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This Sour D is from BASA on Divisadero and Grove in SF. Great area; 4505 Meats is next door and the Bean Bag Cafe is an awesome coffeehouse on the next corner downhill on Divizzle. Sunday mornings there's a farmers market in front of BASA with really unique produce like cantaloupes in honeydew shells and blood orange. It's outdoor, maybe a long grow with how dewy with THC the hairs and leaves are. I'm writing this now because of the taste: it leaves a taste like squeezing an orange or lemon peel into your mouth! (the peel, not the fruit) It's pithy, tart and crisp, how quality Sour Diesel is. Hmmm.... meditating on it, I think some of the appeal with Sour Diesel is that last descriptor, the crispness. The lasting impression, that sour taste, works as a balancing note on the high. Y'all know what I mean, right? Not sobering per se, but the taste is a grounding element when you smoke Sour D. To be totally honest, reserved people looking for a sativa without catching giggles might dig Sour D. The distinct flavor profile is also something people can use as a baseline for personal research. Like my dude Illsburry sez, "in my HUMBLE opinion" - ha! Peace, Leafly lifted- U.S., @uzsmalls

This is Key Lime Pie from The Green Cross on Mission, Not a promotional smoke: purchased medicine. Indoor and SATIVA, not indica. (That's a larger point, how these names really get to meaning a consistent thing - or purchase, or product, or strain. Strains I associate with sativa or indica I sometimes find reverse labeled, or retailers rename the supply they buy toward their clientele's ear, or call it something cool. The thing about "O.G." being ocean grown is something to pin down, verify and label correct. It makes something solid to build a taste wheel around. The taste, the salt hints I or any aware user can pick up in the smell and smoke of O.G. are real products of region, grow method and what plants are fed. That's just one example. Then there's the million things we like or mean when we use different trade names for our herb. I've only written one other review here because the labeling itself can be so problematic, because it doesn't mean the same thing city to city, or even collective to collective. Add to that: one day this will be in doctor's desk drawers or pharmacies, so they're not gonna prescribe you "Cat Piss".) <-- <-- THIS IS IN PARENTHESES. Was bright and crisp out of the jar - the tender said it got in today (Oct 6, 2015). Springy, acridity to the smell, like almost vinegar is something I notice about fresh weed. Not vinegar, but a salad dressing vibe- oil and greens and vinegar... Smokes delicious: not too sweet, but very present even lightly sprinkled in tobacco. Nice acridity to this strain. Then I got some Dutch Treat (the other review I have up here), which smells terrific. It's one of the few strains, really, which I've been able to find with consistent qualities at different times - and even at different dispensaries. This Dutch Treat has the same nose area as the Purple Star one I wrote about, so I hope the smoke will maintain the same rainforest vibe.... Then I got a gram of Cookie Monster kief. 90 somethin dollars. next stop: rainforest....

This will be an especially meaningful herb to New Yorkers: Dutch Treat has a very similar taste to the puré from up in Washington Heights in the 90s n 00s. Literally brought me back to that herb place and time, smoking on the other side of my world nearly 20 years later. SUCH a difficult taste to put into words, to art-iculate, but it is almost like smoking rain, rainwater. - The U.S.