420 All Month: Bioflux

“Oooh,” I said to myself (and probably a coworker or two), “Bioflux? I wonder what that’s about. Let’s look at its lineage and see what we can learn.”

“Hmm… Let’s see… Bioflux: parent strains are… Biohazard and Slime Flux…”

So nothing. I learned nothing. So I dug more. Genetics sites, breeders, and cultivators. Seed banks.

Biohazard is a rare hybrid of SkunkVA Chemdog 91 and Do-si-dos. It’s apparently a low THC hybrid. Okay, one grandparent is Do-si-dos. I had assumed the SkunkVA Chemdog 91 was going to be a cross of Chemdawg and Skunk (maybe #1?). Nope. All of the online resources actually list it as 91 Chemdog Skunk VA, and it seems to simply be a specific cut of Chemdawg that was brought to the East Coast from the West Coast in the early 90’s. Terpene profiles for Biohazard include high Ocimene, Bisabolol, and Phellandrene; while Do-si-dos is typically high in some combination of Limonene, Caryphyllene, and Myrcene; and Chemdawg 91 is high in Pinene, Limonene, Linalool, and Nerolidol.

Slime Flux. Absolutely nothing. Well, not nothing. Slime Flux, when taken out of the cannabis context, is apparently also called wetwood, and is a tree disease that sounds kind of gross but treatable. Which I also found on some cannabis websites. The only cannabis-specific references in pages of Google results is as a parent strain of Kalikori’s Bioflux, and nothing else. So let’s do some realtime educated speculating. There’s a strain called Slimer OG that comes up a lot, possibly the most common “slime” strain I can find. It’s a Carene and Myrcene heavy hybrid. Cool, cool. And Flux? Well, that’s tricky too, since fluxing is a growing technique meant to increase yield. The most common “flux” strain I can find is Fluxetine, which is another hybrid, this time heavy in Borneol and Terpinolene.

When customers or coworkers ask me how I know all this stuff, the answer is this. The thing I just narrated here. Don’t get me wrong, I lean on my years of teaching research strategies to high school English students to sort through the internet noise, but really, it’s just taking the time to be a little thorough and Googling the ever-loving shit out of every search term I can think of.

So, in the end, I had no expectations for Bioflux. It’s a super clean-looking, almost white, soft and waxy live rosin. (I had to tweak the image a tiny bit to have enough contrast of color for it to look okay, but in reality it is even lighter in color than the pic.) Its aroma is strong citrus over light notes of pungent cheese and pine. It’s very bright in the nose. The hits were amazing. So clean. Perhaps the cleanest hits I’ve ever taken. I said a similar thing about Pure Kush flower a couple of days ago, but this being concentrate was even cleaner. Almost no mouth-feel or throat-feel on the inhale, almost no flavor either. On the exhale the flavors coalesced into a light and clean pungent citrus with only the lightest cheese undertone. The whole flavor was more of a gentle aftertaste than anything else.

The high was excellent as well, uplifting and thought-provoking, with a soft halo of a social/giggly/fuzzy headspace. There was very little body high to speak of, but my nerves felt calmed, and while I was a bit thirsty following a couple of dabs, my stomach felt very settled. Another excellent rosin from Kalikori Maine.