Forbidden Fruit | Buds | 3.5g

Forbidden Fruit makes exile from paradise feel like a fair trade.

Forbidden Fruit is a Tangie × Cherry Pie hybrid commonly credited to Chameleon Extracts in Santa Clara, California. The reported breeding story involves a Crockett Family Farms Tangie female and Cherry Pie pollen supplied by Jigga. The cross is well established in strain records, although the original selection’s history isn’t completely documented.

The attraction is the fruit: sharp citrus, sweet cherry, mango, and a passionfruit-candy note with some actual funk underneath. Earthy musk and pine keep the sweetness from getting one-dimensional. Tangie fans will recognize the nose, but the cherry depth gives this cross its own reason to stay in rotation. This is the kind of flower you smell twice before remembering you were supposed to roll it.

Purple buds, dark green foliage, and orange pistils sit under a generous trichome coat. The color gets your attention; the flavor has to earn the next purchase. A good Forbidden Fruit batch has plenty to say on both counts.

Folks who swear by this one describe a lifted mood with relaxation that gets increasingly physical, sometimes tingly, sometimes sleepy. You can feel happy as hell and still have absolutely no ambition to move. Tangie brought the citrus; Cherry Pie made sure this wasn’t going to be a working lunch. Heavier sessions tend to favor a quiet night over anything requiring follow-through.