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If you smoke as good as Californians, rest assured, you smoke as good as the best in the world. That’s the takeaway from the marijuana flower scene in Barcelona this March during the massive, week-long Spannabis festival.

Our monthly West Coast fire flower round-up Leafly Buzz jetted over to the decriminalized Catalan city for a week of elite hash contests, the visits to the best lounges recommended, and a 10,000-person gathering from every continent. 

Sure we saw European specialties like Amnesia Haze, and even a Big Buddha Cheese. But Z strains dominated award shows. Zoap, and Permanent Marker abounded. The New World has freshly seeded The Old.

This global cannabis conversation proved cacophonous with excitement—synced by smartphones and Instagram. Seeds and clones move frictionlessly across continents. Almost anyone can build on the latest, greatest work from the hills of Humboldt County, CA. So exciting. Here are 13 strains that tell the story. Here is Leafly Buzz for March 2024—Barcelona edition.

Data grinder

Permanent Marker

chunky, nearly oval nug of frosty forest-green marijuana on its side, against a white background
CAM-grown Permanent Marker. (David Downs/Leafly)

Leafly Strain of the Year 2024 goes hard in Europe. We saw purple cuts and green cuts of Seed Junky Genetics’ Permanent Marker everywhere—including Strainhunters Club, La Selva, and Terp Army—that rival our own in Los Angeles, and San Francisco. (Some of them might be our own packs.) Either way, the “Cali Weed” part of the menu is the big part. Like German cars or Italian suits—Cali weed faces few rivals. There’s local specialties, but generally our Leafly Buzz and seasonal and annual have been right on the money for what’s smoking in these contests and scenes. Seed Junky seeds come to newly legal Germany this year. Permanent Marker is holding stable in the US with page views down just 0.7% month over month.

Big Buddha Cheese

Remember the old-school skunk strain called Cheese? We found a keeper of the Cheese wearing rollerblades and holding a 3rd Place trophy from the Bring Your Cheese to the Party’ in Club La Selva. He was sitting there on a Monday night, enjoying his win before heading back to England. One of the most famous cuts of Cheese is Big Buddha Cheese, named for the first keeper of the Cheese “Yung”. Cheese is iconically musky and stinky with an intense Skunk high. It’s notorious for getting people busted.  “The smell gets everywhere,” said Lord Dank, who had to quadruple bag it for travel. Next up for Lord Dank, aka Nigel is making fresh new Big Buddha Cheese seeds, and we wish him luck. See also: Gouda from Snowtill in San Francisco. It’s one-quarter Cheese. Big Buddha Cheese strain page traffic is rare and volatile, dropping 35% month over month. Let’s bring it back.

Mimosa

A photo of Mimosa (David Downs/Leafly)
Mimosa. Hybrid. (David Downs/Leafly)

Who can’t love a good Barcelona brunch at like 3 p.m. in the afternoon? Barcelona is crushing the Sacramento, CA. flavor from Symbiotic Genetics, Mimosa. Strainhuners had it great in flower. The best hash I smoked all trip came in the form of a flaky, white, solventless, pungent extract from La Selva. It had so much Tangie, it was like a barrel so full of oranges, the bottom had fermented and turned a little funky. My heart ached as I let go of my Mimosa hash into the trash can, and headed the airport. Immensely popular, Mimosa strain page traffic declined 2.5% month over month.

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Mendo Biscuits

This dessert-type strain from Humboldt County, CA now grows in the underground scene of France, where it’s being crossed with local varieties and coming back even better. Bred by Higher Heights Nate, Mendo Biscuits is deep down the cookies line, more like a dense, sweet pastry on Las Ramblas. It grows super-vigorous, big, healthy, and hearty. Mendo Biscuits plus an Amsterdam 2000 Diesel Kush grown in France is now ‘Frendo Biscuits.’ Higher Heights Nate has seeds for the global scene and you’ll find his genetics in more and more in rec stores.

