In March, my wife and I drove through New Mexico en route to Tucson. I went into the R Greenleaf in Ruidoso and purchased single grams of seven different strains of cannabis. These are their stories.
Wookies by R Greenleaf
I wish I had gotten more than a gram of this one. It was a $16 gram, the top tier at R Greenleaf. No regrets. It had a danky, stanky aroma. Loud grind that curled my toes. The aroma was deep, acrid, sharp. As I was breaking some up to grind, my palms began to sweat.
The taste did not disappoint. Smoking a .3-gram roll of this Wookies was like smoking a weed stogie. The flavor was spicy like root beer, and chewy.
But it definitely had an indica effect. Wookies laid me down, I was down and out, out and down. In a pleasant way. If I had a half-day to spend in a hammock, this is what I’d puff once I had the hammock set up.
The Wookies lineage is White 91 X Girl Scout Cookies. Source: link here. I haven’t seen any Wookies on menus recently in Missouri or Illinois. If you are a fan of strains derived from The White, Wookies is probably as close as you can get to a taste of The White.
Permanent Marker by Sandia
Smoked the first roll of this as a night cap, 20:55. It was a bit sharp without any flavor to speak of. I was listening to college basketball, those early tourney games that go all day and night. There was strong late carry from the Permanent Marker. I re-read my short birding essay that has now been published on the Advanced Leisure site (link here). Had some vodka, caught a second wind. The Marker was good. Buzzy. I liked the Wookies better but there wasn’t anything wrong with the effects from the Permanent Marker. It just didn’t have that namesake taste. Not like the Permanent Marker I got last year in Tucson, from Alien/Connected.
Banana Macaroon by High Noon Cult
I loved this bud. It was very soft, and skinny. Tasted great. Probably my favorite of the seven strains I bought. I smoked some before we even got to Tucson. I wrote a full strain review of Banana Macaroon, which you can read here. Definitely would buy again. Even breaking it up, the aroma was so fruity and creamy. Dessert in the desert. I could have just breathed in the aroma of that flower all day. Lots of red hairs on the flower, distinctive. Sticky. Unusual and a real treat.
The Fizz by Psycho Somatic
Fruity-smelling bud that made for a nice roll. Strong stuff. Sherb Cake x Strawberry Guava. Might have been my second favorite of the seven. I also wrote an entire strain review devoted to The Fizz, which you can read here. Psycho Somatic, or maybe the grower is just called Somatic. They were new to me. There seems to be a lot of turnover in New Mexico re: growers and brands. More than in other states. That’s part of why I just wanted to try grams from a variety of growers/brands. I’d try more from Somatic after trying their Fizz.
Chemmy Jones by Enchanted Botanicals
The bud looked good from the start. Had some dank to it. I hadn’t seen anything from Enchanted offered by the gram before. Chemmy Jones is a strain I knew from Missouri. Knew and liked. It was grown/sold in Missouri by In the Flow, a brand that seems to have left Missouri. So when I saw Chemmy Jones on the menu in Ruidoso, I was immediately intrigued. These appear to be the same genetics (clones or seeds) that spawned the Chemmy I had in Missouri. I wrote a review of that jar last year on this site, which you can find here.
The Enchanted Chemmy Jones had a nice pine/citrus aroma upon grinding. It was a nice grind: even with the right color and texture. My notes show I sparked a joint of this Chemmy at 16:10 on March 25th in Tucson. It was a spitter. It did have a chemmy taste, similar to what I remember from the Chemmy Jones I knew from Missouri. I was biding my time in the desert. It was 95°, warm for March even in Arizona. I got high and wondered what I was going to do with myself. Chewing away at the wood of life, human termite, surviving, not just twisting away.
I liked the Chemmy. It produced an existential, reflective high. I was listening to music, waiting for some company to come over. My dad had fallen out of his wheelchair that morning, back in Illinois, at the nursing home he is still in. Fell out of his wheelchair at breakfast, took a header, got sent to the hospital. Apparently he was OK.
Thinking about that had me crying. One of those highs, and I was ready for it. I don’t mind crying when I’m high. Let the emotion flow. I was pretty high, churning. Seemed as good as the Missouri Chemmy Jones and I’d get it again.
The lineage is Chemdog D x Casey Jones. The Casey Jones parentage brings in some Trainwreck influence (source: Seedfinder, link here). This is probably one of the strains that gets a person closest to Trainwreck, if you are a fan.
I also bought grams of Gelato Pebbles and Garlic Breath. Neither made an impression upon me, so I am not going to review them. The Garlic Breath by Pi Strategies was an $8 gram, and it was dry. I didn’t even smoke all of it. The Gelato Pebbles was an R Greenleaf gram. It looked nice, spongy. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle. I might still have some of it in my Tucson stash jar. I was interested in its genetics: Gelato on one side with Trainwreck influence on the other (via Fruity Pebbles).
All in all, I was happy with my purchase of seven different strains, one gram each. If R Greenleaf is still offering a wide array of grams next time I pass through Ruidoso, I will try something similar. My favorites were the Banana Macaroon by High Noon Cult, the Wookies from R Greenleaf, and the Chemmy Jones from Enchanted. The Fizz was strong and the Permanent Marker was good. Five out of seven is a fine showing.
Weeds of Grass 