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Bred by JJ at Top Dawg Seeds and grown by Lume in Michigan, the Chem de la Chem has become my favorite Chem cut. This batch tested at 33.3% THC, .06% CBD, and 2.78% terps - it's a strongy! Nugs have big calyxes and big trichome heads that look like grains of sugar, with excellent coverage; smells like a delectable combination of sweetness and creaminess, like an almost-vanilla smell, with a hard chemical edge and a faint herbal smell that comes through intermittently. But the smell is primarily sweet and super creamy, tastes the same; you cannot help but love the smell and taste of CDLC. If you've never experienced "creamy" weed before, CDLC is your huckleberry. And the high is nuanced because it hits in a way that is both strong and smooth, like a velvet-covered sativa sledgehammer. It begins with a little change in the body, a lightening of the shoulders, before the initial head change arrives with a nice and stony brain buzz that seems to gel serendipitously with everything (as long as you don't have to do anything). This is not a "get things done" kind of sativa but it's instead a nighttime sativa, a very stony & psychedelic sativa hybrid with some swimminess in the body, and it's a long-lasting high. The high reminds me of ECSD (my favorite), it's both extremely stony & psychedelic AND euphoric & relaxing, it doesn't jack up your heart rate or make you feel like jumping out of your skin. Goes perfectly with music, as I went straight to Mozart's 41st Symphony when I first smoked this CDLC; it turns music into a mystical, psychic journey. This is a connoisseur's strain.

So I got some "Chem Dawg" from Carbon in Michigan, IDK which Chem cut it is. It's gorgeous bud; we're talking nugs in multiple shades of green with BIG calyxes and rivers of shiny trichomes flowing between them. I've never seen trichome distribution quite like this; we're talking big, sparkly nugs that glisten like they went to the mall in the 1980's and had some glamour shots taken, it's some of the best looking weed I've ever seen. The smell is interesting for a Chem - it smells like sweet coffee with a note of caramel, like an almost-cappucino smell. It tastes like it smells and it hits very hard; I got blazed from one bowl, it's much more of a cerebral stone but it's also relaxing in the body, a strong sativa hybrid. It's a super stony space cadet kind of high, great for music or movies when relaxing in the evening. I put on my headphones and the Andante from Mozart's 40th Symphony was like a psychedelic trip across the universe, my own 2026 Space Odyssey. We have to keep the Chems around because it's some of the most potent weed in ze history of getting stoned!

First, clarification: Blueberry Hashplant is classic Blueberry x California Hashplant, it's definitely not a Blue Dream cross. My cut came from Pure Ohio Wellness; they call it "Blue Blast" or "Mad River Kush" (under the Locally Grown brand) but it's the Blue Hashplant, in any event. I love this strain; I am Blueberry-sensitive, I love Blueberry and outcrosses thereof, and this is one of my favorite Blueberry outcrosses that lean indica. The nose on this flower is the familiar earthy/danky myrcene musk of Blueberry mixed with the spicy/incensy hashplant smell - it really takes me back to the old school "danky" weed smell turned up to 11. Smoked out of a pipe it has a danky/earthy/spicy & peppery incense taste - very nice - but I hate the way it tastes in a joint, it tasted like a mixture of charcoal and dirt; hashplant flavors can be kind of nuanced that way, for better and worse. Oddly, it also has a strongly sweet blueberry aftertaste. But the high is outstanding - like I said, I'm Blueberry-sensitive and the Blue Hash is a very hard hitter in my experience, it is a straight narcotic body high that buzzes and relaxes my whole body. The first time I smoked it, I was sitting back listening to Chopin's Nocturnes on my headphones and I thought, "The only thing better than Blueberry is Blueberry with hashplant in it." And I get the best sleep of my life on it, like all Blueberry cuts it's a myrcene bomb and it's a great medicinal strain. The Blueberry Hashplant is a blue ribbon strain IMO; it's one of my favorite indicas and it will certainly be appreciated by cannabis connoisseurs and Blueberry fans.

I picked up some Sour Chem OG grown by Modern Flower in Ohio. Good looking nugs, up front you smell the Sour Diesel loud and clear with the spicy OG Kush smell on the back end. Tastes like Sour Diesel and the high is straight from the sour side as well, I would classify this as a sativa hybrid with mildly relaxing indica effects on the side. It's very stony and great for listening to music in my experience, I love the Chem Dog family and I would definitely buy this one again.

First thing's first: Squirt and Dirty Squirt are not the same strain, they have different genetics. That being said, I got a zip of some outdoor Squirt from Michigan and I'm really digging it. I love the original Grapefruit and crosses from it like Grapefruit Sour Dream, those sweet & sour grapefruit terps are some of my favorite terps in cannabis. But this Squirt strain doesn't have those typical Grapefruit terps; it's much more sour and bitter like the aftertaste from grapefruit, that bitter taste of rind. But I love it! Smells like sour bitter grapefruit rind, tastes like sour grapefruit with notes of carbonation (like soda). It's incredible to encounter the taste of carbonated grapefruit soda in a joint, but Squirt has it in spades. It reminds me of a Blueberry cut I had that smelled and tasted like champagne, these carbonation/champagne terps are somewhat rare in cannabis. But the high of Squirt is a classic mellow sativa high; it's euphoric, uplifting, and moderately stony, comparable to Pineapple Express or Jack. This is a great strain for during the day or chilling at night, it's a mellow sativa that isn't real stony but it isn't racy, either, and it makes for a good general purpose smoke. I would definitely buy Squirt again.

