I am nearly through the jar. What began as an eighth is now down to what will go into three final joints, each about .4 grams.
I opened the jar almost three weeks ago but the remaining flower still smells funky and pleasant. There is a fruity aroma but there’s also a sharp dankness that is reminiscent of what you would catch wafting out of a tennis ball container—rubber and gasoline. The grind has been exceptionally even. Sticky. A little dense.
The dispensary menu showed a photo of a green Cresco container for this Pineapple Punch but when I picked it up, the man behind the counter pulled a red-topped container from the bag. Sativa? Yes, I’d call it sativa leaning. 65/35. That is one characteristic of the Pineapple Punch strain that makes it somewhat uncommon: it delivers sativa effects without first taking the smoker through anything too racy or confrontational. I was smoking this flower within a couple weeks of putting the late great Hugo to sleep, and if ever there was something that a strong sativa was going to throw at me, force me to deliberate upon (further) it would be that. Except with Pineapple Punch it was a clear sail.
It’s a gentle, buzzy high. I burned one joint of Pineapple Punch while hiking with a friend. This friend vapes THC but doesn’t smoke flower too often. He enjoyed the effects as well. I was also happy doing work around the house and out in the yard after smoking Pineapple Punch. I took several Pineapple Punch joints with me on a short camping trip. That was a perfect setting for burning this strain. It has, indeed, been a “disappearing eighth.”
I am not 100% sure I have the lineage correct. Cresco can sometimes be very stingy releasing the identity behind its crosses. It appears that the Pineapple Punch strain is derived from crossing Pineapple Express with Durban Poison. This makes sense considering Pineapple Express is perhaps Cresco’s flagship flower strain. And Durban shows up in some of their other crosses. There is another version of Pineapple Punch from Flying Dutchmen that crosses Real McCoy with Skunk #1. Source: Seedifinder. Real McCoy has some Hawaii in it, so it is conceivable that this is also the Cresco Pineapple Punch. I wish Cresco had a better strain library on its site. They tout a “House of Strains” page but all it does is take you either to the dispensary menus of Jane or Sunnyside. There is no “House of Strains” that I can access. If anyone can help me out here, or set me straight on the true lineage of Cresco’s Pineapple Punch, leave me a comment.
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