Geriza

Bask Triangle Farms grows amazing Z’s and Trop Cookies, and Cherry Trop from Humboldt or Colorado in the rugged, mountainous, separatist ‘Basque Country’ of Spain. Celeb horticulture author Ed Rosenthal describes the place as “steeper than Humboldt.” BTF follows up on its string of Spannabis wins with fresh Z work from Basque Country. So cool. The lead-off is Ztrinklez (Z x Bazkittlez) for hash-making. But there is other, cool Basque-named strains you never heard: Zhuleman (Ortzadar x Bazkittlez), and Geriza (Trop Cherry x Bazkittlez). Trop Cherry x a Z strain—grown in living soil—will be like a rainbow in your mouth and brain.

Epsilon F1

Time for a science lesson. We’re still at Day 1 of breeding cannabis. We don’t have that many reliable strains we can work with. Getting the kids to be exactly like the parent is called ‘stabilization.’ It’s how you make “true-breeding” strains that are “fixed”, like the tomato seeds you buy at Lowes. An F1 hybrid strawberry just came out. The potato is next. Real big-boy stuff.

Well—Royal Queen Seeds of The Netherlands is putting on their big-boy pants and walking around with their first true-breeding line-up of true “F1s”. Eight of them. Look at Epsilon F1. It finishes the fastest of the bunch. And it’s a mix of Blue Dream, Blueberry, Amnesia Lemon Haze, and Black Domina. They make like 7 generations of selection and in-crossing to stabilize it. So the end result is something else entirely. It’s physically relaxing and calming. Hype boys “see this and think it’s boring,” said a sales guy. But bottom line: fixed plants equals more money for those who can put them to use. 

LCG x Kryptochronic

Sacramento, CA icons Alien Labs has come to several US state markets, we saw their seeds make landfall in Spain as well. Probably the fastest seller was the Backpack Boys’ famous Lemon Cherry Gelato x Alien Labs’ Kryptochronic. The creamy, berry, gassy cherry of LCG rules the US, and several hot drops featured the famous Gelato work. Connected brought a Sunset Sherbert x G41 to restart the next Gelato wave on The Continent. See also: Backpack Boyz’ release of LCG x Dying Breed OZ Kush.

OG Triploid

You know seedless watermelons? Well get ready for seedless weed. Mostly. Humboldt Seed Co debuted at Spannabis with “OG Triploid”—a type of OG Kush that should resist seeding. This is perfect for large-scale oil-croppers in pollen-heavy regions, among other uses. “Triploid” means the plant has an extra set of DNA packets called chromosomes, which interfere with the regular reproduction cycle. They’re born barren, as it were. Mostly. It’s a trait you can selectively breed for. Just keep in mind, life finds a way.

Hot on shelves

Luna

We found ourselves one night following a superb recommendation to the private Barcelona Club La Selva, where we relished the award-winning house specialty, Luna. Luna is Tropicanna Cookies x a Spanish strain—Suguz. It’s bringing together work from Nevada County, CA, and Colorado and Spain into an even more sugary, and jammy Trop Cookies. We were swept away in a tidal wave of orange, and tooth-crackingly sweet cirtus soda—like the Vichy Catalan juice. If you dunk your Chips Ahoy in orange juice—if you like Tangie, and GSC, you have friends in Barcelona who like Luna from RKIEM Seeds. 

Banana Cooler

La Selva brings the banana wave to Barcelona with 2nd place overall indica Spannabis finisher, Banana Cooler. This indica hits like a super-premium Z with a hybrid effect. You can see what the judges liked. Long after you get lit, you still don’t want to put it out and ruin it, and it’s good till the last hit. Banana terps are evanescent: hard to create and hard to hold onto. La Selve made it look easy with their bananan-licious jars.

Tea Time and RS-11

chunky marijuana nug in shades of lime and forest green, with yellow-orange hairs, rests on a white table with black bag labeled "Wizard Trees" seen out of focus behind it

You got to give it up for LA outfit Wizard Treez and their work with RS-11 and the follow-up, Tea Time. At Spannabis on Saturday March TK, British labs elbowed past you, thronging the booth like the pork futures trading desk in a rally. Seed packs easily cruised past 100 euros, or like $120 dollars. Club La Selva took a 3rd in all of Spannabis with a Tea-Time that is triple-fine. This is perfect Z work—bringing tropical candy-smelling and tasting green weed to the masses that can’t get enough. We’re 43 and still eating cherry sours. Cannabis expert in San Francisco Shannon McInerney nailed the name for this demographic: ‘Big Little Kids.’

