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Genetics: Do-Si-Dos x Thin Mints
Company: SinCity Seeds
Grower: Bushy Beard Cultivation
Bushy Beard Cultivation’s strain Dos-Mints from SinCity Seeds presented us with a tightly packed, mature-looking bud.
We should note that many people think you smoke the leaves of the cannabis plant. But in fact, you smoke the female plant’s unpollinated flower – which, when processed, is also known as a bud or nug.
While there are many ways to partake of cannabis, a couple of the easiest, most traditional methods are to smoke pieces of the bud in a pipe or grind it up to roll a joint – which is what we do for our testing process.
The white, frosting-like coating is composed of trichomes – tiny crystals which appear late in the plant’s arc of maturation.
The trichomes are loaded with a very sticky resin that’s full of THC.
When the flower is harvested, all the leaves are removed, but processors try to keep the trichomes intact.
As we inspected our Dos-Mints bud, we noticed that the trichomes were mostly cloudy, rather than clear, and the pistils were a dark reddish purple – which means the cannabis was harvested later in the maturation process.
While our sample had some of the mid-winter dryness you tend to see with Vermont cannabis, it still had good density – though we noticed that the trim was quite close – verging on Brazilian bikini wax – and that some of the trichomes had been chopped off at the head.
Normally, the resin from trichomes will stick to your fingers or cause your grinder to clog up with plant matter. Because many of the trichomes had been partially removed during the trimming process, we encountered no finger-stickiness or grinder-clog – something you might normally expect from quality weed.
Dos-Mints gave off a lovely light green, fruity aroma with a welcoming vibe that even the most tentative cannabis newbie would appreciate.
Whether smoked with a 1-hitter (a small glass pipe) or rolled in a joint, Dos-Mints coated our mouths with a creamy, slightly sour, gently grassy taste, and left us feeling upbeat, happy, energetic, and capable of doing anything from playing music to cleaning the house to going for a walk.
This was a light, kind, yet long-lasting high, great for maintaining thought, speech, and function, and hanging out with friends on or off the couch.
Quote Of The Smoke: “I could do stuff.”