[Weed-Deals] Purple Punch 2.0 Symbiotic Genetics Indica Review | 4.5/5
I was interested in this strain mostly because it being from a new brand symbolic genetics which I haven't tried before. Also I was always a fan of sweet/tropical strains and this one sounded like it might be.
The smell, even as a whole bud, was a very strong acidic/lemony smell. It smelled a bit berry-ish but mostly lemony fresh kind of smell. Pretty unique and pretty strong (almost burned the nostrils)
The shape of the bud was a pretty messy/leafy look, which is a nice change from the solid tip-of-the-nug buds we've seen lately, and maintained a good ratio of red hairs to light, crusted nugs. Overall despite it being so leafy, it was very dense and had a nice dominant stem (didn't weigh much but was delicious
). Overall not super pretty but def a large amount of crystals.Grinding it up was about the same, but almost no berry/fruity-ness and all lemon, acidic, really strong smell. It was pretty sticky to itself (not on fingers) but could feel the crystals between our fingers. Despite no THC listed, I would wager it was pretty high %.
Vaping it was the usual flower/perfume at lower temperatures, and about 190-195 started getting a peppery, MUTE tasted. It made me sneeze and it was similar to an OCS strain from DNA we had ... but just mostly peppery (no lemon etc). Luckily we let it sit for about a minute till it really heated up and got a nice bubblegum/fruity but NOT sweet taste. I've seen this in a lot of CBD dominant OCS strains so it was nice to see it in a non-CBD one too. Very consistent, in in-your-face berry bubblegum flavor. matches the name quite well.
Burning it was pretty smooth, but very light on the lungs and very nice thick white smoke. It left a white / light grey ash. The taste was pretty good (but hard to tell when burning it) and after finishing it didn't make me feel like I even smoked so overall pretty clean feeling.
The effects I would say are NOT purely indica, it's def down 50/50 or even sativa-leaning. Big head buzz (visual, hearing) some relaxing, but heart pumping and def creative, energetic dizzy etc. Part of it may be due to the high THC which maybe makes it feel like more sativa, but I'm not couch locked and I'm not super relaxed. Strong tho!
Would rate it 4.5/5 just because it wasn't very Indica-ish but had the nice fruity flavor, smooth burning and strong effects.