Clade9 - Blue Dream
TLDR; not as good as panda farms cut - might be good for newbies/lower tolerance. not sure if they are pheno hunting, but this one does not represent blue dream that well. even the crops cut is better, but crops cut (when they have a good batch) is much more of a thought clouding downer then panda farms. i dont think blue dream should cloud up your mind too much - and clade's doesn't cloud it up enough. it does have some medical benefits tho. <END TLDR>
...wasn't going to post this, but for those that like to read here's the LBDR; (long, but did read - lol):
i haven't had any clade9 in quite a while - still have a bud of J1 first drop jarred up for a rainy day tho. i hear this blue dream is a limited drop? not sure if they are going to bring it back out again - maybe someone from clade9 can answer that question. only a few dispos have any left in stock and it's mostly those 1 gram sampler packs. a couple of them still have some 8ths, but do NOT pay full price.
buds were kinda over dry. a few popcorns and the rest are tiny kibbles n bits. either their trimming machine chewed the shit out of it - or someone used the package as a soccer ball. if you're used to craft buds this initial presentation probably won't make you happy. i can look past some things if the price is right and the effects make up for it tho. even the prettiest stinky buds all looks similar post grind anyway.
Smell: not much - not a room stinker. what i could detect was a slightly perfumey sweet and citric blueberry/mixed berry fruitiness - with a touch of sandalwood and anise. a slight weedy/hazey nose was present (emphasis on slight) and you have to get your nose right up on it to catch that wiff.
Taste: dry vaped - light flavor. light and sweet. maybe a little bit like it smells. smooth. it does taste like a softer blue dream. the panda farms cut has just a wee bit more of the taste.
Effects (YMMV): I had to vape a lot more then usual to do this report --- strike 1! i felt a runners high come on almost immediately. no racing heart/thoughts or anything like that, just that "after a run" runners euphoric feeling. then that expands around the body. it's a creeper with a sense of calm and eye pressure drop. feels like your eyeballs are floating effortlessly dead center in their sockets. can really focus on and notice things. feel good clear headed high. i feel like it's good for movies. but some good effects are too short lived.
15 mins in: all of a sudden feel like it's lifting instead of building, wtf, is it wearing off? i screwed my tolerance this badly already? oh.. no. scratch that. there it is again. still going and it's still with me. starts getting a little more heady and cerebral. still an overall sense of calm. around 20 minute mark i thought i started to feel the classic blue dream coming on... but nope.
25 mins in: still a heady clearish cerebral high. slows the brain down just a notch or two. then a little spacey/blue dreamy around the 30-40 minute mark or so. i was thinkin' ok, here we go.. finally... blue dream. blue dream? blue dream are you there? - nope. just some easy going thoughts with a relaxing body effect. it backs off again, so not really full on blue dream yet. strike 2!
the first 30ish mins are probably good for depression, anxiety, adhd .. a nice feel good headspace, but not really that strong - more clear - you can function and break out of it easily.. after the first 30 mins it sorta fizzles out again. then comes at you once more, basically 3 waves. the 40-50 minute mark wave is probably the best it's gonna get unless you smoke more. this is the point you can go to sleep if you want. or wait it out and it kinda fades away.. just overtired lingering background effects after that. around this 50min or so time you get a taste of blue dream again, but slowly fizzles and comes back again. seems to fizzle out over and over right when it just about starts to get good. not the best blue dream rendition and it has no legs.
to be honest, panda farms cut is better. more stable experience and if you have the clade one and then the panda one, right after about 5-10 mins you'll say to yourself "oh... now i see what you mean" lol. this clade version might be good for beginners to test the waters along with the queen of the south strain. altho i kinda like queen of the south in a weird way sometimes (shh.. don't tell anyone). the constant waves of me feeling like it was wearing off/lifting over and over is a buzz kill. just when it starts to get good it's gone again. so .. strike 3!
a good blue dream should be putting you in that zone where your thinking and contemplating things. thinking about the day you had, ponder the future, the past, replay a memory from 10-15 years ago that you haven't thought about since then (or 30/40+ years ago if your older) lots of wandering down memory lane gaining new insights or opinions on things/making new connections. all while in that dreamy hazey state of body being. this one couldn't do it for me.
maybe it's better when combusted - but i doubt it? maybe it will do somethin' for ya if you grab it on the cheap.
Clade9 Blue Dream (Blueberry x Haze)
this is little over a gram of it right before the grind.. since it was so dry, some of its trics broke free during the deed. it ground up fluffy - but leaves that gritty sandy kiefy feel on your fingers because of those broken dry trics...
..anyone else pick this up? just me or what. did i get some choice bottom of the barrel buds in my sampler? this not a dig at clade9, obviously they have some good strains. but this one let me down a bit, and i rarely post when i don't like a strain that much. we all had strains we didn't like over the years. but you'd think samplers would have the best buds to rep the strain in them to encourage you to buy more tho, right?
edit: PS. not giving the cold shoulder to my NewJerseyDispoReviews people, they don't allow cross posting and this one is too large for their post size limit, lol. ramble on..