Tag: Face Off strain

Crazy Hazy by Island

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This was the only purchase of Island bud I have made. They shorted me. I weighed it out to 3.4 grams. I haven't avoided Island; they just weren't on the Beyond/Hello menu that much in 2025. I haven't ventured out to any other Illinois dispensaries but I know they are out there (Shiloh, Collinsville, Troy). I also buy in Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona, so I am trying here and there throughout the year.

The Crazy Hazy was nice looking bud. It was a strain that I found pleasant to grind up. It had that feel of being "right." So I'll see how the effects are on this, my last or penultimate joint from the eighth. I will try to use the effects as motivation to do something useful. Crazy Hazy was dubbed a sativa on the dispensary menu but my sources for lineage online indicate it as an indica. For what that is worth! The breeder is Archive Seed Bank (link to Seedfinder page here). They spell the Hazy with another "e" i.e. "Crazy Hazey."

The lineage is unusual. One parent is an unknown strain called Big Sur Holy Weed. I have an image of the 1970s in my mind, VW buses and the West Coast. The other parent is Face Off OG x Moonbow #75. I have tended to like Face Off crosses/descendants. Animal Face being one, Do-Si-Dos being another.

Anyway, I am feeling the need to get up and make some preparations for the continuing cold and the oncoming snow. It is going to snow tonight, tomorrow, and on into Sunday. Only five inches if we are lucky...


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The Blue Face Strain by Fig Farms

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Jar Opening, 8.14.2025, 9:48

I am opening a jar of the Blue Face strain of cannabis grown by Fig Farms. I bought this eighth from Beyond Hello in Sauget, IL, back in October of last year. I have smoked one or two jars of Rythm's Animal Face along the way so I felt like I was "covered" when it comes to Animal Face, which is what Blue Face is: it's the blue phenotype of the Animal Face strain. Source: Fig Farms site.

This strain was bred by Seed Junky Genetics. The lineage is Face Off OG x Animal Mints. Fig Farms says that of all the strains they grow, Blue Face is the most difficult one to grow. They call it an indica.

The package date is 8.30.2024. The nugs look good. There are five of them. The inner wafer seal on the glass jar was intact when I twisted off the cap. A stanky aroma rose up out of the jar smelling like skunky piney funk. The flower weighed out to 3.43 grams. Shorted by Aeriz again.

The nugs are fluffy, lighter than they look. There's some stickiness. It was a good cure. The grind is pleasant to look at. It's a very even grind. There is a blue tint, if you squint.

Flower of the Blue Face strain, from Fig Farms. An "eighth" weighing in at 3.43 grams.

F-ed up on Blue Face: the effects

This flower did F me up, made me emotional, gave me the high-deas. The smoke was strong, potent. It dropped me down rabbit holes. I wrote, "Rabbit holes but yes, that's why we smoke this shit."

I kept looking over my shoulder wondering when I was going to get found out, have someone discover how high I was.

The strength of the effects begged the comparison: of three Animal Face strains I've smoked, which one would I rank as being the best? There's Rythm's Animal Face (link here to my short review), Fig Farm's Animal Face, and then this blue pheno of Animal Face from Fig Farms aka Blue Face.

I'd say Rythm's Animal Face is at least tied for first. The Blue Face might be as good. I never wrote much about the jar of Fig Farms Animal Face I smoked. There wasn't anything wrong with it but if I saw all three on a menu and I could only get two, I'd get Rythm's Animal Face and the Fig Farms Blue Face. There is currently some Blue Face on the menu in Sauget and I have added it to my cart. Next time I am over in Illinois, I will pick up a jar and perhaps I will take better notes allowing me to add more details, effects, experience to this review.

Walking stick hanging out on an August day in St. Louis County, MO.

(**Note: cover photo is of a juvenile five-lined skink, link here for more info)

Animal Face by Rythm

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Animal Face making me emotional. But it feels good. It was the Rx. This is really happening. Is this really happening? The strawberries are soft against my rounding, offset jaw. I listen to the same album again again.

There are no imperfect circles. Nothing burns in reverse. A late (for me) chillum of Animal Face and I'm energized anew. Tired but space-flirty. 10:46. It's 10:46. I took a nap earlier. That's the only reason I'm still awake. That phase in my life when I worried about the weather.

It has happened, it just hasn't happened yet. Are you playing mind games? No, that was a word game. Is there a difference? Half a samara falls into her empty cup of wine. A great crowd emerging under your blue feather.

The quick ground of every morning.

Animal Face might be my jam. I am silly high, alone, and that is the last of my jar. Ripped through it, wasted some of it too drunk or already high on something else. The sativa-esque head rush right away is intense, unparalleled. Then you want to sit down for the rest of the evening. Maybe drink a little wine and at some point have something to eat...


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