Origins and Backstory: Bred by @meangenefrommendocino, I started these plants as seedlings and gifted them to a first-time growing friend to be grown in Colorado native soil at 4800’ altitude. We lightly amended the soil, installed a blumat system, and mulched the area. We also fertilized lightly with Organics Alive throughout the cycle and planted other flowers, herbs, and food crops around the cannabis to encourage biodiversity. I didn’t grow these plants, but I kind of did..…in any case they were grown outdoor at altitude in Colorado with beyond-organic techniques, and come from excellent genetic stock.
Appearance: This particular plant was completely green—every leaf, every calyx, every bit of tissue that isn’t a pistil was entirely green. The buds are a much brighter lime green, and are completely covered in resin, which gives a sheen to the flowers themselves. Trimming is easy, and the leaves that do get trimmed are “tacoed” with rails of resin along the edges. There does seem to be a decent amount of surface area on the flowers, and I would guess this flower would lend itself well to extractions of all kinds.
Aroma: The lime is unbelievably strong in this one! A jar reeks of a lime/orange-flavored creamsicle, tictacs, pinesol (or is that Pledge?), and subtle notes of extremely fresh vinyl. An extended cure has brought out a profile that smells exactly like an orange creamsicle from my youth, but the living plants are dominated by lime terps. The growing plant had sharper and more astringent notes of solvents and lysol, but these are subtle background notes in the dried flower. There is a ton of crossover of aroma between with LimeVine flowers I smoked in the past. I cannot help but repeatedly huff this jar every time I open it—this weed genuinely smells like a lime-flavored popsicle—so much so that I crave tasting it sometimes! A cure brings out lemon and orange aromas, but in general the aroma is lime-dominant.
Flavor: The lime and orange creamsicle flavor comes through intensely in the smoke, making for a candy-like experience. The lime and orange flavors are prevalent, as are the tictac-like notes and a creaminess that anyone who has tasted a “creamsicle” will know. The character of the flavor is great, but I wish it would coat the mouth more—I wonder if this is a consequence of the genetics, or the way this plant was grown? In any case, the flavor is creamy and popsicle like with notes of pinesol, pledge, and lysol, and will keep you packing bowls regardless of how you feel. This is probably the high point of the flower, and the aroma/flavor combination keep me coming back for more.
Effects: Immediate, warm, and thoughtful, the effects of New Lime x Makrat Mandarin x Limepop (this one needs a name!) are to be savored with a day or evening in. This is rainy day type weed—it tends to make me a bit more dull and less enthusiastic in social settings, but it will certainly brighten your own inner world, adding sparkles of curiosity and insight in psychic spaces you previously found mundane. I enjoy smoking this weed before engaging with necessary-but-mindless tasks, like laundry, dishes, cleaning, etc., mostly so my body can go on autopilot while I go on a ride of thought and reflection. It increases my fascination and engagement with my own private psychic life, but at the cost of reducing my outer engagement. It is potent, long-lasting, and dreamy, ideal for long winter nights and introspection.
Overall: The mere existence of a plant that makes you feel nice and tastes like a citrus creamsicle is fairly mind-boggling, and the fact I am not ranting and raving about it should highlight just how far cannabis breeding has come, and how easy it is to take these works of art for granted. If I had received a bag of this weed in my younger days as a consumer, I would’ve wondered what crazy chemical was sprayed on it to make it smell/taste this way. I would have been extremely skeptical that a plant could naturally end up like this. The intensities of the lime/orange creamsicle aroma and flavor are impressive and reminiscent of mostly artificial “food” items, making it even harder to believe a plant produced them on its own. This weed isn’t weak by any means, but I find myself smoking a ton of it just to chase the flavor experience. I will often overdo this stuff just because of the flavor, and find myself way more stoned than I ever intended on being. I imagine this varietal would be ideal in extracts, so much so that it’s actually difficult for me to imagine the extreme intensity of flavor that a concentrate would possess. While this is not my go-to flower, it is a frequent choice of mine. I love showing it to friends because of the intense aroma/flavor, and it’s certainly a novelty strain. The smell/flavor are something I actually crave, which I find interesting in itself. I do enjoy the flower alone, and I imagine there are superior and even more compelling phenotypes to be found in the line (I only grew out one female). I think this has the potential to win cups in extract or concentrate format, and look forward to seeing what other plants manifest from this genetic line.