O-H - SSO! This is an official Ohio strain, Buckeye Relief has another gem here. Really good-looking nugs; they are light green with dense trichome coverage and clusters of dark orange hairs. Love the nose on the Super Sour Orange - it's a strong sour orange peel/orange soda smell with some earthy dankness (like freshly cut grass) to it; no discernible gas or chem. You can definitely ascertain the African orange in the SSO, the high is uplifting, euphoric, and a little racy; moderately stony. This is one I want to smoke before playing guitar or when I go hiking, definitely a good daytime action-oriented sativa.

Hiker's Blend has become my favorite daytime sativa here in Ohio. You get the best of both parents; it's an uplifting, euphoric, clear-headed daytime sativa buzz like Jack Herer with the spicy minty gas from the Tahoe OG side. We are accustomed to mellow daytime sativas that smell and taste like sweet/fruity/astringent terpinolene, from strains like Pineapple Express, Green Crack, Sour Diesel, Grapefruit, and soooo many others, so it is real nice to get a mellow daytime sativa that tastes like OG Kush, it's a spicy taste that reminds me of sage, cloves, and sometimes cinnamon. And it's the perfect daytime sativa buzz IMO, it's uplifting, euphoric, and energizing without being racy or otherwise anxiety-inducing. It's not very stony, but that's not what Hiker's Blend is for - this is a daytime activity strain, this is one you smoke before playing guitar, mowing the yard, plowing the fields or...hiking, for that matter. I smoked Hiker's Blend while hiking in an old growth Ohio forest and it was one of the most Ohioan things I've ever done.

So I picked up a zip of outdoor Blue Runtz for $15 retail, grown by GRIP Cannabis in Michigan. I can't believe the value GRIP is delivering with their outdoor ounces, for a large commercial outdoor grow this is really good weed (and the price is unbeatable). No sign of bugs or mold, smells like blueberry candy with a nice earthiness behind it. The taste is the inverse of the smell; it has this earthy taste that reminds me of old school dank from the 90's and 2000's, with the blueberry candy taste behind it. And the effects are straight from the Blueberry side, since Blueberry tends to pass its strong indica potency as a dominant trait; it's a comprehensive indica buzz that I feel throughout my entire body, all muscle soreness is gone and it gets me slumped. Definitely a night time strain IMO. This is one of the better Runtz crosses and more companies should be growing it, there's always a place in the market for a modern version of classic Blueberry.

So I picked up some Runtz from Simply Herb in Ohio. 29.3% test, with .15% CBD (surprisingly). It has the quintessential camera-friendly Gelato-esque look that is so characteristic of Runtz genetics; tight, pine tree-shaped indica nugs in shades of light green, forest green, dark green, and purple. Great trichome coverage, nicely sticky to the touch, and it beautifully reeks of candy. I usually think it smells more like grape Skittles than Runtz but it's amazing to have weed that smells like candy, in any event. The other interesting thing about the Runtz terps is that in spite of its candy smell, the terpene profile is technically caryophyllene-dominant, and it really comes out in the taste. Up front on the tip of my tongue, it tastes like candy but there's also a nice (and unexpected) spicy/peppery burn behind it. I smoked half a joint of this Runtz 45 minutes ago and I've still got that spicy candy taste lingering in my mouth, it's quite nice. And it's nicely stony, it's a good hybrid kind of high; I'm stoned and relaxed but not sedated like a strong indica would do. I listened to Mozart's 39th Symphony on my headphones and it was such a delightful trip. I'm not big on all these modern polyhybrids but I do love Runtz and the Runtz family. Some of the Runtz crosses are more potent than the original, such as the Greasy Runtz and the Blue Runtz in my experience, but I love to smoke the original and would definitely buy it again.

So I picked up some ECSD at Highwire Farms in Adrian, Michigan. Grown by Grand Crossing. I've been smoking since high school in 1998 and Sour Diesel is an obviously legendary strain, which means there's a lot of stuff that's proclaimed to be Sour D that isn't, but I was pleasantly surprised by this cut of ECSD. I think it's the real thing, the terps are exactly as I've always heard Sour Diesel described - grapefruity diesel/gas fumes mixed with lemony nail polish remover fumes, turned up to 11; just citrusy and gassy AF, strongly suggesting the Chem Dog lineage popularly ascribed to the original Sour D from the 90s and 2000s. It tastes like citrus gas when I smoke it and it brings the strongest aftertaste of sour patch kids. I love the terps and the taste, but the high is what has established this ECSD as my favorite strain, ever; sativas are my first love in cannabis, and this ECSD absolutely blows my head off in the most stony and psychedelic way...yet the ECSD also brings this sense of zenlike calm, where I'm totally fine with how stoned I am. A lot of strong sativas are racy but ECSD is not; in my experience it doesn't even increase my heart rate. It's just the perfect sativa high IMO, it's strong & stony, psychedelic, peaceful and zen-like, and it lasts for hours. More companies need to be growing the ECSD in legal states, it's a legitimate contender to be one of the greatest sativas ever.