This sample was provided to me by Nanticoke.
When I was in college, if you wanted cannabis you got “weed”. I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, really, you just didn’t have many options in far upstate New York. My next door neighbor in college was a bit of a stoner and he’d occasionally (and I do me very occasionally) invite me over to partake/ hang out and he got “weed”. It was rare to find anything other than brick cannabis that wasn’t very good. But if you knew the right guy, who knew the right guy, who KNEW a guy…there WAS one bespoke strain you were getting from 2006 to 2010 and that was Sour Diesel. You loved and hated to get it: it smoked so delightful but it was impossible to hide due to the smell. Many of my fonder memories started with a sesh of Sour Diesel fresh from someone’s backyard or something. And I’ve been looking for that heady hit ever since so I love it when I get Sour Diesel in my rotation. So when Nanticoke handed me this to try out, I was pretty stoked. And surprised. That’s a high THC. Anyway, here’s the review:
Strain name: Sour Diesel
Strain type: Sativa hybrid (90:10)
Percentage (TAC): 37.8%
Date of production: N/A
Date of testing (if applicable): 2/10/25
Where Purchased (if applicable): N/A
Price (if applicable): Editorial Consideration
Amount smoked: .5 gram
Grind (if applicable): Medium mixture. Some larger pieces, some smaller pieces, but all well within tolerance of a “medium” grind.
Aroma: Like a gas station. Seriously, it smells like an organic chemistry lab.
Taste: Like siphoning a gas tank and accidentally getting a mouthful but in a good way.
High: See, I’m having problems with this strain. It says it’s Sour Diesel but the high is very inconsistent with that. The original Sour Diesel was a strain that you’d smoke and then put on an episode of the brand new series Ancient Aliens and argue with each other over the enormity of the cosmos. This…this isn’t that. This is a more sedate, pensive high that just kinda leaves you staring out the window at the stars. I doubt that this is within the 90:10 range of sativa, I’d play it more at a 70:30 because it’s much more tempered and relaxed high. My guess is that it’s been bred with indicas to boost the THC content because this stuff comes in at a whopping 31.6% THCa which is astronomical for Sour Diesel. So while the high is…okay…it’s also not a Sour Diesel High.
This was a weird one. I may not have been smoking a LOT during my collegiate career but I did indulge a few times and one of them was the fabled Sour Diesel. This ain’t it, chief. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a passable strain that has a decent enough high and a strong THC percentage so if you wanted to go full bore, this can do it. But it’s just not quite right. As mentioned, I’m guessing the crossbreeding to boost the THC content from the relatively low 22%~ish that Sour Diesel used to be somehow mellowed out the strain because it used to be the most talkative, garrulous strain out there. We watched the Food Network and argued over the breaking of pasta to boil it (a criminal sin), we’d watch Ancient Aliens and argue about whether aliens existed (law of large numbers), we’d just sit and chat about the immensity of the world and it’s nuances but this one just doesn’t get there. Would I buy it? Eh, yeah, I guess? I mean, it gets you high, doesn’t cost a whole lot based on my research ($8-$9), and has a THC percentage that, honestly, surprised me. So you could do worse in terms of smokes. It’s just not ringing that bell or scratching that itch for me. Still won’t slow me down, though, from trying all that Nanticoke has to offer. Scattershot, baby.
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