Cannacoastal contacted me offering to send a few samples for a review as they’re a newer MOM. I accepted and they sent the samples quickly, shipping was quick as well. Packaging was fine, airtight bag made certain that no smells escaped.
Sorry in advance, I don’t have a fancy camera for ...super nice photos, but I hope they’re okay regardless!
Sour Mango Haze
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Super strong sweet skunky citrus scent, smells absolutely delicious. Nugs are dense and frosty, with some really nice pops of purple in there.
The taste is sweet and so smooth. Delicious and fruity.
The high is immediately happy, relaxed, and serene. It’s almost a nostalgic high in how uplifting and calming it was. Definitely sativa leaning, but with some nice pain relief as well. I can see this being a fantastic strain for getting work done during the day since it leaves you full of energy and uplifted.
Black Diamond
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To me, this strain smells almost exactly like grape candy. It’s sweet, flowery, and fruity in scent. Absolutely delicious smelling. Nugs are big and dense but fluffy, with a beautiful amount of deep purples underneath a heavy frosting. The taste is sweet and strong, with an earthy aftertaste. Very tasty. High was immediately warm and euphoric. Has the full body ’hug’ you want from an indica, but without the heaviness. And has a nice head buzz that you’d want from a sativa. Very potent and powerful strain, I only ended up smoking 1/4th of what I ground up to try. I wish my camera did justice to how deep the purples are in this strain, especially when it’s ground up(https://i.imgur.com/9CG9p6e.jpg). It’s no secret that between the two samples, this was my favorite and actually ranks in my top ten for favorite strains I’ve ever tried. I’ll definitely be ordering more.
Sorry if my formatting isn’t the best! Full disclosure: samples were free in exchange for a review here and on the CanadianMOM subreddit. Despite this, all info provided is my legitimate opinion and thoughts. If it sucked, I’d say so. But I was thoroughly impressed with Cannacoastal’s strains and plan to place an order with them in the future.
CannaCoastal.ca - 3 Strains sample review - Oct 2019
MOM Name: CannaCoastal.ca
Overall rating out of 10: 6/10
Sign Up: Samples were offered through PM
Ordering & Pricing: N/A on ordering, pricing seems fairly standard
Communication: Excellent communications, fast and courteous
Packaging: Packaging was good, ...a small box inside which there was a vac bag, in which there were mylar bags containing the weed.
Products / Photos:
--- https://i.imgur.com/ZJM92C4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/h04kd8q.jpg Strain Name: White Fire OG
Strain Fidelity: A cross of Fire OG and The White (aka triangle kush), neither of those I ever had.
Size of buds: 7/10 One decent bud with a bunch of smalls
Bag Appeal: 7.5/10 Pretty generic looking, trim is good, not overly caked, browish hairs, nothing special lookwise. The smell however redeems some of it, nice funky/skunky smell, not super strong but it was the strongest of these samples by a significant margin.
Cure & Humidity: 8/10 Could have been a tiny bit more humid, but it’s got decent humidity.
Smell Intensity: 8/10 Good nose, smells really nice, got me excited when I opened the bag. Once ground it didn’t become much stronger, I feel a lot of the smell was in the bag and left when I opened it.
Harshness vs Smoothness: 9/10 No complaints here, very smooth smoke up to the filter.
Burn 10/10 Perfect white ash, burns well without having to relight
Taste Intensity: 8/10 The terps get through, there ain’t much smoke to cover it up, but it could have been stronger in terms of terps.
Taste Complexity: 8.5/10 Similar to it’s nose, a bit of funk, a bit of skunk (very faint), reminds me of a tame White Widow
Buzz Intensity: 8.5/10 A good hybrid buzz, not overly strong
Price: 260/OZ
Value: While there ain’t much to fault here, it’s definitely not craft level cannabis and doesn’t really have any outstanding features. Kind of stuff I’d expect to see priced at 180ish.
’A’ Scale Rating: AAA+, would be AAAA- if a bit fresher
--- https://i.imgur.com/pPQMs6V.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qXm8QrQ.jpg Strain Name: Blue Dream
Strain Fidelity: Believe it or not, despite it being one of the most popular strains in North America right now, I only ever had it once and it was absolute bunk so I can’t really compare. There is a slight blueberry nose to it, so there’s that
Size of buds: One big bud with a couple smaller ones
Bag Appeal: 7/10 A bit rough, the bigger bud looked like someone had picked part of it off (was more like 2 buds on a stem), pretty plain looking stuff, good trim though.
Cure & Humidity: 6/10 This stuff was pretty dry
Smell Intensity: 5/10 Again, the dryness robs most of this score. There are discenable blueberry notes, but there was also some of that floral/old dry weed smell mixed in there. Past it’s prime.
Harshness vs Smoothness: 6.5/10 Didn’t have much fun smoking this. The blueberry I got in the smell didn’t translate at all in the taste, wasn’t a bad smoke (it wasn’t harsh) but definitely nothing special.
Burn 5/10 Burnt pretty black, had to relight it several times
Taste Intensity: 3/10 Pretty much none of the nose came through, very generic old weed bag end taste
Taste Complexity: N/A Can’t even put a score on this
Buzz Intensity: 6/10 Decent hybrid buzz, didn’t last long
Price: 220/OZ
Value: This belongs to the 100$/OZ category IMHO, way overrated at 220
Strain Fidelity: 10/10 Only had it once before and I remember it’s distinctive smell. It’s a mix of cherry/berries.
Size of buds: 9/10 One big bud (3g) and a small one
Bag Appeal: 7/10 This sample got crushed/rubbed/whatever, it was round as a ball. Trim is good, looks fairly generic overall though not much standing out.
Cure & Humidity: 0/10 Dry as fuck, I rarely got weed so dry from a MOM, after grinding it I literally dumped a pile of dust on my table.
Smell Intensity: 6/10 The dryness robs it of most of it’s nose, but there’s still some smell there.
Harshness vs Smoothness: 6/10 Despite it’s dryness it was fairly smooth at first, but it got progressively more and more harsh as I went on. I didn’t finish the joint, it was a chore past half.
Burn 9/10 Burned well and white ash
Taste Intensity: 6/10 Despite it’s dryness, I could make out the terps well at first. Very similar to the nose, a nice smooth cherry/berry taste. It got harsh fast though.
Taste Complexity: 7/10 The cherry/berry taste is pretty much all that comes through. Pleasant enough but fairly unidimensional.
Buzz Intensity: 5/10 Stuff this dry rarely does wonders in the buzz department. Felt like a hybrid leaning towards indica, but it didn’t last long and wasn’t very strong.
Price: 240/OZ
Value: The dryness makes this a non-buy for me, even at 100$ there are better options out there.
’A’ Scale Rating: AA-
Notes: This is a perfect example of a bud ruined by dryness. I’m fairly sure this had quad potential at some point in it’s life, but it was either not dried well, not cured well, or simply sat too long before getting sold, a waste of potential.
Incentive for Customers: N/A
Incentive for Review: Was offered free samples for review, as usual, my review is unbiased and ignores the price paid.
Notes: A good example of what I often refer to as ’MOM quads’.... All the MOMs advertise quads, but most MOMs don’t have them.
BC