J1

We’re going to bring it back to California for Team Elite Genetics, J1—one of the first jars we finished after they sent us their whole lineup for testing. We all need some go-to daytime sativas and it’s harder to classic and effective than J1. Jack Herer remains a top-smelling strain for its candy-sweet taste, sizzling orange pistils, and clean up daytime high. Team Elite Genetics runs this classic car like it’s right out of the factory; part of a lineup of solid sativas: Pearadise, and Orangeade. Jack fans in Barca would do a jumping jack for this stuff. Funny we see better Jack in adopted state of California than its home continent, Europe. The Colombian Exchange never ended.

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Piatella

Everyone needs to start making, piatella, apparently. It’s a fine, light-colored, gooey, fragrant, almost pastry ot confection-quality solventless hash, and it ruled Barcelona for yet another year. the method involves whipping to aerate the oleoresin, versus letting it nucleate and ‘sugar’. Finding piatella in Barcelona or San Francisco, is like finding this rare bottle of wine in Tuscany, or whisky in Scotland, or a special Italian pastry in Rome. We saw an insane Banana Punch piatella at Club La Selva that went for more than 80 euros per gram. Far higher than the cost of gold. Back at the apartment, it was Dulce De Leche piatella that blew our minds—so blond, delicate, and aromatic like ambergris; from another planet. Keep an eye out for more, rare, top-priced piatella releases in the licensed markets.





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Leafly Buzz: 12 top weed strains of October

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The West Coast is awash in za-za whether you’re into indoor or outs. As Croptober dries in barns and rooms, the indoor growers keep pumping out near-flawless gas, candy, cake, and classic strains.

The last 30 days of reporting took us from Hall of Flowers seshes with Wiz Khalifa, to hash hookahs deep in Mendocino County, CA, to road-testing the new Puffco Pivot high up in the fall trees of Montana.

Here’s your monthly cheat codes for the best bong loads of October. Here’s October’s Leafly Buzz.

Data grinder

Here’s the highlights of the West Coast’s monthly change in traffic to the strains in our 5,000 strain database (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Which strains are on the move in Leafly’s 9,000-strain database? (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

We broke out our calculators, plugged into the Leafly strain database, and ran a scan for zaza. Here’s what the stats tell us.

Connie Chung

This rare strain jumped from No. 3,769 to No. 120 after the iconic female anchor mentioned her namesake strain in an interview to promote her new book. Connie Chung is a DNA Genetics LA Flavor x G13.

Moroccan Peaches

Watch out for Purple City Genetics’ Moroccan Peaches—it’s up from #983 to #287 in just a single month. So much good Moroccan Peaches is being made into hash right now. It’s a cross of Spanish Barbara x Lemon Tree Skorange.

Street Tarts

Here comes the next new thing. Street Tarts is a cross of cross of Guava Tart x Street Guru by Purple City Genetics. It’s up more than 200 places in a month to No. 521.

Amnesia Haze

A 20 year-old classic stays strong this October. Amnesia Haze jumps up 25 spots to No. 108 in our 9,000-strain databse.

New in the Leafly strain database

Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

Dark Web

four dense and brightly colored marijuana nugs on a wooden table; the nugs are dusky purple and mottled with mint green and dull orange hues
Hack into this. (Courtesy Lindsey Bartlett)

Zoap bagseed is out there in the wild seeding whole new adventures. Among them, Alien Labs Dark Web—everything we’d want in an OGZ x Sherbert.

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Gotti Beltz

Gotti Beltz. (David Downs/Leafly)
Gotti Beltz. (David Downs/Leafly)

Gotti and Rainbow Beltz makes for a more aggressive candy strain in Gotti Beltz, which is taking off from Phinest/Dubplatez. Gotti Beltz held court amid a table of zaza at the Phinest booth at Hall of Flowers.

