by Luke Tanner | May 11, 2026 | Phenohunting, Strain Intelligence
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...
by Luke Tanner | May 3, 2026 | Phenohunting, Strain Intelligence
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 —...
by Luke Tanner | Mar 28, 2026 | Phenohunting
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...
by Luke Tanner | Mar 28, 2026 | Terpene Profiles
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...
by Luke Tanner | Mar 25, 2026 | Collector Culture
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 —...
