This week's flower

A cross of Pink Kush and Vader OG, which makes it OG family on both sides. Pink Kush is the British Columbia selection out of OG Kush — sweet and floral, with pink pistils; Vader OG is Ocean Grown Seeds' cross of SFV OG and Larry OG. Dense, resin-heavy flower from both parents.

Bred by Upstate Elevator Operators in Vermont, crossing Elvis with GG4. Elvis came from Seedism before that, out of AK-47 and a sativa-leaning Skunk #1. Leafly named it Vermont's strain of the year for 2023.

Its own phenotype of Tropicana, which is Pineapple crossed with Kali Mist and then crossed again with Northern Lights #5. Published accounts of Tropicana give an earthy, citrus nose with lemon and lime on top.

The Lit Farms release: E85 crossed with Rainbow Sherbert #11, with a single phenotype selected out of a large pool of seedlings. E85 is itself Wedding Cake and Project 4516, and RS-11 came out of the Doja Pak line — so it is dessert genetics on both sides.

Seed Junky Genetics in California crossed Wedding Cake with Gelato #33 to make this. Both parents come out of the Cookies line, and it shows in the flower: dense, heavily frosted, and sweet in a creamy, doughy way rather than a fruity one.

The grower's cross is Pink Galaxy — Pink Kush over Galaxy — grown out from a Pink Kush phenotype of their own, which is where the change of name comes from. Pink Kush takes its name from the pink hairs through the flower, and carries pine, wood and a sweet vanilla note.

In House Genetics crossed Mendo Breath with Do-Si-Dos, so this shares a parent with the Mendo on our own shelf. Published accounts describe a floral nose with berry through it, and a flavour that reads earthy and sweet.

Alien Genetics crossed Alien Tahoe OG with Lemon Alien Dawg for this, and describe it themselves as raspberry sorbet with lemon behind it. Heavy trichome coverage. The original phenotype is discontinued, so what circulates now are later selections.

Compound Genetics crossed Do-Si-Dos with Kush Mints for this one, which is also listed as Ego Checker. Dense, grape-shaped flower with orange hairs and amber trichomes, and a nose of nutty cookie and citrus with fresh mint through it.

Usually traced to Strawberry Fields, out of Vermont, crossed with a Haze, and best known as a clone-only cut. It also goes by Kyle Kushman's Strawberry Cough, though the accounts of who first bred it disagree. The nose is fresh, sweet strawberry.

A cross of Ice Cream Cake and Prom Queen. The nose is fresh vanilla cake with pine behind it. The flavour is creamy and sweet, with a sharp lemon edge, a touch of spice and dank pine underneath.

Ripper Seeds of Barcelona crossed GMO, the American selection of Chem Cookies, with Kush Mints. Musky on the nose. It placed third at the Spannabis Champions Cup in 2020.

A cross of Slurricane #23 and Bluenana. The nose is banana and berry over a zesty tropical citrus top note, with fresh earth underneath. The flavour carries the same fruit, creamy and sugary.

Tuna Kush crossed with Blueberry, out of western Canada, and no published account names the breeder. Sources put a piney, fruity nose over diesel with blueberry underneath, myrcene leading the terpenes, and dense buds shot through with small orange hairs.

Blue Dream crossed with Afgoo, by a breeder nobody has ever put a name to. The berry comes off the Blue Dream side — published accounts describe blueberry with pine behind it, and a smoke closer to diesel and wood.

Selected by the Jungle Boys team in Los Angeles. Published accounts give the cross two ways — Jungle Cake with Gelato, or TK Lato with Jungle Cake — and the name covers several selections, so a jar's background depends on who grew it.

A cross of Skywalker and Fire OG. The nose is kush and spice, with floral notes and a sharp edge of fuel, and pine and citrus come through on the flavour. The buds are dense and blocky under a heavy coat of trichomes.

Grapefruit crossed with Durban Poison, and sold elsewhere as Grapefruit Durban. Durban Poison is a South African landrace sativa named for the port city it came from; the Grapefruit side is the sweet citrus line that circulated on the west coast and in British Columbia. Citrus over a resinous base.

Hash Seed crossed Lemon Butter Biscuits with Super Lemon Haze for this one. The haze side is Super Silver Haze over Lemon Skunk, and the biscuits side runs back through MAC, Magnum Opus and Peanut Butter Breath.

A Green Dot Labs original, crossing Headbanger with Han Solo Burger — which puts OG Kush, Sour Diesel, Chem D and Girl Scout Cookies in its background. Sharp diesel and savoury garlic up front, with cookie dough behind it.

