Apple Pie

Sold as dried flower, Apple Pie takes its name from a strain that Leafly and AllBud both trace to Acapulco Gold and a Nepalese parent. Leafly gives Sweet Apple Crumble Pie as another name for it.

Acapulco Gold and Nepalese, or Highland Nepalese on AllBud

Leafly names the parents as Acapulco Gold and Nepalese; AllBud specifies Highland Nepalese and describes a rare cross leaning 70% to sativa and 30% to indica, a sativa-dominant hybrid in its terms. Leafly’s description calls Apple Pie a sativa, and AllBud pitches it as a fruity sativa for getting the day started.

Spade-shaped buds under amber frost

AllBud describes elongated, airy buds shaped like spades, forest green with a few orange hairs and a thick, frosty layer of tiny golden-amber trichomes. On the nose it finds sweet and sour apples with an earthy, nutty edge that turns a little pungent when the buds burn, and the taste is tart, rich apple, finishing nutty and herbal on the exhale.

Apple, blue cheese and cheese are Leafly’s top flavours, and its description adds apricot. Two Leafly reviewers fill in the apple side: one smelled green apple and cinnamon on an outdoor cut whose smoke recalled a hot apple pie, and another wrote that a good batch should smell like Granny Smith apples, sweet and sour with a little earthiness. Leafly’s terpene data ranks caryophyllene first, followed by myrcene and limonene.

Energizing on Leafly’s meter

Leafly’s effect meter reads mostly energizing; energetic, euphoric and focused top its effects, and the description adds giggly. AllBud users describe a lifted start with tingly euphoria and deep happiness, then a wave of mental energy and motivation, while a light, relaxing body feel keeps them grounded. Leafly’s 43 ratings average 4.5, and AllBud’s 48 votes average 4.8.

THC: Leafly’s 20%, AllBud’s 24% to 25%

On Leafly, Apple Pie carries a 20% THC figure with 1% CBG, an above-average potency score and a note aiming it at experienced consumers. AllBud’s average range is 24% to 25%, and neither number is a reading of this flower. Health Canada recommends beginning with 1 or 2 puffs where the product is 10% THC or less, adding that smoked cannabis can register in seconds or minutes while its peak may lag by up to half an hour.