 Welcome to Breeders Syndicate, the only cannabis show breaking down the myths and history in cannabis. I'm Matthew, seed maker for over a decade and a half, and this is my journey into finding my truth in this wild world of cannabis. I invite you to join me and the Canaluminati by strapping into the passenger seat. But be warned, it's not always pretty. With the invasion of corporate culture into cannabis, it's getting even more muddy. Which is why I've made it my mission to have a permanent record before all of the history is lost and buried under a pile of... cookies. We're the traditional market. The syndicate is a collection of seed makers that want to push back against all of the smoking mirrors. In doing so, we will continue to ruffle the feathers of those who oppose. And my personal mission has become much bigger than myself. Welcome to the cannabis underground. This is the revolution. Hey, what's up, everyone? Welcome to our first edition of Is It Worth the Hype? The idea behind this series will be to have my review of some of the modern hype flower that is out there and let people know from an older Breeders perspective what I'm experiencing. These are never paid or sponsored. They're all in our own time. And the help of good friends too. We have ensured that there will be no case of being beholden to anyone for a good review. So that's part of it. I wanted to put this out there at the beginning, like, you know, because people kind of keep that less transparent about why they're giving good reviews or bad reviews. And just from the jump, we want to say, we ain't beholden to anyone, reviews or reviews. I have no edit button anyway. So it wouldn't matter even if we were. I'd just be screwed. So yes, with that said, welcome to the first official installment of Is It Worth the Hype? And today I thought I would start with Permanent Marker. So this name immediately brings to mind like being in high school or just doing art and smelling a Sharpie Marker. You know what a Sharpie Marker smells like, right? Yeah. So or like a Marks a lot, you know, very accurate ammonia, like almost hard sent to place, but everybody knows it. It's in your sense memory. So that's what I was expecting when I got this. And today the flower that we have was grown by Alien Labs. And I'll throw up some pictures here. And as you can see, I'm going to start by going over just the looks. Not sure who gets the credit, but that's the permanent marker. I'm not sure what's in it. It doesn't really cookie something. That's all I mean, because realistically, you're not going to get a straightforward answer from that those persons. Let's see. Picture up just from looks alone. The strain checks all the boxes for the most, you know, most flower buyers, most flower buyers are going to be very happy when they see a good grown version of this. It's a deep purple, super frosty white resin visually very similar to things like Oreos, OGKB, very dense, which isn't my preference. Because traditionally I used to break up flower by hand. However, with the flower mow grinder and again, not sponsored, I paid my own money for this overpriced shit. But now I use this because it actually is a great grinder despite being overpriced. It's great. It makes like this dense flower be very aerated fluffy and doesn't destroy all the resin glands somehow. I don't get how that works, but it's pretty phenomenal. I just think it could be done to create a much better price point considering that's all the magic that and that are all the magic, you know. So yeah, visually, it's beautiful. Can't complain like it's very well grown. It's not handled roughly. It's pretty decent. I don't recall ever getting something from Alien Labs before, but based on all the other stuff that I have gotten recently from that brand, LoudPak, aka whoever they're selling through that day. That stuff doesn't even compare to the quality of this. So shout out and props to Alien Labs for good quality on this shit for real. And shout out to my homie who sent this my way. This impression is a scent. So when I like to do your scent, I like to grind it up. Now, prior to grinding, I like to smell the bud on its own and see what I smell there and see if anything more comes out after the grind. So I'll explain what I smelled beforehand. I wrote it down. I said doughy, surebie cookies. So that isn't super helpful at all for folks who didn't have a lot of experience with any decent sourced version of any of those cuts or S1s. So I'm going to try to elaborate a little more. The first scent and this is going to confuse some people because immediately they're going to go to burnt rubber. That's not what I'm talking about. The first scent I get here is a car tire shop, like the actual shop where they sell tires. It's not burnt rubber, but it is the smell of a tire shop and it's just one of the many smells in it. The next scent is the most people typically refer to as doughy. And if you think of it like in the sense of like making a cake vanilla cake batter at home. That's more of the line of what I'm thinking as opposed to a baked cake that you can smell the sweetness from. You can almost taste it from the smell with cake batter. It's more doughy. There's eggs. There's milk. There's all kinds of other stuff in it that when you mix it up, it combines into this very specific smell. That is the smell underlying a lot of cookies and a lot of triangle, a lot of OG push expressions because of the triangle. Yeah, let's see what else we got. But I'm only getting a fraction of some of the smell I typically associate with Sherb types, which is, man, it's like all of that with some peppery spice to me. Now, not everybody smells that. I mean, there's gas in it too. There's fuel. There's candy. But like the overall, the unique smells without sure that peppery stands out a lot to me. And I don't smell that here. There's some. Oh, that's what that herbaceous smell is. Not quite black licorice, but actual anise. Or anise. I don't know how you pronounce. I say anise. Anise. Anise. I don't know. Yeah, that's there. That's the smell that I was going to refer to as herby. And I said, I also say this particular grove. This kind of very nice old school kind of a smell in it that's attractive. That one is harder to pin down other than herbaceous and fresh, which I just figured out. That was from the grindy. Let's see. But it's not something I can smell in cookies types. This actually did peak my interest in the strain. So when I opened up the bag and I started smelling this stuff, I was like, yeah, that's it. That's an old school good smell through the grinder. It all smells exactly the same, except that I was able to pin down the anise. So by crushing it up, that flavor or that scent came forward a lot more for me. So it's much more identified than just herby fresh. Anise. Anyway, look manicure over all thoughts on appearance for being from California facility. It does look well grown and like someone put time in care into it into the drying cure. The scent is strong and the dry is perfect. Not too dry, not overly moist and unsmokable. The resin glands appear intact, not overly handled. And no oxidation or science from being a greenhouse grower past is indoor, but learning is like the classic thing to do now is to stick greeny shit in my lars and know that all the people buying my lars probably aren't going to pick up on it. So yeah. