[KingTuts] Nuken Indica Review | 3.3/5
Nuken seems to be one of the most popular flowers used for concentrates that we've seen (shatter, honeycomb, live resin, etc) but haven't seen too much talk about the flower itself. Figure this 99$ / oz from kingtuts is a good start and should set the foundation for future (maybe more expensive) Nuken herb.
Out of the jar we get a smell almost identical to the concentrates: tangy, sweet, tropical flavors. The buds themselves are very hard, very styrofoam, which from what I was told is a normal thing for it. A very smooth, well trimmed, with a decent amount of red hairs (but shorter). Overall a light green/orange tint to it. Trying to crack it open is also difficult and yields a tropical and 'clay/earth' smell which differentiates it from other tropical smelling buds we've seen before. So far it seems to be a bud grown for the mass/smell/taste as we haven't seen buds that are quite this dense and packed.
Grinding it up yields a darker brown/green color than before. The dense buds break up to a very large amount in the grinder. We get a more tropical, tangy smell than before (with a hint of that earthy clay smell). Quite sticky to itself and a bit to my hand, tho not THE stickiest we've seen.
Vaping at a lower 185 .. the first couple tokes we got a few hints of tropical/sweet taste with some chalky flavors. Shortly after we lost those tastes and got a much more muted/neutral flavor of oak, woodsy, earthy, etc. It was a shame the flavor disappeared so quickly. Even cranking it up to 195 didn't change the muted flavors nor did it bring that pleasant smelling tropical tangy smell back. A bit disappointing nonetheless.
Smoking it leaves us with a darker, light grey ash. The smoking experience closely matched this as well as it was quite harsh, perhaps the harshest we've had in a while, with only a hint of the tropical flavors near the beginning. The effects were a good, solid, strong indica: relaxed, in a good mood, couch lock, laid back. A good effect and smoking experience for day-to-day but maybe not something you'd want to smoke on a daily basis.
Overall with these 99$/oz buds it's hard to say whether it's the bud itself that yielded this harsher, less flavorful smoking experience or the nature of the strain itself. This nuken being one of the best smelling, dense, and quite sticky buds it clear that for concentrates this is perfect. On top of that the low price point would def crank this up to a higher-rated bud but we tried to ignore the price point. In the near future it's important to look at other nukens and compare whether the same smoking experience occurs or does it get better the more you pay for it.