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GMO Strain Guide — Chemdog D × GSC Forum Cut, Garlic Cookies, and the Savoury Terpene Profile
GMO strain guide: Chemdog D × GSC Forum Cut, the savouriest terpene profile in the modern catalogue, and the most misunderstood name in cannabis. GMO does not stand for Garlic, Mushroom, Onion. That backronym came later, stuck because it was too accurate to argue...
MAC 1 Strain Guide — Miracle Alien Cookies, Capulator’s Clone-Only Genetics
MAC 1 strain guide: Miracle Alien Cookies #1, Capulator's clone-only cut, and the most storied origin story in modern cannabis genetics. The name means Miracle Alien Cookies. The miracle part is literal. The genetics that became MAC 1 passed through a washing machine,...
Blackberry Moonrocks Strain Guide — Blue Moonrock × Blackberry Kush, 33% THC
Blackberry Moonrocks strain guide: Blue Moonrock × Blackberry Kush, Anesia Seeds, 33% THC, and the most distinctive floral-berry terpene profile in the current Sigma catalogue. Anesia Seeds built their reputation on one objective: push the biological ceiling of THC...
Cap Junky Strain Guide — Alien Cookies × Kush Mints #11, Capulator × Seed Junky
Cap Junky strain guide: Alien Cookies × Kush Mints #11, the Capulator and Seed Junky collaboration, and the most potent mint-gas-citrus genetics in the modern catalogue. The name decodes the collaboration directly. Cap from Capulator, the reclusive California breeder...
Jealousy Strain Guide — Gelato #41 × Sherb BX1
Jealousy strain guide: Gelato #41 × Sherb BX1, Leafly's 2022 Strain of the Year, and the most concentrated expression of the Cookies-Sherbet lineage in the modern catalogue. Berner, the Cookies co-founder who helped build the Gelato family, described it as smelling...
Future #1 Strain Guide — GG4 × Starfighter F2 and the 37% THC Question
Future #1 strain guide Australia — GG4 × Starfighter F2, 37% THC, and the question of what maximum resin production actually looks like. Most high-THC claims in the cannabis market are marketing. The Future #1 figure — 37% THC in repeated lab tests, documented by...
RS11 Seeds Australia — Rainbow Sherbet #11 Strain Guide
RS11 — Rainbow Sherbet #11 — is the exotic cannabis strain that shifted what the Australian collector market thought tropical terpenes could do. Not the sweetness of a Gelato cross, not the fruit-adjacent brightness of early Z-lineage genetics, but something more...
Permanent Marker Strain Guide — Lineage, Terpenes and What to Hunt For
Permanent Marker cannabis seeds have won back-to-back Strain of the Year awards — High Times 2022 and Leafly 2023. That's not common. Most strains that win one award are quickly eclipsed by whatever the market moves to next. Permanent Marker didn't fade — it held, and...
What Is Phenohunting? The Practice Behind Collector-Grade Cannabis in Australia
Phenohunting is the practice of running a pack of cannabis seeds to find the best individual plant — and then keeping it. Not growing to harvest. Not running seeds for yield. Running seeds to identify the phenotype in the pack worth preserving, running again, and...
The Terpene Guide: How to Read a Cannabis Strain Like a Connoisseur
Cannabis terpene profiles in Australia are still mostly an afterthought. Strain names get listed. Indica or sativa gets tagged. A vague flavour note — "fruity," "earthy," "diesel" — gets appended. And that's where most of the market stops. It's not enough information...
What Are Exotic Cannabis Strains? (And Why It Matters in 2026)
The word "exotic" gets applied to almost everything in the Australian cannabis market right now. Strains that were common in the US five years ago arrive here with the label attached. It gets stretched thin quickly. That's worth saying at the start — because the point...