Ridgeline Throbber

One of California’s top growers—Ridgeline Farms is working on new crosses of its hit LANTZ. We got our hands on Ridgeline LANTZ x Gushmints, known as Ridgeline Throbber. If you like your LANTZ even bigger and more minty—this is it.

Gary Satan

Tiki Madman’s Gary Payton x Jealousy project Gary Satan enter the database this month. Look for it among the pack of hype, new-new.

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Picks of the dispensaries

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(Sasha Beck/Leafly)

New on shelves

Headbanger by Wood Wide Farms

Burning up the charts

Permanent Marker by MOCA Humboldt

Best-sellers

Ballin out

Scotty’s Cake by CAM in Cali

Scotties Cake—CAM, California, fall 2024 image

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Scotties Cake—CAM, California, fall 2024

Ballin’ on a budget

Golden Pineapple by Phat Panda

Golden Pineapple—Phat Panda, California, fall 2024 image

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Golden Pineapple—Phat Panda, California, fall 2024

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(Sasha Beck/Leafly)
We end with something fuerte. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

Puffco Pivot with Alien Labs Z-squared rosin

Dabs and globs go in, potent vapor comes out. (Courtesy Puffco)
Dabs and globs go in, potent vapor comes out. (Courtesy Puffco)

The world’s leader in electronic dabbing tech, Puffco, returns to refresh thei dab pen for 2024. You load a glob of top-notch rosin into the silicone, flip-top chamber, then stash that thang in your jacket pocket until it’s time to really get zooted. Just double-click the sleek black button on the unit to unleash a huge heat cycle inside the micro-sized ‘360 chamber.’ When the Pivot buzzes, it’s time to sip fresh, bright, maximally flavorful vapor until you tap out.

It’s perfect for one-and-done dabbers who value traveling light.

The $130 device comes with little cotton swabs you use between dabs to keep the chamber clean and tidy. Be prepared—the black silicone tip gets a little gunky as you rip all those resinous dabs. But we’re not mad at it. The Pivot proved easy to master and a delight to experienced dabbers and novices alike. It’s perfect for one-and-done dabbers who value traveling light. Stick some brand new Alien Labs Z2 rosin in there to hit a new peak for a dab pen. Available on Puffco.

OK, we’re turning and burning into Croptober and Green Wednesday. Keep your notifications on.


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So good they steal it—the popular, monthly strain review roundup Leafly Buzz is in its third year. We report independently on the connoisseur cannabis conversation, focusing on strains and branded flower of the US West. Reporting includes:

  • review samples
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  • grow visits
  • events
  • Leafly search data
  • staff and reader tips, and more

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Leafly Buzz: 12 top weed strains of September

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This September, the nation’s budtenders give us their Budtender’s Choice 2024 picks for the best strain and brand in the state, but you don’t have to wait for the results to come in to smoke that fire.

Leafly Buzz flew up and down California, scooping up tasty nugs and seeing which jars we finished first. After scouring strain search trends and menus—we find ourselves deep in the hype stuff: Blue Gushers, Cherry Gushers, Permanent Marker Bx1, and the like.

Here’s your monthly cheat codes to the best bong loads of September. Here’s September’s Leafly Buzz.

Data grinder

Here’s the highlights of the West Coast’s monthly change in traffic to the strains in our 5,000 strain database (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Which strains are on the move in Leafly’s 9,000-strain database? (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

We broke out our calculators, plugged into the Leafly strain database, and ran a scan for zaza. Here’s what the stats tell us.

Lemon Cherry Gelato

No. #2

Lemon Cherry Gelato. Grown by Fig Farms, CA. Hybrid-indica. (David Downs/Leafly)
Lemon Cherry Gelato. (David Downs/Leafly)

So popular you love it or loathe it, Lemon Cherry Gelato climbs into the number two strain spot in the western states this month. For newcomers, it’s a hybrid indica that’s relaxing, soothing, and silly. As popular as a pinot noir, fine cannabis brands each claim their own cut of this cultivar—popularized by Backpack Boyz. Some say LCG is re-branded Gelato #33, others Gelato x Z. 

