420 All Month: Superboof, and That’s a Wrap on 420 All Month

Here we are, the last day – day 30 – of this month-long marathon of reviews. I do hope you’ve all enjoyed reading these, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my other reviews and posts over the last year. I’m feeling both exhausted and re-invigorated after all of this. After the medical hiatus only a few months into this ongoing project, I had the want to get back to it, but the will (or at least the energy, momentum, practice, or what have you) was still something I had to build back up. I think this did it. Going back to a review a week should be a cakewalk by comparison. As an aspiring writer in high school and college, I was assaulted by the mantra of “writer’s write every day,” and so I experimented with what that meant and looked like for me personally over the years. Realizing that it didn’t mean “drafting a novel” or “composing a whole poem” but instead could be things like these reviews, or creating a backstory for a character in a D&D game, or telling my kids a story while potty-training them, or any other of the myriad of ways in which we all can create compositions using words. But this practice of truly and specifically writing down my ideas, giving them the chance to be read and re-read, edited and fine-tuned, has been really enjoyable, both in each moment but also holistically. I feel like a writer again, for the first time in a long time.

Man, did I stress about the last strain to review. All month I was moving the strains around in this list of which I wanted to do for the 420 marathon, and the list has, after this entry, 15 left that didn’t make the cut, or 11 if you don’t count four that were in the Haiku post. I decided to end with Superboof because it’s such a popular strain, even if a lot of its fans don’t know how much they like it. If you’re a regular reader (or are new and have recently caught up on these entries) you may recall that in my Funk Mountain post, in one of the lists of related strains, I mentioned Superboof/Blockberry. They are the same strain, just different cultivations or phenotypes, but they have the same lineage. They’re full sisters.

The first time that I saw anything with the Superboof or Blockberry name on it was Kalikori’s Signature Live Rosin, and it was so noteworthy because it was the lightest pink, like the inside of a delicate seashell, or pink Himalayan salt. It was eye-catching. One of my budtenders at the time watched me put the display jar into the budbar and without smelling it, looking at the genetics, or in any other way learning anything else about it aside from its name and that it was rosin, he bought a gram immediately. The Superboof flower I’m currently smoking from The King’s Stache also has a similar pink tinge to it, a color you rarely see, at least in cannabis around here. The raw photo of the bud doesn’t show it so well, and I don’t like to tweak the colors and balance on the images unless it’s really not matching what the bud looks like to the naked eye. Where it really shows, again not on camera, is once its ground. I’ve really never seen another cultivation that has this pink tone to it. Elsewise, the buds are super frosty, pale to dark green, with evenly dispersed but smaller brown pistils. The nugs are dusty, and crumble easily, and while a grinder is still recommended for fresh Superboof, if it’s aged a bit in your stache at home, you may even be able to forgo the grinder altogether.

The aroma is sweet, mixing a cherry-like floral quality with that smell that’s like all the greens: herbs and mint and pine. It almost has that generic “good weed” smell; it’s fresh and bright and lacks any notes of skunk, gas, funk, musk, or pungence, or chemicals. As always, those can be excellent qualities in some strains, but finding a strain that is purely distinct individual aromas that are broadly considered pleasing is always a nice experience, I think. The smoke is some of the least offensive as far as the muting of tastier flavors in favor of the bitterness of smoke in general, but it does transform a bit. There’s a tone I can’t ignore in the flavor that doesn’t seem to match up with the aroma, something I’m calling “the smell of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls from a cardboard tube, when you first pop it open with the back of a spoon.” That’s all lurking underneath the lingering floral and herbal notes from the aroma, which have gained just a touch of pungence instead of bitterness. The smoke hits smoothly, but with some spicy texture here and there.

The highs are nothing mind-blowing, I find, but we come back now to a strain that is perfect for daytime. I’ve short-handed the high before as one of those that shifts between social and lightly giggly. It’s also generally just a nice uplifting and creative head high, lucid, but not terribly energizing or heavily focused. If you’re the kind of person who likes to jumpstart some brain-work – writing or otherwise creating art to crunching some numbers – Superboof should be in your toolbelt. The body high is minimal but very supportive of the head high. I feel both lightly energized and somewhat calm simultaneously, like I could sit here writing all day, or I could take a stroll, do some dishes, grocery shop, reorganize my basement or my gaming supplies, the list goes on. But I could also happily socialize, as my mood feels both elevated a bit and really stable. I feel high, but fully in control.

So, I’m going to sign off here, wrapping up 420 All Month with Superboof (or Blockberry, if you prefer), another highly recommended strain.