Tropicana Family

Before I started shopping at Blue River Terps and other dispensaries, I first bought legal weed at this farm share called Healing Hemp that grew their own flower and put it in screw-top plastic jars that aren't sealed and lab-tested but you can open the top and smell 'em! Anyway I mostly found a lot of their indica to be top-notch, but my favorite sativa from them, and possibly my favorite strain from them in all was something they called Tropicana Cabin. I have not seen this strain listed anywhere else so I do not know the exact lineage but it was clearly a Tropicana Cookies cross. The bud was so beautiful, orange and pink and purple like a bunch of fruit before being blended into a smoothie. The flavors were unbelievable --- no terpene analysis was available, but my tongue says linalool and ocimene added their pungency to the bouquet of limonene caryophyllene and myrcene. 

Tropicana Cookies is a legendary strain crossing Girl Scout Cookies (GSC) and Tangie. GSC is part of the OG family of potent "modern" hybrids, often leaning Indica. Tangie on the other hand, while providing the genetic inheritance of citrusy terpenes that infuse many unique and sought-after sativa-leaning strains on today's market, goes back to the old-school lineage of California Orange, or Cali O, which I strongly suspect after several years' detective work (i.e., smoking lots of weed) to be the shit my highschool friend's mom used to get in the early 2000s from her hippy connections. Man, that shit was quality yet without being potent or pricey. It was unheard of in those days for there to be anything besides a directly proportional ratio between price, quality, potency, freshness, density, etcetera. But this was the exception: bright, fluffy green nugs crossed with thick orange hairs that would shine in the light; something I do notice in another descendant of Cali O, the killer sativa strain Mimosa.

Descended from Tropicana Cookies we have Trop Cherry, which is absolutely delicious, maybe even more so than the original, with that rich luscious fruit flavor on top and beautiful pink hues. High Mark grows some good Trop Cherry if you're in the Boston area. Super Boof is in this same sub-family as well, but didn't quite do it for me --- a pleasure for sure, but didn't give me that powerful sativa high I'm lookin' for from a Tropicana. 

Tropical Runtz was some incredible shit that I lucked out on from Simply Herb, a brand I had never even heard of before and which the budtender spoke condescendingly of as the "McDonald's of weed" through his bright golden grill but the price was right and the THC % was listed high and back in those days I stupidly went by that equation, but anyway yeah he's right about them in general but this shit was incredible, visually stunning red/purple/black did you say BLACK yes black fuzzy hairs in a zig-zag pattern like some archaic Greek pottery or the back of a spider's thorax, I had been reading about mold online and I started to worry 'Oh no, is it mold?' but when I broke a bud open, inside the black purple was shining like oil, like the magnetic tape inside a cassette, and all glimmering with little white diamond dust of trichomes; it tasted great and the high was fantastic, one of the best strains out of the Runtz and Tropicana families.

Tropic Truffle I smoked a pre-roll by Bountiful Farms after reading poetry at the River Festival last summer, before my Dad told me he had fallen in love, yet again...anyway I haven't seen any of their stuff around lately but they make great flower, pre-rolls, rosin and vape carts...

RIVER FESTIVAL - INTRO/QUEEN OF THE SOUTH

THC you later...