A friend of mine occasionally holds canna-taste testing events near his farm, showcasing and providing samples of all the varieties of phenotypes he has recently been growing. Usually these events are held in person, and similar to wine tastings. Tables are set up with different phenos, cuts, and labels for each respectively. Each sample is usually provided a letter to keep the name a secret. The purpose of this is to prevent the name of the pheno from influencing each guest's sampling perceptions - this keeps things strictly sense oriented.
Each guest is also a judge for the various cannabis samples, and is asked to fill out a form detailing their experiences with each flavor (photo of our filled out forms below the video - DO NOT look at them until the video is complete). The flowers are judged based on smell, flavor, potency, appearance, and then are graded in an overall category. Guests are also asked to compile a list of their top five samples (in this case four), first based on appearance only, and then their overall top five picks.
We have helped with gardening on this farm on a few occasions, but this was out first time hearing about and being invited to one of their canna taste testings. We we honored to oblige. Unfortunately due to covid restrictions, we were not able to experience popping our taste testing cherry in a group social setting, but were instead given a take home version to execute privately. Others that would have been guests of the event were also blessed with this take-home charge.
Canna Taste Test Pheno - Blueberry Muffin
This version of the taste testing involves only this one pheno. We are testing the nuances of each separate cut. Same pheno - 4 separate plants being tested. My friend that hosts these is a botanist and a hardcore geneticist/breeder - always pheno-hunting for the most vigorous and juicy varieties to breed.
Cut #1
Cut #2
Cut #3
Cut #4
The following video documents my version of this Cannabis farm's taste test. I will update here with the name of the farm after I am cleared to do so by the master grower (::update:: farm name: Thud Buds). Please enjoy this video outlining the nuances of the flavor profiles, comparisons of bud structures, and variances in potency and levels of overall phenotype accuracy vs. originality characteristics.
Click pic or link below to play my canna-test video for Blueberry Muffin
Here is my filled out judge form
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high THC looks from the picture.
Actually it is more on the average side for potency, but the flavor and smell are top notch.
did you spray any for a % estimate?
This pheno has not yet been tested, but I can tell from years of being a connoisseur.
Dude this is making me drool, I'm missing this living here in the Philippines maybe I need to take a holiday and come be one of the taste testers:)
Haha doesn't sound like a terrible idea. Where did you used to live?
In the southwest of the UK, Newquay Cornwall, a small tourist town that's all about surfing, beach BBQ's and chillin.
I was a big grower myself there but here it's off the radar the war on drugs here is much worse than the world gets to hear about, they are killing people in their thousands, it's a sorry state of affairs.
I am sorry to hear that is happening. Intolerance like that needs to cease. Since you are from the UK, do you listen to DubFX?
Iv'e listened to a little DubFX he's pretty good, think he's from Australia which is amazing because they don't produce much good music from there.
Yea he is an outstanding artist.
Yeah this is the future of cannabis, especially in wine country. A day of drinking wine and smoking herb in beautiful country will be something a lot of people would do.
I feel like many people do already. I am down for a canna-wine day any day haha.