Apricot Candy by Paradise Seeds

Ripe apricot, fresh figs and a slice of warm fruit pie with cream: a Paradise sativa dressed for California.

Apricot Candy belongs to the Paradise California Collection. The breeder took Dutch Dragon, its own sativa with South African and Dutch roots, and crossed it with Thin Mint GSC, the Cookies phenotype prized for blue hues and a rich terpene load. The brief was a classic big-yield sativa with more resin and full Californian flavour, and Paradise describes the result as stable and uniform.

The breeder lists apricot, fig, apple and baked pastry on the nose, with vanilla smoothing out the smoke. Caryophyllene leads the terpene profile and gives all that sweetness a peppery, Cookies-style funk.

Paradise describes a fast rush of energy, a clear sativa high for around half an hour, then an easy slide into something more relaxed. The breeder also flags it as strong for newcomers, and it is usually pitched as a daytime smoke.

Expect a proper sativa stretch: plants can double or triple after the flip, so indoor growers tend to train or net them, while outdoors in a Mediterranean climate they grow into small trees. Flowering takes about 65 days indoors, and breeder figures put yield at around 550 g/m² inside and up to 1,000 g per plant outdoors, harvested in October. Chunky, dense buds frost early and can colour purple, navy and red as they ripen.

Paradise Seeds was set up in Amsterdam in 1994 by Luc Krol and is still one of the few breeder-owned seed companies, home of the 1999 double cup winner Sensi Star and of Dutch Dragon itself.

Collector's notice: this pack is sold as a sealed souvenir and novelty item for adults aged 18 and over. Seeds are not to be germinated where doing so is against the law. Strain details are the breeder's published information and reports from growers and users, given for reference only and not as medical advice. You are responsible for knowing and following the law where you live.