‘Twas given me by a friend last night around a small outside fire. Pre-roll. This was before the snow.
Curio says this Rum Pie strain leans sativa but most of the references online classify it as a 60/40 indica. The genetics are intriguing: Mandarin Cookies x (I-95 x Chemdog).
Whenever I see Mandarin Cookies in a lineage I get interested. I went through an eighth of Mandarin Cookies earlier this year, a most enjoyable experience. It created that “baked” effect by which I am relaxed, curious, carefree, open. I have not seen straight-up Mandarin Cookies since but if I see it listed as a strain’s parent I’ll give that strain a try.
I also know I-95 x Chemdog—as a parent, not as a standalone strain. It’s one of the parents of 91 Bacio, a Fig Farms creation. The Chemdog in this cross is ChemD. I-95 is Triangle Kush x (Legend OG x Stardawg IX2). It’s the phenotype of Stardawg named after Corey Haim. Source: Seedfinder, link here.
I was always curious why it was named after Corey Haim. The best explanation I found is on the Greenpoint Seeds site. (Link here.). Top Dawg seeds created Stardawg. Greenpoint worked it further. They say the phenotype was named after the tragic child star because it is the “black sheep” of the Star Dawg family. As they put it, “The moniker suggests a strain that is ‘too much for most to handle.'”
Anyway, this post is about Rum Pie so let’s get this thing back on track! If you can’t tell I am slowly becoming quite baked, my mind happily drifting from one curiosity to another.
This is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Five inches of wet snow fell early this morning. After a pleasant evening around the small bonfire last night, we awoke this morning into a totally transformed winter landscape—surreal.
The effects of the Rum Pie are direct, strong, and even. I cannot recall seeing Curio offer Rum Pie as an eighth but I’d pick some up if I saw it on a menu. I’m also now interested in any of the offspring of Top Dawg’s Chemdog x I-95 cross. There are three I know of: this Rum Pie, the aforementioned 91 Bacio from Fig Farms (which sadly seems to be retired), and a strain called Dirty Taxi, which is GMO x (Chemdog x I-95). Illicit in Missouri has put out some Dirty Taxi but I never picked any up—the name seemed kind of off-putting! I need to stop ruling out strains just because the name doesn’t interest me.
It’s dark out there now. The sun has gone down but the snow reflects what light there is, keeping it a little brighter than it would otherwise be. 16:59, 11.29.2025.
This description of the Corey Haim pheno of Stardawg/Star Dawg on the Greenpoint Seeds site is making for an interesting read. They talk about how I-95 came to be, there’s a lot of Chemdog/Chemdawg history included. You have to click the “description” tab on the page (link).
I like their description of what they call the “hairspray” terpene profile of the Corey Haim pheno. They write, “That is the single most common descriptor for the Corey Haim pheno. It smells of aerosol chemicals, burnt plastic, and raw garlic. It lacks the tropical sweetness of the Guava; this is pure, industrial funk.” I have not used “burnt plastic” to describe the taste of marijuana smoke but I have a sense of what they are describing, a bitter and harsh taste that I haven’t quite been able to relate.
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