April’s green highlight is Cherry Punch: pack a party bowl

We Can’t Tell Lies: America’s 45+ million weed smokers are packing heaps of cherry punch party bowls this April, from San Francisco to Boston. She’s a perfect strain for spring breaks, Coachella, and planning 4/20 parties.

Cherry Punch’s balanced, hybrid effects of medium to high THC are versatile and newbie-friendly. For the heads there’s plenty of Cherry Punch Flower, Carts, Badder, Shatter and Rosin smacking.

You know you’re going to love the taste – Cherry Punch is the Leafly HighLight for April.

Whole damn cake and icing: Symbiotic Genetics Cherry Punch grown by Almora, CA, Outdoor, 2021. A balanced hybrid.  (David Downs/Leafly)Symbiotic Genetics Cherry Punch bred by Almora, CA, Outdoor, 2021. A balanced hybrid. (David Downs/Leafly)

Cherry Punch has 60 reviews on Leafly and an average score of 4.5 out of 5. With a really popular sweet, berry, cherry smell, her balanced effect is a bit reminiscent of indica.

Cherry Punch balances two opposite parents, sativa hybrid Cherry AK-47 and indica hybrid Purple Punch so she does everything you need her to do. I’m not surprised that people enjoy playing it.

One Leafly reviewer said, “Good relaxing strain with a good (but not too intense) head high. I played Fallout 4 with this strain for almost 40 hours when I had Covid.”

“This strain makes me jam to music so hard I wouldn’t want to do anything else,” said another.

And for all adult women – Cherry Punch works in the bedroom:

“I’ve had nipple orgasms on two separate occasions. Sober, my nipples have very little feeling. I am in love with this strain.”

Leafless reviewer

Are you a THC lightweight? Start small with this solid 20% THC strain—she can get beginners uncomfortably high instead of chilling.

How much does Cherry Punch cost?

Growers from California to Massachusetts produce this cherry flavor.Growers from California to Massachusetts produce this cherry flavor. (Sascha Beck/Leafly)

Cherry Punch is a workhorse strain grown on a large scale from coast to coast, with many flower types and extracts to choose from. California eighths can be $25, while Colorado has 40 ounce Cherry Punch Smalls.

It’s a bulk crop in Oregon, where a gram of badger costs $22. In newer constitutional states, demand and prices remain high. Cherry Punch is $50 an eighth in Boston or $60 for a half gram cart in medical Florida.

Cherry Punch Flower Prices in USA:

Inferior middle class top shelf
1 gram flower $6 $11 $16
Eighths (3.5 g) $12 $20 $50
quarter ounce (7g) $20 $38 $95
Half ounce (14g) $40 $70 $180
ounce (28g) $69 $120 $350

Cherry Punch seeds

Grow a pound of Cherry Punch this year. (Sascha Beck/Leafly)

Released in 2017, major California breeding team Symbiotic Genetics created Cherry Punch by crossing Cherry AK-47 with their outdoor workhorse strain Purple Punch.

You can get Cherry Punch seeds from online seller Seeds of Horror for $175 at press time. This is a good move if you want huge bags of cherry punch for Thanksgiving dinner.

I would also check out a similar strain, Black Cherry Punch by In-House Seeds (Black Cherry Pie x Purple Punch).

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Cherry Punch prices

I know I'm super fly.  Cherry Punch gives out awards every year.Cherry Punch gives out awards every year. (Sascha Beck/Leafly)

Breeder Symbiotic Genetics strains have racked up shelves of trophies over the years. A Cherry Punch placed 3rd in the 2018 Emerald Cup Outdoor – Private category.

Cherry Punch terpenes

(Sascha Beck/Leafly)

Cherry Punch’s numerous aroma molecules – its terpenes – are all the rage in 2022: myrcene, caryophyllene and limonene. You’ll see a similar combination in Fruit Loops and Cereal Milk.

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Forbidden fruit

Still a champion - Forbidden Fruit.  Hybrid indica.  (David Downs/Leafly)Still a champion – Forbidden Fruit. Hybrid indica. (David Downs/Leafly)

Forbidden Fruit just took home a Spannabis trophy in 2022 – showing the endurance of its classic parents, Crockett’s Tangie and Jigga’s Cherry Pie. You’ll never forget the first bite of this flower – sweet, sour, tart grapefruit nibbling your nose. Her hybrid high-THC effects are more calming than cherry punch.

strawberry banana

Alpenglow Farms Outdoor Strawberry Banana 2021 via Solful.  Hybrid.  (David Downs/Leafly)Alpenglow Farms‘ Strawberry Banana Outdoor 2021 via Solful. Hybrid. (David Downs/Leafly)

Strawberry Banana has analogous, versatile hybrid effects to Cherry Punch – only with a different fruity scent and lineage. It is the crossing of Banana Kush with a strawberry-like Bubble Gum by DNA Genetics. Leafly’s oldest review is from 2014, but it’s still going hard into 2022.

Cherry Dosidos

Here’s the wild card. Find Leafly’s 2021 Strain of the Year, Dosidos, but crossed with Midwest Best’s Jigga’s Cherry Pie. This should be super hot and potent. Lit Farms has Cherry Dosidos S2 seeds for sale and the influential Hendrx Nursery offers clones of it.

And that’s it for April’s Leafly HighLight. I hope you have a great month with an icing on the cake.

Have you tried cherry punch yet? Leave a nice comment below.

David Downs

David Downs leads news and lifestyle coverage as California Bureau Chief for Leafly.com. He has written for WIRED, Rolling Stone and Billboard and is a former cannabis editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of several cannabis books including Ed Rosenthal’s and David Downs’ Marijuana Harvest. He is the co-host of the Hash podcast. TW: @davidrdowns | IG @daviddowns

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