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Durban Zhybrid1 source
Purple Urklehybrid1 source · disputed
Skunkhybrid1 source · disputed
Big Budhybrid2 sources · disputed
Mendocino Purpshybrid1 source · disputed
F1hybrid1 source
BC Big Bud (F6)hybrid1 source · disputed
Purple Urkelhybrid2 sources · disputed
Africanhybrid1 source · disputed
Durban Poisonlandrace3 sources · disputed
Granddaddy Purplehybrid4 sources
Granddaddy Purplehybrid4 sources
F1 Durbhybrid1 source · disputed
Cherry Punchhybrid1 source · disputed
Skunk Specialhybrid1 source · disputed

Parents

Sources name different parents — 3 versions recorded.

VERSION 1 · 3 SOURCES

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Shown first: named by 3 sources; the next version has 1.

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Cherry Pie

aka cherry pie og

Cookies/Bakery
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Ancestor of 526 strains

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Disputed lineage

At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.

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Children

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Wedding Cakehybrid242 descendants
Cereal Milkhybrid23 descendants
Forbidden Fruithybrid18 descendants
Cherry Runtzhybrid0 descendants
Grape Piehybrid163 descendants
Kush Cakehybrid1 descendant
Cherry Limeadehybrid2 descendants
Laughing Gashybrid0 descendants
Limoncellohybrid1 descendant
Pink Cookieshybrid2 descendants
Grape Cakehybrid0 descendants
Gasmaskhybrid5 descendants
Ice Cream Cakehybrid61 descendants
Grape Gasolinehybrid163 descendants
Dulce De Uvahybrid4 descendants
Sundae Driverhybrid40 descendants
Carbon Fiberhybrid2 descendants
Gelato Cakehybrid0 descendants
LA Kush Cakehybrid5 descendants
E85hybrid4 descendants

506 more descendants

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Aroma profile

Aroma profile of Cherry PieStrongest: Dark Fruit, Candy Sweetness.typicalBright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.CitrusConfection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.CandySweetnessDeep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.Dark FruitBlossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.FloralGreen, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.HerbaceousSoil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.EarthSour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.FunkFuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.GasBakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.Dessert &Cream
What the axes mean
Citrus
Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
Candy Sweetness
Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
Dark Fruit
Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
Floral
Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
Herbaceous
Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
Earth
Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
Funk
Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
Gas
Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
Dessert & Cream
Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.

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9 sister strains

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