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When you think of a typical, light green fresh looking nugget, with bright orange hairs popping, this flower is just that. Fresh, crisp, clean. Pops. “So very pretty!” as our guest Kyla DuMont squealed. After spending years in the cannabis industry in California and now running her own Maple and CBD company here in Vermont, Kyla knows a thing or two about pretty flowers.
Donated by a newer grower with the beaming excitement of a kid looking at the gifts under the christmas tree, Jay from Longbottom farm out of Plymouth Vermont started growing outdoors only a few seasons ago. From there, the indoor escapades began with seeds popping and lessons learned! Today’s cannabis is named Sundae brunch, a Sundae Driver x Mimosa cross bred by Woodstock Farmacy
We always start a quick survey of the appearance and an overall visual inspection, eyeing up the candy. As we noted, this particular nugget was visually very pleasing.
As we moved onto aroma, the nose, we all came to find our chatter resounding around the famous mothball smell, or maybe grandma’s talc and the smell of fresh cannabis and mowed hay. Initially, the intensity was mild.
As we dug our noses deeper (not the nose picking you might think of), the complexity was intriguing to say the least.
In the layers of aromas noted, earth was prevalent with both a fuel and a fruit kick that left us wondering where this was going. As a group, we always come back to the aroma assessment, description and complexity rating after grinding up the flower when prepping for consumption, the joint (the best part to many). For some, the best part is the aroma hands down (or nose up, depending…?). To all, please note that the aromas can change a lot from a nugget in hand to a ground up pickle, so be sure to check out next time if you don’t normally.
But before grinding or before handling the flower too much, we want to assess the appearance more, and the trichomes specifically.
Whipping out our trusty jewelers’ loupe and scopes to look further, we were excited that this sample had a moderately dense forest of trichomes coating this fresh looking flower, tip to stem. (Moderate is a great assessment, it’s only the far and few outliers that would be called straight up dense)! It was just as pretty to see up close under the microscope/ jeweler’s loupe as it was to the naked eye. Pretty seemed to be the buzz word of the night, or the bizz of the nugget.
The trichomes were glistening milky white boasting what we would likely call on the moderate side of maturity, with many intact that were beaming with resin just waiting to be enjoyed. Before we did enjoy it though, we continued to discuss the trim job, noting these flowers were neatly trimmed, and optimal for our liking. Feminine grooming is a very personal thing, with this crew at times feeling differently about what we like, but we all agreed, this beautiful lady was trimmed with love and care (“Ya know, the landing strip was just right!” as one of the reviewers commented).
When we opened the flower, breaking it up for the grind, the earthy and herby aroma had undertones of pepper and spice, which seemed to compliment what some of us thought were grapefruit and licorice undertones. Sweet, almost cake like, with a hint of fuel punched through when ground up. The aroma left us feeling sophisticated and complex for sure!
Once we sparked our joint, the complexity waned, with sweet being the prevailing and dominating taste. “Tastes like sugar…like Pixy Sticks.” Almost a generic but comforting sweetness. The aftertaste was that of those aforementioned famous moth balls, and the final conclusion was, “tastes like weed!”
After our joints and all weighing in on the effects, we were collectively left with what we would consider a balanced, happy mood with a gentle level of intensity.
Kyla, our guest reviewer shared how great and fun it was to look at, smell and break this up, such a fun experience and flower to enjoy, but this might not be top on her list to get again. The general consensus agreed, rated this high on the munchy scale, with “ice cream sandwiches being killed” in conversation (likely in reality soon after).
With a lip-numbing effect and the other reviewers mentioning a bit of a burning of their throats when using a pipe, it left us wondering about the synthetic nutrients that the grower listed as being used. At times, synthetic nutrients are not “flushed” or removed towards the end of the growth cycle and before harvest, leaving a harsher smoke.
It’s always invaluable information to gather as much specifics as you can from the grower while assessing cannabis, even though judging blindly can be a hoot and a whole lot of fun (and preferred by most cannabis cups). This cannabis was harvested on 6/27/22 using synthetic nutrients and artificial light, was packaged on 7/18/22 and reviewed by us at High Tea Society on 8/11/22
For a new grower, Longbottom farms sure does make some pretty and potent smelling flowers! Keep on growing Jay…we can’t wait to see how much your knowledge and plants grow every year!