DNA Genetics took a clone-only cut out of Los Angeles and put it into seed. They name OG Kush as the parent and say the rest of the parentage is not known. Earthy, with pine and citrus behind it. It took Best Indica at the 2010 and 2011 Cannabis Cups, and Best Strain in 2011.

Paradise Seeds in Amsterdam built Pandora from an Afghan landrace, an Indian sativa and a ruderalis, which makes it one of their early autoflowering varieties. Humulene and caryophyllene lead, and the sweetness picks up a spicy edge after the cure.

The one published account we found gives the cross as AK-47 with Mango and White Widow. Grape-shaped forest-green nugs with amber undertones, thin golden hairs, and a heavy coat of trichomes. Sweet sugary berry on the nose, with woody pine and a spicy, earthy edge behind it.

Three parents, not two: Chem's Sister, Sour Dubb, Chocolate Diesel. GG Strains put them together in Nevada in 2013, and the result is also sold as Original Glue. Sharp diesel, a faint cocoa note behind it, and enough resin to earn the name.

Mendo Breath, from Gage Green Genetics in 2013 — Mendo Montage crossed with OG Kush Breath, which puts Mendo Purps and Purple Urkle on one side and OG Kush and Girl Scout Cookies on the other. Dense flower with purple through it, and a confectioner's nose: vanilla, caramel, brown sugar.

Dynasty Seeds crossed The Cough, a clone-only Northern Lights #5 and Haze cut out of Colorado, with their own Ms. Universe #10. Caramel and haze lead the nose, with spice and fruit behind, and pepper comes through on the flavour.

A Cinderella 99 descendant, selected out for the citrus that gave it its name. C99 came from Brothers Grimm out of Jack Herer and Shiva Skunk, so this shares a grandparent with the Jack Herer on our own shelf. Limonene leads.

Big Buddha Seeds put Blueberry over a Cheese line that traces back to Skunk #1 and Afghani. The Cheese half brings the funk and the Blueberry half the sweet fruit. It placed third at both the 2006 Cannabis Cup and the 2006 IC 420 Growers Cup.

A selection out of the original Runtz cross — Gelato #33 with Zkittlez — picked by the Runtz Crew in California for its deep colour and its grape-and-berry side. Sweet fruit syrup from the Zkittlez half, creamy gas from the Gelato half.

Native Flower lists this one as an indica. We could not find a published account of its background that we were willing to stand behind, so there is nothing here about lineage or aroma. Ask at the counter — we will tell you about the jar in front of you.

GreenLabel Seeds' cross of Big Bud Skunk with Jack Herer, so the name is just both parents. Fluffy, open buds rather than tight ones, under thick resin. Sweet and spicy on the nose, with earth underneath.

Sunset Sherbet crossed with Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, out of the Bay Area work of the Cookie Family and Sherbinskis. Phenotype 33 is the one that stuck, nicknamed Larry Bird for the jersey number. Compact, dense flower true to its Cookies side.

Honey Badger Haze from Dynasty Seeds, who crossed C99 with White Widow and put the result to Ms. Universe #10. The nose moves through pine, peach, citrus, honey and caramel, haze, vanilla and cherry, with the balance changing from one phenotype to the next. Lime and peach lead the flavour.

Seed Junky Genetics crossed Sherbert Bx1 with Gelato 41 for this one — both parents trace back to Sunset Sherbet, so the sweet, fruity citrus-and-berry character comes from both sides at once. Leafly named it their strain of the year for 2022.

3rd Coast Genetics' cross of Cookies and Cream with Secret Weapon, sold as Oreoz and as Oreo Cookies. Chocolate and a hint of vanilla on the nose.

A phenotype selected out of Ed Rosenthal Super Bud, which Sensi Seeds released in 2006 from a mix of African, Afghani, Hindu Kush, Mexican and Thai landraces. Tropical on the nose, as the name says — pineapple over a diesel undertone.

A cross of Dominican sativa, White Russian and an unknown indica. This one is a bit more pungent than any other Pedro's we have come across. A little bit of spice on the nose, sweet on the exhale.

A clone-only cut that also goes by Platinum Kush, first seen on the West Coast in the early 1990s. An Afghani is one parent. The published accounts disagree on the other, naming Master Kush, Hindu Kush or OG Kush.

Three parents rather than two: Chem's Sister, Sour Dubb and Chocolate Diesel. The line came out of Nevada and is published as Original Glue as well. Diesel first, with chocolate and coffee sitting under it. Similar to GG4 but has a much stronger OG smell and a different grower.

CSI Humboldt bred this one back to itself over successive generations to lock in the phenotype they were after: a hard citrus profile and a sturdy plant. Around sixty-five days in flower, and the nose is exactly what the name promises.