boxedbuds.ca
Overall rating out of 10:
6.2/10
Ordering & Pricing:
This pack was arranged via discord, so I cannot speak to ordering. BB’s pricing at the surface seems very good. However, if you dig a bit deeper, you will realise that there are hits and misses going on among their strains. The zedd is priced at $99/oz and is the same price as the Purple OG, but they are NOWHERE close to the same in quality. Zedd is levels superior to the OG. So what does that mean for the consumer? It means your order is a complete gamble, because these prices do not reflect the actual quality of the buds. It also means that gamble could pay off big, as in the case of the Zedd, but I wouldn’t want to be at the losing end of that gamble, because when we consider one strain is literally twice as good as another, yet priced the same, there are bound to be some upset customers. Additionally, the OG’s are priced at $99/oz to $1400/lb, and the Zedd is priced at $99/oz to $1500/lb--the Zedd goes UP in price for bulk?! How’s that work guys?
Communication & Packaging:
Communication and CS with BB is very good, they have been polite, professional and prompt. Packaging was discreet and smellproof. The sample bags had no branding and the strain names simply sharpied on, but it’s early days.
Products / Photos:
Note: I have a strong belief that my blue dream and melon nuken samples were crossbagged, as the blue dream sample looks and smells exactly like three other nuken cuts I have on hand, and the nuken sample smells a whole lot like Blue Dream. I could be wrong, but I'll eat my shoe if I am. For the purpose of review, I went with my gut and not BB labels, so the blue dream labelled bag was reviewed as nuken, and vice versa.
J-27:
- Genetics: Unknown
- Nose/Flavour: Spicy/peppery and earthy.
- Trim/Size/Density/Cure: Trim is a tad scrappy, size is small (<0.5g), density is medium-high, cure and humidity is good, has squish but not dank.
- Lift/BuzZ: Good wake and bake weed; boost of energy, clear headed, minimal body buzz. Functional high.
- Potency/Quality: The stone was surprisingly nice, albeit a tad short in duration. I’d probably say AA to AA+ in terms of potency.
- Overall: 6/10
Willy Wonka:
- Genetics: Chocolate Trip x Cinderella 99
- Nose/Flavour: Best way I can think to describe these terps is organically sweet. There’s none of that artificial sharpness to it. Quite nice.
- Trim//Size/Density/Cure: Trim is okay, size is small (<0.5g), density is medium, cure is good, not dank but has a nice consistency when broken apart.
- Lift/Buzz: I find this buzz quite sativa leaning and heady, but it is more psychoactive and less clear headed than the J-27… more daydreamy.
- Potency/Quality: Again, like the J-27, the high is just nice, it isn’t a rocketship, and the effects are at the shorter end of duration. AA to AA+... Very similar quality to the J-27, but I prefer this buzz.
- Overall: 6.3/10
Blue Dream (AKA Azure Haze):
- Genetics: Blueberry x Haze
- Flavour/Nose: Sweetly peppery.
- Trim//Size/Density: Trim is good, buds are tiny, density is medium, cure is alright.
- Lift/Buzz: Blue Dream has a great buzz, unfortunately this isn’t great BD. It has the right buzz, its heady and has an energetic appeal, but it is quite weak and short lived. That said, it’s priced at $99oz, and at THAT price, there is definitely value here, because it isn’t BAD weed by any means, just don’t expect to be blown away.
- Potency/Quality: AA.
- Overall: 5/10
Melon Nuken:
- Genetics: Nuken x Melon Kush
- Flavour/Nose: Classic nuken terps, but I didn’t pick up much in the vein of melon.
- Trim//Size/Density: Trim is good, size is smalls (<0.5g), density is high, and the cure is nice--interior of the buds are nice and fresh.
- Lift/Buzz: Nuken is another psychoactive one for me; it’s one of the strains I like for listening to music or playing video games as I seem to zone in a bit deeper. This cross of nuken has a nice dose of relaxation effects as well, probably due to the kush genetics.
- Potency/Quality: AA+ to AAA-, and I think $109/oz is a pretty good value for this quality.
- Overall: 7/10
Purple OG Kush:
- Genetics: OG Kush x Purple Kush
- Nose/Flavour: Bit skunky and fuely, but it is pretty muted, the taste is mild and the smell is only prevalent when the buds are milled up.
- Trim//Size/Density/Cure: Trim is a bit scrappy, size is small (<0.5g), density is medium-high, humidity is approaching dry. :
- Lift/Buzz: Proper kush stone, relaxing and slightly sedative.
- Potency/Quality: Not great, a top example of this strain should knock you on your ass, I found the buzz very mild and short acting. Even at $99/oz, I’d be hard pressed to buy this, especially when you can get twice the quality for the same price.
- Overall: 4.5/10
White Widow:
- Genetics: Brazilian Sativa x South Indian Indica
- Nose/Flavour: Strong skunky and piney terps.
- Trim//Size/Density/Cure: Trim is hard to comment on as most of the buds were smashed up pretty good, size is tiny, density is medium-high, and the humidity is again approaching dry.
- Lift/Buzz: WW is one of my all-time favourite hybrid strains. I experience the kind of stone I remember from when I was young; droopy eyes, dopey brain, giggles, etc.
- Potency/Quality: A step up from the previous strains, definitely a better quality in terms of terp quality and potency. I think I can reasonably call this AAA potency, but it loses points for its scrappy appearance and beat up buds.
- Overall: 7/10
Zedd:
- Genetics: 100% Pure Indica (purportedly)
- Nose/Flavour: Zedd has a smooth, naturally sweet/perfumey/floral nose and tongue.
- Trim//Size/Density/Cure: Trim is excellent, size is popcorn (<1g), density is medium-high, and it has good moisture content-not dank, but probably the closest to dank of any of the strains I received.
- Lift/Buzz: Heavily sedative; beyond couchlock… Bedlock. For insomniacs, look no further.
- Potency/Quality: I’d say it’s an easy AAA+, and at $99oz, it’s by far the best value among all the strains I tried from BB.
- Overall: 8.1/10
Incentive for Customers:
Free ship over $150, competitive (but random) pricing.
Conclusions:
Firstly, I’d like to thank Boxed Buds for their kind giveaways to the community via discord recently, they certainly seem determined to make waves. I feel like this company is going hard at being a mid-level, budget-end, bulk provider, and I think to that end they are doing a great job in terms of pricing. That said, they definitely need to work on their quality recognition, as I could definitely see some headaches down the line with respect to customers upset that they paid the same or similar prices for wildly differing quality.
