This is a review of the cannabis strain called Butterscotch Bacio, as grown by High Noon Cult and sold at the R Greenleaf dispensary in Ruidoso, NM in early June 2024 (right before the fires)…
That was a strong writing riff this last hour. Pulling notes from memory. Like I used to do.
That Bacio can’t be bad. It had a sweet creaminess that developed into a lemony citrus exhale. Piney. Maybe piney even more so than lemony. Piney citrus after a slightly doughy sweet cream.
It burned well out of that glass one-ee I bought at the same shop for $5. Sure, I have glass pieces. But I was en route to Tucson from St. Louis. I am careful about what I drive through Kansas with.
Tragedy befell the towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs a couple of days after we left there, having spent just one night, at the Best Western Pine Springs in Ruidoso Downs. It’s a cool, old hotel. It’s not fancy but it’s in a great spot and the price is right.
The road we took west out of there is closed, under threat from the South Fork and the Salt Fires, which kicked up quickly Monday and then then really throughout yesterday just west of Ruidoso, on Mescalero Reservation land. Very few additional details are available.
Back to the Bacio.
It might have that Burma/Sunset Sherb bite in its ancestry but I didn’t feel overwhelmed by a racing mind or paranoid thinking. Maybe the coffee I was drinking helped keep me centered or maybe that’s just not what Bacio is about.
I was initially listening to a Cardinals vs. Marlins baseball game but I abandoned it completely forty-five minutes ago after Arenado was hit by a pitch and left the game.
The Bacio has been an excellent ride and I am still not off of it. I’m back inside now, the AC is humming, Hugo is on the floor, my wife’s parents are here and there, she is reading in the back. It is Tucson in June. This desert at its hottest and driest.
It’s a smooth smoke. No coughing, no dryness of throat, no scratch or tickle. This flower is altogether pleasant and useful.
I have been buying and sampling more Gelato-derived strains this year. I wasn’t interested in them when I first began seeking out particular cannabis strains. The desert names didn’t turn me on. If I had any of them, it was some Sunset Sherbet I bought here last year (sold as Sonoran Sherbet) that touched off a bit too much paranoia and negativity in my mind when I smoked it. I didn’t stay paranoid for long but I’d still like to avoid even a moment of that mindset if I can.
Instead of a bite, the Bacio high was like an engine running, a palm waving in the back of my mind. It has fueled euphoric high that is stretching into its third hour. It’s slightly racy at times but I’ve been able to channel that into reading, research, and writing about this desert. This takes me back to my twenties, when I would get high and read and write all day, not a care in the world.
I consider this strain to be a straight up hybrid. I was focused and energetic. Not sleepy or stoned or sluggish. Not heavy, not laden. But not too racy either, not flitting around. Comfortable around other people, in control of what my mind was doing.
Lineage
I do not have this on good authority. But I believe the High Noon Cult Butterscotch Bacio is a cross of Bacio Gelato and Burnt Toast. Bacio Gelato is also known as Gelato #41. It results from a cross of Sunset Sherbet and Thin Mint Cookies so its building blocks include OG Kush, Burma sativa, and F1 Durban. The Burnt Toast side brings in another cut of Kush in Face Off OG, and a different cut of the Cookies, with something called Berners Cookies. It drops the Burma. Too much Burma sativa probably can be a bad thing.
I’ll say it. This Butterscotch B has me much more interested in Gelato 41 and its crosses. I would buy this again from High Noon Cult, but I would stress that I expect an eighth of cannabis flower to weight at least 3.5 grams. This purchase weighed in at 3.43 grams.
Abundant Organics, an Arizona grower, also grows and sells Butterscotch Bacio. I have purchased a jar here in Tucson but I have not yet cracked that seal. I will deliver a review, or at least a quick comparison, when I do.
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