GMO

No. #8

angular and long mint-green marijuana nug resting on its side against a white background
GMO Cookies. (David Downs/Leafly file photo 2020)

GMO Cookies charges into the No. 8 spot out west this month with a stanky, somnambulant stone. Chemmy, gassy, and dank—GMO nugs come super-size for bag appeal. Oregon and Michigan both specialize in GMOs.

Gary Payton

No. #9

All-star Gary Payton. Indica hybrid. (Courtesy Cookies)
All-star Gary Payton. Indica hybrid. (Courtesy Cookies)

Gary Payton hits a slippery spot and drops to No. 9 this month. The dessert strain is built from The Y and Snowman, with a jammy floral fuel note. Bred by Powerzzzup Genetics in the Bay Area, growers coast-to-coast rock Payton in their lineup.

White Runtz

up 22.4%

Sheesh! Umma Sonoma White Runtz. (Courtesy Ummas Sonoma)
Sheesh! Umma Sonoma White Runtz. (Courtesy Ummas Sonoma)

Rounding out an all-cookie fam Data Grinder we see White Runtz doing numbers. It’s up 22.4% month over month, with really similar traits to Lemon Cherry Gelato. It’s just a little more calming, and more dense. Both test high in caryophyllene, limonene, and linalool.

New in the Leafly strain database

Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti

Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti by Bosky Genetics. (David Downs/Leafly)
Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti by Bosky Genetics. (David Downs/Leafly)

Old-school Cherry Pie gets the candy of Z and the cookie of Biscotti in this 3-way cross. Dark, icy, striking, and dank—this flavor is another end-of-day reward. High-end indoor flower grower Bosky won the Transbay Challenge qualifier of San Diego with Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti this summer.

Blue Gushers

Made brand Blue Gushers. (David Downs/Leafly)
Made brand Blue Gushers. (David Downs/Leafly)

California and Arizona brand Made grows the Blue Gushers a type of Triangle Kush x Gelato 41 with a blue hue and sweet, gooey, berry taste. Blue Gushers is a sweet hybrid for getting creative or tripping on a nature video.

Pink Froot

Colorado-based Green Dot Labs is back with another exclusive cannabis strain drop, coming in October, GDL’s Pink Frōōt strain has a tropical taffy candy and euphoric, yet functional buzz.

Sour Elvis

Sour Diesel and the strain Elvis (AK-47 x Skunk #1) combine in Sour Elvis, spotted at Hall of Flowers from the East Coast brand Nature Always Wins. It’s a really unique mix of old-school sour with more fuel and dank from the Elvis.

Picks of the dispensaries

(Sasha Beck/Leafly)
(Sasha Beck/Leafly)

New on shelves

Double Rainbow

Happy Trails

Double Rainbow will leave veteran smokers cooked on a 37% THC indica hybrid cross of Rainbow Cookies and Purple Hulk. Happy Trails’ jar of it got me uncomfortably high and yet I’d come back for half-bowls and ride the rainbow, holding on through deep breathing and water. Sometimes you just want a journey. Woman and social equity-owned flower company Happy Trails from Oakland, CA keeps crushing it.

Burning up the charts

Pineapple Jack

Happy Trails

Phew, we broke the cookies spell with some classic Pineapple Jack, jarred by Happy Trails in California. It’s got pineapple, tropical and pine notes and zippy, focused daytime effects. Pineapple Jack is going to make that art project crank by.

Best-sellers

Ballin out

Cherry Gushers

SF Canna

While Made grows Blue Gushers down south, SF Canna has Cherry Gushers (Acai x Black Cherry Funk) for the Bay Area. Candy, gas in a gorgeous, multi-colored, resinous package—Cherry Gushers is great after a meal in the back yard with the gang.

Ballin’ on a budget

Permanent Marker Bx1

Made

Leafly Strain of the Year 2023 Permanent Marker keeps on charging with Permanent Marker Bx1, which stands for backcross. It’s even more of what makes Permanent Marker a winner—magic marker fumes and a dramatic dark look. Bred by Seed Junky and grown at scale by Made—it’s another perfect after-work treat.  

