Gas Station Shatter - Death Star

Gas Station’s Death Star shatter borrows its name from a strain Leafly files as an indica, a Sensi Star and Sour Diesel cross that is sometimes written as one word, Deathstar.

A battle station and a jet-fuel smell

Leafly connects the name to the Star Wars battle station and to the strain’s skunky, sweet jet-fuel aroma, which it calls pungent enough to fill your nostrils. AllBud also assumes the films gave it the name. Its aroma notes are lemon and rubber with an unusual sweetness on the tongue, and it warns that the smell, which blends both parents, can be a little pungent.

What Sensi Star and Sour Diesel passed on

Leafly and AllBud both trace Death Star to Sensi Star crossed with Sour Diesel. AllBud says it carries the best traits of both parents and calls it an indica dominant hybrid, 75% indica to 25% sativa. Leafly names Death Bubba and Jedi Kush as strains bred from it, and its grow notes say plants may express fruity or diesel-smelling phenotypes. Both describe frosty flower with purple shades in the stems.

For the strain in general, Leafly’s page shows THC around 19% and calls Death Star a good pick for experienced consumers; AllBud gives a range of 18 to 27%.

Caryophyllene, diesel and dark-roast coffee

Caryophyllene leads the terpene numbers Leafly gathers from lab results, with myrcene second and limonene third. Its write-up names diesel, pungent and tea flavours, and its readers’ top picks are skunk, pungent and diesel. Reviewers add detail: one compares Death Star to black, dark-roast coffee and enjoys its stinky smell, another calls it insanely gassy, and an AllBud reviewer describes a lemony, skunky-sweet inhale with an exhale of woods and sugary diesel.

Leafly reviewers most often come away describing themselves as relaxed, tingly and euphoric, while happy, relaxing and euphoria make up AllBud’s short effect list.

Dabbing Death Star shatter

Shatter is a hard, see-through extract that turns brittle in the cold and breaks with a clean snap; most people dab it, and some crumble shards over flower. Our shatter vs wax comparison sets its texture and stability against softer extracts.

Health Canada, on the page it devotes to lowering your risks, picks shatter, wax, kief and hash to show what a THC-rich extract is, and it would have newcomers and once-in-a-while users skip all four. Its timeline for anything inhaled: noticeable in seconds or minutes, and possibly still rising 30 minutes on.

Robert Misic’s tip in our Death Star guide is about that loud smell: since it lingers, he suggests an airtight glass jar between uses.