highland tea-growing region of southern Tanzania and introduced to…
Early Swazi Skunk is an unusual marijuana cultivar because its name can easily create the wrong impression about what is actually in its pedigree. Despite the word “Skunk,” this is not documented by its breeder as a Swazi landrace crossed…
Swazi Safari belongs to an earlier generation of marijuana breeding, when bringing regional cannabis populations into more manageable hybrid form was a central goal rather than chasing extreme THC percentages or dessert-style terpene profiles. Its character comes from the meeting…
Shining Silver Haze takes one of cannabis breeding’s most celebrated formulas—Haze, Skunk, and Northern Lights—and reshapes it into a plant that is considerably easier to manage than the towering tropical sativas that gave Haze its reputation. Royal Queen Seeds built…