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(Sasha Beck/Leafly)
We end with something fuerte. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

Puffco’s new Storm Peak and Proxy

The annual Puffco party Puffcon has arrived and with it—the latest color for their hit lineup. This time, it’s the smokey, blue “storm” colorway for the New Peak and the Proxy. The Puffco offers the nicest way to onboard a friend who wants to start dabbing. Yet the advanced settings are not to be trifled with.

OK, we’re heading into the fray at Hall of Flowers in Santa Rosa. We’ll be back with even more hot, hot heat from the weed beat.


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  • review samples
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  • grow visits
  • events
  • Leafly search data
  • staff and reader tips, and more

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Leafly Buzz: 12 hot weed strains of August 2024

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West Coast weed lovers, prepare to ride high into fall with some award-winning strains both vintage and new.

In stores and fields this August awaits fresh cuts of Panama Red, and Headband, plus potent new Tractor Fuel, and an intriguing Dank Strainger.

All maximum-THC, these varieties run the spectrum from pure sativa to indica. They’re ready to take on tough summer workdays, elevate a sesh, or ace the wake-and-bakes and barbecues. 

We found hyper-organic options, solar-powered value buys, and contest-ready zaza.

From where ? We hit the road again—aiming for stores, festivals, and farms. We packed bowls, combed notes, added in a dab of Leafly data, and boom! Here’s Leafly Buzz.

Data grinder

Here’s the highlights of the West Coast’s monthly change in traffic to the strains in our 5,000 strain database (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Which strains are on the move in Leafly’s 9,000-strain database? (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

GSC

Redwood Remedies produces GSC that’s “OCal” certified equivalent to organic. (David Downs/Leafly)
Redwood Remedies produces GSC that’s “OCal” certified equivalent to organic. (David Downs/Leafly)

Rank: 17th place in the Western US

This foundational dessert strain stays super-relevant at 17th place among Leafly’s audience in the Western US. GSC usurped OG Kush in the 2010s to become the dominant family of popular weed. Now there’s a whole Cookie Family dynasty of strains taken for stress, anxiety, and depression. Best after work.

Strawberry Cough

Wave Ryder Nursery grows some of the best Strawberry Cough in the state. Greenhouse-grown. (David Downs/Leafly)
Wave Ryder Nursery grows some of the best Strawberry Cough in the state. Greenhouse-grown. (David Downs/Leafly)

Rank: 31st place

For fans of Blue Dream, the classic, strawberry-tinged sativa hybrid Strawberry Cough holds onto 31st place out west. People get uplifted, energetic, and happy with this daytime strain.

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Headband

Grown by old hippies, Solful’s Headband from Sol Spirit Farms ranks among the best in the state. (David Downs/Leafly)
Grown by old hippies, Solful’s Headband from Sol Spirit Farm ranks among the best in the state. (David Downs/Leafly)

Rank: 90th place

OG Kush x Sour Diesel keeps the sativa hybrid Headband in the top 100 strains of the Pacific Coast. It’s ranked 90 this month and offers sativa-hybrid energy with a very loud, chem, fuel bite.

Panama Red

Vintage sativa Panama Red, grown by North Fork Garden Society, and sold at 7 Stars, Richmond, CA. (David Downs/Leafly)
Vintage sativa Panama Red, grown by North Fork Garden Society, and sold at 7 Stars, Richmond, CA. (David Downs/Leafly)

Rank: 308th place

Woah, this elemental, old-school sativa holds a scoots up to 308th place this month on Leafly, despite being over 50 years old. A Panama Red just took a Silver for most Ocimene at the California State Fair Cannabis Awards, which rocks. Panama Red smells like your parents’ barbecues in 1978 with notes of tea, plus earthiness and tropical hints.

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New in the Leafly strain database

Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)

Tractor Fuel

Tractor Fuel combines Gas Pedal OG with the Original Z for even more gassy-candy goodness. You get a chem and fuel front with a sweet, tropical finish. We’ve spotted it in flower, live rosin, and live badder from Mendoja Farms in Covelo, CA., the Delta Boyz in the Sacramento, CA area, and Jetty Extracts, Oakland.

