Alaskan Thunder Fuck

ATF is short for Alaskan Thunder Fuck, and this flower borrows the name from that strain. Leafly traces the strain to the Matanuska Valley area of Alaska and calls it a legendary sativa that turned hybrid after an Afghani cross. AllBud splits it 70% sativa to 30% indica and calls it sativa-dominant.

An Alaskan sativa that picked up Afghani genes

Other names on Leafly are Alaskan Thunder, Matanuska Thunder Fuck and Matanuska Tundra. Leafly also repeats a legend: a sativa from Northern California bred to a Russian ruderalis, then crossed with Afghani genetics in the late 70s, which made the plants sturdier. That Afghani cross is what made it a hybrid, in Leafly’s telling. Our ATF strain guide tells the same story and dates the Afghani cross to the 1970s. In Leafly’s genetics panel, North American Sativa is the parent, and Chronic Thunder and Chocolate Thunder appear as strains bred from ATF.

Large buds covered in ice-like crystals

According to Leafly, the buds are typically large and frosted, and one reviewer describes them as covered in ice-like crystals. AllBud pictures buds that are crystal-covered and very white, spotted with orange hairs.

From pine and menthol to banana and orange

Leafly’s smell notes are pine, lemon, menthol and skunk, all of them very strong, and its flavour tags are menthol, sage and pine. In one Leafly review the taste is earthy, skunky and sage, growing stronger in the mouth. On Leafly, myrcene leads the terpene list for ATF, trailed by caryophyllene and limonene.

On smell, AllBud reports cat pee, very strong skunk and a diesel edge. In the mouth it finds a strong banana and orange taste, and the spicy aftertaste lasts for hours. Its flavour tags add citrus, grape and sweet.

Grow notes: top early, clear the lower branches

Leafly’s grow tips call the plant mildew resistant, say topping early makes plants bushier, and say clearing the lower branches, known as lollipopping, encourages stacked, dense buds.

What Leafly and AllBud report on ATF’s effects and THC

Leafly’s reviewers tag energetic first, then uplifted and euphoric, and its scales read mostly energizing, with potency higher in THC than average. AllBud describes the high as immediate, with some people turning chattier and more creative at times, plus the munchies. Its reviewers’ tags include giggly, hungry, focus, sociable, tingly and cerebral.

Leafly puts THC near 16% with 0% CBD, and AllBud gives 16% to 23%. Ratings are 4.4 from 2,227 on Leafly and 4.5 from 104 votes and 61 reviews on AllBud.