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is start with our first session. That's going to be combustion. So I'm going to grind some up and put it in the C2 bowl, which I managed to drop straight on tile today and not have break, which is a first for bowls. Check it out. It's very, very thick and makes the grade as a nice filter in it. Even this side is really thick too. This is what usually explodes. Like had I dropped this bowl on tile, we wouldn't be talking. We wouldn't be seeing a picture of this bowl. They just don't make it. But these things are special. They're made for idiots like me that drops stuff. And so is this. This stuff's solid. Anyway, let's give it a rip here and see what. Wow. Okay. So the flavor, the flavor tastes like Sherb to me. That I didn't expect. It's got a lot of flavor. It's actually got a good flavor to it too. I mean, it's like a good version of the Sherb flavor, which I'm not a big fan of the Sherb flavor. I don't hate it, but this is tasty. It actually has really good flavor, which shows that it was dragged and cured well, grown well, manicured well. Yeah, the Sherb. I wish I could describe the Sherb flavor. It was so hard for me. I can always do scent, but flavor is much harder. Not Cassie. You know what? The rip. The rip will help with this. The rip will help with the flavor and me pinning down some stuff. So this is why I don't just do just combustion in these reviews. Because I've learned after coming across this beautiful technology of vapor wands, especially really dialed in ones that are very precise, you can really experience flavors and scents and highs that would have been burned off the second that lighter hit and not giving you the same effect. All those volatile compounds are still there and you get to enjoy them and experience them. That I'm being destroyed. So that's why I love the rip. And there's so many flavors that, yeah, it's wild. Using my C2 double perk air, double ratchet perk for the rip. With the microphone, this gets a little complicated, but let me see if I can get this figured out here. Okay. Got the rip on and the way it works is I have a sharpie, a permanent marker setting right there that I always know to turn it to. And yeah, the way these work is you set it on the bowl for a few seconds, let it heat up, and then you start healing slowly, slowly, and then the vapor starts forming. And realistically, the first hits are almost all terpenes for me and flavonoids and all that kind of stuff, and you really get the best flavor at the very first hit. That's weird. It doesn't have a lot of flavor. It has the Sherb flavor, but it has less flavor of vaping than it does combustion. That's a first I couldn't possibly tell you. That is weird to have no flavor at the rip. And it's not a knock on the grill. I think it's actually the only flavor coming through is the Sherb flavor that I've experienced with Sherb, and usually it's very heavy, but there's all the other flavors have dropped in the vape session. So all of it's there is a very light Sherb flavor. Very interesting because the person who sent it to me did refer to this strain as very Sherby. And just by looking at it and like breaking it up and smelling it and stuff, I really wasn't totally convinced that it was that Sherby. In fact, I was more convinced it was along like the gelato that region, you know. I was right. The flavor once you smoke it, eyes very Sherb like flavor definitely is all Sherb dominant. I really apologize that I can't break anything down further when it comes to the flavor of Sherb, other than it's the flavor of that spicy peppery cookie dough. Sweet candy. It's hard to explain, but the flavor of it is just this light, not even pepper though. Yeah, it's very hard to explain. It's when you have to experience yourself on that end. I can get you there sent wise flavors a little tough, and I really thought the rip was going to help me like figure it out real fast because it usually does. But that is the first time I've ever had something go from a lot of flavor combusted been baked. So that's a new experience and see now you're learning with me. I didn't even know that was possible. Yeah, I know it has a decent high. I'm not sure how long the legs are, but at least I can feel the start of it, you know, and it's not surging like Urkel. It's not making me paranoid. It's kind of bright, peppy, happy, chatty, I guess. So I should probably end this because I'll just be rambling like a dumbass anyway. But yeah, so overall, I think the rating system that someone on YouTube offered was skunks. So I'm going to find a little image of skunks. I'm going to pop it up right here and yeah, I don't even know how to do that, but I'm going to figure it out and I guess we'll figure it out together. But I'm going to give this I'm going to give this because I'm going to try to use a tough rating system here. Like I'm going to save the fives for just like crazy exceptional, you know, so four should be pretty legendary. So I'm going to give this a three skunk rating as in something I would not be embarrassed to hand to a friend that is a high strain and have them smoke it. Like this is good enough that I think everybody would probably enjoy it. Even some of us old like, from margins that don't even smoke high stuff. So if that helps any, I hope it helps someone. I've been wondering what this thing was. Did it actually smell like a Sharpie marker to me? No, not even close, but it did smell very good. It did smell very good and it smoked pretty well. 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