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Dank Strainger

Grown indoors in Shasta County, CA by Wild Light. On sale at 7 Stars in Richmond, CA. (David Downs/Leafly)
Grown indoors in Shasta County, CA by Wild Light. On sale at 7 Stars in Richmond, CA. (David Downs/Leafly)

Take OG Kush a different way with Dank Strainger—a gross of OG Kush x Grape Gas. It’s grapey, gassy, loud, dark and stunning. A strong indica.

Nimbus Snacks

Durban Mints x GSC forms the dessert strain Nimbus Snacks. Nimbus Snacks took second place for most ocimene in a sungrown flower at the California State Fair Cannabis Awards in July. Propagated by Conception Nurseries.

Windu

The RS-11 craze rages on with Windu, a cross of Skywalker OG x RS-11. It’s like a more dark, dense, dank, fuel take on RS-11’s candy-gas, with a purple hue like Mace Windu’s lightsaber. Grown by the truckload at Ember Valley, CA.

Picks of the dispensaries

New on shelves

Black Bubblegum Horchata from Khemia

Bred by "Xeno," cloned by Phinest, grown by Khemia up in Shasta County, CA. (Courtesy of Phinest)
Bred by “Xeno,” cloned by Phinest Nursery, grown by Khemia up in Shasta County, CA. (Courtesy of Phinest)

Look out for Phinest Nursery’s new Spritzer x Horchata cross Black Bubblegum Horchata hitting Cali stores. This gorgeous, loud, indica hybrid mixes all the best contemporary dessert strains. Breeder Cannarado made the Spritzer from Runtz x (Grape Pie x MAC). The hot strain Horchata (Jet Fuel Gelato x Mochi Gelato) comes from Wyeast / Compound Genetics. 

Burning up the charts

Point Break from Bosky Genetics

Wake and rage with Point Break, from Surfr Seeds. Grown by Bosky Genetics. (David Downs/Leafly)
Wake and rage with Point Break, from Surfr Seeds. Grown by Bosky Genetics. (David Downs/Leafly)

Surfr Seeds’ strain Point Break, grown by Bosky Genetics keeps us stoked in August. The Central Valley, CA indoor grower crushes it, despite the 100-degree temps outside. Point Break comes from two absolute bangers: Trop Cookies and Trophy Wife. Trop Cookies powers the Super Boof wave. Trophy Wife bred by Surfr Seeds’ crosses Triangle Mints x Triangle Mints F2. Bosky just took home a San Diego Transbay Challenge win for his Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti.

Best-sellers

Ballin out

Z from Alien Labs

two silver-green marijuana nugs resting in a jar lid
Alien Labs Z. Hybrid. (David Downs/Leafly)

One of California’s top-selling brands Alien Labs keeps their cut of “Z” straight dialed-in. It’s springy green bud with a riotous tropical taffy candy smell and taste and hybrid indica effects. 

When you touch down in Cali and you need a solid, widely available, top-shelf flavor—Alien Labs’ Z delivers.

Ballin’ on a budget

Gas Face from Volume

Sacramento, CA indoor growing masters Amplified Farms launched a budget, large-scale brand dubbed Volume. The bags are super-affordable and come in killer strains like Larry Bird, and Gas Face.

High Note

Puffco New Peak

More and more people every day enter the world of cannabis extracts, aka hash, dabs, rosin, live resin, etc. This August, there’s no better place to start at a better price than Puffco’s New Peak for just over $200. It’s an upscale, portable, electronic hash bubbler. 

The New Peak enables you to sip the most cool, flavorful, potent hash rips in the galaxy. Drop a dab in the chamber, double-click, and then sip when the device vibrates. It’s that simple and elegant. 

There’s a ton under the hood for the headie boys. (A 3D Chamber. Joystick cap. Smaller size. Faster-charging. And Puffco powers a sub-culture with its own Puffcon Sept. 28 in LA.) 

But when newbies ask, “What’s hash? How do I use it?” I just have them hit the New Peak.


So there’s a dozen flowers for your sesh. Enjoy the end of summer. We’ll see you in person at Connected Cannabis Co.’s Trop Z Drop Party—Thurs. Aug. 29 in West Hollywood from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Let’s hang

Connected Cannabis Co. Trop Z Drop Party announced for the Sunset Strip

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