In my continued exploration of CBX’s Sativa strains, I got the chance to look at Heirbloom, one of the sub-labels to the brand’s main offering, which aims to showcase classing examples of the most famous and best-loved strains throughout the vast history of growing cannabis.
Cultivated by the team at CBX, Heirloom is focused on bringing old school classics or “heirbloom” strains and showcasing them to the rest of us at top level quality. These cultivars are behind the incredible variety we see in today’s market.
The lineup has been meticulously curated with the goal of bringing the most special and beloved cultivars to market with the Cannabiotix hallmark standards of excellence in place. By applying the same level of diligence, care and love for the plant as they do with all their other flowers, the aim is deliver a product which the community can rely on for consistency.
Originally said to have been bred out of Athens, Georgia in the 1970’s, Green Crack flower certainly has an interesting heritage and backstory, and offers an equally intriguing terpene profile revolving around Myrcene, its mango and papaya flavors; Caryphollene, cinnamon flavors, and Ocimene which is floral.
It’s a really unusual combination I haven’t come across before, and results in a truly fantastic flower, one of true beauty which is unmatched in quite a few ways. Even though its name is interesting, I always found it to be off-putting and therefore avoided it whenever I saw it on dispensary menus.
When I grew up smoking cannabis in England, there was a particular batch one summer, not long after my group of friends and I discovered we could get access to buying flower, instead of the more routine hashish we were accustomed to smoking.
While I never heard the strain given any name, as is quite common in England, I had heard from someone in the group who knew the dealer, and did ask the dealer at one point I believe – it was called White Rhino.
It was so ridiculously strong, it kept us zoned out throughout our first ecstasy trips at a group getaway in the SouthWest, for days on end. It made one of us fall down a set of stairs.
Anyway, I digress, so my point is that in those times I really couldn’t distinguish what something like a good Sativa or Indica flower was, or how it looked, or smelled or tasted, or what its effects should be, or anything like that.
Like many people out there I just knew it as “weed” that I liked.
Even then however I did have a very primitive idea of flower tasting like a certain terp, from time to time. One of my best and earliest experiences was smoking this White Rhino and the Green Crack is as close to that in terms of flavor and effects as I’ve been able to come across since I was in my teenage years.
One of the best flowers I ever tried during those years was some type of lemon haze which came to me by way of The Who lead singer Roger Daltrey’s friends, but that’s another story for another time. Like many other things when you’re 18 years old, they sort of fade into the distance and you forget about them.
But that was until I got the chance to try Green Crack by Heirbloom. It burns so effortlessly in the bong, it’s like the flower has wings, it’s epic. It’s aroma is so rich and inviting I want to live inside the jar it comes in.
On that note, the jars are housed in sturdy cardboard boxes, fittingly decked out in 70s sunset orange with deep red metallic font, pleasingly cube-shaped, which unfold into posters containing psychedelic designs inside.
I was able to use it in place of my usual Indica at night, and it provided a euphoric and cerebral hit which lifted my mood at the very outset, followed by a low warm buzzing feeling across my head and body for the rest of the evening.
This is such a great experience because for me, out of all the Sativa strains I’ve been putting under the microscope lately, it transcended the categories of either Sativa or Indica, and just became that lovely old feeling of having a flower that didn’t need a title, or anything to label it.
It’s such a holistic, warm and beautifully calming flower, which oozes tropical flavors like mango and papaya but has an unmistakably rich and earthy aroma to it as well, like fruit-flavored magic markers.
I would recommend this flower to anyone looking for something that is at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of strength, making it great for beginners, but also veterans who want a more tranquil and slower ride into Malboro country.
Dr. StrainLove is a longtime lover of fine weed and is always hunting for the latest and greatest strains. His search has taken him from the Coffeeshops of Amsterdam to the boutique dispensaries of California, and lots of other places in between. He loves making music, playing video games, and using marijuana to ponder the mysteries of the universe. When he’s not doing those things, he enjoys spending time with his cat.
