A running roundup of the hottest flower in legal America, pulled from recent High Times Strains of the Month and Terp Sherpa columns. Each pick is credited to the writer who made it and the month it ran. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
You don’t have to know a guy anymore. Between David Downs’ new Terp Sherpa column and Jimi Devine’s Strains of the Month rundowns, our writers have been tracking the flower actually worth chasing across the legal states, the breeders the rest of the world envies and the cuts moving fastest off shelves. Here is a running list of the standouts, gathered in one place. Each entry notes who picked it and when, so you can dig into the full writeup if one calls your name.
Blueberry Caviar
Cookies (NM, CA) · Picked by David Downs, June 2026
Blueberry Caviar (Photo by David Downs)
Debuting nationally this summer from Cookies affiliates, Blueberry Caviar delivers deep blueberry grape work that’s loud as hell, a new salvo in the ongoing blueberry wars. It comes from Ridgeline Farm’s Jason Gelman, who merged his LANTZ with an especially terpy selection of Compound Genetics’ Grape Gas. Two varieties emerged, the purpler Blackberry Caviar and the greener, more flavorful Blueberry Caviar. Gelman credits Berner for pushing it to the national level.
Brain Wash
Alien Labs (NY, CA, AZ) · Picked by Jimi Devine, August 2025 and David Downs, June 2026
Brain Wash (Photo by David Downs)
A cross of OZ Kush and Z #18 that has been a hitter for months, candy-gas on candy. It came out of a 60-seed phenohunt at Alien Labs’ Sacramento facility, selected for an OG-like flavor that turns to candy Z and for the kind of impact that can be missing in Z crosses. “Its proximity to a true OG with something …
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